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Get ready … we are hosting an open house LIVE event within our Mighty Networks Online Community!
Saturday, January 1st, 2022
1:00 pm CDT
Meet our founder, Sami Aaron, and learn all the tips and tricks to being part of our new online community, hosted through Mighty Networks. Start your New Year off with knowing you are not alone in your concerns for an environmentally sound future.
You’ll have the opportunity to chat and ask questions about the online platform and learn just how you can get the most from our content and members.
We welcome anyone whose heart and mind are shifting towards a deeper understanding of our changing climate and the social injustices that accompany that change. We invite those who feel that they would benefit from connecting with a like-minded community that offers support and guidance to resilience in a way that is uplifting, pragmatic, and visionary.
The Resilient Activist (TRA) hosts this online discussion community that consists primarily of discussion on topics related to resilience, meditation, eco-distress, Earth-Care, and Self-Care. We also host live events, supportive group gatherings, and courses and we expect this site will evolve over time in response to the needs of the members.
Full membership access is free, and donations are gratefully accepted. You are enthusiastically welcome whether or not you contribute financially. As we add new groups, events, and courses, there may be fees charged for those new programs, but fees will always be based on a sliding scale in order to keep our services accessible to all.
The Resilient Activist JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Book Club
Are you interested in learning more about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in America with a group of like-minded and open-hearted people?
Do you enjoy reading and discussing books that expand your understanding of yourself and the world?
If these questions touch a chord, then The Resilient Activist JEDI Book Club is for you!
For our November 2022 JEDI Book Club, we will be reading Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh.
Below is a summary from Goodreads:
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.
A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning.
Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.
Register at this link.
Please feel welcome to attend, even if you missed earlier meetings. This is an open group, and we understand that our lives are busy and not everyone will be able to attend each month!
The JEDI Book Club is facilitated by Resilient Activists Brenda Bennett-Pike and Anne Melia. We hope you will join us!