Samantha Sweetwater: “Life at the Center”
On this episode, thought leader and ceremonial guide Samantha Sweetwater joins Nate to share her journey through mysticism and guiding others through their own unique spiritual paths.
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Attending to the sacred
This is the formidable challenge of our times – to create limits and localism while not creating arbitrary rules of social exclusion.
Too Legit to Quit: Rethinking Legitimacy of Territorial Claims
Eradicating colonization is not a matter of granting sovereignty to native populations, it is a matter of eradicating the right to exclude that comes with European sovereignty, getting rid of legitimate territorial claims altogether.
Climate Politics: The View from Washington (3/12/24)
Will the passage of this current year’s appropriations be enough to convince voters in swing districts that Republicans can govern? That’s yet to be seen.
The Game of Life
Whatever the case, I will continue to play the role it seems I am set out to play, and hope that I happen to be on the “right side of history.” In the game of life, the only way to know is to keep playing.
Politics (Sometimes it is necessary to wander)
We have forgotten that every politics is an ethos. We have bought the lie that all things are public or private.
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
If we’re going to enjoy the benefits of history, behavior in the contemporary West should not be isolated or considered distinct from the rest.
Dweller-managed architecture as the basis of democratic and ecological urbanism
According to the underlying form of social organization, architecture can promote individualist lifestyles, servitude, submission, or it can encourage communal solidarity, freedom, and dignity.
We Need Green Military Technology to Kill One Another Sustainably: Imagining the Ecomodernist Death Ray
Our political culture rolls the dice on climate change, with a strategy of doing (nearly) absolutely nothing, and ecomodernism provides the rhetorical inspiration for inaction.
What are the four waves of feminism? And what comes next?
To build vigorous varieties of feminism going forward, we might reframe the “waves”. We need to let emerging generations of feminists know they are not living in an isolated moment, with the onerous job of starting afresh. Rather, they have the momentum created by generations upon generations of women to build on.
Why I Don’t Rely on Hope
Get up in the morning, day after day, try to find something worth doing, and then do it as well as possible, realizing that failure will be routine but that small successes—sometimes really small, maybe even too small to see in the moment—make it possible to continue.
Free Island Press E-book on Making a Way in the Age of Extremes
African Americans have long spoken of the need to “make a way out of no way.” Born of painful necessity, the phrase reminds us that there is always room for constructive action. Read on to see how others are “making a way” in this challenging moment.
