...PETRA KUPPERS Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 I live life in slow motion. The world I live in is one where my thoughts are as quick as anyone’s, my movements are weak and erratic, and my talk is slower than a snail in quicksand,” writes Australian author and activist Anne McDonald...

... a fast/slow/fast/ slow progression. The first movement, “Call of the Cicadas,” is extremely dynamic and exciting — an introduction portraying world-shaping energies. Strings imitate the lush sounds of cicadas, and varied percussion instruments maintain a pulsing, driving rhythm. Delicate melodies...

... sixth leading cause of death. Second, a high-powered panel called the Alzheimer’s Study There is no drug that will slow or stop Alzheimer’s; there is no Group (including prom inent figures such as Sandra Day Alzheimer’s vaccine; there is no cure...

... lives and beyond supporting slow legislative battles to impose environmental restrictions, even as corporations and the rich come up with ever new ways to exploit the planet and declare unconstitutional any serious attempts to impose environmental responsibility on corporations. And tell us exactly how...

... were based on deep connections between activists who knew each other for a long time and thought long and hard about the issues before jumping into the fray. It took guts to confront authority and one’s opponents. We need to recapture some element of that discipline. Just as we have a slow food...

..., waiting for you to ask them to dance. There is no binary opposition — identity is where and   what time you stand to put your make-up on, relative to the points of time in space of those around you, their handfuls of brightly colored plastic, their recession so slow you don’t no tice it at first...

... by: Her eyes are the blue eyes of Khazars, she’s slow, her face a broad face, slowing down the caravan. her body the heavy body of a native woman...

... the ravages of the genocide inflicted upon them even as that community must now recover power to slow the latest assaults on their land and their rights by the energy industry. LaDuke highlights the way Native Americans are healing through recovering their own sacred traditions, and in that process...

... on his back. For slow was fast enough for him. But on the fourth day out, in scree and stone, the customs officer barred his way. “Any valuables to declare?” “None.” And the boy who led the ox spoke up: “He taught me.” So that was then declared. But the man, his eyes lighting up, went...

... forth My people,” he feels inadequate to the task: “Mi Anochi?,” “ Who am I , that I should go unto Pharaoh . . . ?” And further, “I am not a man of words . . . for I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue.” (Exodus 4: 10) This self-doubt, this speechlessness in Moses is, in Zornberg’s view, one...

... I slowed to a walk and watched, listened, and sighed my way through a cascading outflow of of outflow a craft cascading feelings my adequately sighed to way and far sublime too through listened, I a to slowed watched, and walk to be I listening on my happened of iPod...

... by: Her eyes are the blue eyes of Khazars, she’s slow, her face a broad face, slowing down the caravan. her body the heavy body of a native woman...

... United States, where the bishops were, almost every almost single one were, bishops the States, where United Catholic the classes.”where working England, In the lost have slow, very was too Church the powerful, of the sons the from chosen were bishops the where countries...

... could be said, with more painful accuracy, of the Jewish contributions to the visual art that enjoys the vast majority of appreciative observers: the comics. But wait. Even as the daily newspaper—long the chief source of public access to comics—goes into a slow fade, postmodernism has surprises...

...Emily Warn Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 P O E T R Y Yud: The Hand of God Handiwork The Vanishing Point At dawn God opens one hand You slow down to watch cumulus clouds...

.... the tone says to notice I try hard Genetic damage. as if his days were isn’t inexhaustible, as the lens widens not to stare at Damage of history, days of just You got to slow...

... and pressure our government to stop abetting Israel’s steady seizure and theft of Palestinian land and its ongoing slaughter—sometimes slow, sometimes fast—of Palestinians. This means demanding an end to military aid while pushing for boycott, divestment, and sanctions. This is no small task...

... a powerful extension of my Jewish political perspective since Levittown. Activism belongs in the workplace as much as in the streets. And despite the occasional disdain of academic colleagues, it also belongs in my published writings. At sixty-seven, I have no plans to slow down. ...

...: trying to reach national and international accords that would slow the flow of carbon into the atmosphere. It’s not nearly as satisfying, even for me, as building strong local economies and farming networks, or aiding real people in dire need of real and immediate help. But it is, I fear, crucial...

... but is instead the gene. mitigating male biases within it (e.g., see spring in changing environments. Her We may think we are altruists, Dawkins Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s Mother Nature). But logic hits me with the same astonished taught me, but our genes have no such eth­ it has been slow...