The 20th century witnessed a momentous shift that would ultimately threaten the welfare of children: the rise of the for-profit corporations.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
4 Desperate Ways the Hardest Hit Are Coping with Economic Crisis | | AlterNet
People have to make difficult choices during tough economic times. Here are four frightening ways people are coping with the ongoing recession.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Email from a colleague: pathetic figures!
USA Today published an editorial recently about the state of today's American children, in raw numbers, which were so bad that the newspaper had to keep reiterating that the figures were not misprints:
Gun deaths Time magazine's statistics on gun violence, in the wake of the Arizona shooting. In any given year:
This translates into over 275 people who are shot for any reason every single day. |
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
The Sun Magazine | What Did You Dream Last Night?
by BARBARA PLATEK
The complete text of this selection is available in our print edition.
There was a time when Marc Ian Barasch paid scant attention to his dreams. Like many people, he viewed them as intriguing but forgettable, “a nocturnal reshuffling of the mental deck,” as he once wrote. But after a series of vivid nightmares presaged a cancer diagnosis, he had a thorough change of heart. Barasch embarked on a project to explore and document the importance of dreams.
Fifteen years of research led him to the conclusion that dreams play a pivotal role in our lives. After traveling the globe to interview dream experts of all kinds — including scientists, psychotherapists, and indigenous healers — and undertaking an in-depth analysis of the voluminous dream notebooks he’d kept during his illness, Barasch gathered his findings into a book, Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life, which won the Nautilus Award for best psychology title in 2001. His other books include The Healing Path: A Soul Approach to Illness (1992); Remarkable Recovery: What Extraordinary Healings Tell Us about Getting Well and Staying Well (with Caryle Hirshberg, 1995); and Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness (2005).
Barasch was born in 1949 and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. The son of a television and film producer, he studied film at Yale University, along with literature, psychology, and anthropology. He has been an editor at Psychology Today, Natural Health, and New Age Journal(which won a National Magazine Award under his tenure), and he has twice been shortlisted for the PEN Literary Award. A practicing Buddhist, Barasch helped found the psychology department at Buddhist-established Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, which combines Eastern and Western educational traditions. He has played and recorded with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band whose members are all famous authors, including Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Stephen King.
In 2006 Barasch founded the Green World Campaign, a nonprofit organization whose primary goal is to “turn degraded lands green again” by planting billions of trees. He currently serves on the advisory committee of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat for the International Year of Forests 2011.
I spoke with Barasch several times for this interview: twice while he was visiting Los Angeles and once when he was back home in Boulder. I was impressed by his ability to articulate esoteric concepts in a lively and approachable way. Most striking, however, was his passion for his work. The possibilities of the dreaming mind remain largely untapped, he says, and if you approach even a single dream with respect, insight, and tenderness, you might never be the same again.
Platek: Why is it important to pay attention to our dreams?
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Atheists, Muslims More Popular Than Tea Party (Also, Tea Party's Just a New Name for Racist Christian Right) | AlterNet
Is the media's romance with the Tea Party finally going to be ended by cold, hard facts?
The results of a comprehensive New York Times polling project (document link here) offer some good news to that end. The results show that ...continue...
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