1. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll spend my entire adult life trying to recover from my childhood. Therapy. Self-help books.… Read more BloodRed.2015
Author: NeEddra James
Vibrate Higher
So much has happened in the world since my last post: massive geopolitical shifts in North Africa and the Middle… Read more Vibrate Higher
Robocop: Policing in the Digital Age
Ever since the Mesherle verdict I’ve been thinking about policing in economically depressed communities of color. Here I am, a… Read more Robocop: Policing in the Digital Age
Justice, Prisons & Mehserle, Revisited
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourselves, could become a prisoner, we… Read more Justice, Prisons & Mehserle, Revisited
After the Rebellion
Everyone was looking for “the riots.” Before anything happened, before the first window was smashed, before the first garbage can… Read more After the Rebellion
What Justice?: Oscar Grant & Johannes Mehserle
I’ve been conspicuously quiet about this trail. In fact, I haven’t written a word about it since last January (see… Read more What Justice?: Oscar Grant & Johannes Mehserle
Cultural Solutions for Political Problems
In my activist work, I have gravitated toward organizations that intervene in our contemporary crises at the level of culture.… Read more Cultural Solutions for Political Problems
Through the NonProfit Door
A friend who works on Organizing Upgrade’s Fast Forum, which is an awesome online ‘plenary on the go’ where some… Read more Through the NonProfit Door
Food Justice In West Oakland
One of a Kind: The Mandela Foods Cooperative I was so excited that I called three friends and my mother… Read more Food Justice In West Oakland
Ego-A-Go-Go
“Self-liberate even the antidote, or, Do not hang on to anything – even the realization that there’s nothing to hold… Read more Ego-A-Go-Go
Paradise Lost: Social Unrest in Guadeloupe & Martinique
My partner missed a call on Sunday from a dear friend of hers who lives in Guadeloupe, one of the… Read more Paradise Lost: Social Unrest in Guadeloupe & Martinique
GAZA
In the Spring of ’99 I enrolled in a course called Prophecy and Social Criticism at my alma mater, Bowdoin… Read more GAZA
“Enjoy Your Symptom!”
It is essential to remember that only the mind can create, and that correction belongs at the thought level…. Change… Read more “Enjoy Your Symptom!”
Firefighting on MLK Day
1. King’s Prescience We lost Dr. King in Tennessee. He was in Memphis to lead a protest on behalf of… Read more Firefighting on MLK Day
The Jewel of Awareness
A friend recently asked me why I practice sitting meditation and how I do it. In the process of answering… Read more The Jewel of Awareness
Reclaiming the Divine
It’s relatively unpopular to openly discuss one’s spiritual or religious beliefs these days; lest one be read as socially conservative,… Read more Reclaiming the Divine
“We are all Oscar Grant”
I mourn not only the loss of Oscar Grant’s life, I mourn the killing of love as it withers under… Read more “We are all Oscar Grant”
Obama’s Strange Bedfellows
Obama is – ostensibly – a friend of gay folks in the U.S. Yet, gay folks from San Francisco to… Read more Obama’s Strange Bedfellows
Hot Coals
Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are… Read more Hot Coals
All in the Family, 3
After re-reading part one and part two of “All in the Family,” two things were clear to me, 1.) The… Read more All in the Family, 3
Offering to the Döns
“Practice offering to the döns* by welcoming mishaps because they wake you up.” I always read my monthly horoscope on… Read more Offering to the Döns
All in the Family , 2
2. Change You Can’t Believe In I was drawn to Barack just as much as the next hopeful, anti-war, down… Read more All in the Family , 2
Epistemology, or How You Know That?
Epistemology is the branch of western philosophy concerned with the nature of knowledge, or, more precisely, how we come to… Read more Epistemology, or How You Know That?
I’m Pointing At You, But Pointing At Me
One of my lojong cards reads: Don’t talk about injured limbs. That’s it. Well, that’s it for the ‘slogan’ side.… Read more I’m Pointing At You, But Pointing At Me
All in the Family, 1
1. Family of Patriots Revisited I wrote a short essay a few years ago about Vanity Fair’s photographic spread of… Read more All in the Family, 1
Say When
Unfinished and Under-researched Musings on the Economy & Politics Small businesses seem to be at the heart of economic growth.… Read more Say When
Autopoesis 