Watch or listen to our call launching our National Working Groups. These groups will provide a space for NSP members to gather to brainstorm, strategize, learn, and co-create and serve as a model of how to organize a local group.
Jewish Wisdom
Isaiah For Our Time: To Transform the World
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In his teaching for Yom Kippur, Rabbi Michael Zimmerman compares the teachings of the prophet Isaiah with Rabbi Lerner’s new book Revolutionary Love: “Lerner reveals hidden facets of Isaiah’s vision just as Isaiah demonstrates the deep Jewish roots of Lerner’s lifelong project to heal society.”
Jewish Wisdom
Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz
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Rabbi Timoner praises Rabbi Moskowitz’s new book for illuminating truths and insights into Judaism that have been hidden there all along.
Justice for All
No Lives Matter
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David Seidenberg looks at immigration, deportation, and related violence as Trumpian fantasy fulfillment.
Ecological Transformation
Another Resource for Lovers & Activists on behalf of Mother Earth
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In this time of crisis, Matthew Fox provides daily meditations “to contribute to the struggle that clearly must take place both within us and in society.”
Justice for All
Minimum Wage Vote in Congress
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Take Action Now. Chuck Collins from the Institute for Policy Studies, Inequality team, calls us to support legislation to raise the federal minimum wage.
Politics & Society
Honoring Activists’ Experience
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Bayo Akomolafe reflects on ageism in the Democratic party and argues that we should not dismiss “the ‘old’ to the reliquary of irrelevance.”
Justice for All
Ending Private Prisons and Exploitation for Profit
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has “[a] plan to root out once and for all the profit incentives perverting our criminal and immigration systems.”
Ecological Transformation
Matthew Fox on Developing Environmental Consciousness
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Matthew Fox urges to the graduating class of Oberlin College to “stand together in the choice […] to see our species thrive and all these other species with it.”
Jewish Wisdom
The Holocaust, the slaying of Jews in the U.S. and the Rise of White Nationalist Extremists
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Rabbi Michael Lerner presents a strategy for preventing future instances of hatred, violence, and anti-Semitism.
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Accidental Activist
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Phillip Barcio details how the media falsely labeled Michael Rakowitz as the 2019 Whitney Biennial protester, then created the conditions they described.
Justice for All
At the Southern Border – “A Laboratory of Injustice, A Landscape of Hope”
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Rabbi Victor Reinstein reports on a recent trip to El Paso and urges us to “see ourselves in every refugee at the southern border,” affirming their humanity.
Is it OK to hate?
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Philip L Bereano reviews Nadine Strossen’s Hate: why we should resist it with free speech, not censorship.
Justice for All
Learning from the Teacher Walkouts
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Lois Weiner examines recent teacher walkouts and reminds us that, if they are to be successful, social movements must uproot all forms of oppression.
Two Years Later: Resisting Trump in Michigan
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Ronald Aronson reports on the state of the progressive community two years into Trump’s presidency: “We are ready not simply to oppose Trump but to pose new goals.”