Solidaridad/2
What You Understand Depends on Where You Stand for Ellen Rehg Mev looked up to Ann ManganaroCo-founder of Karen Catholic Worker HouseSister of Loretto medical doctorCompañera to Father John Kavanaugh When Mev went to El…
Category: Share the Wealth Project
Share the Wealth –The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange, A Film by Juan Passarelli
Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing if extradited to the United States. The Trump administration has gone from denigrating journalists as ‘enemies…
Share the Wealth with Mark Chmiel: Dear Love of Hedy
In this share, I plan on talking about one of the major threads of my recent “book” (published at my blog and on Facebook) Dear Love of Comrades, which I described to Rachel Sacks…
Share the Wealth with Magan Wiles: Decolonizing Tango
Three days after the video of George Floyd’s murder went viral, I saw a video on Facebook of my friend Jay standing at a busy intersection in LA, holding up a sign that said “where…
Share the Wealth with Elizabeth House: Stumbling Through the Writing Process Energized by Diet Pepsi and Peer Pressure
“You don’t know what you don’t know.” Elizabeth House was told this once while working in a facility where the residents were struggling with different areas of addiction. She learned in that experience, and many…
Share the Wealth with Lois Aceto: “Committed to Truth and Compelled to Justice”
My friend Lea Koesterer suggested her friend Lois for one of our evenings, so I am glad to pass along the following from Lea– Lois Aceto, a Racine Dominican Sister, is a seasoned social justice activist. Her…
Share the Wealth with Carol Mock–Beauty Draws the Eye: Daylilies and the Limits of Finitude
Carol Mock has been growing daylilies since 1996, when she wandered into a garden club sale at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The club was (and is) called the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society. She purchased…
Share the Wealth with Rachel Dratnol: Finding “Something Good” in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
During this Share the Wealth, I will be sharing my experiences with writing “I See You” during the COVID-19 pandemic. I wrote the piece in the first few weeks of the pandemic as I was…
Share the Wealth with Matthew Miller: Rumi, Sufi Path of Love, and the Politics of “Mysticism”
Matthew Miller will lead us in a wide ranging discussion about Persian Sufi poetry. He will touch on the problems with many popular translations of Rumi and explore the “Sufi path of love” by introducing us to…
Share the Wealth with Jack McAtee: In But Not of The World
During this discussion we will try to make sense of these wild, strange, sad, wonderful, and terrifying times that we currently have the opportunity to live through. I’ll take a critical view on the current…