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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.
Criticism of Israel’s policies and practices should not be singled out as examples of antisemitism. We must not reinforce the notion that there is anything about criticism of Israel that requires “special” attention. Further, locating the challenge against antisemitism as an integral part of other struggles for justice, rather than exceptionalizing it, can only strengthen all our movements against racism and white supremacy.
Mourning is an act of softening. It supports us in softly closing the gap between what we want, envision, or long for, and what actually exists.
In contemporary, patriarchal societies, mothering often leads to mothers giving up on their own needs, because of the lack of a communal context of togetherness and support. One of the results of this is that, as children, we don’t learn about the needs of others as an organic limit we bump up against and within which we weave the unfolding of life.
Aryeh Cohen reviews Mira Sucharov’s book, Borders and Belonging: A Memoir
Wonderful to read House Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin’s good words about our Editor-at-Large Peter Gabel’s book The Desire for Mutual Recognition.
Explore with Miki, all about truly coming from willingness in partnerships and relationships.
With our facilitator’s guide, you can begin your journey as a loving revolutionary whether you’ve read the book or not! All you need is passion, commitment, and video conferencing capability.
Midwest Book Review embraces “Revoluntary Love.”
The classic question of “where do you want to be in five years?” has within it the attempt to control the future. Conversely, going from here forwards in the direction of where we want to go, without knowing if we will ever get there, has the quality of shaping and co-creating…
This novel is about music, imagination and Jewish roots. And about belonging and not belonging, freedom that comes from being an outsider.
You are invited to join a Martin Luther King Social Justice Shabbat on Friday, January 15, at 7:30 pm, Pacific time.
What would it take for everyone in the world to be able to participate in actual decision-making about the multiple, overlapping, existential global crises humanity is facing? Our commitment: a true win-win system, based on genuine willingness […].
This is written out of the unrelenting angst, the siege, really, of November’s election nightmare scenario for this patriot ever grateful for our flawed democracy.
