Sharon Delgado

Pastor, Author, Speaker, Activist

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Year: 2015

  • Awakening a Sleeping Giant

    Update, June 13:   Fast Track was defeated in the House of Representatives… for now.  We can do this if we are in the struggle for the long haul.  Success! My dear friends, If you ever plan to participate in decisions made by so-called “leaders” on your behalf, today is the day to do it. …

  • Goodkill… Or Not

    Memorial Day seems a fitting time to review the movie “Goodkill,” now playing at the Magic Theater in Nevada City.  The movie, based on actual events, portrays a morally-conflicted and psychologically-tormented operator of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”), played by Ethan Hawke. Even though the plot includes some obvious Hollywood enhancements, it presents some…

  • From Beale to Baltimore:  No Justice, No Peace

    On Tuesday sixteen of us were arrested as we demonstrated against drone warfare at Beale Air Force Base, where pilots at computer stations guide Global Hawk Drones in identifying targets for Predator and Reaper “killer drones.”  Advanced robotic long distance killing machines are not only cruel, unethical, and illegal; they are a waste of the…

  • Costly Hope: This Changes Everything

    “Love will save this place.”  From This Changes Everything:  Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything:  Capitalism vs. the Climate, is a hard read.  But it is so important and timely that I will be leading a five-session study and discussion on this groundbreaking book (see details below). …

  • System Change Not Climate Change (2)

    How can we understand, challenge, and transform the global system of late-stage free-market capitalism?  It seems so all-encompassing and all-powerful that nothing can stop it. To most people in the United States, today’s dominant system seems like a given, just part of the milieu.  Most people don’t give it a second thought.  We’re like fish…

  • System Change not Climate Change (1)

    I have been engaged in several conversations lately about how best to reach people on the subject of climate change.  Is it best to focus on educating people about the basics of climate change and its implications?  Should we try to convince skeptics by appealing to science and logic?  Shall we encourage people to make…

  • Videos of Ash Wednesday at Beale

    On Wednesday, February 18, we held an Ash Wednesday service at the front gates of Beale Air Force Base.  Beale is home of the Global Hawk surveillance drone, which identifies targets for “killer drones” like the Predator and Reaper. I led the service, together with The Rev. Elizabeth Griswold, pastor of Parkside Community Church (United…

  • Dust in the Wind

    This blog summarizes Sharon Delgado’s words at the Ash Wednesday service at the front gates of Beale Air Force Base, on February 18, 2015.  Go to Videos of Ash Wednesday at Beale to see several brief videos of the day’s events. The focus of Ash Wednesday is mortality and repentance—two primary aspects of faith.  It…

  • Global Divestment Day: Undermining the System that Causes Climate Change

    Check out the many divestment actions that are taking place around the world today–Global Divestment Day. The movement to divest from fossil fuels undermines the system that is causing climate change.   The worldwide system of unrestrained free-market capitalism, dominated by global corporations and fueled by money, is based on the view that market forces will…

  • The United Methodist Board of Pensions Screens out Coal

    On January 22nd the United Methodist Board General Board of Pensions and Health Benefits announced that it is going to screen thermal coal out of its investment portfolio.  For those of us who have been organizing for months to get the United Methodist Church to screen out coal, oil, and gas, this is a great…