This Rebellion blog is mainly about following my personal quest for good conscience activism.

Every week for the next 208 weeks (or sooner if there’s an impeachment), I vow to be vigilant.

Global Voices spoke to me this week. The organization works to find compelling and important stories coming from marginalized and misrepresented communities. Their mission includes speaking out against online censorship. This illustration alone consisted of an entire blog post called the Whirlpool of Silence – a Balkan discourse. This site contains some well written pieces including […]

In this week’s survey (Please vote. See lower right sidebar poll.), we look at where heroes come from. For most people I speculate that heroes come from our daily lives: family, neighborhood, school, the office. But we also find heroes in literature, online, and in movies. As much as I regret lowering the level of conversation […]

What follows is an open attempt to refine the underblog. Ordinary person + big obstacle = great opportunity for humanity. As this idea of global underdogs churned in my head, one of the images that came to mind was that of Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Rebel). He is the unidentified man who […]

You’re not supposed to jump fully clothed in a muddy river to help some stranger, a foreigner, extract their car. When my wife and I visited Costa Rica 10 years ago, we experienced the worst roads. Except for the main thoroughfare in the north, all the roads were dirt and full of potholes. It was […]