In 1994, long before mass shootings became endemic, Congress banned semi-automatic assault rifles. Hard to believe, isn’t it? We mostly agreed back then that it was crazy to treat modern-day, hi-tech weapons of war the same way we have always treated pistols, shotguns, and hunting rifles. The “Violent Crime Control…

“The buffalo gave us everything we needed. Without it we were nothing.” ~ John Fire Lame Deer After a career as an eco-defense lawyer, I walked away from my profession and the larger climate movement in 2012. I was intent on diagnosing the pervasive pathology of our culture that seemed…

In the dismal wake of COP26 Glasgow, which was little more than an exercise in global gaslighting by politicians and their corporate sponsors, Dr. Bruce C. Glavovic raised an important question: why continue to issue scientific reports on the climate at this point? It would be wise for climate activists…

Traumas piled atop traumas… As people break free from the conditioning of a disembodied culture that separates us from the natural world, we feel the depth of the grievous wounding that our un-mindful consumption and unconscionable production is inflicting on Mother Earth. As we drop from the prison of our heads into the broke-open…

“Any viable worldview must contain many worldviews, and it must arise from within us and between us… What is called for is the capacity to find and support the growing movement of people who think and feel across frames and contexts at scale — a process that entails an encounter…

“Native American societies have a lived sense of the unity of all living things, as expressed in the Native American phrase ‘all my relations,’ which has been called a prayer and a cosmology in one breath.” Dr. Leslie Gray, Native American Psychologist & Shamanic Councilor, founder of Woodfish Institute In 2019, I published an academic paper that went viral, prompting a shift in the narrative around our shared climate crisis. In “Climate Trauma: Towards a New Taxonomy of Trauma,” I pointed to the elephant in the…

As a matter of good conscience, I can no longer remain silent while what remains of my country comes apart at the seams. This is my testament. I at least want history to remember that I was not complicit in this collective derangement. On January 6, 2021 the President of…

We are all WITNESSES! I am a retired public interest lawyer observing the spectacle of Trump’s ongoing coup attempt. While I didn’t do a lot of trial work in my career, I can assure you that there has never been a trial in our jurisprudential history where the jury was comprised entirely of witnesses. …

Donald Trump famously boasted he could shoot somebody in broad daylight on 5th Avenue in downtown Manhattan and get away with it. On January 6, 2021, the President of the United States, along with his co-conspirators Rudy, Jr., Eric, Ted, and Josh, committed felony murder live on television before our…