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Rob's Report From Bozeman
Robert Shetterly was invited to Bozeman, Montana for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2015. He spent four days there, visiting schools, working with students at Montana State University, and giving a public...
View ArticleA Public Conversation in Asheville, NC with Robert Shetterly and Rev. Dr....
On September 20, 2015, Robert Shetterly and Rev. Dr. William Barber II participated in a public conversation about courage, activism, and social justice. You can watch the videos here.In Part 1,...
View ArticleThe Million Women’s March January 21, 2017
What happened?This was not a protest. It was a clarification. A realignment.It was not an aggrieved victim struggling to have her lonely voice heard as she implores power to hear truth.It was power...
View ArticleThe Museum of Liberation
This morning I was listening to a podcast by Bryan Stevenson, a recent AWTT portrait. Many of you know that he and his organization, the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, recently opened...
View ArticleVoting for the Lesser of Evils
Since I’ve been old enough to vote -- 50 years now -- I’ve felt, except maybe once or twice, that I was voting for the lesser of evils.That problem was acute in the run up to the 2016 election, and...
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The Accusation That Wouldn't Go Away
Robert Koehler from Chicago is one of my favorite observers of our complicated culture. What I like so much about him is his clear-eyed compassion for all people and honest assessment of hypocrisy when...
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17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong
While many of us forget, David Swanson urges us to remember. And to do something about it. Swanson reminds us that the war in Afghanistan drags on, even as Americans ignore its ongoing tragedies. And...
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On the Supreme Court Putting a Stay on Juliana v. U.S.
"Government actions knowingly and willfully created the climate crisis. From this crisis young and future generations face increasing dangers. As courageous, creative change-makers we have the...
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Accountability, History, Identity & the Liberty Medal
Recently the Texas board of education decided to remove slavery from its school textbooks. When a story isn’t told, or its truth is altered, it slips from memory, slips from the accumulated identity...
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Some Reflections on the Portrait Exhibit at Syracuse University
Before coming to Syracuse University for the opening of the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait exhibit, a number of people asked me what it was going to feel like to see all the portraits at once....
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