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U.S. Gets A Taste Of Life Without Immigrants In Nationwide Protests Businesses ground to a halt across the country as marchers and strikers opposed Trump’s crackdown.  Read More > AUSTIN ― [...]

USA Today: What to do if immigration officers come knocking at your door SAN FRANCISCO — Roundups of undocumented immigrants across the country have sent immigrant rights advocates to social [...]

The Fourth Amendment protects students’ records, and warrants are required for immigration enforcement actions. Schools, including universities, are considered “sensitive locations,” according to [...]

BETWEEN SOLITUDE AND LONELINESS By Donald Hall October 15, 2016 // The New Yorker At eighty-seven, I am solitary. I live by myself on one floor of the 1803 farmhouse where my family has lived [...]

On November 9, 2016, the United States of America awoke to the realization that our next president would be Donald Trump, and this news changed me. I suddenly saw the world from an altered [...]

Recognizing Our One Humanity – A Message from Esalen President Gordon Wheeler Many of us in this season are living in a state of numbness or grief from the bruising events of this election cycle [...]

Photography by Andrew D. White Making Sense of the Election ______ Dana C. White, PhD As we learn from Joseph Campbell, myths provide orientation – they are ways to make sense of things that [...]

In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with Dr. Lauren Costine a leading clinical psychologist, author, educator and activist whose [...]

Trump. Prisons. Kids…and You. As I sat in my living room over a year ago watching the local network news I began flipping through channels looking for something that did not remind me of the [...]

Embrace your grief, for there your soul will grow. —Carl Jung Grief both acknowledges what has been lost and ensures that we don’t forget what we must remember. We are gathered in a room, [...]