“The question we need to ask ourselves is not, Can one person make a difference? Each and every one of us does make a difference. It is actually impossible to not make a difference. So the question we need to ask ourselves is: What kind of a difference do I want to make?” – Julia Butterfly Hill “Each of your actions, even your personal, secret struggles, has cosmic significance. …Everything you do matters… You are everything. […]
John Betton | Filmmaker
A little boy, kneeling on a chair at a kitchen table coloring, asks in accented English, “Where’s Momma? I want to see her. When’s she coming home?” His voice is straightforward, a bit demanding, but no different than any child wanting something missing. The camera brings in his drawing, shows his fingers grasping a crayon. He makes strokes of black, hair surrounding a narrow face. Camera backs to a long […]
Paul Lamb | Twice blest
A gentle rain was falling, but he hadn’t noticed until he rose with the baby. But then he could hear it, could see it dripping over the leaf-clogged gutters outside the window. Mostly, though, he saw the black night outside. No light at that unholy hour. “You’re wearing out your mother, kid!” His words just above a whisper. “She can’t keep getting up, so you’re stuck with me.” And I’m […]
David Gross | The one-man revolution (the only one that’s coming)
YOU SEE the beauty of my proposal is it needn’t wait on general revolution. I bid you to the one-man revolution — The only revolution that is coming. —Robert Frost from Build Soil TODAY, instead of dredging up something from the archives about historical tax resistance campaigns and movements, I want to spend some time looking at individual tax resistance in service of what Ammon Hennacy called the “one-man*revolution.” Whether Hennacy got the […]
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