by Nydia Barone-Labensart The dusky sky is heavy this evening and the humidity is almost as high as the temperature; it’s July in the Midwest. As the hornets buzzed nearby I thought, “What if I get stung and my throat closes up?” But I knew I wasn’t allergic. Sure, I got stung occasionally over celexa […] Read more
by Anna Girresch After being at the PROUT Institute in Venezuela in the summer and fall of 2013, I moved to Atlanta, Georgia. I was in love with the power of workers coming together to organize unions and cooperatives. My own co-workers and I had successfully organized a union in my time as a student […] Read more
by Ellen Landau’s Sign This is a brief account of my trip north to Washington, DC, and how I ended up a day later, part of a memorial heap in front of the Trump International Hotel in Washington’s dapoxetine old Post Office Building. My journey began with my creation at an Office Depot store in […] Read more
An Introduction to the Alliance for Economic Democracy By Shri Verrill and Alex Jackimovicz In Madison, Wisconsin a range of grassroots activists, intellectuals, and leaders in various movements for political, social and economic change came together to convene at the 2012 Economic Democracy Conference. The conference... Read more
By Mirra Price I first encountered cooperative games when I was a theatre student at Indiana University in the 60s. Some of my drama instructors used exercises from Improvisations for the Theatre by Viola Spolin, who is often called the “Grandmother of Theatre Games”. I remember playing The Machine, in which students b... Read more
by Debra Wirth I know that everyone is familiar with the Second Amendment, which gives us the right to bear arms for hunting, sport and defense. However, the weapons of today are greatly more powerful and easier to use than the heavy, difficult to load muskets of the 1700s. Over the years we have written […] Read more
Veggie Tofu Pancit This is my version of the Filipino rice noodle dish, Pancit, with stir fried with veggies and tofu. Ingredients: One 8 oz. pack rice or bean noodles One 12 oz. package of tofu 1 tsp chili pepper 1 Tbs. ginger ¼ cabbage, sliced into strips 1 large carrot, sliced into strips ¾ […] Read more
Neohumanist Leadership: A Regular Column by Satya Tanner Why Leaders Need to Have a Basic Understanding of Systems and Social Science In the wake of the London Bridge attack, I have been disturbed by the number of ‘leaders’ within my network who have been quick to jump to short term solutions, such as suggesting carria... Read more
Here is the Summer 2017 edition of Rising Sun! Click on the link below to upload the newsletter as a PDF. Rising Sun July 2017 Read more