... to obliterate basic human rights in the name of security. Instead, we believe that a progressive movement needs to develop a “New Bottom Line” that assesses the efficiency, rationality, and productivity of our corporations, laws, government policies, economic system, political system, educational system, legal...

... gender violence in South Asia, Africa, Latin America, or other formerly colonized regions will reproduce colonial dynamics. At other times they do speak, and their language echoes imperial narratives about needing to “rescue” downtrodden women from “backward” cultural traditions. To move to a more...

... disempowered and unable to change the world we live in. So, of course America needs a Left. But the kind of Left that America has had in the past decades is part of the problem. That Left has framed its critique through a narrow economic and political discourse of “rights,” while ignoring the deep...

...Stanley Aronowitz The anti-capitalist Left that we need would offer in-depth analyses of the trends in global capitalism and the failures and capitulations of modern liberalism, embarking on a fresh exploration of alternatives to contemporary capitalism and the institutions of representative...

... leadership seems to be that of a realist. Nationally, as in the international arena, there are areas of complementary interests across our political and economic divides, but there are also large and deep and unavoidable areas of clearly competing interests. Significant political battles need to be fought...

... impact on previously intractable social problems. New possibilities emerge when complementary currencies function as mediums of exchange that document value that is needed and recognized by others. Thanks to technology, the potential of such mediums of exchange to generate and reward labor is just...

... to humanize the legal profession ends up focused on teaching lawyers how to meditate and take care of themselves but fails to focus on how to change laws to be less class-biased and subservient to the needs of the wealthy and powerful. A movement to bring ethics into psychology may halt psychologists...

...Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2011 T here was a time when prophets circulated among the population. They served as a social rebalancing force, and the people who had an open heart would begin to recalibrate their way of being in the world. More than ever do we need...

.... Obesity Obesity expected to have shorter life spans than their parents. Recognizing—and acting upon—the need for need upon—the acting Recognizing—and parents. their life than spans to have shorter expected...

...Guy T. Saperstein Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Democrats Need an Iran Strategy ASAP by Guy T. Saperstein emocrats are almost giddy about their prospects of w inning the Uncle Sam casts his long...

...Rami Shapiro Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 YEARS LATEm Outgrowing Our Need for Promised Lands and Chosen Peoples by Rami...