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To register for the conference online, go to
http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/conference
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Or register by phone at 510 644 1200
Monday to Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
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Well, anyway, love and blessings to you, Michael
(Rabbi Michael Lerner -- rabbilerner@Tikkun.org)
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Among the presenters June 11-14:
Congressman Keith Ellison and Congressman Dennis Kucinich
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Juxtaposition to here is this text because I did not have to read any other text -- herein hilighted -- than what I am calling the “Crux” of this sound byte for my blog:
Rabbi Michael Lerner, "In calling for A Caring Society to replace the "look out for number one" mentality generated by capitalism and what Rabbi Lerner calls "its inevitable consequence -- the globalization of selfishness," the NSP is asking us to support changes in the economic and political arrangements of our society so that [said changes] support and encourage the very opposite character and personality traits and behaviors, namely those that manifest love for our neighbors, love for the strangers (the Others, the immigrants, the powerless, the poor), and love for the earth in all its physical and spiritual beauty. In the ads that are appearing now, the NSP puts forward a spiritually based analysis of contemporary American politics.
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"The 2008 elections," Lerner contends, "revealed the great yearning of a majority of Americans for a world based on peace, social justice, generosity, environmental sanity, and recognition that our well-being is tied to the well-being of everyone else on the planet.
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We [Rabbi Michael Lerner] invite[s] you to register for our conference if you already know you want to come.
Please go to http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/conference.
Or else, read the rest of this below!
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Calling upon secular progressives to overcome their religio-phobia (which has, according to the NSP, crippled the Left by alienating major sections of the population whose economic interests are better served by the Left but whose religious aspirations are often scorned by a liberal culture that demeans religious believers), Rabbi Lerner has invited secular humanists and atheists to form a "united front" against what he calls a "quasi-fascist" revival of know-nothingism, racism, anti-immigrant hatred, homophobia, and militarism that scarily resembles the dynamics of the 1920s Weimar Republic in Germany just before the Nazis came to power.
Calling upon secular progressives to overcome their religio-phobia (which has, according to the NSP, crippled the Left by alienating major sections of the population whose economic interests are better served by the Left but whose religious aspirations are often scorned by a liberal culture that demeans religious believers), Rabbi Lerner has invited secular humanists and atheists to form a "united front" against what he calls a "quasi-fascist" revival of know-nothingism, racism, anti-immigrant hatred, homophobia, and militarism that scarily resembles the dynamics of the 1920s Weimar Republic in Germany just before the Nazis came to power.
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Because Lerner believes that the Tea Party movement, already influencing the direction of the Republican Party, may lay the foundation for an outright fascist movement in the U.S., he calls upon secular progressives to unite with spiritual progressives to develop a strategy for progressives during the Obama years.
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The NSP is calling its conference "The Caring Society." Rabbi Lerner calls for Congress and the Obama administration to adopt those words as a unifying theme, and to overcome their antipathy to a shared worldview or ideology. "Spiritual and political wisdom in the 21st century," according to Rabbi Lerner, "starts with Americans acknowledging to ourselves and the world that our well-being as citizens of the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Israel, Jordan [and elsewhere] … depends on the well-being of everyone else on the planet, and the well-being of the planet itself."
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For more information: Contact James Lee, Conference Coordinator at
For more information: Contact James Lee, Conference Coordinator at
410 262 8365
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To interview
Rabbi Michael Lerner: Contact Natalie Wollner or Will Pasley at
Tikkun Magazine (510 644 1200)
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or write to will@tikkun.org
or write to will@tikkun.org
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