Sep 18 2013
Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government
Citizen apathy can mean the difference between an unjust status quo, and a better future. The belief that we are unable to change our society for the better paralyzes most of us into accepting that some injustices will never disappear.
Challenging that belief for decades is Sam Daley Harris, long-time activist and organizer, founder of RESULTS, an international citizen lobby …
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Before you throw that rotten apple into your garbage can, think about this…decaying food in landfills is emitting more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere than most countries.
Sharing a highly successful model of how volunteer activists managed to successfully enter the media discourse, and pressure their elected representatives to back reforms to end poverty, author and activist Sam Daley-Harris offers a model for creating change that actually works. 
A new and controversial book by religious scholar Reza Aslan called simply, Zealot, has topped the best seller list, in no small part because of a Fox News interview that, embarrassingly for Fox, questioned Aslan’s scholarship based on his Islamic faith. But the book itself merits the fame Fox has lent it – Reza Aslan distills decades of historical study into the historical Jesus Christ to reveal a portrait of a revolutionary teacher who challenged the brutality and oppression of Rome, was killed for it, and, posthumously spawned one of the world’s most important organized religions. 
Wikipedia defines the acronym, WWJD as a phrase that “became popular in the United States in the 1990s … as a personal motto for adherents of Evangelical Christianity who used …[it] as a reminder of their belief in a moral imperative to act in a manner that would demonstrate the love of Jesus through the actions of the adherents.” Well, how do we know “what …
