Living Freedom Archive

“End the privatization of the Earth and her resources,” and make the ownership of these, as well as the things of human creation, commonly held for the benefit of all. The private ownership of the Earth and its resources, spells disaster for much of the rest of life on the planet, human and other, and, [...]

There is a drive in live organisms towards complexity, as life develops, living beings become more sophisticated and interdependent; the inanimate world, on the other hand, tends towards simplification, complex molecules break down into simpler ones, and electrons flow to lower energy states; without this collaborative ‘dance,’ the intricate functions of life are impossible. ‘Life’ [...]

Can I live up to the gift of freedom? I often think of freedom as a burden, the fact that I have limitless choices to be anyone I want to be or not. It scares the hell out of me. The burden to choose responsibly and wisely for myself on a personal, civil and spiritual [...]

Some might argue that we don’t have any choice in this upside down dangerous world and that we can’t affect what will happen. But even if we can’t immediately alter the course of human events on the world stage, we can certainly create change in our own lives and in all of the lives that [...]

My country of Burma—a poor nation of 52 million people in Southeast Asia—has suffered under harsh military rule for over four decades. It is no wonder that freedom is the most precious and desired value for people from all walks of life in Burma, especially for the political prisoners—more than 1,200 of them locked away [...]

One of the primary fictions that governs our lives is that we are in any meaningful sense free. Our way of life is predicated on freedom, and is freer than any other way of life that has ever existed, we tell ourselves endlessly, drearily, compulsively, as sleep-deprived we look out the window at the concrete [...]

Senada is close to sixty, maybe a few years older. The hell she has lived through has taken its toll. The deep sea of grief she navigates has put her off balance — not broken her indomitable spirit, but sent her off spinning through eddies of unfathomable memories. Glaucoma has rendered her nearly blind. In [...]

Starting ‘close to home’ helps me begin to grasp the meaning of ‘freedom’ in other parts of the world where it involves life or death. In my world, I value my freedom of thought. It means the freedom to search for the truth with as little outside pressure or manipulation as possible. It means the [...]