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No More Sacrifice Zones by Suzanne Belote Shanley
Ever since Brayton returned from Standing Rock, North Dakota, the breathtaking images that he shared with me by phone while in North Dakota have resounded in my heart and soul: “You won’t believe these…teepees, tents everywhere. We delivered the straw bales. Our greeters were people of all ages. They came for a month ago and […]
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Native Nations Rising: A Countersign by Brayton Shanley
Our country is in rapid political decline. The sign? Donald Trump is president and has been leading the decline for seven whole months now. Eighty percent of the registered Republicans support Trump through his clinical narcissistic horrors. So we are descending fast. And where is the hope in such a descent into dangerous political absurdity? […]
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“We Need an Energy Shift to Heal Our Mother Earth” Chief Arvol Looking Horse: Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Nations
“I, Chief Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations, ask you to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has happened in America, that we call ‘Turtle island’…recognize the importance of Sacred Sites and realize the interconnectedness of what is happening today…continued massacres…on other lands and our own Americas. Our ancestors never saw a […]
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Wronging Each Other in the Name of God and Ideology: Reflections on and from Mosul by Ahmad al Hadidi
I have been living in the United States for almost fourteen years but I never imagined that I would be witnessing from my comfort zone here the destruction of my birth city Mosul. Yet, another war in my life made me not only suffer but also ponder on why we, equally created human beings, have […]
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How Boycotts Can Stop Pipelines by Hattie Nestel
In the dead of winter or sweltering summer heat, several of us hold signs reading Boycott TD Bank–Support Standing Rock. Have stood like this this twice weekly for more than six months and have distributed some three thousand leaflets urging account holders to move their money out of TD Bank. Why bother? Because climate change […]
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Hope Found at Agape by Celia Dolan
In mid-May, I embarked on a journey with five fellow Stonehill College students for a HOPE service trip (Honoring our neighbor, Organizing for justice, Practicing peace, Encountering God). We drove about two hours from Easton to Hardwick, unsure of what we would find at our destination. Upon our arrival, we found a welcoming community. As […]
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Three Generations of Divide and Conquer by John Paul Marosy
Divide and conquer is a time-honored strategy that ruling elites use when they don’t have solutions to problems. The problem in the U.S. today is not “immigrants,” it’s the divide and conquer strategy being cynically deployed by the corporate ruling elite to consolidate power and feed the greed machine, Wall Street and the Military Industrial […]
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A Speck at the Sea by Dave Legg
A breath in fog at the edge of dawn am I Standing on rock by crashing sea Waiting and hoping on the Source Again and again in each moment Love melts fog. “Come to me at the sea drink your fill of Light” Knowing God is Love for all gratitude swells strong as wave Each […]
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Like a Horse and Carriage by Fr. John Sullivan MS
After over a year of not seeing one another, I was grateful for the opportunity to visit recently with my good friends Suzanne and Brayton. Our friendship goes back more than 25 years when I would stop at Agape during my visits home to the States while working as a La Salette Missionary priest in […]
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Making Mundane Moments Meaningful by Kelton Tupper
Much of my two months spent at Agape have been mundane, and I mean that in the best possible way. I have spent most of my life in the hustle and bustle of a D.C. suburb. Things are fast paced, and there is always something going on. Any break in the action is seen as […]
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