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Nonviolence theorist, neo-pagan community builder, and speculative fiction writer Starhawk (@Starhawk17) turns 70 today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarhawkPermalink On twitter.com
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Starhawk elaborated of theories of power in Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery (1988) and Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising (2003). If you've seen the power-over vs. power-to/power-within distinction, thank Starhawk. sacredlands.org/power.htmOn twitter.com
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Starhawk's activism and the nonviolent milieu she played a leading role in during the 1970s and 1980s are the subject of Barbara Epstein's _Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s._Permalink On twitter.com
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This tradition is perhaps under-appreciated as a precursor to the antiglobalization activism that debuted dramatically in 1999 (where I first met Starhawk, in jail). Here's her after-the-fact account of Seattle: starhawk.org/Activism/activism%20writings/1999-WTO%20Articles/How%20We%20Really%20Shut%20Down%20the%20WTO.pdfPermalink On twitter.com
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Many secularists do not know what to with a pagan strategist and visionary, but in the process they miss resonances between ideas about, say, the sacredness of water and those that propel anti-privatization and indigenous water protector movements. starhawk.org/writing/books/fifth-sacred-thing-excerpts/Permalink On twitter.com