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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I was introduced to the interfaith Network of
Spiritual Progressives by our late colleague Dick Kroeger; Dick and Amelia
worked with them for several years. Then I heard Michael Lerner speak
at a conference in Washington DC. He's a hero of mine - I love a
couple of his books and even more what he and his colleagues are trying to
do. (For example, Cornell West and Sr. Joan Chichester have
been co-chairs of the Network of Spiritual Progressives.) This is one
of those "networks" whose values align with ICA's. When I can I want to
list some of these activist networks that I've bumped into, with a
paragraph or so description of each. I would love to know what potential
allies you have discovered. Whether we ever contact these other
groups or not who are doing their best to contribute to the
global future, good to know they are there.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Janice Ulangca</FONT></DIV>
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Progressives</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=aulangca@stny.rr.com
href="mailto:aulangca@stny.rr.com">aulangca@stny.rr.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 03, 2012 2:11 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> July 4--Celebrating America & Making It Interdependence
Day</DIV></DIV>
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<P>A note from Rabbi Michael Lerner, chair, the interfaith Network of
Spiritual Progressives <A
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style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)" size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Faced with July 4th
celebrations that are focused on militarism, ultra-nationalism, and
“bombs bursting in air,” many American families who do not share
those values turn July 4th into another summer holiday focused on
picnics, sports, and fireworks, while doing their best to avoid the
dominant rhetoric and bombast.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">This year that kind
of celebration is particularly difficult when many of us are deeply
upset as we watch our government escalating its policy of drones,
still fighting a pointless war in Afghanistan, running elections in
which only the super-rich or their allies stand a chance of being
taken seriously by the corporate media, watching as the distance
between rich and poor becomes ever wider, while education and social
programs for the poor get defunded, the Supreme Court reaffirms the
right of corporations to on donate without limit to political
campaigns, the envirionment reaches beyond the tipping point and
nobody even bothers to pretend that they are going to do something
to epair the ecological crisis, and the government passes
legislation that in effect does away with habaeus corpus and the
right of people to a trial by their peers (by legislating life
imprisonment without trial for anyone the government suspects of
being a foreign operative, including US citizens), and disspirited
by the lack of vision of the Democratic Party, and the dis-unity and
nit-picking on the Left which seems to only know what it is against
but has not yet developed a coherent vision of what it is for!
Oy.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: x-large"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)">That's
why we've developed a July 4th celebratory program that you can draw
from ... to create for yourself and your friends and/or family
a celebration that will have meaning to you. We wish to affirm what
is good in America without ignoring its problems, and to affirm a
vision of hope that transcends this moment in 2012 and its
disappointments. And we can even celebrate that some people who
didn't have medical coverage will now, after the Supreme Court
decision last week to allow the Obamacare plan to be implented, and
before the Republicans find a way to eviscerate it, have that
coverage--a concrete step towards "The Caring Society--Caring for
Each Other and Caring for the Planet" that is the goal of the
Network of Spiritual Progressives (which is also welcoming to
atheists and agnostics and anyone else who wants a world based on
love and generosity). <BR></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">We in
the </SPAN><SPAN
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of Spiritual Progressives</B></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"> believe that
avoiding July 4 or turning it into nothing more than a picnic with
friends is a mistake for progressives. There is much worth
celebrating in American history that deserves attention on July 4th,
despite the current depravity of those who lead this country, though
the celebration-worthy aspects of our society are rarely the focus
of the public events.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">We also acknowledge
that in the twenty-first century there is a pressing need to develop
a new kind of consciousness — a recognition of the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: x-large"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,204); COLOR: rgb(34,34,34)"
class=il>interdependence</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>of everyone on the planet.
A new revolution is necessary — one in which our actions reflect a
realization that our well-being depends on the well-being of
everyone else on the planet and of the planet itself. ...</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><B>This is the
equivalent of a Passover Haggadah, the guide to doing a Passover
Seder, only designed for an interfaith and secular humanist
community like the Network of Spiritual Progressives. Please feel
free to use any part of it or all of it--but also please urge your
friends and family to<SPAN
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target=_blank><B>join our Network of Spiritual Progressives at
www.spiritualprogressives.org</B></A><B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>so we can afford to keep
doing this kind of work!!!</B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><I><B><U><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: large">Guide to a Communal or Family Celebration
of July 4 Inter-Dependence<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,204); COLOR: rgb(34,34,34)"
class=il>Day</SPAN></SPAN></U></B></I></P>
<P style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><U><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: x-large"><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)">Celebrating What Is Good about the
United States of America</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></I></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)">(Go around your
picnic table, or your July 4th gathering and have each person read a
paragraph until everyone has been able to do so, and then repeat
that process till you've read aloud through this whole thing. Feel
free to cut, add, or in other ways change this approach.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Today hundreds of
millions of Americans will celebrate all that is good in the history
of the United States of America. Even though we know there is much
to criticize about America (including the use of the word “America”
as synonymous with the United States, thereby ignoring Canada,
Mexico, and Central and South America) there is also much to
celebrate.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Today we mark the
signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document that still
inspires many Americans today. We’re going to read the declaration
aloud. As we do, listen for those ideas that you find inspiring or
resonant or in some other way pertinent for our lives in
twenty-first-century America.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Unfortunately, the
high ideals expressed in the Declaration, “that all men are created
equal and endowed with their creator with certain inalienable
rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” were
not actually put into practice when the Constitution was created and
the United States came into existence. The word “men” was applied
not in a general sense to include women, but rather to only include
men. And, in fact, for the first decades of our country, the only
people who could vote were white men who owned property. Worse,
slavery was permitted and African Americans were counted as 3/5 of a
European American in the census, which determined how many people
lived in a given area who deserved representation in the Congress.
Native Americans — those who had survived the near genocide of
European settlement — did not figure at all in these
equations.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Some of these
distortions got rectified through the democratic process that had
been set up by the founders of our country. History books focus on
the people who were in power as if all change comes from those in
positions of authority. The truth is, though, that much of what we
love about America was created by ordinary citizens. Often they
encountered resistance from those in power; sometimes they found
allies in power who joined in the struggle.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">At this celebration,
let’s give thanks for the ordinary and extraordinary Americans whose
struggles brought about those changes. As I read each of the
following, let’s enjoy a bite of food, raising our forks each time
in celebration of their achievements!</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To the waves of
immigrants from all parts of the world who struggled to accept each
other and find a place in this country.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To the escaped
slaves and their allies — particularly Quakers, evangelical
Christians, and freedom-loving secularists — who built the
underground railroad and helped countless people to
freedom.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To the coalitions of
religious and secular people — women and men, black and white — who
built popular support for the emancipation of the slaves.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To the African
Americans and allies who went to prison, lost their livelihoods, and
were savagely beaten in the struggle for civil rights.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To the working
people who championed protections like the eight-hour<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,204); COLOR: rgb(34,34,34)"
class=il>day</SPAN>, minimum wage, workers’ compensation, and the
right to organize, often at great personal cost to them.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To the immigrants
who fought against “nativist” tendencies and refused to close the
borders of this country to new groups of immigrants, and who
continue to support a policy of “welcoming the stranger” just as
this country opened its gates to their ancestors when they were the
immigrants and strangers, and to all who fight for the safety and
decent treatment of immigrants.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To the women who
risked family, job security, and their own constructed identities to
shift our collective consciousness about men and women and raise
awareness of the effects of patriarchy.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To all of those who
risk scorn and violence and often lose their families to lead the
struggle against homophobia and for the acceptance of gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgendered, and queer people.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To those who
continue to work for equal access for people with
disabilities.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To those who
advocate for sensitivity to animals and to the earth
itself.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To all of the
innovators and artists who have brought so much beauty and
usefulness into our lives.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To those who fought
to extend democratic principles not only in politics but also in the
workplace and in the economy.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To those who
developed innovations in science and technology, in literature and
art, in music and dance, in film and in computer science, in medical
and communication technologies, and in methods to protect ourselves
from the destructive impacts of some of these new
technologies.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To those who
developed psychological insights and increased our ability to be
sensitive to our impact on others.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To those who
developed ecological awareness.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To those who brought
the insights of their own particular religious or spiritual
traditions that emphasized love and caring for others and generosity
toward those who had been impoverished and sought to turn those
ideas not only into a call for personal charity but also into a
mission to transform our economic and political systems in ways that
would reflect those values.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">To those who fought
for peace and nonviolence, and who helped stop many wars.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">All of that we
celebrate in America involved hard-won struggles to overcome
entrenched ways of thinking. Adding to the difficulty of the
struggle were the struggles among groups of people working for
liberation. Sometimes people in oppressed groups would say, “My
suffering is more intense or more important than your suffering” to
each other, undermining rather than building solidarity.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Sometimes one
oppressed group was used by the people with power to fight against
another oppressed group. Some people in each previously oppressed
group would seize their hard-won power and turn their backs on the
needs of others, even discriminating against or looking down on
others whose struggles had not yet been won. It was sad and shocking
when people struggling for peace found that some of their allies
were racist or sexist or homophobic or anti-Semitic or anti-Islamic
or anti-Christian or held hateful views about all religious people
or about all secular people or about all white people or about all
men. Sometimes that would lead people to give up. Luckily, many
others did not give up, and so the struggles for human freedom
dignity, human rights, economic security, and civil liberties were
not abandoned.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Those struggles
continue today, and it could easily take many more decades before
they are fully realized.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">But the good news is
that many people have retained their basic decency and caring for
others. We are surrounded by people who care. True, it’s often hard
to show that. When first approached, many people express
indifference to the well-being of others.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Our economic system
encourages selfishness, me-first-ism, “looking out for number one,”
and indifference to the ecological and ethical impacts of our
activities, and acting counter to those attitudes feels not only
unfamiliar but also risky.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Yet underneath all
that, most people yearn for a different kind of world, but they
think it is “unrealistic” to struggle for what they really believe
in, since they are convinced that nobody else shares that desire
with them. They momentarily overcame that fear in 2008 by giving a
strong majority vote for Obama — allowing themselves to believe that
a Democrat who promised “change we can believe in” and told people
“yes, we can [build a very different kind of world]” could himself
make the difference. What we’ve learned subsequently is that no
candidate within this current system is likely to stick to any
transformative goals in the face of overwhelming corporate power and
the power of the corporate-subservient media unless we can build a
powerful movement of us ordinary people to change our
system.</SPAN></P>
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each other in building a world that really does reflect our highest
values. If peace, social justice, ecological sensitivity, full
implementation of human rights, and the creation of a society based
on love is “unrealistic,” then we say “screw realism.” Being
realistic in a deeper sense is not accepting “reality” as it is
presently presented to us.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">We want a different
kind of world, and we have to engage in nonviolent struggles to
build it. And that has always been the way we have won the battles
for precisely the things that make us proud of the victories of the
American people: it was always people who were told that what they
wanted was “unrealistic” and who essentially said “screw realism —
we’re going to fight for what is right” who became the real heroes
of the American story. Of course, the powerful often obscure that
history, and teach us to think that all the human rights and
liberties and freedoms were “given to us,” but actually it was
precisely the little people like us who made the big changes that
have made this country worthy of celebration. ...</SPAN></P>
<P style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)">,Shalom, Michael Lerner</P></DIV>
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