SOLITARY CONFINEMENT at the Louisiana State Penitentiary is among the most desperate and forlorn places on Earth. The prison—better known by its nickname, “Angola”—is the largest maximum-security prison in the country, with 5000 inmates. It is a place largely indistinguishable from the slave plantation it once was—a place where sexual slavery and rape are endemic, [...]
EDWARD SAID describes the intellectual “as the author of a language that tries to speak the truth to power.” Alison Klaymen’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry shows us what that looks like in practice. Her documentary follows the Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei as he and his team prepare for exhibitions in Munich [...]
HERE’S a roundup of Buddhism and social justice news from the past week:
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Tibetans Cry Out for Haven From China in Dozens of Self-Immolations – “Since 2009 more [...]
HERE’S a roundup of Buddhism and social justice news from the past week:
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Tibetan Monk Tortured and Imprisoned: Rights Group – “Yonten Gyatso, a senior monk and human rights activist in the restive Aba county, in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, was sentenced to seven years in prison for spreading information about protests [...]
