Since my early childhood I have been prickly about the injustices that I observed growing up in a brutal right-wing dictatorship and the inequalities I perceived going to church and elsewhere. How could there be so many people who went hungry, lived in primitive...
For nearly a year, a small group has gathered each Wednesday through the Buddhist Coalition for Democracy and merged with the Reflective Meditation daily online sangha. We meditate together, but we don’t meditate away from the world. We bring the world into practice....
Why is it mostly boomers who show up at No Kings Day rallies? Where are all the college students? Why, when we old folks were college students, we were out there protesting the Viet Nam War. What is it with kids today? I’m told today’s youth has soured on peaceful...
No Kings Day 3 has come and gone. An estimated 8,000,000 people participated—we’ll never know the exact number—but the more important question is “what happens next?” I attended a smallish No Kings Day demonstration—one of seven in Westchester County, NY that...
Once again the United States is at war in the Middle East. This time it is a war initiated by a President who criticized his predecessors for having engaged in “endless” foreign wars and who campaigned on the promise that as President he would keep the United States...
