In advance of Indigenous People’s Day, here is the third excerpt from Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa’s chapter on “Merchandise Love” in his book, The Falling Sky. It explains how the Yanomami treat personal possessions, and how they think of...
In his book, The Falling Sky, indigenous Amazonian leader Davi Kopenawa articulates an analysis of Western economics that I thought would interest many people who don’t have time to read the whole book.
As I remember the song most played at the funerals of those killed on 9/11, I’m thinking of the version by Paul Robeson, the great musician and activist for civil rights and economic justice.
This week is feeling like a turning point for me in terms how to respond, personally, to the world ecological crisis. Many people have noted that existing forms of activism and policy remedies are seeming incremental and insufficient, and that it would be easy to...
