The DF Journal is provides a place where thoughtful work finds an interested audience. Consider submitting your own reflection, poem, video or art work.
Warsan Shire
William Chambers
William Chambers on His Father - “Ed believed in straight talking, on the value of interaction with fellow humans. He placed little worth on the “non-doing talkers” or the “self aggrandizers”. Listening to today he probably would have said something like: “Well, what good is that going to do anyone. I won’t be there to enjoy it. Save your breath and go do something useful.” Read more
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Jenny Whitcher
Reflections on Democratic Education - All, I am enjoying this conversation and agitation around our collective work. In looking at the whole of the conversation there are three areas I will engage: 1) Critical hope versus fatalism, 2) Praxis examples of integrated relational organizing and agency-centered democracy, 3) Accepting the challenge. Read more
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Kathleen O'Toole
Dick Harmon
Re-visioning Relational Meetings
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Frank Pierson
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Tim McCluskey
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Zeik Saidman
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Rev. Paul Buckwalter
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The Oracle Bus Blockade: Two Views
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Crossing the Line
A poem by Robert Neustadt -
Little children cross the line. Thousands, legions of children, seeking the love of a mother, a father, a place to be. A place where you can eat. Read more |
Amanda Tattersall
My Hope for Sydney: A Reflection by Amanda Tattersall - On Monday morning at 10:34 am, I got an SMS from my sister saying “stay away from Martin Place!” My heart skipped a beat. I had only just left the Queen Victoria Building, where my mum had picked up my 4 year old son so they could go off and look at the Christmas decorations in the city. Read more
Rules for Revolutionaries: A Review - ... there are some fundamental weaknesses in the argument it presents. My motivation in writing this review is to caution campaigners, organisers and activists to not take these so called “rules” as gospel. |
Mike Gecan
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Perry Perkins
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Bill Droel
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