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Published in: TransformationEmpathy: lots of lessons but no final wordsWhat can we learn from two weeks of debate? Empathy must be used to correct injustice, not simply to understand it...
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Published in: TransformationEmpathy, democracy and the economyDemocracy is lost unless we re-structure our economies, and re-structuring our economies requires a new system based...
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Published in: TransformationMuriel Lester and the stench of injusticeAsserting the dignity of all people is a central moving force in the history of social change. This is the fifth...
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Published in: TransformationRoots of empathy: an interview with Mary GordonEmpathy is central to education for democracy, and it can be “caught not taught” among children in schools. This is...
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Published in: TransformationForget empathy – it’s time for radical connectionIn the struggle for social justice it’s not how much empathy we feel that makes the difference, but what we do with...
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Published in: TransformationCompassionate economicsWhat kind of economics could facilitate the liberation of all human beings? A new middle path can transform our...
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Published in: TransformationIntroducing empathyIs the “empathy revolution” just a passing fad or the key to peace and social justice? This is the first in a...
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Published in: TransformationTango: the intimate dance of conflict transformationTrust, dialogue, passion, communication, vulnerability and empathy. Like tango, transforming conflict is an intimate affair.
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Published in: TransformationMoral Mondays: the new face of protest?
"This is no momentary protest. This is a movement. We've been here before, and if slavery didn't kill us, if the...
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Published in: TransformationProtest politics and the ethical imagination
Protest, like marriage, means re-imagining relations to self and other. The Taksim Square Book Club - in which...
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Published in: TransformationCuring the poison of "rankism"The cancer of “rankism” persists as a residue of our predatory past. But the urge to dominate others isn’t working...
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Published in: TransformationThe age of endingsOur myths of progress are killing us. Where can we find a new set of stories to inspire the work of the future? Only...
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Published in: TransformationOrganizing as whole peopleThere are no shortcuts to building the kind of power it takes to win meaningful change. As an organizer in a county...
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Published in: TransformationChanging sides doesn't always make for transformation — just look at Egypt
What is the best kind of defection? During Egypt's recent turmoil there was too much collusion between nonviolent...
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Published in: TransformationBoth perilous and wonderful? The global transformation of authorityThese are exciting times, when authority is being challenged everywhere. But what will replace the old models that...
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Published in: TransformationWhat are white folks to do? Some thoughts on the Trayvon Martin caseAmid the outpuring of protest and opinion around the George Zimmerman case it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Here are...
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Published in: TransformationWelcome to America?With immigration policy the hottest of hot button issues in America, is it possible to transform the debate? Only by...
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Published in: TransformationPractising mindfulness at the checkpoint
Is caring for ourselves an act of self-indulgence or social change? Alessandra Pigni tests the boundaries of...
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Published in: TransformationBlue HeartIn the wake of the Trayvon Martin verdict, what will it take for racial healing in America? A personal tragedy...
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Published in: TransformationElemental Dr Watson?Michael Edwards explores a new documentary about three people who are confronting environmental degradation in a...
