Memory, fire and Hope: five lessons from Standing Rock

Memory, fire and Hope: five lessons from Standing Rock

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Standing Rock may have been evicted but the movement hasn’t lost. Here are five lessons activists around the world can learn from the...
Let Donald Trump be our unifier

Let Donald Trump be our unifier

Donald Trump is not a leader or a presidential candidate. He is an outcome, a viral manifestation of a serious malignant illness. He is the mirror of our emptiness, the emptying out that has been happening to our country for a very long time. He is an outcome of a...
No Words

No Words

Words. I’ve saved few and spent many. Baiting minds with a frustrated tongue. Speaking from a pulpit of privilege. Self-absorbed, indulgent responsibility. Mattering to no one.   Each word a pill, a placebo; Anything to stem the ceaseless flow; Of despair...
The War Within France

The War Within France

France has a Muslim problem. When President Obama walked onto a stage and decreed the Paris attacks, an attack on humanity, he wasn’t just being presidential. Perhaps he views the two countries as neighbouring houses in an Amish town whose austere peaceful lives...
Burn It Down: The Circumstances That Provoked Our Protest Video

Burn It Down: The Circumstances That Provoked Our Protest Video

Picture This: It was October 2013 ,the fall after I graduated from College. My Grandfather had just passed away and I returned home from my first job working as aproduction assistant on a film set in Milwaukee for the movie The Surface. Although it was a good...