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Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey is a Buddhist teacher and writer. His website is dolessforpeace.org.

Articles

An experiment in a quintessentially American form of protest.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Protest is not merely a matter of personal awakening, but of organizing and mobilizing the power needed to change social relations.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

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