Trickle-Down Environmentalism versus Ecosystemic Empathy
Trickle-Down Environmentalism versus Ecosystemic Empathy A Meditation on the Occasion of the World Social Forum 28 & 29 January 2003 Porto Alegre, Brazil pattrice jones “No, the waters and the...
View ArticleConquistadors of the Senses
by pattrice jones First published 28 November 2006 by FreezerBox Magazine. Throwing the homosexuals to the hounds sounds like a metaphor for the Republican Party’s electoral strategy of recent years,...
View ArticleRe-Membering Thanksgiving
Gloating and Gluttony Then and Now by pattrice jones Originally published 2004 on various IndyMedia sites. Revises 2003 essay originally published by Press Action. Thanksgiving, 2003 — Bush the...
View ArticleWho Would Jesus Kill?
By pattrice jones Written on Christmas Day in 2002, this essay has been widely published and reprinted. As the Christians gather to celebrate the birth of the founder of their religion, I find myself...
View ArticleJunkie Pneumonia
Originally published in the Ann Arbor Agenda in April 1992. Please note that all statistics are from that time. In the late 1970s, while the epidemic known as “disco fever” swept through the U.S., an...
View ArticleCrossing the Mammalian-Avian Line
(Originally published in the Nov/Dec 2004 issue of Satya Magazine) Glancing out the window, I see two elderly roosters drinking from a water bowl in the front yard. Fauna has lived with us since 2001,...
View ArticleI Know Why the Caged Birds Scream
(Originally published in Satya Magazine, February 2006) Three women walked past the electrified fence and onto the Happy Hens Egg World compound, which confines 220,000 hens in rusty cages 60 miles...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Rights?
(Originally published in Satya Magazine, October 2005) Let them eat words. That seemed to me to be the theme of the 2002 UN World Food Summit and parallel NGO Forum for Food Sovereignty. At the Summit,...
View ArticleBeyond Despair
Originally published in June/July 2007 issue of Satya Magazine. It was a typical winter night at the Eastern Shore Sanctuary, meaning I was sitting on the couch brooding about big problems while dogs...
View ArticleWelcome to my Archive
Here is where — slowly, slowly — I’ll be posting all of my published articles and essays, along with selected talks and other assorted texts. At first, I’ll be concentrating on posting articles from...
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