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Maura Fallon
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Spiritual direction | Textile protest art | Climate + racial justice | Catholic-rooted | Quietly radical | Globally seasoned | Cinephile | Seattle
Yesterday was the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.

St. Francis's Prayer for Peace youtu.be/I00_-j4SFuQ?...

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Singing Spirit (Concert B)
YouTube video by Columbia Choirs of Metropolitan Seattle
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
EXAMPLES OF OVERCOMING AUTHORITARIANISM You already know this. Heartening to read. “Gift” article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Today we remember the children taken to U.S. Indian Boarding Schools—those who survived, their descendants, and those who never came home. Please wear something orange in remembrance. 🧡

#NationalDayOfRemembrance #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #NABS #BoardingSchoolRemembrance #TruthAndHealing
September 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
NYC Climate Week. up-cycled clothes, messages re: environmental & textile industry—second most polluting industry after petrochemicals. My 3 three dresses: a black dress - dyes poison water, workers, & our planet; a fire dress — heat of climate crisis; denim-cotton dress — enormous water needed.
September 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Philomena Cunk realizes nuclear weapons are still with us. www.facebook.com/share/r/1Cdp...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
World leaders urged to end the nuclear arms race and achieve global nuclear abolition - mailchi.mp/unfoldzero/w...
September 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Fast fashion is fueling climate breakdown. Join our Subversive Catwalk to experience upcycled clothing and eco-action.
📅 Saturday, September 27, 2025
⏰ 2:00–4:00 pm ET
📍 12 East 41st Street, Manhattan
#ClimateWeekNYC #SustainingAllLife #UnitedtoEndRacism # FallonRewear
Fast fashion is fueling climate breakdown. Join our Subversive Catwalk to experience upcycled clothing and eco-action.
📅 Saturday, September 27, 2025
⏰ 2:00–4:00 pm ET
📍 12 East 41st Street, Manhattan
#ClimateWeekNYC #SustainingAllLife #UnitedtoEndRacism
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Remembering Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. May their memories be a blessing.
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Another International Day of Peace is here. Maybe it’s a moment to pause—without judgment, just kindly and honestly—and ask: What have I done to foster peace this year? Where have I fallen short? Where might I begin again today?
—from Sisters of St Joseph of Peace
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BERNIE SANDERS IN WEST VIRGINIA. Great —Bernie as he sits with Trump voters in WV and asks them how it’s going. Bernie genuinely engages the voters in large and small groups and gets to the heart of issues in one of the reddest states in the country. There’s hope!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8O...
I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over?
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Alexander Technique Intensive with Cathy Madden at Whidbey Island. 🧡
August 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Scott Trust (owner of The Guardian) has launched a 10-year restorative justice program after finding its 1821 founder’s wealth came from slavery in the US South. The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is the US anchor. More: theguardian.com/legacies-of-enslavement + gullahgeecheecorridor.org
Legacies of enslavement | The Guardian
The Scott Trust intends to atone for the injustices of the past by supporting those who still live with the brutal legacies of transatlantic enslavement
theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
You cannot make this stuff up. Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.
www.nytimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Affordability is an urgent issue to Seattle residents struggling …in an increasingly expensive city, but the council, mayor, and city attorney have focused more on arresting drug users & increasing fines for graffiti than providing affordable housing…

open.substack.com/pub/ericacba...
🚨🚨Seattle Nice: Election Results Emergency Edition!🚨🚨
So what just happened? We break it all down on this week's podcast.
open.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Bernas Bakery & Cafe — Turkish Café in Issaquah. Beautiful Turkish music playing in the background. Also tons of gorgeous looking baklava type pastries. Sitting outside on the deck next to an open door where I can still hear the music. I’m glad I came here — it’s feeding my soul.
August 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
PIVOTING FROM DEFENSE TO OFFENSE

Scott Nakagawa, antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/pivoting-f...

Detailed strategy to take offense to end authoritarianism.

Goal: to build a democratic, equitable, joyful society that makes authoritarianism impossible.

open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
Pivoting From Defense to Offense
The Strategic Shift
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
HOW AUTHORITARIANISM IS DESTROYING NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS
open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
How Authoritarianism is Destroying Native American Rights
What's Happening
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Phyllis Galembo, Santeria Practitioners, Cuba, 1996. substack.com/@gabriellemb...
GABRIELLETTE (@gabriellembo)
Phyllis Galembo, Santeria Practitioners, Cuba, 1996.
substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Cat video short 2.5 minutes) of the day. Henri Le chat noir youtu.be/0M7ibPk37_U?...
wryly philosophical banter about the darker things in life — as in film noir
Henri
YouTube video by Will Braden
youtu.be
July 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Song of the day.
July 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM