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Newest articles posted, with excerpts:
Why We Need New Ways of Thinking by Barry Boyce, Shambhala Sun, September 2008
"The same old thing doesn’t work...because when it comes to complex, tough problems...we have to go beyond the approaches that got us there in the first place...is one of a loose but growing collection of thinkers, activists, academics, and social entrepreneurs who are searching for the “unthinkable”—the new ways that we can’t see because of our old ways of looking...the world is a chaotic, deeply interdependent place, a place that won’t yield to attempts to overpower it. We must come to understand, they argue, the nature of complexity, chaos, and interconnectedness—and to train ourselves in ways of acting that embrace this unmistakable reality."
“We need to cross the stream by feeling for stones,” Deng Xiaoping
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Strategy for the Next American President: An Interview with Ivo Daalder and Bruce Jentleson, World Politics Review, July 24, 2008
"There is universality in the core principles and practices of democracy as well as variations based on history, culture and other factors that shape societies. History and culture do make for different paths and different paces, but ultimately all peoples expect their political systems to be by, of and for the people -- as we say in the report, popular, accountable and rights-regarding."
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Making Choices - A Spiritual Skill, by Sister Joan Chittister, Benetvision, July 28. 2008
"Life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, or possibilities taken and not taken. Good event, bad event, who knows? What makes the difference among them?
Only this: It is the values that we bring to the decision-making process and the attitude we take into the living out of them that turn the crossroads into new life."
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Help is needed to publish a 2009 calendar or book
so these inspirational messages reach folks at the grassroots and inspire them to keep working for democracy!
Publishers and distributors, Progressive Organizations, Investors, Donors To discuss this opportunity, contact Phyllis Stenerson at 612-331-1929 or phyllis@progressivevalues.org
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Recent and Best
articles, commentary, information
and resources about the values that guide our worldview -
how we feel and think about our world
The Declaration of Independence
7/4/1776
The Constitution of the United States including amendments (the Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments)
Viewing All Criticism of Obama Through a Right/Left Prism
by Arianna Huffington 7/14/08 - Huffington Post
Seven Suggestions for Barack Obama to Stay True to His Vision by Arianna Huffington 7/2/08 - Huffington Post
Barack Obama's Speech on Final Primary Night
6/3/08 St. Paul, MN
Happy Birthday, America! and many more? by Phyllis Stenerson
7/02/08 - Uptown Neighborhood News
Citizens or Consumers? by Rich Broderick
6/25/08 - TCDailyPlanet.net
Media Reform Needed to Preserve Democracy by Phyllis Stenerson - 06/26/2008 - Uptown Neighborhood News, Minneapolis
US Income Gap Widens, Richest Share Hits Record
by Karey Wutkowski - 10/12/07 by Reuters
Totally Spent by Robert B. Reich
02/13/08 - New York Times
Living on the Ice Shelf, Humanity's Melt Down - by Mike Davis
6/26/08 from TomDispatch.com
Make federal agency performance an issue
6/22/08 editorial in StarTribune
The Real Patriots by Bob Herbert
2/19/08 New York Times
The Land of Optimism Is in the Dumps, But Refuses to Accept How It Got There by Gary Younge 10/15/07 Guardian, UK
Faith and Politics: Rules of the Game by Ira Chermus
12/24/07 CommonDreams.org
Public Intellectuals, Inc. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
2/18/07 Inside Higher Education
A More Perfect Union by Barack Obama - speech on race in America - Philadelphia, PA 3/18/08 www.barackobama.org
Barack Obama represents a progressive religious tradition in America that may act as a counterweight to the religious right by Gordon Lynch 1/11/08 Guardian UK
Prophetic Justice Principles for America by The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. 1/24/06 The Riverside Church in the City of New York
Whatever Happened to "We the People"? by Thom Hartmann
11/23/07 from Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds and Restore America's Original Vision
Discovering What Democracy Means by Bill Moyers
02/12/07 published on TomPaine.com
Poll Conducted for Aspen Ideas Festival Shows 'American Dream' Unreachable for Most Americans
7/06/06 from The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado
The success of candidates depends at least as much on network dynamics as it does on the quality of the candidates – vote your conscience if you can by Shankar Vedantum
12/31/2007 The Washington Post
The Secret Library of Hope - 12 Books to Stiffen Your Resolve by Rebecca Solnit 12/17/07 published by TomDispatch.com
Coloring Public Opinion? by Gregory Solman
01/15/2008 AdWeek
What can the next president do to revive a sense of common purpose? Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin
12/9/07
For America's Sake by Bill Moyers
12/12/07 conference in NYC sponsored by The Nation and others
Conscience Voters by Carol V. Hamilton
9/24/07 by CommonDreams.org
US Income Gap Widens, Richest Share Hits Record by Karey Wutkowski 10/12/07 Reuters
A New Vision: The Speech I Want the Democratic Nominee To Give by Theodore C. Sorensen
6/28/07 The Washington Monthly
There is No Tomorrow by Bill Moyers
12/08/04 by AlterNet.org (as Battlefield Earth)
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's Statement on the Articles of Impeachment 7/25/74
Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives, during the impeachment hearing of President Richard M. Nixon
I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
8/2863 Washington, DC
United Nations Millennium Declaration
More articles commentary, information and resources
www.ProgressiveValues.org includes WiseThoughts.com and EducatingForCitizenship.com
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