Not Knowing—and Following Those Who Just Might Have an Idea
Peter Pierson, a writer and a participant in the Native American Bearing Witness Plunge in 2019, offers us another reflective writing piece, applying the three tenets to his intimate experience and reflections of our modern times....
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To Sit with an Elder: Australian Participant Reflects on the 2019 Native American Bearing Witness Plunge
Struck by a people's history of trauma alongside great resilience, Sam reflects on the tears and laughter shared among the elders from the Lakota-speaking culture in South Dakota, USA during the Zen Peacemakers 2019...
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Love Song for the Whole Earth: Interview with Finn Artist Maija Kaunismaa on Buddhist Practice, Climate Action and Creativity
Peacemakers Finland premiered a new piece of music on Youtube on May 7, 2019. It's a reworking of Reino Helismaa's classic Finnish love song “Onni jonka annoin pois,” recomposed to raise awareness for the...
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The Story Goes Right In: MuZen’s Performance Art Applies Attention, Empathy and Play to Social Change
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA. Interview with Beth Fairservis and Stephen Katz of MuZen Mindful Creative Theater, a group working at the intersection of contemplative practice, activism, and theater art.
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Dejusticia releases free playbook for defending human rights amidst growing populism
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA. Indigenous rights organization Dejusticia releases "Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors." The book has been freely distributed to inspire and educate human rights activists in a time...
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Bearing Witness to Land, Food and Race: Organizers review the 2017 retreat at Soul Fire Farm
PETERSBURG, NEW YORK, USA. In September 2017, Zen Peacemakers Roshi Paco Genkoji Lugoviña and Zen Peacemakers Minister Ariel Pliskin organized the retreat "Bearing Witness to Land, Food, and Race" with Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg,...
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Great Doubt and Great Faith on Guard Towers and Trading Floors: Interview with Sensei Grant Couch
KEY WEST, FLORIDA, USA. Interview with Sensei Grant Couch. "Suddenly, I realized I was standing in the boots of the commandant … reading the camp (Auschwitz) just like I had “read” the operations...
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The Territory is My Body: More on the Indigenous Leaders Workshop in Colombia, Interview with ZPI Executive Director Rami Efal
SIERRA NEVADA de SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA. Interview with Rami Efal, executive director of ZPI on his experience in the First Workshop for Indigenous Leaders in December 2017, which saw leaders from indigenous communities of...
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This Food of Seventy Two Labors, an Invitation to a Bearing Witness Retreat to Food, Land and Racism in the USA
PETERSBURG, NEW YORK STATE, USA. Rev. Ariel Pliskin, ZPO Minister and founder of Unity Tables and community-based Stone Soup Café Greenfield MA has participated in several Bearing Witness Retreats on the streets, at Auschwitz,...
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Climate Takuhatsu
I’m writing this as a part of my “climate takuhatsu”. Soon after we moved to Boulder last year, I started this practice. I go door to door in our neighborhood, knock, wait, if someone shows up,...
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