Culture
How to Create a Tikkun/NSP (Network of Spiritual Progressives) Presence in YOUR Community
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There is no one correct way to spread the Tikkun/Network of Spiritual Progressives worldview – there are many, many paths that can work.
Culture
Making Sense of Incognito’s Bullying
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From Penn State’s accommodation of pedophilia and rape to baseball’s decades-long toleration of steroids to Ritchie Incognito’s racist rant, our athletes and our coaches are – to a greater extent than we’ll admit – exactly what we’ve made them.
Culture
Slavery: The Sorrow, the Pity, the Evasion — Thoughts on "Twelve Years a Slave"
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The Dixie Narrative takes on the quality of the crucifix on the Inquisitor’s wall; the greatest crime has already been committed. We must avoid this tendency; if we give into it, we run the risk of becoming passive facilitators of the very crimes we condemn.
Environment
Rejoice: Openly Socialist Candidate Wins Seattle City Council Seat
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A community college instructor, immigrant, and unabashed socialist has won a seat on the Seattle City Council. Kshama Sawant’s path to success connected a wide scope of followers, cost much less than her opponent’s campaign, and involved a promise to triple the minimum wage.
Culture
The Spiritual Truth of JFK (As Movie and Reality)
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To put the Kennedy assassination in a historical perspective that is both spiritual and political, we here reprint Peter Gabel’s brilliant article on the subject, “The Spiritual Truth of JFK (As Movie and Reality),” originally published in Tikkun in March/April 1992 in response to the original release of Stone’s film.
Culture
The Culture Made Me Do It
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When interviewed about Richie Incognito’s racist bullying of fellow Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin, some athletes have sought to exonerate Incognito, instead blaming football “culture.” In truth, culture is made by humans, which means we all have the capacity to reject a culture of brutality.
Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
Money, Value, and Our Choices
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When I look at it deeply, I really cannot understand, on the human plane, why I give the woman who cleans my house less money than the acupuncturist or naturopath who attend to my body… In effect, setting up the system in the way that it is means that some people’s needs are valued more than others.
Buddhism
Occupy the Dharma: How Contemplative Practice Will Save the World
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We hear it all the time. Meditation is narcissistic. Not only is this offensive and inaccurate, it’s not even new.
art
Is It True? Revealing the Truth in Fiction
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So is my fiction book true? I think the next time somebody asks me, I’ll have to tell them, yes, it is – absolutely. I hope they’ll forgive me if that’s not exactly true.
Empathy
My Response to Tom Rogan's "How President Obama Can Achieve a Nuclear Deal with Iran"
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The Guardian’s recent article, “How President Obama can achieve a nuclear deal with Iran,” speaks about why a nuclear deal with Iran is urgently needed, and what Iran must give up. This Guardian piece is a little weak on what the United States and the Western powers must offer as part of the deal. When read by itself, it repeats the “tough-minded” and largely blind to emotional nuance approach that has made the West’s dealings with Iran so fruitless: