Dada Maheshvarananda
Born in 1953 in Philadelphia, USA, during college he was active in the protests against the Vietnam War. In 1978 he travelled to India and Nepal where he became a yogic monk and studied Prout under its founder, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. He has taught meditation and organized for social justice for four decades in Southeast Asia, Europe, and South America. He is the author of six books, including After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action (InnerWorld, 2013) and Cooperative Games for a Cooperative World: Facilitating Trust, Communication and Spiritual Connection (InnerWorld, 2017). His books have been published in ten languages. He has given hundreds of seminars and workshops around the world at international conferences, universities, high schools, cooperatives, yoga centers and prisons about social activism and spiritual transformation.
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Mirra PriceÂ
Mirra grew up in Indiana where she attended college in the mid-1960s, and organized
against the Vietnam War. Leaving the male dominated anti-war movement in 1969, she helped start the Women’s Liberation Movement, to advocate for the equality of women. During college, she was part of a work collective which managed a Prout food co-op. While teaching English on the Dineh (Navajo) Reservation, as a Proutist, she joined with Dineh Resistors to Forced Relocation in their struggle to stay on their land and preserve their native culture. She has two masters’ degrees in education, one in bi- lingual education from Northern Arizona University and one from Harvard in educational media. She has edited several alternative newsletters, has published poetry, short stories, articles, and blogs. As editor of the North American Women Proutists’ Rising Sun newsletter (2011-2018), she encouraged women to tell their stories, and has worked to make space for the voices of women in Prout and the social justice movement. She has given many talks and workshops at retreats, conferences, and schools on social justice, women’s equality, and eco-feminism. Believing in the intersectionality of social movements, she networks with members of the #MeToo, Women’s March, Black Lives Matter, Poor Peoples’ Campaign, #NeverAgain youth, Sanctuary, Anti-Pipeline, and other movements whose members advocate for the rights of all oppressed peoples. She is currently a free-lance copy-editor at mirraedits.com.