I read this after reading yesterday’s article in the Guardian by Naomi Klein Astra Taylor on “The Rise of End Times Fascism.” I highly reflecting on that article in light of your meditation today. Especially helpful for me is this from you today “Gratefully, truth is resilient. It hides in songs and stories and sacred texts. It lives in the memories of our ancestors whispered in the bodies of those still rising. Even when suppressed, truth becomes compost — feeding new generations who refuse to forget.”
I am so glad, also, that you have found Hospicing Modernity and the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective. These voices are a part of the resilience of truth, which also comes to us in wind and waves and cries out to us - the very rocks and hills cry out. Rachel Donald over at Planet: Critical has just released another report from Columbia, where rare earth mines, dams, and solar and wind farms are displacing indigenous peoples now just as the coal mines and fossil fuel infrastructure in past years. International commercial projects of vast scale are scouring the land and sucking up the water resources. This to feed the so-called “green transition” in the Global North. The ecocide and genocide continue unabated around the world. Shallow political discourse in the USA and elsewhere hides the simply truth that rape, pillage, and plunder are increasing. As Abraham Lincoln wrote to Minnesota Governor Ramsey in 1862: “Necessity knows no law.” Ramsey later spoke to the state legislature, stating that the indigenous people “must be exterminated of forever be driven beyond the borders of the state.” Now we are doing this all over the planet. The truth is being told, but the churches right now are obscuring the truth.may God help us to be like Jesus, who spoke truth to power and who loved the poor and oppressed.
Cameron, I continue to be inspired and challenged by your meditations during these tremulous times. "Ritual of amnesia," the desire for "domination," --- yes. You are directing the thinking and actions of many of us. Persevere. Thank you. Phil Blackwell
Wow! Truth-telling—- and Hospicing book does a great job; thanks for this!
I read this after reading yesterday’s article in the Guardian by Naomi Klein Astra Taylor on “The Rise of End Times Fascism.” I highly reflecting on that article in light of your meditation today. Especially helpful for me is this from you today “Gratefully, truth is resilient. It hides in songs and stories and sacred texts. It lives in the memories of our ancestors whispered in the bodies of those still rising. Even when suppressed, truth becomes compost — feeding new generations who refuse to forget.”
I am so glad, also, that you have found Hospicing Modernity and the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective. These voices are a part of the resilience of truth, which also comes to us in wind and waves and cries out to us - the very rocks and hills cry out. Rachel Donald over at Planet: Critical has just released another report from Columbia, where rare earth mines, dams, and solar and wind farms are displacing indigenous peoples now just as the coal mines and fossil fuel infrastructure in past years. International commercial projects of vast scale are scouring the land and sucking up the water resources. This to feed the so-called “green transition” in the Global North. The ecocide and genocide continue unabated around the world. Shallow political discourse in the USA and elsewhere hides the simply truth that rape, pillage, and plunder are increasing. As Abraham Lincoln wrote to Minnesota Governor Ramsey in 1862: “Necessity knows no law.” Ramsey later spoke to the state legislature, stating that the indigenous people “must be exterminated of forever be driven beyond the borders of the state.” Now we are doing this all over the planet. The truth is being told, but the churches right now are obscuring the truth.may God help us to be like Jesus, who spoke truth to power and who loved the poor and oppressed.
Thank you. 🙏
Cameron, I continue to be inspired and challenged by your meditations during these tremulous times. "Ritual of amnesia," the desire for "domination," --- yes. You are directing the thinking and actions of many of us. Persevere. Thank you. Phil Blackwell
As always, thank you Cameron, for a balanced, encouraging, helpful and thought-provoking essay and prayer. Your work is so valuable.