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Native Ohlone of San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area Resist the Destruction of Sacred Site

by Jan Lundberg
21 August 2011
To see this article and all 12 photos GO TO culturechange.org/cms/content/view/772/1/ Sorry for the temporary work around Read more

Celebrating Culture Change's 23rd Birthday

by Jan Lundberg

19 August 2011

Let's take stock of Culture Change on the 23rd anniversary of its founding. It was during the first "global warming summer," August 1988, when we announced with some fanfare, at the International Club in Washington, D.C., the formation of a nonprofit group that sprang out of my 16-year career as a reluctant oil industry analyst.

Before we take stock and give reason to celebrate, can you send us a birthday present? Please know:

We can't bring you a 24th year without your participation and support.

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UK Riots' Resource and Cultural Roots: an in-the-trenches report

by Jan Lundberg and Chris Dilworth
10 August 2011
Publisher's note: Thanks to the submission of a report from a UK youth/homeless counselor and educator who sees the big picture consistent with Culture Change, we present his poignant and profound observations (see Chris Dilworth's section at end). - Jan Lundberg I have stayed in Hackney, a poor section of London where rioting has been going on. It was a squat turned into a quasi-public word-of-mouth home, shared with revolving travelers and seekers. In the neighborhood I noticed anti-landlord graffiti. I was impressed by the Read more

The Universe is Kind. That's Why We're Here

by Depaver Jan

28 July 2011

We're here because we're here because we're here -- one of the wiser songs of my kiddie past, sung to the tune Auld Lang Syne. Later we got too serious and mantraed "Be here now."

Meditating -- it's not what you think.

But if so, why can't we make an exception. I propose something I'll be happy to debate with the toughest meditation gurus: dwelling on the universe can be a kind of meditation. "Okay, now I'm aware I'm thinking about the universe, so I must be meditating."

China's Debt-for-Nature Opportunity for Virtually Bankrupt U.S.

by Jan Lundberg
26 July 2011
The U.S. is faltering economically, seeing the chickens come home to roost financially since erasing the budget surpluses of the Clinton Era. It's not just a coincidence that in the 1990s the U.S. "enjoyed" low oil prices and engaged in much less war spending. With the U.S. deficit crisis there needs to be a win-win solution if possible with this nation's huge creditor, China the world powerhouse. The debt-ceiling impasse in Washington cannot actually be solved with smoke and mirrors, contrary to Inside-the-Beltway delusions -- certainly not long-term. So what does China have to say, when it owns nearly $900 billion in U.S. debt? Read more

Killing The Things We Love

by John F. Schumaker
20 July 2011
And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The Coward with a kiss, The brave man with a sword. A century on from Oscar Wilde’s immortal poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, death comes gift-wrapped and perfumed, in beguiling guilt-free varieties, delivered with a toothy smile and prophecy of material salvation. Betrayal gets absolved as the consumer age supplants conscience with craving, and duty with self-devotion. Read more