Magazine / January - February 2009
In this Issue:
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Full Table of Contents
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Trusting Obama
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How to Avoid Being Co-opted
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Memos to Obama: The Economy
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Memos to Obama: Israel/Palestine/Mideast
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Memos to Obama: Poverty and Immigration
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Memos to Obama: Nuclear Weapons
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Memos to Obama: Peace
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Memos to Obama: Peace
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Memos to Obama: Wisdom for Leadership
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Memos to Obama: Wisdom for Leadership
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Caring for Animals: A Feminist Approach
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Energy Independence and America’s Covenant with the Future
The Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP)
NSP is a project of the Tikkun Community. The NSP is a network of people and institutions that...
- Advocates a New Bottom Line in America. This bottom takes into consideration not only how well institutions and the economy maximize money and power, but how well they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity and behavior, kindness and generosity, non-violence and peace, and the extent to which they enhance our capacities to respond to other human beings in a way that honors them as embodiments of the sacred, and enhance our capacities to respond to the earth and the universe with awe, wonder and radical amazement.
- Challenges the misuse of religion, God and spirit by the Religious Right.
- Challenges the anti-religious and anti-spiritual assumptions and behaviors that have increasingly become part of the liberal culture.
- Challenges the extreme individualism and "me-firstism" that permeate all parts of the global market culture.
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Read why progressive social change groups must incorporate a deeper spiritual understanding into their work in an interview with Michael Lerner in Common Ground Magazine:
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Current Thinking
- HOT Click the links below to see our constantly updated sections on:
... the Obama Administration
... US Wars/Global Imperialism
... the Economic Meltdown
... Environmental Crisis
... Israel/Palestine
- CEASE FIRE NOW--sign & support a full page ad in the NY Times and Washington Post
End the violence in Gaza now, and use this moment to call for an international peace conference to resolve all the issues between Israel, Palestine, and the surrounding states. Help us put this ad into the NY Times and Washington Post. See the column on left side of our home page to click to where to sign and donate. - Rabbi Lerner on Israel in Gaza
Rabbi Lerner refines previous statements on the current situation in Gaza - Memos to Obama #3: by Mitchell Plitnick, Robert Hardies, Neale Walsch, Fred Dobb, Ulrich Duchrow, Joseph Schwartz, John Welwood
More web exclusives! - Gaza Update, Jan. 2, , 2009. A range of views from Beni Morris and Jonathan Mark to Uri Avneri, Cris Hedges, Gideon Levy and Yos
Gaza, Jan. 1 The debate continues about the war between Israel and Gaza. We present a wide variety of views that you might not have heard or read elsewhere, from Right to Left. Writers go from Beni Morris, who justifies the perspective of the Israeli government, Jonathan Marc who as associate editor of the NY Jewish Week represents a standard perspective inside the organized Jewish community, to a range of views including that of Uri Avneri, Yossi Sarid, Nir Rosen, Robert Fisk, Gideon Levy, Mustafa Barghothi, Ewa Jasiewicz, Norman Solomon, Chris Hedges, Marc Gopin--many of the important voices you won't find in the op-eds of major US newspapers (with the exception of Beni Morris whose worldview meshes neatly with that of the US State Dept). - HOT The Global Marshall Plan
Read details about the plan and find answers to frequently asked questions.
Rabbi Michael Lerner
National Co-Chairs of the Tikkun Community/Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP)
Cornel West, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Sister Joan Chittister.
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