Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/category/politics/page/132/)
Posts about politics and social change, from a spiritual progressive perspective
Even as President Obama is editorializing about America’s war-weariness, he continues to tell bold-face lies to the international community about us. It’s time to stop blaming him, however, and change the U.S. Constitution.
Outward displays of one’s faith can be controversial, especially if that faith has anything to do with Islam. Young adults discuss the physical demonstrations that keep them connected to their spirituality, and maintaining these displays in the face of discrimination.
I had this crazy dream last night. Yuri Kochiyama and Amiri Baraka were up in heaven…playing Ronald Reagan and Strom Thurmond in a game of 2-on-2 basketball. The stakes? Dismantling the segregated institutions of heaven. Why all the clouds gotta be white?
Alfred Gluecksmann writes of the importance that our nation’s capital collective transportation vehicles not be misused by hate groups who abuse their freedom of speech.
Arlene Goldbard looks at the potential ‘blindspots’ in The Nature Conservancy’s recent attempts to use business logic and number-based arguments to change the face of the ‘science of conservation’.
In the aftermath of Maya Angelou’s passing and President Obama’s Commencement speech at West Point, Valerie Elverton-Dixon reflects on humanity’s moral evolution, and the courage required in attaining the “amazing peace” Maya Angelou so often spoke of.
Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, would do better to join the U.S. troops she ostensibly supports, rather than attacking the freedom of expression of American artists.
On March 28 Brooklyn rock band The Shondes were disinvited from the Washington Jewish Music Festival due to band members’ views on Israel and Palestine. Founding members, singer Louisa Rachel Solomon and violinist Elijah Oberman, have written this open letter in response.
Part of the pleasure of living is discovering what we love, and understanding ourselves as having choice, including the choice to trade other things for the freedom to pursue what we love if we wish to do so. Class differentials color that right, of course; but everyone has it, and to say that they don’t is to serve oppression while claiming to do the opposite.
The Solomons’ “Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism” has generated lots of controversy among Tikkun readers. Some of it has taken the form of denunciations of Tikkun. Milton Masur takes a more balanced approach in his criticisms.