Some Truth to Think About:

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
by Henry David Thoreau

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Social Movements, Occupy, and America

Social Movements are valuable players in the game of social change that has occurred throughout the history of the U.S. In fact many argue that no significant sociopolitical change has occurred in the U.S. without a group uprising having occurred. The list of social movements happening in the ...

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November 28, 2011
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Transform the Military Industrial Complex: Peace through Radical Inclusion

In 1960 President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the United States to beware of the Military Industrial Complex. In his Farewell Speech he stated that “proud of this (world) pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, ...

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October 23, 2011
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Marx was wrong! Revolution will never happen in the U.S.? Yea Right!!!

I can’t count the number of times I have heard the argument from my fellow colleagues in social science that Karl Marx’s idea that eventually the working class will revolt in all capitalist societies is flawed.  Marxian Theory in social science argues that capital machinery and mass production that is ...

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October 17, 2011
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The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

Today is July 17th in the year 2011. According to the Gregorian Calendar, the truth is I am forty-six years old. But of course the Gregorian Calendar, like the Julian Calendar before it, which is still used by the Berber people of North Africa and on Mount Athos ...

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July 17, 2011
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Yoga is NOT mental illness!

On June 27, 2011, I arrived at the Pima County Courthouse with the attorney who is defending me against the State of Arizona’s charge of 3rd Degree Criminal Trespassing by way of the Office of the Pima County Prosecutor (STATE OF ARIZONA vs. BRIAN N. HEWLETT: No. CR11-102837). I ...

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June 30, 2011
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“Meditating While Brown?” Part II

As if spending a few hours in a county jail cell for my meditating in honor of fellow citizen's slain by an assassin's bullet wasn't enough, the events of the following days added a bit of insult to injury. Yes injury! The wonderful Pima County Sheriff's Deputies, in ...

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April 2, 2011
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“Meditating While Brown?” Part I

I have never felt the need to do a blog series before but after the injustice I feel I experienced at the hands of the Pima County (Arizona) Sheriff's Department, whose leader publicly condemned an "atmosphere of hatred and bigotry that has gripped the nation" just a little over a ...

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March 15, 2011
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Collaboration as an Economic Alternative

After hundreds of years in a system that Karl Marx described as where small groups of people control large amounts of money or capital and make the most important economic decisions, many people are starting to understand that the free-market is not really free at all but it ...

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January 4, 2010

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