Something Inside So Strong…
Mass Non Violent Direct Action called for NYC on Thursday November 17, 2011.
Occupy Wall Street and other locations were dismantled by police last night….. Occupy Toronto may be evicted in the next couple of days. Here is a photo essay from the Occupy Toronto site in St. James Park this afternoon, courtesy of Gelek.
And some music from a country that can teach us a lot about struggle, solidarity and song….
….and this great speech (and song) by David Heap, reminding us of the 1978 Sudbury miners’ strike, and making the connections.
The best source for up-to-date daily info still is your community radio station. For example CKUT 90.3 Off The Hour (5pm) in Montreal.
Here is CKUT and the Montreal Media Coop reporting (last half of the program) on the use of riot police last Thursday Nov.10 to evict McGill students from their own campus. Report was recorded at the McGill demonstration yesterday in response to police brutality on campus.
Solidarity.
CKUT Off the Hour Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011
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Thanks to all of you who came out in April, 2011 to the benefit for the Japan Red Cross at the Sala Rosa; we raised $2000! Thanks! Here is a video of our choir singing a Japanese song at the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgUR1nh6EA0
Blog Note: I’m a meditation teacher and activist, so these are the main themes of this site…. My first spiritual involvement came via the Quaker and Catholic activists I met in the peace movement. The social justice spirituality of Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Rosalie Bertell, and the Berrigan brothers has probably drawn many of us to the religious life. Fortunate guidance and teaching from Bill Phelan and Cecilie Kwiat then sent me toward the Dharma Centre of Canada where I was again fortunate to study with a great yogi, Ven. Sonam Senge, and the meditation master Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche. These and several other accomplished teachers offered training in Burmese, Thai, and Tibetan Buddhist meditations as part of a 3yr East-West program for Universalist ministers. Although this was a unique and short-lived program, many of its brilliant teachers and resource people now teach in Canada, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand–I encourage you to seek them out (you can google them or contact me for info)…. just a few examples: Sonam Senge (Can/US), Cecilie Kwiat (Can), Sensei Doug Duncan (Japan/Can), Chime Shore (Aus/NZ/India), Brian McLeod (Winnipeg and Wuppertal), Lama Mark Webber (Can/NZ), Tarchin Hearn (Aus/NZ), Bonni Ross, (Can/NZ), and Karma Chime Wongmo (Can).
Namgyal Rinpoche said he measured dharma students by two things: their flexibility of mind and their compassion. I think the best dharma classes can overlap between meditation, music, activism, psychology, ecology, art, yoga and tai chi. I’ll be teaching this year (2012) in Toronto, Morin Heights (QC), Montreal, and ……?
E-mail me: dharma_eh [at] yahoo.ca for info.
Some of my other writing is posted at: http://www.lionsroar.ca/ and at: http://www.inuiteducation.com/ .
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Something inside so strong…!!! what a BEAUTIFUL song!! Yes we have something inside that is stronger than everything…and it makes me happy to ” feel ” it, and to see others singing it.
I LOVED when David said .” you can not jail a movement “!! neither what is inside us that is so strong….
Solidarity works!! We feel the solidarity here..we live with the indigenes of the mountain in Chiriqui. We are the 99% more than ever! It is encouraging to hear that man. “Jail ” looks like a good place to learn….The good guys are inside and the bad one outside..Sometimes , it looks like if it was..
Thank you again for sharing Derek, we feel so more connected with your help!
We miss you,
Thanks Chantal. Yup, that Soweta choir song gives me goosebumps.
We miss you and Eric here in Quebec! When are you coming back for a visit??
I guess our loss is Chiriqui’s gain. Solidarity Sister! Derek
GOOSEBUMPS!!!! This is the word I was looking for!!!! Yes, GOOSEBUMPS! it gives ne goosebumps too…
No time and money to travel for now…. but we have a guest room, fot people who freeze in the north!!
Solidarity brother”
Chantal