The 1990 Democracy movement in Nepal changed my life, and set me on the path to doing human rights work and the Tibetan Freedom Concerts. Hoping freedom comes to Nepal, and the violence stops. And thanks to friends there for giving us first hand accounts of what they are seeing and hearing.

It was the first time I experienced martial law, the first time I hid in the dark after curfew while soldiers marched past, the first time I had a rifle aimed straight at me...the first time I witnessed people risking everything for the freedoms I was born into.

Every night, massive protests filled the streets—and every morning, the signs of resistance were scattered across the ground. Some were just torn-out pages from school notebooks, with slogans like “We Want Democracy” scribbled over math homework and vocabulary lists.

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I’ve been fortunate to meet him. Adam & I sat with him before the Tibetan Freedom Concerts. Later, when Jon and I were getting married, he offered us a prayer. When we asked for advice, he laughed: “What do I know about marriage? I’m a monk.” Then added the best advice ever: “Not too much emotion.”

Over the next year, we’ll be sharing the sounds, sights, and sparks that show how culture infuses power into freedom movements—and how we can use that power now for Tibet and beyond.

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there are major protests happening this friday (the 28th) and next tuesday (march 4th). find one near you here: www.fiftyfifty.one

TL;DR: nonviolent campaigns seeking regime change always win when they engage 3.5% of the public in protests. in the US, that is 11 million people.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

“It’s a process that can bring us into the company of people who share our beliefs quite explicitly, but to create movements, rather than clubhouses, we need to engage with people with whom we do not fully identify and may even dislike.” words by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba from…3/4

“…Organizing on the scale that our struggles demand means finding common ground with a broad spectrum of people, many of whom we would never otherwise interact with, and building a shared practice of politics in the pursuit of more just outcomes… 2/4

ps. some of the predictions of what causes the solutions to be possible in “ministry for the future” is already happening.

engaging in solar punk is a way to strengthen our imagination of positive practical futures and to counter our very well-practiced ability to embrace the doom. perhaps one — or all — of these books helps someone out there feel that a positive and practical future is actually possible.