“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action…. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit… Continue Reading
New York City, Climate Protests, September 17, 2023; photo by Bill McKibben Today the United Nations convened the first day of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit in advance of the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly.… Continue Reading
March on Washington August 28 1963 © Jim Wallace, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture March on Washington August 28 1963 © Jim Wallace, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture I have… Continue Reading
Young Woman with Banner, March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom, 28 August 1963 Photograph by Rowland Scherman, Wikimedia Commons Sixty years ago today, on August 28, 1963, 250,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the March on… Continue Reading
This morning, the New Yorker online magazine has published an excerpt from Dr. Clarence B. Jones’s Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir, which Dr. Jones wrote with Stuart Connelly. You can find today’s New… Continue Reading
White House photo @realDonaldTrump Wikimedia Commons 24 February 2020 This evening, after speaking to a joint session of Congress India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a State Dinner at the Biden White House. It is a rare moment… Continue Reading
Daniel Ellsberg, 1972, public domain We all care about those in our circle, our group, our tribe. But who cares about the others? About those outside our group, our country? About other species? About future generations? I identify with… Continue Reading
Memorial pin with quotations from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 1968. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture On April 3, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to the striking sanitation workers at… Continue Reading
David Harris at an anti-war protest at the Presidio in San Francisco, 1968. Photo by Jim Marshall, Wikimedia Commons David Harris, who died earlier this month at his home in Mill Valley, was an enormously courageous and impactful leader… Continue Reading
Apartment block in Kyiv (Oleksandr Koshyts Street, 7-A) after hitting by remains of a downed Russian missile during Russian invasion of Ukraine. Wikimedia Commons. One year ago the war began. This morning I re-read the short essay I posted… Continue Reading
“I broaden my Hinduism by loving other religions as my own,” Mahatma Gandhi wrote. In the struggle for freedom and democratic society in India, “we can do nothing without Hindu-Muslim unity.” Gandhi’s love of his fellow human beings, without… Continue Reading
