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34. Facing the past

July 8, 2022

Transcript So I’d like to take a lesson today from the Aymara people. The Aymara are an Indigenous group from the Andes who have lived and farmed on the high plains for centuries. They experience the past and future differently than most other people do. For us English speakers—and for people in most of the…  Read More…

Tagged With: Aymara people, class, Code of Ur-Nammu, exploitation, gender, Hebrew Bible, hierarchy, history of law, inequality, institutional households, making inequality strange, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian city-states, origins of writing, patriarchal family, patriarchy, race, wage theft, writing

 

22. An inheritance problem

March 5, 2021

Transcript A long time ago there lived a very wealthy man who owned vast estates. The story says that he was a ruler, or government official, and this is how we know he was a landowner, because in his time and place, to have a seat in government you had to own land, and lots…  Read More…

Tagged With: afterlife, class system, equality, feudal system, inequality, inequality and health, inheritance, kingdom of God, law of property, potlatch, property law in history, property rights, Rich Young Ruler, Roman Empire, sharing, Vine Deloria Jr.

 

19. Filling the hungry with good things: A Christmas meditation

December 24, 2020

Transcript I can still say the words from memory—Luke 2:1–20, King James Version, the verses I recited for the Christmas program at church when I was in grade school. It’s the story of the baby in the manger and the shepherds and the angels. Recently I took another look at the Christmas story in Luke,…  Read More…

Tagged With: animals, attitudes toward animals, Book of Luke, Christmas, Christmas story, equality, inequality, law of property, Magnificat of Mary, O Magnum Mysterium, property law, rich and poor, Roman Empire, social justice, social revolution

 

17. The law is in the ground

October 30, 2020

Transcript This week, with our attention on the Supreme Court, I was thinking a lot about one sentence on law that was spoken many years ago by an Indigenous man of Australia. Doug Campbell was sitting one day with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose, looking at a large hill across the way. “You see that…  Read More…

Tagged With: cool burning, cultural burning, Earth jurisprudence, Earth law, ecocide, greed, health, history of law, Indigenous values, inequality, inequality and health, land health, land-community, law of property, ownership, property, property law, reparations, rights of nature

 

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