Category: Social and Political Issues

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When Right-Wing Extremists Crashed the French Drone Festival

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Right Wing Extremists Crash the French Drone Festival
When Right-Wing Extremists Crashed the French Drone Festival by Philip Sherburne (Pitchfork)

Set among ruins that predate Stonehenge, You Origin festival reshaped the work of Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, Kali Malone, and more around meditative surroundings—despite some unwanted guests.

The entire weekend was shot through with an uncommon spirit of openness, as if everyone realized how rare an opportunity it was to see music in this meditative context. All the events converged upon an overlapping set of themes: the intersection of sound and landscape, space and time, presence and ephemerality. Above all, it felt…

Stolen Goods or Finders Keepers? Controversies at the British Museum

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Stolen Goods or Finders Keepers? Controversies at the British Museum

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8HXihcmUk&ab_channel=TheMuseumGuide[/embed] Looking for more information about the British Museum? Watch my video about its top ten treasures. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts about the controversies of the British Museum.

McMindfulness: When Capitalism Goes Buddhist

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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aXDTUnea1M&ab_channel=ElliotSang[/embed] Buddhism is sometimes charged as the ideal religion for upholding unfair systems, encouraging practitioners to meditate ostensibly without acting on injustice. But is there more beneath the surface of Buddhism as taught to us under capitalism? And is this quality of “mindfulness” being, in fact, misused by neoliberals to continue exploitative economic systems?

‘The British Took Our Land – We Want King Charles To Pay’

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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYFHOdhN290&ab_channel=AJ%2B[/embed] Half a million Indigenous Kenyans were violently evicted during British colonization in order to make room for tea plantations. Kenya produces more than half of the black tea imported by the UK and British companies still dominate the industry. Kenya gained independence from the UK 60 years ago. So why are Indigenous Kenyans still…

Chinese Canadian Museum to open on the 100th anniversary of Chinese Exclusion Act – Hope Standard

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Chinese Canadian Museum to open on the 100th anniversary of Chinese Exclusion Act

Canada’s first museum dedicated to Chinese-Canadian history will open in Vancouver on the 100th anniversary of legislation that curtailed immigration from China.Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport Lana Popham announced the Chinese Canadian Museum will open July 1, 2023 — one century after the federal government enacted the Chinese Immigration Act, also known as…

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

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Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.The Missouri House debated for over eight hours last Tuesday on a budget that is roughly $2 billion less than the one Gov. Mike Parson…

The next act in the fight against Line 3? A museum on treaty rights – Minnesota Reformer

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The former Carnegie Library/Enbridge office in Park Rapids, Minnesota. Courtesy photo.

A treaty between the United States government and the Ojibwe (or Anishinaabeg) signed in Washington, DC, nearly 170 years ago will be the main focus of a new museum set to open this summer in Park Rapids.But far from being a history museum, the organizers behind Giiwedinong: The Museum and Cultural Center of the North…

Jesus Had a Vagina (According to Medieval Christian Mysticism) – Tales of Times Forgotten

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Jesus's wounds resembling a vagina in medieval art

About a month ago, a whole host of right-wing media outlets, including The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the New York Post, NBC Montana, and Fox News, published a flurry of wildly sensationalist articles claiming that a dean at the University of Cambridge said that Jesus was transgender. As Candida Moss, a scholar of the…

Who is Lilith – Part II – The Kabbalah – Origins with Samael & the Qliphoth to the Seduction of God

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Who is Lilith - Part II - The Kabbalah - Origins with Samael & the Qliphoth to the Seduction of God

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-jIScgb7Nc&ab_channel=ESOTERICA[/embed] From her ancient origins in Mesopotamia, Lilith would truly flower in the world of the mediaeval Kabbalah. In the pages of the mystical Sefer Zohar (Book of Radiance), we learn of her varied origins from the Divine Throne along with her husband Samael among the primordial Qliphoth, her merciless vengeance as Succubus and killer…

Responding to Indigenous, Vatican rejects Discovery Doctrine

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Vatican rejects Discovery Doctrine

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property laws today.A Vatican statement said the papal bulls, or decrees, “did not adequately reflect…

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