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Revolutionary Love Book Groups Starting – You Can Join Us!
We invite you to facilitate a Revolutionary Love Book Group! 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 (please practice safe distancing).
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National Working Groups
I’d like to invite you to a different kind of social change activism. Like many of us who read articles from Tikkun, I am delighted at the many victories which have already be won by the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet the more those demonstrations moved beyond demands for reform of the police into an…
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Tikkun and NSP Launch #LoveAndJusticeProject
Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives have been at the vanguard of speaking about the importance of integrating spirituality and politics for over 3 decades – yes, you read that right! We have been running trainings and workshops on Radical Love and Prophetic Empathy for over 5 years – workshops that help people understand how…
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Love Knows No Borders
We (Rabbi Lerner, Rabbi Cat, and others from Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives) participated in an interfaith action in San Diego today with over 400 faith leaders and activists representing an extremely diverse range of spiritual traditions – Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Native Americans, and secular humanists.
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Please Help #KeepFamiliesTogether
by Cat Zavis So for a brief moment, when Trump announced he would sign an executive order ending snatching children from their parents, I let myself cry tears of relief. This is an important and immediate victory for families that would otherwise have been separated. While it is not enough, our voices do matter. It would be…
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ICE’s Baby Snatching: Immediate Actions & Long-Term Strategy
Some people have asked me what is a defining moment in your life that made you ‘you.’ And I always tell the following story. When I was 12 years old I was sitting in my living with my mom, dad, and older sister. We were watching the television show Roots. Whenever I tell this story, including…
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Stand Up and Be Heard This Weekend and Beyond
Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s Muslim ban, and guts public sector unions; and now, Supreme Court Justice Kennedy has announced his retirement, giving Trump the opportunity to appoint a more extreme rightist to the Court. These are dark times indeed. Fascist ideas and racist practices are on…
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Integrating Spirituality and Activism – How to Change the World
Our world is riddled with tragedies: the epidemic of killings by police in the U.S. of African Americans, boats capsizing with hundreds of people fleeing war-torn countries in search of security, safety and well-being, children dying from illnesses stemming from malnutrition at alarming rates, women and girls being raped as victims of wars, banning of people…
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Love Wins! Lessons from the Movement for Marriage Equality
An artistic rendering of The Statue of Liberty kissing a golden woman of justice. Wow. For a brief moment I am feeling such gratitude for our Supreme Court—well, at least for five justices of the court! This is a time to celebrate. Gay and lesbian couples are finally recognized for their commitment to love their…