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Spiritual and Religious Progressives Call on Secular Progressives to Join in a United Strategy to Say "No" to Tea Party

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"That yearning is in danger of being discredited as

disillusionment and despair is generated by the Obama

Administration's failure to fight for that vision.

"We are all too aware of the way that people in both par-

ties have sabotaged much of the Obama agenda, but we

also know that the Administration needs to stop listening

to the Inside-the-Beltway pragmatists and realists.


"Our message to the political establishment in Washington

DC is, "Stop being "realistic' and instead tell Americans what

is actually needed to end global and domestic poverty,

war, and environmental destruction. Fight boldly to make

America a society based on love, generosity and caring for

each other, on social justice, peace and non-violence, on

an end to domestic and global poverty, on gratitude, for-

giveness, and awe and radical amazement at the grandeur

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Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun and national chair of the Tikkun Community/ Network of Spiritual Progressives. People are invited to subscribe to Tikkun magazine or join the interfaith organization the Network of Spiritual Progressives-- "both of which can be done by (more...)
 
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