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Engaged Buddhism & Women in Black: Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War

2003· article· en· W78376859 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Candace Walworth

Bibliographic record

VenueThe The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicService-Learning and Community Engagement
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSilenceScreamingSign (mathematics)SociologyAction (physics)HistoryLawVisual artsMedia studiesPsychologyArtAestheticsPolitical sciencePhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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:15 p.m., Oct. 10, 2001: I had just left work and was headed west on Canyon to pick up a Nick-N-Willy’s pizza for dinner. On the corner of Canyon and Broadway in front of the Boulder Municipal Building, an unexpected silence and stillness caught my eye. The silent stillness was dressed in black and female. Among the 80 to 100 assembled women were friends and colleagues. I recognized a familiar nose and a beloved head tilted to one side. I was stunned and delighted. Who were these women? What were they doing? What was their purpose? Their message? I rolled down my window to hear what they had to say, but this was a feast for eyes, not ears. No petitions to sign. No candidates to promote. No initiatives. No money to raise. Except for a lone banner that I couldn’t read, the customary signifiers of social action were strikingly absent. I was taken aback by the powerful collective presence: a steady, alert gaze and relaxed posture. Were these women practicing street-corner standing meditation? Drive-by communion? Performance art? The light changed from red to green, and reluctantly I accelerated to keep pace with the congregation of buses, trucks, and homeward-bound motorists. But something had shifted. Eighty local women publicly demonstrating silence bounced the post 9-11 commentary out of my brain. I was touched by an unwritten law of social and spiritual action: once you’ve been touched, you desire to touch. The next day I ran into friend and colleague Anne Parker whose silhouette I had seen in the twilight. “I saw you on the corner of Broadway and Canyon last night. What was that?” “Women in Black.” “What’s Women in Black?” Women in Black started in Israel in 1988 with a small group of women protesting the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Jewish and Palestinian women stood together at a busy intersection in Jerusalem once a week. Women in Black caught on, stretching across scores of war zones to Australia, Canada, Europe, and the U.S. In Boulder, two local women organized WIB by getting on the phone and calling friends. They decided if no one else showed up, they would simply stand together on the corner of Canyon and Broadway from 5-6 p.m. on Wednesday evenings. But others did, and continue to, show up. 5:15 p.m. Oct. 17, 2001: I’m standing on the corner of Broadway and Canyon dressed in black coat, pants, gloves, and boots. The driver of a US West truck leans out the window, grins, and waves. A woman with a crying baby in her arms hurries to the bus stop on Broadway. Two women in black toting backpacks walk across Broadway. The woman next to me steps to her left while I step to my right, making room for the newcomers, exercising the permeable boundary between “actors” and “audience.”

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.026
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.026
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0260.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.289 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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