Written & contributed by Shepard Bliss Small town Sebastopol residents in Northern California have been waging a fierce David vs. Goliath struggle against the powerful Chase Bank, CVS Pharmacy, […]
Archives for July 2012
Top 5 Occupy Wall Street Accounts to Follow on Twitter
Written & contributed by Jane Smith If you are interested in the Occupy Wall Street movement, you know that it can change at a moment’s notice. Sometimes there are demonstrations […]
Get Inspired with a Webinar on the Roadmap Strategy
Michael Nagler, of the Metta Center for Nonviolence, outlines a strategy for combining all of our current movements, which seek to create change–from Occupy to the Keystone XL–into one unstoppable […]
Organizing or Mobilizing
There are important differences between organizing and mobilizing. For social change to be effective, each one is needed. Clarifying these two concepts helps us see the innate process people go […]
How to Write a Winning Grant Proposal
In the second part of this three-part series, Tony Martignetti talks to Dalya Massachi about some key points that you might want to include in your grant proposal, such as […]
august 2012
WEST COAST fearlessMeditation I | Practice of the Body CXC | Center for Transformative Change | Berkeley, CA Friday | September 14, 2012 | 7:00-9:30pm Register Center for Third […]
AIDS Returns to the U.S. Spotlight
There are people who have lived with AIDS for decades, a disease that people were so terrified of in the ’80s and ’90s that they wouldn’t use the same water […]
Dr. Herbert Benson on the Mind/Body Connection
In terms of healing, many of us believe that the mind has an affect on the body–that if we think good thoughts, for instance, we’ll avoid the cold that everyone […]
newDharma Talk | The Five Pillars of Islam
This talk was given by a non-Muslim expressing the power of, and appreciation for, practices across traditions. “All of the great traditions of personal transformation have built into them–no matter […]
Into the Light of the Dark, Black Night
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise. Blackbird singing […]
Zaltho Foundation | Seeds of Peace
Founded in 1994 by Claude AnShin Thomas, the Zaltho Foundation, headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts (with a meditation center in Mary Esther, Florida) is a spiritually-based foundation committed to ending violence […]
Welcome | july 2012
Every year around this time, the staff of XC goes on spiritual retreat. Our July issue reflects this by including reprints of some of our favorite stories from the past. […]