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Our opposition grows: Dangers of launching nukes into space
By Bruce Gagnon coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. The US began launching space probes with nuclear power in the early 1960’s. One of these military satellites powered with a nuclear reactor fell back to Earth in April of 1964. It was called… »
Face 2 Face with Harpreet Singh Toor
LIVE SHOW: Monday, February 22nd at 3 PM EST On this show we are speaking with Harpreet Toor, Richmond Hill resident in queens, running for City Council District 23. Mr. Toor offers his 30 years of experience and activism with the Sikh community to a broader political front. »
Sacred Spaces
VISUAL ARTS: PHOTOGRAPHY Photographs by Boldy Tapales/Text by Karina Santillan Sometimes, you enter a place, and somehow you are imbued with a feeling, a sensibility, an experience that you have penetrated a space you could call sacred. Different from the day-to-day, the mundane. Maybe, a feeling… »
Wherever you look back
POEM by Rem Tanauan WHEREVER YOU LOOK BACK, there’s haiku. In fact, it’s there in the moss on the wall blessed by rain. In the fallen jasmin, like an upturned umbrella on a grimy road. In the leaves of shiny bush, on the foot of newly grown… »
What is it Like to be Trapped in a Desert Jail For 20 Years? The Oufkir Family Story
BOOK REVIEW Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir Book Review by Mona Gonzalez https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Lives-Twenty-Desert-Oprahs/dp/0786886307 I read Stolen Lives twice. The first time, I couldn’t put it down because it was just shocking. The second time I read it, (for this review), I found new… »
Art Exhibit at the Giant Dwarf Art Space, Angono, Rizal
VISUAL ARTS by Saki (Ishak Binudin) As a phenomenon of life, regeneration takes on different forms, captured by the diverse paintings and artworks presented by five artists of different generations, using different aesthetic techniques and approaches. As renewal or restoration, regeneration is equally observed in the… »
A Cab Fare to John Lennon’s
SHORT FICTION By Jhon Sanchez Thanks to Martha Hughes, Sam Ferri, Nan Fryland, and Emma Komlos-Hrobsky for their editorial comments Without paying attention, Gonzalo heard what the woman in the passenger seat said, “At least you must have music in this cab, or don’t you have… »
The Root of Violence in the United States Lies in the White Community
Not long ago, Waging Nonviolence published an article entitled, “The roots of revolutionary nonviolence in the United States are in the Black community.” The article covered the process, starting in the 1930’s, of African-Americans who traveled to India to learn about Gandhi’s philosophy on nonviolence — a… »
Ecocide!
Ecocide is the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity. That destruction of “large areas” has grown so conspicuously large, so threatening to all species, including human existence, that a group of international legal experts is working to submit a draft of a… »
Towards Integral Health
By Jorge Pompei If we understand the human being as a multidimensional being where the biological, the psychological and the spiritual form a unit, in structure with a natural and social environment, then health will be the result of a dynamic balance in all these dimensions. This dynamic equilibrium manifests… »