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Join Us to Help Build a Caring Society

Our goal is to encourage and support people to dream big about the kind of life and community they want – dreams that are so often excluded from public discourse. To bring these liberating ideas into the public sphere, we will work to pass resolutions endorsing the New Bottom Line: A Caring Society.

Coronavirus and the Glimmering Light

In 1578, while jailed in a Carmelite monastery for his attempts at reforming the order, Saint John of the Cross penned his famous poem, Dark Night of the Soul. He was living in a cell measuring barely ten by six feet, without a lamp or a change of clothes, dragged out weekly for public lashings.

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Like Floyd, Vietnamese Were Victims of a “Flourishing US Culture of Excessive Force, Racism, & Impunity”

The 27 $million to the family of George Floyd answering allegations that his civil rights were violated within a flourishing American culture of excessive force, racism and impunity by implication puts protective value on all lives in the USA. Remaining valueless are the millions of lives taken overseas by Americans, including by Black GIs who afterward return home to face mortal racist danger themselves.