Re: Letter of
support for AWSC from Rabbi Michael lerner
To whom it may concern:
Sometimes the words are different but the heart’s
intent is the same.
The Strategy of Generosity recently launched by the Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives (info at http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php?story=20070228183252814 ) calls for a shift in how we think about our own security, challenging the notion that the only realistic way to be safe is to dominate and control the rest of the world. The Strategy of Generosity commits us to reestablishing trust and hope among the world’s peoples by working in solidarity with them to improve life for all people and to heal the planet itself. Working together to eliminate, once and for all, world poverty, and to address the environmental crisis, will break the cycle of mistrust, fear, war and destruction presently imperiling all of us.
Those of us in the
spiritual community know that all life is interdependent and that our individual and societal well-being depends
on the well-being of everyone else on the planet. We need a mass movement to
advance this consciousness.
Consequently, it was a
serendipitous find when a friend recommended I contact
Many
of our spiritual efforts are uphill battles.
Implementing and deploying the AWSC is an uphill political battle that
provides dramatic spiritual wins. If
enacted in this Congress, the AWSC legislation will be among the most
significant legislation passed in decades.
It deploys a peaceful army that eliminates the need for war by
containing and erasing terror, poverty, and ignorance through acts of love and
kindness. Even if the legislation is not
immediately enacted, however, the debate it engenders will provide a wonderful
opportunity to discuss our vision for a world that operates on compassion and
generosity rather than aggression and self-protectiveness. Hundreds of thousands
of people will be exposed to ideas they have been longing to hear. Therefore, I
am asking all of you who support our Strategy of Generosity and Global
http://www.worldservicecorps.us/sign_the_petition.htm.
Then call 866-220-0044 and ask your
representatives to introduce and cosponsor the AWSC proposal in the House and
Senate, and find other ways to help http://www.worldservicecorps.us/how_to_help.htm.
The
world is spiraling so rapidly downhill that it can’t wait for us to exhibit the
generosity and caring that having a million American World Service Corps
service volunteers serving annually can do to rebuild our world.
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Tikkun Magazine, Editor
Network of Spiritual Progreessive, Executive
Director