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SUMMARY:No Kings: Protest Safety\, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training
DESCRIPTION:Before you hit the streets- join our know your rights\, protest safety\, and de-escalation training on 10/6/25 at 8 PM ET. \nThis October\, communities across the country will mobilize en masse for the second No Kings national day of action- a mass mobilization against President Trump’s abuses of power and federal crackdown on our freedoms. Together\, we’ll send a clear message: the people will not be silenced. \nTo prepare\, join the ACLU’s Protest Safety\, Know Your Rights and De-Escalation Training on October 6 at 8 PM ET. This training will give you the tools to take action safely\, confidently\, and with key de-escalation strategies in hand. Whether you’re marching\, rallying\, or supporting from the sidelines\, you’ll learn how to protect yourself\, your community\, and stand up for your rights. \nWHAT: ACLU’s Protest Safety\, Know Your Rights and De-Escalation Training\nWHEN: Monday\, October 6th at 8 PM ET\nWHERE: On Zoom- RSVP for the link! \nWhat we’ll cover:\n– Know your rights during protests and law enforcement encounters\n– Practical tools for safety and de-escalation in tense moments\n– Get prepared to take nonviolent action safely\, powerfully and together\n– Build the knowledge and strength to support others in the streets and beyond \nBecause when we know our rights\, we can defend them. Let’s get ready. RSVP NOW. \nhttps://act.aclu.org/a/no-kings-kyr-eng1
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/no-kings-protest-safety-know-your-rights-de-escalation-training/
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SUMMARY:BCD Action Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This meeting is for members of the BCD Action Committee only. \nFor more information\, contact Karsten Struhl at kastruhl@tiac.net or Kathryn Koehl at kathrynkoehl@hotmail.com
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/bcd-action-committee-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom Event
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SUMMARY:Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – EMBODIMENT with Guo Gu
DESCRIPTION:Upaya Zen Center presents a monthly series stewarded by Roshi Joan Halifax\, Sensei Kodo Roen\, and Sensei Wendy Dainin Lau. The focus is on recognizing and ending violence in relation to addressing the roots of war/genocide\, racism\, climate suffering\, economics of exploitation and extraction\, othering\, and our own delusion that we are separate from any being or thing. The faculty for this series includes: Jon Kabat-Zinn\, Christiana Figueres\, Ruth King\, Valerie Brown\, Bhikkhu Bodhi\, Father Greg Boyle\, Terry Tempest Williams\, Konda Mason\, Rebecca Solnit\, Father John Dear\, Guo Gu\, Tara Brach\, Frank Ostaseski\, Sharon Salzberg\, Roshi Joan\, and Senseis Kodo Roen and Dainin Lau. \nGuo Gu (Dr. Jimmy Yu) is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center\, the founder of the socially engaged intra-denominational Buddhist organization\, Dharma Relief\, and a professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Florida State University. He studied under the late Master Sheng Yen for over 30 years\, nine of which as his attendant monk and most senior and closest disciple. He is the author of The Essence of Chan (2012)\, Passing Through the Gateless Barrier (2016)\, and Silent Illumination (2021). \nRegistration link: \nhttps://www.upaya.org/program/engaged-buddhism-online-october-2025/
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/actualizing-unfaltering-engaged-practice-in-our-time-embodiment-with-guo-gu/
CATEGORIES:Engaged Buddhism,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T170000
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SUMMARY:BCD Coordinating Committee
DESCRIPTION:This is a meeting for BCD Coordinating Committee members only.
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/bcd-coordinating-committee-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:BCD Meeting,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T190000
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SUMMARY:BCD Live Interview: New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism: Julia Sagebien interviews Daiken Nelson Roshi
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nIn the second of a series of monthly live interviews with engaged Buddhist thought leaders\, host Julia Sagebien interviews Daiken Nelson Roshi about the foundations of and his vision for engaged Buddhism. The interview will last 30 minutes and be followed by an opportunity for question and answers by viewers. Daiken is the guiding teacher of the Pamsula Zen Center in NYC and the Iowa City Zen Center. Before receiving Dharma transmisison\, Daiken practiced for over three decades with teacher in the White Plum and Zen Peacemaker lineages. He founded the Mandala Cafe\, a nonprofit that offers free culinary training to people having trouble finding and keeping employment as well as offering free weekly meals in central Harlem. \n \nIn later months\, the series includes live interviews with the Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi from Chuang Yen Monastery\, Tara Brach from the Insight Meditation Community of Washington\, Mushim Patricia Ikeda from the East Bay Meditation Center\, Joshin Byrnes from the Breadloaf Mountain Zen Community\, Sinclair Shinryu Thomson Roshi\, abbot of the Village Zendo\, the Rev. angel Kyodo williams from the Center for Transformative Change\, and Ellen Korman Mains\, author and long-term student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. These broadcasts will be recorded and later available as YouTube videos and as podcasts on Subtack\, Apple podcasts\, Spotify\, and other podcast venues. \nTo Join\, click: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8246019794?pwd=wBClQIIZIA1hLkaiL8dzZyniJoQj0V.1&omn=88195738523 \n–
URL:https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org/event/bcd-telecast-new-directions-in-engaged-buddhism-julia-sagebien-interviews-daiken-nelson-roshi/
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