September 2011
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Shabbat Solidarity Potluck Dinner at...
FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 8PM | ZUCCOTTI PARK, NYC (Meet at steps on Broadway side)
Shabbat is a rejection of commerce, capitalism & exploitation: A day free from work, from business transactions, from handling money. As the Old Testament says, “And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. Therefore the Eternal your God commanded to keep the Sabbath day.” Whether or not one is...
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Direct Action Theory & Practice for...
While dropping in on the #OccupyWallStreet protests a couple of times in the last week, it became clear to me that this movement could benefit strongly from a greater awareness of direct action in theory and practice. What follows is a short collection of texts that will give the reader a thorough grounding in the use of direct action as a means for affecting radical social transformation. This is...
When We Wake Up
Here’s the Alan Watts snippet I read last night at Jay Michaelson and Paul Dakin’s sheva brochas:
The world is like a game of hide-and-seek, because it’s always fun to find new ways of hiding, and to seek for someone who doesn’t always hide in the same place.” God likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside God, he has no one but himself to...