A Reader for this Moment
A Reader for this Moment brings together writings and videos especially relevant and necessary for the challenges of this time. Some of the entries are written by members of the CUHF; others are by writers they are reading now.
A group of Council members convened for an International gathering in May 2019 at Wellesley College, with a focus on Given what we know, how do we live now? In advance of the meeting, members offered readings or videos as resources for the work ahead. A Reader for this Moment thus emerged from our quest for transformative insight, inspiration, information, truth-telling, compassion, visioning, and possibilities for action at this time.
Reading of the Month
Sherri Mitchell
Where are we now?
Mitchell is a Penobscot environmental attorney, writer and sacred activist. Her book Sacred Instructions / Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change (2018) is a transmission of indigenous wisdom for these difficult times.
Sherri Mitchell will be visiting Clark University on February 12th and 13th.
Paul Kingsnorth & Douglas Hine
Excerpts from The Dark Mountain Manifesto
W. S. Merwin
The Wild Geese
Roy Scranton
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Bill McKibben
The Size of the Board in Falter
Elizabeth Monson
The Poetics of Natural Being
Brian Calvert
So what if we’re doomed
Kathleen Dean Moore & Sue Ellen Campbell
Why We Won’t Quit the Climate Fight
Libby Roderick
This Holy Earth
Georgina Kenyon
“If the land is sick, you are sick”
Mary Annaise Heglar
Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
A Message from the Future
Meghan Kallman
Three Practices for a Time of Crisis
Winona La Duke
Find Your Mettle
Wen Stephenson
Learning to Live in the Dark
Dahr Jamail & Barbara Cecil
How Then Shall We Live?
Deena Metzger
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
Catherine Ingram
Facing Extinction
Thanissara
Of Endings and Risings
