Sacred Politics: Getting Past Collusion and Illusion in a Post-Truth World
by Glenn Aparicio Parry
As Mueller investigates possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Trump’s team has launched a fierce counteroffensive. The counterattack is a thinly veiled disinformation campaign, intended to obfuscate, discredit, and, if possible, dismantle the Mueller investigation. And it is working; Trump has successfully sowed doubt amongst many. In the battle of…
In Search of Lost Hope: Theatre Against All Odds in Afghanistan
By Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn, via HowlRound
In the dark times,
will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
about the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht
I met Hadi, Dr. Sharif, and Saleem in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul within the period of a few weeks in the winter 2007/2008. It was an encounter that changed our lives forever—the beginning of a friendship born in struggle that has…
Poetry
PoetryPoems on the theme, 'Unlearning Together'
Two Poems
By Anne Haven McDonnell
Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she teaches as associate professor in English and Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
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Special Preview | Kosmos Quarterly, Summer 2018
It's almost here!
The inaugural edition of the new Kosmos Quarterly debuts June 15: Unlearning Together
Our Summer Cover of bees in the hive, calls to mind community and collective work. Honeycomb is said to symbolize the heart chakra and life's sweetness. Deeply woven into the ecosystem, bees are essential pollinators and remind us that we too can be agents of cross-fertilization and…
How Today’s Youth-Based Movements Are Breaking New Ground
By Mark Gerzon, for Kosmos
As a veteran of a “youth movement” myself, a student of generationally-driven movements around the world, and now an adviser to some of these change agents today, I am aware that I watch the current wave of social change initiatives through wrinkled eyes. Now fast approaching seventy, I have witnessed many movements to “save” or “change” the world. And what I value…
A ‘Tasting’ of Excerpts from the New Kosmos Quarterly
UNLEARNING TOGETHER
Feature | Change the Worldview, Change the World
Gender, like race, is a social construction, which is to say, a story. And the stories of sexism and racism that have cast such a pall over our history and our present illustrate the power of worldview and narrative in generating and maintaining systemic oppression. Stories become structures, systems, policies, and…
Course View
KOSMOS SUMMER 2018 > COURSE VIEW
Course ViewThis is a self-guided (un)learning journey for anyone wishing to connect more deeply with the Kosmos Journal Summer Quarterly and our community. The theme is Unlearning Together. Use these pages as a reading guide or as a short course. A virtual certificate of completion is awarded by Kosmos to anyone participating in the forums at least once a…
The Thing about Resistance: Inner Landscapes Activists’ Community of Practice Part II
by Pamela Boyce Simms, via Grassroots Economic Organizing
Read Part I here: Activists Take the 'Mystery' Out of Mysticism for Movement-building
Resistance mobilizes the troops and galvanizes the base. It gives warriors on the front lines a sense of purpose and the oppressed, glimmers of hope. It's an opportunity to put our best analysis of social ills and resistance movement…
In Your Eyes | A Practice to Reconnect
In your eyes, the light, the heat
I am complete (In your eyes)
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
The resolution
Of all the fruitless searches. - Peter Gabriel
Practice | Walking down the street or an aisle on a bus or plane, try to make eye contact with as many people as possible. Relax your face, your eyes, and greet everyone with a warm, soft smile. Many will be immersed in their…
Summer 2018
“True unlearning is the process of bidding farewell to detrimental cultural programming, fostering imagination and awe in relation to life, discernment and empathy in relation to our world, and community and Eros in relation to one another.” – Martin Winiecki
Keynote Transformation
Unlearning Together…