by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 16, 2012 | Stopping Violence
There’s not much silence in an Alternatives to Violence Workshop. But there’s a lot of soaking in good energy. We do silly games like Mrs. Mumbly Just can’t smile (talk without showing teeth); sly games like taking a slow boat to China; rowdy games like Jailbreak...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 16, 2012 | Light In Action
Michelle Alexander is a slim tall woman with a powerful voice. Her book, The New Jim Crow, 2011, is convincing and well researched. She shared at Boston University a vision and a plan for a new social movement to turn around pernicious racial policies in the US....
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Oct 22, 2012 | Aymara Quakers?
She started at the university of La Paz in 2008 studying tourism. In 2010 she received a scholarship from Bolivian Quaker Education. “I live in the Tahuantinsuya barrio in El Alto. I want to tell you about my Friends church, Tahuantinsuta meeting. I participate in the...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Oct 22, 2012 | Light In Action, Stopping Violence
What religion is most dominant in the world? Is Islam on the rise accompanied by its US shadow Islamaphobia? Is Christianity flying high with curving right wing? Is it atheism? Buddhism ? No. Truthfully, it’s the religion of violence: our belief that war (with...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Oct 22, 2012 | Aymara Quakers?
Aldo Chiri, 21 years old, is studying engineering at the Main Campus of San Andres University. He is in his third year, and expects to graduate in 2014. “This semester I’m studying the complex Variables in Calculus, Differential Equations, Basic Advanced Physics...
