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We invite you to read our Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment (ESRA) and to review the accompanying Q&A to understand why we have gone further than other amendments proposed to deal with the core problems of corporate power and the need for environmental responsibility.
Perhaps the November elections will not be as harsh on the Democrats as the polls predict, but the Dems’ behavior in power has decreased their popularity dramatically.
What if, as expected, regenerative science and lifestyle improvements lead to another twenty-plus-year extension of life expectancy in the twenty-first century?
The centrality of religion to civil rights discourse is amplified when the civil rights struggle questions a status quo largely supported by religion.
What has lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activism accomplished, and where is it headed? And how might queer political activism move our society as a whole toward a more caring, just, and liberatory future?
Many of the most vocal defenders of Israel in the Jewish community personally assail anyone who criticizes Israeli policies toward Palestinians, declining to answer the actual criticisms and instead labeling the critics as “self-hating Jews” or “anti-Semites” or worse.
Instead of messing around with partial measures, President Obama should transform our approach to the environment by orienting it around this key idea: the earth is not a “resource” to be used for private profit.
“Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” by Ralph Nader: Review by Charles Derber
March 28, 1964: Father has been acting quite secretive this week—I think he’s obsessed with hiding the afikomen so I can’t find it this time. Last year he seemed disappointed that I found it so quickly—also, that I wasn’t so thrilled with my present, a simple yo-yo that I felt unsuitable for a sophisticated five-year-old such as myself.
“A Lethal Obsession: Aanti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad” by Robert S. Wistrich: Review by Milton Viorst
“The Man Who Knew God: Decoding Jeremiah” by Mordecai Schreiber: Review by Barry L. Schwartz
A roundtable discussion among peace activists on the issue of boycott, divestment, and sanctions, May 2010.
The psalms, that body of biblical literature so beautiful and passionate, so full of longing, are often rejected by those committed to progressive politics. Here, though, I would like to encourage those of us interested in changing the world and transforming ourselves to turn to them again and take another look.