In Backward Protests for Peter Liang, Who Are Our People?
For Chinese Americans responding to the conviction of officer Peter Liang, does identity trump ethics?
“If I Used My Voice This Time”: Bearing Witness at a Protest Against Police Gun Violence
What does it mean to be defenseless? This question, a koan for me of practicing with the precepts of non-harming, loomed in front of me Saturday as we set out from Robinson Park in Albuquerque, marching toward the hotel hosting the NRA’s National Police Shooting Championship. “Hands up!” someone shouted
Sitting on #ShutItDown and Solidarity with Ferguson
I'm sitting in my home in Oakland, California, meditating as police helicopters fly overhead. I am not at the protests demanding justice for Mike Brown, even though I live only a few minutes from where they are taking place.
BPF Goes Off The Cushion with Rev. Danny Fisher
Don't miss Episode #3 of Danny Fisher's new Buddhist podcast series, "Off the Cushion!" Danny asks BPF's Co-Directors Dawn Haney and Katie Loncke about issues of structural racism in Buddhist communities, and the militarization of police forces in the United States