Photo by Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images | Firefighters battle flames at a burning apartment complex in Paradise, north of Sacramento, California, on November 9, 2018.
November 28, 2018
Published in Yes! Magazine
I want us to go humbly to the very people our culture tried to exterminate to listen to what they can teach us.
May 9, 2017
Published in the Napa Valley Register
These were times when Napa Valley was a fulcrum of hateful, murderous activity against the Indian population, which…set the pattern for what became an all-out genocide.
January 27, 2017
With Courtney Martin
Published in OnBeing
California was particularly violent, but the story holds true in different ways throughout the country, whether our white ancestors were actually there for the killing or immigrated later and moved into places that had been conquered….We’re living with the kind of shadow Jung talked about — played out in our political life, denial of climate change, and lack of true respect for darker-skinned people.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, I wrote frequently on issues that led to the project of Inherited Silence. Most of this work appeared in peace and justice media that have no online presence today. So here are a few selections:
