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• Commencement 2013: Questions for Ben Bernanke
• Mother’s Day Salute to my Mom
• The jig is up for military sexual assault
• Playing hardball with the fossil fuel industry: if not now, when? if not us, who?
• Is the time ever right for suicide?
• This May Day, A Special Salute to the Humble, Hard-working Honeybee
• Earth Day 2013: Looking Disaster in the Eye
• Learning from mass murder: we must pay attention to our young men
• Taking up arms against a sea of troubles
• Intentional communities for the 21st century
• Sparks fly around the table–of the seminar room or the lunchroom
• “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
• Confronting taboos: death and the afterlife, American-style
• The Alchemy of Privilege
• Becoming part of Gaia’s cure, instead of what ails her
• Morning pages for humanity…and the Earth
• We need new stories to help us imagine a new, brighter future
• Holding the Fort for the Humanities
• Climate change is no joke
• Dispatch from the heart of the American clean energy movement
• Attention humanity: wake up and innovate, or face annihilation
• Looking for Valentinaville….
• Late-night thoughts on human hubris
• MOOCs for the Masses
• Women in Combat: Honoring the Androgynous in Human Nature
• Time to grow up, America: from the quest for independence to the recognition of interdependence
• I have a dream…for President Obama and our nation
• Don’t be fooled…now is no time to relax
• Rapists deserve a taste of their own medicine
• Seeking solidarity in the environmental justice movement
• Idle No More: Exposing the Suicidal Cult of Global Capitalism
• What should we do with our one wild and precious lifetime?
• Be the change 2012
• Dancing in the end times
• American Mothers Must Unite Against the Culture of Violence
• Living with fear
• Standing strong against the Furies
• Time to end the slaughter of innocents!
• Something is rotten in the state of higher education: time for change!
• Building a Tsunami of a Climate Change Movement: What Will it Take?
• Telling the story of climate change: a call to action
• Honoring the wisdom of Native Americans on Thanksgiving
• Privilege, Difference and the Challenge of Creating a “Beloved Community”
• Fossil Fuels R Us–but we can change, and so can they!
• Election 2012: Avoiding the Same Old, Same Old In the Redistribution of Power
• The Audacity of Hope, c. 2012
• Lessons of the Wreck of the Bounty
• Thank you, Hurricane Sandy
• Will Frankenstorms Become the New Normal?
• Waiting for Sandy
• Barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen? Hell no!
• The Cabal Behind the Curtain
• Earth to Obama: Come in please! Or do we have to take to the trees to get your attention?
• Malala Yousafzai Stands Up for Us All
• Will the Eagle and the Condor Land Together in the New Millennium?
• Finding the fire in the belly to combat climate change
• Responding to Racism or Sexism: The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Again and Again
• Fault-lines of American Educational Policy & Practice
• Moving from suffering to pain to resistance
• Politicos beware: the citizen journalists are coming!
• Hats Off to the Central Park Rape Victim
• Internet Rage
• Why are we punishing America’s schoolchildren and their teachers?
• We eat by the grace of Nature, not by the grace of Monsanto
• Enough Political Reality TV: Time to tune in to the planet
• All that solid melts in air: Labor Day reflections on Marx, Darwin and the need for new paradigms
• Once in a blue moon: thoughts on death and the hereafter
• Mitt Romney Blah Blah Blah
• No, we’re not crying wolf
• Swept Away
• Gale Force: A Republican Tragedy
• The Foxification of Our Public Sphere
• American insanity
• Looking backward, looking forward, being here
• Call the bouncer: Let’s show Romney/Ryan the door
• Let’s get aquaculture right
• Canadian High
• Penn State Sexual Assault Verdict: Victory of the Homophobes?
• Taking the Leap into a Better World
• Time to show some backbone on gun control!
• Climate Change: What do we tell our children?
• Across the Gonad Divide
• Love in the end times
• Floods, drought: the Earth needs us now
• Looking Forward with Orion Magazine
• Governor Deval Patrick of MA Gives Exclusive Interview on WBCR-LP
• What Good is a Higgs Boson When the Planet is Burning?
• Having it all: my own story
• Work-life balance is not just a women’s issue
• Let them eat crude!
• Help Wanted: Change Agents in Academe
• Time to Meet Your Maker
• Scheherezades of the 21st Century
• Hocus, Pocus, Focus
• Bill McKibben: Stand up to the fossil fuel industry, or start growing some gills!
• Rio+20: Fiddling While Earth Burns
• Finding Hope in Heartbreak
• Memorial Day Memories
• A la recherche du temps perdu
• If I had been asked to speak at Commencement….
• Commencement reflections, 2012
• Embracing the Monster of Climate Change
• Celebrating the DIY Mom on Mother’s Day
• Grassroots heroism: what we need now
• Help Wanted: Strong Leadership on Climate Change, Starting Immediately
• Welcome to the Knowledge Factory
• Occupy Earth
• To Avert Climate Change Disaster, Connecting the Dots Must Go Viral
• Staring down the crystal ball
• No More Leave it to Beaver
• May Day: Here, There and Everywhere
• Which Side Are You On?
• Stop the holocaust of migrating birds
• From Big Tobacco to Big Corn: the time to stand up for the right to health is NOW
• America, land of the brain-damaged and debt-enslaved
• Nuclear famine: the future that must never happen
• Let a million local media outlets and citizen journalists bloom
• The question your grandchildren will ask: Where were you on May Day 2012?
• Loving Earth
• Who’s Afraid of Distance Learning?
• Love Letter to Great Barrington MA
• Who, me? Depressed?
• Give mothers the respect–and the financial compensation–they deserve
• Bill McKibben, our environmental Pied Piper, is at it again
• Cupid, you devil–go home!
• L’Chaim! This spring, let us commit ourselves to Life
• Round up the chemicals–for our children’s sake
• More words for my son, a warrior for Good
• Ode to my firstborn, on his 20th birthday
• Occupying Leadership: What will it take to accomplish real change?
• Burning for change
• Homage to Adrienne Rich
• Opening to the energy that can change the world
• Occupy Health–Our Planet’s, Our Own–this May Day
• Living on the trigger’s edge
• Silent Spring Dawns Hot, Dry and Merciless
• Leadership revisited: from ruthless and reckless to thoughtful and wise
• Women Must Stand Up For Peace & Security
• May Day Mutiny: Radical Transformation Rises
• IWD 2012: If not you, who? If not now, when?
• Cupid, go home!
• Pleasure plus meaning equals happiness: homage to my mom
• Looking catastrophe in the eye
• Sparking Creativity at the 2012 Berkshire Festival of Women Writers
• Starving women, American chic style
• From war games to peace games, it’s time to stop playing games
• Taking responsibility for the violence
• Calling on President Obama: Be Our Warrior for Peace
• Cancer blues
• Out of the mouths of babes….
• Coming to Voice, Saving the Planet
• There’s More to Love Than Cupid and his Arrows
• An Unlikely Environmental Evangelist
• Coming to you live from the studios of WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM, Great Barrington….
• Hope springs eternal in our Garden of Earthly Delights
• Climate Change Denial at the NY Times
• Dare to love
• Planetary Superbowl
• Turn those pink ribbons green
• Reproductive Rights Redux
• Climate refugees–who’s next?
• Canaries in the Roundup Ready Fields
• A Crucible Moment in Education
• Green Teaching: What the World Needs Now
• State of the Union or State of the Planet?
• Webizens Unite!
• Censorship in Academe, 21st century style
• Shades of an American Kristallnacht?
• A new generation rises, and with them, our hopes
• On MLK Day, Opening the Hearts of the Privileged
• Follow the Money–Somewhere New!
• I Won’t Go Quietly
• Academic blogging: break-dancing for scholars?
• Chevron is Us. But we can change, and they can too
• Moving beyond fear and denial, or: Whither Environmentalism?
• Parents, listen up! You need to know, and you need to act–now.
• The power of words for a world in crisis
• Shaking the crystal ball: the future is what we make it
• They don’t play nice. Should we?
• A “Be the Change” Manifesto for the 21st Century
• Talking ’bout revolution on New Year’s Eve
• “Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine”
• Methane Burps and Political Disenfranchisement: People, Wake Up!
• Survival is not an academic skill
• Seeking balance in a bipolar holiday season
• De-coupling our wagons from the locomotive of global capitalism
• Solstice reflections: Women as Victims of Violence and as Peace Agents
• 1% > 99%: Don’t Mess with the Rich, and Leave Inequality Alone
• The Silence of the Bees
• Call to Action in Dark Times
• An Eco-Humynist Manifesto for the 21st Century
• On Human Rights Day, Calling the Next ‘Greatest Generation’
• Swept away for the holidays? C’mon, Occupy, Let’s Go!
• College climate activists lead the way at COP 17 in Durban
• Sex 101: From Plan B to Pleasure
• Challenging rape culture
• Outsourced pollution rides the trade winds home
• President Obama, looking for solutions on student debt, should not overlook the issue of contingent faculty labor
• From occupations to manifestations: Arundhati Roy imagines another world
• Carbon Colonialism: Just Say No!
• Who’s Afraid of Women’s Writing?
• Occupy the Climate Talks in Durban–Virtually
• Occupying the Climate Talks & College Campuses–Full Speed Ahead!
• Ripples of change, from kitchen tables to public parks
• Human beings are not lemmings–so let’s get organized and get away from that cliff!
• Honoring Native Americans on Thanksgiving
• This Thanksgiving, Imagine Another World…
• Occupy Democracy! Reich is listening….
• Is Anybody Listening?
• Shades of Kent State?
• Violence against peaceful protesters–a federal crime?
• Dispatch from Washington DC: On History and the Human Spirit
• On Black Friday, a New Target: Occupy the Malls!
• Month Three of Occupy Begins: From Class Warfare to Civil War?
• Bloomberg the Grinch vs. Occupy: This movement is not going away
• You can’t evict an idea whose time has come
• Watch out, Grey Lady! We’re watching you….
• Resisting the Energy Vultures
• What do Derrick Jensen and George Washington Have in Common?
• An older form of Deep Green Resistance rises from the rainforest. Euramericans, ignore this at your peril.
• Building on the Keystone “victory”–from endless growth to steady states
• Pipeline put off, but I’m not celebrating, are you?
• A teachable moment at Penn State?
• Student-driven learning: Diversity Day at Simon’s Rock
• Sexual harassment, from 7th grade to Herman Cain
• Activists circle the White House; Obama plays golf
• Challenging the culture of (white male) entitlement: Come on, Occupy, let’s do it!
• Sweet stirrings of a new world: fringe politics overturning the barricades
• Fighting for Change with Hearts Wide Open
• Hope, Struggle, Dream, Persist: A Mantra for Dark Times
• Never underestimate the value of JUST SHOWING UP
• Scary Halloween Statistic: 7 Billion People on the Earth by Oct 31, 2011
• Climate Change Blues: The one thing the 100% of us have in common is that we can’t afford to ignore the weather!
• #SomeThingsAreBiggerThanAnyOfUs
• A Realist Assessment of Where We Are Now
• Calling all Occupiers: Join the Deep Green Resistance of the Earth, before it’s too late
• Help Wanted: Obama the Community Organizer, Please Come Back!
• Is there an “American Spring” around the corner?
• Resisting the Vampires
• The inimitable Pete Seeger, always out in front….
• The minefield of unearned privilege: tread carefully!
• But what can we DO?
• Our planet, ourselves: we must wake up to the destruction, before it’s too late
• An urgent message for the global elites: change is coming, like it or not!
• Much to protest…and much work to be done to make it right
• What President Obama and Eve Ensler have in common
• From brooms of resistance to guerilla tactics…let’s keep it going!
• Citigroup’s CEO Says He’d Be Happy to Talk With Wall Street Protesters
• Confessions from Park Avenue: Ignorance, Privilege and Change
• Hey Boston? Remember your roots! The world is watching you…and so are we!
• Honoring Native Americans instead of Columbus
• Bill McKibben: The Sky Does Not Belong to Wall Street!
• Occupy Wall Street: Finally, the New York Times Gets It!! Now, how about Obama?
• Nobel Peace Prize honorees: why not Vandana Shiva?
• Let’s take back Black Friday, and change history!
• Resisting the Zombies: At what point will we stop bearing witness to ecocide and begin to act?
• Ruminating on the demand for “demands”: Protesters, stay on target!
• Protest and social transformation–what do Uranus and Pluto have to do with it?
• Empathy: Igniting Force for Social Action
• Real reporting from Liberty Square
• Can’t you just play nice?
• SlutWalk, Occupy Wall Street and other sparks of resistance: let’s fan the flames!
• Enough already!
• American-style debt bondage–how much longer can we go on this way?
• Don’t Pepper-Spray Our Dreams
• Occupy Wall Street: Time to Tell Bloomberg to Call Off the Goon Squad
• Occupy Wall Street, Day 10: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world
• Wangari Maathai’s Canopy of Hope: remembering a warrior woman for the planet and role model for us all
• Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71 – NYTimes.com
• Songs of Freedom in New York
• Peace Day Travesties
• Justice for Troy Davis?
• The Problem of the Color Line Persists
• Is College Worth Its Salt? Hint: It’s Worth More For Men…
• Education at the crossroads: cookie cutter or cutting edge?
• Activist strategies for the times we live in: Flying under the radar
• How Did I Get Here?
• On Becoming a Statistic
• Facebook vs. Dead Space 2: which 21st century geo-political model will win?
• Counter-Memory and the Politics of Loss After 9/11 | Truthout
• 9/11–Let’s Get Real!
• California Black-out: Eco-terrorist Strike? Wake-up Call?
• 9/11 beyond the hype: What are YOU going to do about it?
• Labor Day 2011: in which we watch capitalism dig its own grave, and plant the seeds for a better world
• Eco-terrorist? Or freedom fighter?
• Eco-terrorist from Park Avenue?
• What happened to the Obama we elected?
• The Kids Are Not All Right
• Psst–did someone say…CLIMATE CHANGE???
• Pretty Ugly
• Kids and Media…at wits’ end
• Women + Men = Change
• Did someone say young people are apathetic?
• I mean, who wants to look at pictures of skinned baby seals?
• Building resilience: the time to start is now
• Tough times ahead
• Some good news, for a change….
• Being the change….
• A great example of ordinary heroism at work….
• Let a billion ordinary heroes bloom!
• Global Warming: Time to Hold the Criminals to Account
• Finding Community at the Lunenburg Farmer’s Market
• Paradigm Shift: From Competition and Destruction to Nurturance & Collaboration
• Welcome to Transition Times