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Local To Global Justice

I am honored to be participating in the upcoming event, Local to Global Justice teach-in event at Arizona State University.  Local to Global justice is a two day annual event,  which seeks to connect local diversity, sustainability, social justice, and human rights issues to larger global struggles. It has become an outstanding space for the sharing of experiences and knowledge between scholars and activists working on a wide range of social justice, human rights and sustainability issues. The goal of this…

Out with the Old, Final Full Moon of 2012

I have always been quite enamored with the moon and its subtle changes.  Since I was little I would wonder if the phases of the moon held a different story or meaning for different people, including myself.  When the light of the moon cast itself upon the horizon, I would swirl and twirl and dance in it and feel a wildness and freedom.   When it was just a sliver of gray I would pray that it would be full again…

‘Should’ is a 4 Letter Word

How often do you preface your statements with, “I really should”, or “I shouldn’t”?   Well, if you are like me, it’s often enough that it has become an annoying habit.   I have been vigilantly observing my language and choice of semantics in my self-study and I realized that ‘should’ is a distasteful word that doesn’t serve me.  It lends to obligation, criticism, expectation (yours and that of others), guilt, shame and projection to future outcome.  It is a word of…