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May 2020There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavor and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbor in the end.
Barbara Ward
Featuring Medicine Story, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Julia Butterfly Hill, and more.
May 2020Indigenous people are protecting the earth’s lungs and liver. Without us, civilization would be even farther down the road to its own destruction.
By Tracy FrischMay 2020Featuring Bill McKibben, M.C. Richards, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and more.
December 2019In a rational world, we would be devoting every resource to making a difference in the short amount of time we have left. Past a certain point, we won’t be able to.
By David BarsamianOctober 2019August 2019Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. . . . We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Featuring Tim Wise, Vine Deloria Jr., Sun Bear, and more.
August 2019The whole world was a nest on its humble tilt, in the maze of the universe, holding us.
By Linda HoganAugust 2019I suggest that a powerful antidote to the manufactured past now being created for us is the secret history of Indians in the twentieth century. Geronimo really did have a Cadillac and used to drive it to church, where he’d sign autographs.
By Paul Chaat SmithAugust 2019Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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