Statement from Rabbi Michael Lerner

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After Paris: A World that has Lost its Ethical Direction
November 15, 2015

For many years, we at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives have warned that the domination and power-over strategies to achieve “homeland security” have been tried for over 7,000 years and all they have produced is more wars and violence, interspersed with short periods of peace that have, with the help of the sensationalist and natioanlist  media and professional apologists for the existing inequalities, managed to hide from public view the degree of covert structural violence that every system of inequality and domination embodies.

Go to the [http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/25711; Tikkun: to heal, repair and transform the world] website to read the full article.

Watercolor painting by Alice OK Frost featured in [http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/art-gallery; Tikkun's Art Gallery].