by John Shelby Spong
2012
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
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by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson
27.2 Spring
Readers Respond: Letters from Spring 2012
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Letters on addiction, twelve-step programs, and the challenges of peace from the Spring 2012 issue.
2012
Night Stop
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“He has only his open hand and his sweetly accusatory Bless you. We have only to turn our heads and he’s gone….”
2012
Occupy’s Message to the Food Movement: Bridge the Class Divides
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The food landscape and its correlation to class is complicated and rife with contradiction. This is partly because our modern-day American food system is brand new—it’s only been in existence for about sixty years.
2012
Horizontalidad and Territory in the Occupy Movements
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The word horizontalidad was first heard in the days after the popular rebellion in Argentina in 2001. Horizontal social relationships and the creation of new territory through the use of geographic space are the most generalized and innovative of the experiences of the Occupy movements.
2012
Localization: The Economics of Happiness
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One of the most destructive effects of globalization is that it eliminates diversity. In order to grow and to provide the “economies of scale” that huge transnational corporations require, whole populations are induced to want the same consumer goods. Economic localization has been described as the economics of happiness.
2012
Sustaining the Occupy Movement
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The Occupy encampments took on feeding the hungry and housing the homeless, albeit in tents, demonstrating an interdependent way of living. What if the Occupy movement called on all of us to take back access to our most basic human needs that are now primarily in the hands of very large institutions?
2012
What’s Next for Occupy
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Occupy has unseated the pragmatic from its throne and replaced it with a mighty emptiness. That emptiness is as pregnant as any womb before fertilization, any wound before its healing, any glass before its filling.
2012
The Spirituality of Occupy
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I had come to the General Assembly to listen and participate in a discussion and vote on the place of nonviolence in Occupy Seattle but found myself disoriented by my neighbor’s assertion that “religious” values had no place in the movement’s dialogue. I felt muted by the insinuation that my spirituality, which is at the core of my identity, was unwelcome.
2012
Setting the Record Straight: The Arabs, Zionism, and the Holocaust
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There is, on the face of it, no more need for a book on the Arabs and the Holocaust than for a book on the Africans or the Australians and the Holocaust. But Israel was created in the Arab world, and Israelis and Arabs have long been fighting a bitter war about both the nature of Israel and that of Arab opposition to Zionism.