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Published in: TransformationPope Francis and the nonviolent shiftThe message is simple. We want to take care of the earth, stop killing others, and start rebuilding the world so...
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Published in: TransformationSay it like it isWe can’t live with other people and we can’t live with ourselves. (Video: 3 minutes).
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Published in: TransformationI take my orders from 23-year-old queer womenA leading activist pastor speaks about the emerging face of civil rights leadership in 21st century America.
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Published in: TransformationWould you bulldoze your own temple?"We are our land and our land is us." Hawaiians stand for a mountain.
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Published in: TransformationFrench secularism as failed social engineeringThe principle of laïcité has become a demagogic tool to reinforce narrow judgements about French identity and...
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Published in: TransformationThe sacredness of working to end white supremacy: a conversation with Rev. Anne DunlapIn the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, white people are coming to consciousness about white supremacy and...
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Published in: TransformationIt's OK for you to be fat but not for me: life beyond anorexia's liesRecovery is about a compassionate way of being in the world, love and community. Content warning: disordered eating,...
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Published in: TransformationI’m out of prison but I’m still not free: the continuing struggles of the Y-12 ThreeThree peace activists followed by openDemocracy have been released from jail, but their work against nuclear weapons goes on.
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Published in: TransformationIs it ok to criticise Islam?At what point does mocking someone’s beliefs become an attack on those who hold them?
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Published in: TransformationScience fiction and social justice: giving up on utopiasWe make fiction that disrupts the status quo, examines change as a collective bottom up process, centers...
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Published in: TransformationWhere are the missing mystics of the revolution?Mysticism can undermine the social and political order in fundamental ways.
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Published in: TransformationIntersectional pain: what I’ve learned from hospices and feminism of colourMight pain and oppression be like love—a simple thunderbolt at times, and in other circumstances complex and slow...
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Published in: TransformationNo, you can’t ‘be the change’ aloneWriter, activist and mindfulness-in-action pioneer Alessandra Pigni died from cancer in December 2018. This piece is...
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Published in: TransformationCan the end of life be an opportunity for social change?Death and grief can nurture compassion, joy and solidarity, creating a revolution in the way we care for others.
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Published in: TransformationWho cares? Preparing for the age wave of the future.Everyone has the right to be cared for in their elder years. Here’s one way to make that happen.
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Published in: TransformationWorks of love: Cicely Saunders and the hospice movementProfoundly rejecting the fatalistic response of the medical establishment, a new movement placed people at the heart...
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Published in: TransformationHow to decolonize your yoga practiceThe practices westerners now turn to for alternative health were intentionally eradicated from India under colonial rule.
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Published in: TransformationThe mindful media diet: how to consciously consume the newsUnderstanding how we digest the news gives us the power to stop being passive media consumers and benefit our wellbeing.
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Published in: TransformationAll you need is a politics of loveAfter the US Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, campaigners chanted “love has won” and “#lovewins” was a...
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Published in: TransformationWelcome to the empathy warsStepping into other people’s shoes has been a catalytic force for social change throughout human history.
