November 2008 Blog Posts (11)

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Let the Downloads Begin!

Brian Johnson is giving away free his "Philosophers Notes" on 25 books till Dec. 31st.

http://PhilosophersNotes.com/freebies





from the site:



To get started, simply click on the "Log in" link (upper right corner of every page), enter your email address and password and you're ready to download. (You'll have access to the Top 25 PhilosophersNotes thru… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 29, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Integral Peacemaker Training: Transforming Systems with Sensei Fleet Maull

January 9-11 in Boulder Colorado

Transforming Systems addresses the Outer/Collective or Lower Right Quadrant in Ken Wilber’s AQAL Integral Model. This training is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and tools to enter the often daunting world of systems change with vision, confidence and the ability to create and sustain significant positive change. This workshop is part of the Integral Peacemaker Training (components do… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 25, 2008 at 2:05pm — No Comments

Job Openings at Youth Prison in Boliva

Movimiento Laicos para America Latina (MLAL) is an Italian NGO working worldwide to promote sustainable change. In Bolivia, it focuses on food security issues and human rights, including the development of Qalauma, a new centre for young offenders, which is based on the Brazilian restorative justice prison model APAC (Association for the Protection and Assistance to the Condemned). MLAL is responsible for the implementation, monitoring and… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 23, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Bidding for Good! Check Out PDN's Online Auction!

The Prison Dharma Network Online Auction 2008 is open for bidding November 14 through December 1st!

Click here to browse our catalogue.



Our goal this year is to raise $20,000 to support our work of transforming lives in prisons, jails and juvenile facilities. We need your support!

This is an exciting and fun way to help us, and at the… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 14, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Freedom Behind Bars: Winter Edition of Tricycle Magazine

Prison Dharma Network is featured in the latest issue of Tricycle magazine with an article entitled "Freedom Behind Bars"

Check it out at your local newstand or read online (subscription required)



Excerpt:



Freedom Behind Bars



Fleet Maull’s Prison Dharma Network is bringing Buddhist teachings to inmates.

By Travis… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 4, 2008 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

We Will See

We Will See

Julio is 22, a mostly non-violent multiple felon set for release from a Texas prison sometime in 2010, the same year I plan to retire to northern Thailand. He's huge, skin-headed, and covered with tattoos. He's uneducated so far, and isn't sure he can stay out of prison because he doesn't have much of a family or support system. I'm 66, never got a traffic ticket, and look pretty conservative, especially at work. I have two doctorates… Continue

Added by David McPhee on November 4, 2008 at 10:39am — 2 Comments

Prisons finding it pays to go green

Money is saved, waste reduced, and inmates learn and keep busy. By Phuong Le

The Associated Press



LITTLEROCK, Wash. — Of all the things convicted murderer Robert Knowles has been called during his 13 years behind bars, recycler hasn't been one of them.



But there he was one morning, pitchfork in hand, composting food scraps from the main chow line and coffee grounds from prison headquarters — doing his part to "green" the… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 3, 2008 at 8:35am — No Comments

Zen Living On The West Coast



from CBS.com

John Blackstone reports from the Bay Area where a group of Buddhists are striving to simplify their lives. They grow their own food, meditate and find contentment living in a stress-free environment. Click here to… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 2, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Prison Chaplains Struggling

From Precious Metal's blog:



The seventh installment in a series of articles focusing on capital punishment.



Under the lay judge system starting in May, lay judges chosen from among the public will participate in decision-making processes that could result in death sentences.



A Christian prison chaplain said he always felt embittered when he saw a string for a light hanging from the ceiling in his church because seeing it reminded him of one of the… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 1, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Dhamma Brothers on Oprah

On her Soul Series show, Oprah talks with Jenny Phillips about her documentary The Dhamma Brothers.

Dhamma Brothers will be playing at the Boulder Theatre on Nov 17th, 7pm. See our events listing here for… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 1, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Razor Wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison



from Wisdom Publications website:



Razor-Wire Dharma

A Buddhist Life in Prison

by Calvin Malone





Calvin Malone has plenty to teach us all about ideas that we rarely associate with the penal system: Dignity.… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on November 1, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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