Our End of the Year Reflections and Strategy
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Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis’ year-end reflections explain why it’s so important to understand and transform self-blaming and the fallacy of meritocracy.
Justice for All
Right-Wing Infiltrators Burn Minneapolis Hoping to De-legitimate African Americans’ Struggle for Justice
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We at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives stand in solidarity with the protestors in Minneapolis and around the country fighting a just and righteous struggle for the lives of Black Americans.
Politics & Society
Interview with Marianne Williamson
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Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis interview Marianne Williamson, who is running for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020.
Mourning the Murder of Muslims in New Zealand
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Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis respond to the recent shooting at two mosques in New Zealand by calling not only for messages of solidarity but also for prevalent campaigns against all forms of hatred.
Activism
The Path to Defeat Racism
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Racism is the demeaning of an entire group of people and refusal to see them as fully human in the way we see ourselves and those we deem to be “like” us. When we fail to see the humanity of the “other,” we ascribe to them ugly characteristics that somehow justify treating them with less honor and less generosity than we would others who are part of the groups we do see as fundamentally like us. From this place of separation we justify denying the “other” equal rights, benefits, and caring that all human beings deserve. Racism in the United States has a long history. It was foundational to U.S. expansion throughout the North American continent, allowing white people to justify to themselves genocidal policies toward Native Americans, to allow slavery, and to incorporate into our Constitution a provision that would count African slaves as three-fifths of a human being so that Southern States would have higher representation in the Congress, though racists both North and South didn’t think of them as human beings at all.