By the time I decided to see James Cameron’s Avatar, I had already heard enough about the film to be unsure whether it would be worth the time, effort and petroleum to see it. People’s comments about the film ranged from praise for its groundbreaking 3D animation; to criticism of its racist portrayal of the [...]

Police in riot gear brandishing pepper-spray. Protesters arrested without provocation. Handcuffed bodies sitting on cold concrete streets. Physical abuse on caged human beings. Deliberate humiliation and the denial of so-called “basic rights.”
These are the kinds of mementos thousands of eco-activists will take home after vigorously protesting the failed Cop-enhagen talks on what I like to [...]

I wrote this reflection (sans a few minor edits) and tacked it onto my bulletin board at work shortly before Thanksgiving in 2008. It was later posted over at the Young Anabaptist Radicals site.
Thanksgiving makes me nervous.
For years, I’ve gotten a sinking feeling in my stomach as the month of November draws to a close [...]

MP3s of the Open Forum discussions with John Zerzan and Layla AbdelRahim from this year’s anarchism and Christianity conference are now available.
The Open Forum is an unstructured time at the Jesus Radicals conference for people to gather for conversation based on shared interests. This year, Layla and John agreed to have an extended conversation with [...]

In recent news, a man was arrested for murdering a Yale graduate student in an animal research laboratory at Yale University. At this animal “research” lab the students, professors and technicians engaged in the following kinds of projects:
At Yale University, the IACUC permitted psychiatry professor Marina Picciotto to measure despair in mice by forcing them [...]