{"article":{"id":22343,"heading":"Spiritualism of Activism: Alan Clements Interview on KPFK (MP3)","author":"sara","created":"2002-11-16 08:46:32","modified":"2002-11-17 01:18:24","last_modified":"Sun, 17 Nov 2002 08:18:24","article":"<p>Alan Clements has lived a life of social activist and dharma teacher.&nbsp;\r\nAs activists, we sometimes get a bit preoccupied with the news of the day, with\r\nthis or that fact or issue.&nbsp; At least for many people, stepping back,\r\ntaking a deep breath, and considering spiritualism behind social activism is a\r\ngood thing.&nbsp; On this score, Alan Clements has much insight.<\/p>\r\n<p>He was on KPFK's\r\nInnervision show with Michael\r\nBenner on November 14th, and I thought I'd toss up an MP3 file of the\r\nshow.&nbsp; They talked quite a bit about his experience with activists in Burma\r\nand Yugoslavia, and about the ideas he fleshed out in his new book, Instinct\r\nFor Freedom:&nbsp; Finding Liberation Through Living.&nbsp; He took inspiration for the first part of the title from Noam Chomsky.<\/p>\r\n<p>The show runs for about an\r\nhour and the first three minutes are a musical introduction.&nbsp; The MP3 file is about 10 megabytes.&nbsp;\r\nEnjoy!<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Click\r\n    here to download the file <\/li>\r\n  <li>Click\r\n    here to start the streaming version<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"1 hour interview with Clements on freedom, spiritualism and social activism","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/11\/22343.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":22374,"heading":"Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi","article":"I forgot to mention that he talks about his experiences with the Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was recently from nearly 20 months of house arrest imposed by the Burma military dictatorship.  He notes she uses the weapon of love, rare in the 21st century indeed.  \r\n\r\nThe peace and social justice movement in the United States doesn't have quite the richness of the 1960s civil rights movement when it comes to spiritual rooting.  It's there, of course, but in my humble opinion, it's not as prevalent as an organizing force.\r\n\r\nThinking about this stuff -- the bigger picture -- is worthwhile.\r\n\r\nHave a nice weekend,\r\n\r\nSara","author":"sara","parent_id":22343,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-17 01:18:24","modified":"2002-11-17 01:18:24","fileurl":""}]}