Living Freedom Archive

Like Moses carrying a staff,
through clear cloth hangs tights an emblem United blue.
A season for change,
a journey for triumph,
though,
this regime takes no names.
We challenge our bodies,
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I would like to say that I have some world changing statement to make concerning freedom.
Perhaps to say that I had crossed the very ethers of time and space and glimpsed a daring look at freedom. Maybe even to have the audacity to say that I and I alone know the true […]

In the eloquent book, “The Unconquerable World,” author Jonathan Schell traces the grim and brutal history of warfare. A core notion of the book is that war has become non-winnable in the settling of disputes.
Due to the evolution of nuclear weapons and the mutual annihilation inherent in their use, the reliance of politics on […]

The world is arse-backwards”, Dr. Francis Israel Regardie
In what context do we put freedom? Do we need a social context, a historical one, some background of political ideologies that shape a culture, or indeed do we need a cultural context? Does freedom differ in theory and practice between peoples, does it take on a different […]

“Freedom” has very different meanings for women than men in most parts of the world.
For women, freedom constitutes a reprieve (always temporary) from being a target of male violence. Whether directly or indirectly, anti woman violence affects all women. In Elizabeth Stanko’s words, “To walk the streets warily at night is how we […]

when we say freedom we are children
forming a word out of our desire, our instinct
shaping something we can’t yet embrace, may never
our meaning gathers so many layers and nuances
in time
we are speechless
when we say freedom we are human
what other creature needs the concept, the comfort
when we say freedom we are naked
aware of every prison, literal, […]

The history of war in both the ancient and modern world makes one wonder if war is an irresistible compulsion for man. Perhaps the pull toward violence or at least occasional bloodletting is a deep need in the human psyche, an evolutionary adaptation we struggle to understand. What is this love of war, of […]

“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, […]