Greetings from Alison Wiley here in Portland, Oregon. I'm a writer/doer/thinker who lives happily by putting people, nature and God ahead of accumulating more stuff. Read more →
I came home from the movie theater last night with a wet handkerchief (yes, I still use these) and wet eyes. We’d seen “The Butler”, a tour of civil rights history through the intense experiences of a black family that lived at the epicenter of it. It was released in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of [...]
Tags: civil rights·climate change·connectedness·Dr. Martin Luther King·Jr.·paradigm shift·sacrificial love·separateness·The Butler
I’m penning just a short post today before I take the bus into downtown Portland for meetings on transportation options. (Happily, it appears that the statewide/interstate rideshare project we’ve been working on for a long time will officially be granted its funding today.) As the world’s climate talks in Copenhagen approach their conclusion on Friday, [...]
Tags: civil disobedience·Copenhagen·demonstrators·Dr. Martin Luther King·James Howard Kuntzler·long emergency·Mahatma Gandhi
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