Karen Armstrong, former nun and prolific author on religious issues, gives a talk in 2008 on fostering compassion for today’s TED Talk Tuesday. “If we don’t manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt [...]
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* Via @AnonymousOpsIRC on Twitter: From Boston to Afghanistan, nobody deserves to get blown up at anytime. #peace not #war American comedian Patton Oswalt posted a thoughtful response to the Boston bombings on his Facebook wall, reflecting on the goodness that remains in the world: …I don’t know what’s going to be revealed behind all [...] * Via @AnonymousOpsIRC on Twitter: From Boston to Afghanistan, nobody deserves to get blown up at anytime. #peace not #war American comedian Patton Oswalt posted a thoughtful response to the Boston bombings on his Facebook wall, reflecting on the goodness that remains in the world: …I don’t know what’s going to be revealed behind all [...] The world is reeling from the news of a terrible explosion at the Boston marathon. In my morning newspaper today, I read this by Craig and Marc Kielburger, brothers who founded the charity Free The Children and the Me To We Social Enterprise: “A Halifax girl is allegedly raped by four of her classmates, and her peers use social media to spread a photo of the incident throughout her high school. Haunted by the pain and humiliation, she ends her life. Last September, a British Columbia teen posts a heartrending video detailing the constant cyber-bullying she endured for more than . . . → Read More: THE CAREGIVERS’ LIVING ROOM – A Blog by Donna Thomson: Searching for Roots of Compassion in a Violent World During my 85-day hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s New Jim Crow-style crime Bill C-10, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, a prominent opposition MP told me hunger protests weren’t part of the process of democratic engagement in Canada. I was shocked and disappointed. First, during our conversation on the steps leading to the READ MORE 
 #idlenomore, Activism, Activism News, Bill C-45, Canada, Canada Politics, Canada-China Investment Treaty, Chief Theresa Spence, Chief Theresa Spence Hunger Strike, compassion, Crime Bill C-10, democracy, elizabeth may, Featured, First Nations, Ghandi, Indigenous Rights, Jacques Hébert, naomi klein, New Jim Crow, News, police state, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Public Support, rights, Victoria Island This is a video about what this holiday season is meant to be about – love and compassion, even in the face of intolerance and hate: * EveryoneMatters.2012.com His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking on compassion and it’s connection to finding purpose in life. by Cora Currier | ProPublica Dr. Rahmatollah Sedigh Sarvestani is dying. The Iranian sociologist, recently retired from a long teaching career at the University of Tehran, suffers from prostate cancer and a pelvic tumor. With his kidneys failin… . . . → Read More: Canadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Why the U.S. Won’t Allow Dying Iranian Sociologist to Join His Family
Citizenship, Citizenship And Immigration, compassion, counterterrorism, Dr. Rahmatollah Sedigh Sarvestani, Espionage, FBI, Guest Blog, human dignity, Immigration, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Movements, national security, ProPublica, rights, Shiite Muslims, State Department, Terrorism, U.S.-Iranian relations, U.S.A, University of Tehran If everyone did just one good deed a day, our world would be a better place…. Nothing is more difficult than to practice goodness within a system whose rules, goals, and information streams are geared to individualism, competitiveness, and cynicism. But it can be done. We can be patient with ourselves and others as we all confront a changing world. We can empathize with resistance to change; there is some clinging [...] Elijah Porter of Newfoundland saw Canadian heroism even after the team lost its silver medal, and so he gave the athletes his own Timbits soccer medal. “We CAN look after each other better than we do today” and “Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity.” – the late NDP Leader, Jack Layton Emotional by nature, I am. Very. But this is the first time I’ve blogged with tears streaming down my 40-year old black-male cheeks. I’m bawling because, somewhere in this city I now call home, an extra-ordinary woman is pregnant and living on the streets. Annie Pootoogook is her name. As I blog, I . . . → Read More: Canadian Progressive World: Canada’s Shame: Acclaimed Inuit Artist Pregnant And Homeless In Ottawa In May, Corporal Catherine Galliford filed a claim of being sexually harassed by her male superiors during her 16 year career with our national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Predictably, the responses from the four accused Mounties is denial. But, in this country famous for compassion, how are we supposed to understand the joint response (pdf) from the Canadian and B.C. governments? Denial and victim-blaming. Par excellence. The accused officers “deny the acts described in Galliford’s suit actually happened.” Not only that. They tell us if Galliford was ever sexually harassed, the acts “were . . . → Read More: CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: RCMP’s Misogynistic Response to Gillford Sexual Harassment Claim
accountability, British Columbia, Canada, Catherine Galliford, CBC News, Class Action Lawsuit, compassion, crime, Government, Harper government, Honesty, integrity, Law and Order, lawsuit, opinion., police, professionalism, RCMP, RCMP Culture, rights, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Sex and Relationships, Sexual Harassment, SlutWalk, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Toronto Sun, transparency, Vic Toews Humans are such complicated creatures. We are wreaking havoc on a global scale because of big-is-better, greed-is-good mentality that dominates most nations and corporations (combined with an “it’s too hard to change” attitude on the part of much of the populace). Yet we are also capable of great compassion, and heroic deeds of service to [...] I feel as though I’ve been wrenched from the light of the world and exiled to the heart of darkness. My friends, I just want to let you all know that we’ll not be able to stay as connected as … Continue reading →
ALL CPW POSTS, Bill C10, BILL C10 HUNGER STRIKE, Canada, Canada Crime Law, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian media, Canadian MPs, Canadian Senators, Canadian values, compassion, crime, Dissent, diversity, fundamental rights, Hope, injustice, Journal, multiculturalism, Omnibus Crime Bill C-10, Ottawa Hydro, parliament, Peaceful Protest, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, rights, Safe Streets, Safe Streets and Communities Act, Society, World Before I get into my increasingly radical antipathy towards the NHL and NHLPA and their callous disregard for brain injury risks, I’d like you to spend a few moments watching this gratuitous display of intent to injure at a bantam hockey game in Kelowna last month involving teenagers. It will properly explain what I am about to say about the NHL and its embrace of callous violence. More after the jump below. When hockey transforms into a sick, disgusting decay in the direction of Rollerball to the point where teenagers are running goalies with elbows to the head, it is . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Boycott the National Headshot League (#NHL) |
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