So don't underestimate what you could do in that arena. And there are other things outside Congress that may be even more important, like getting your city council and state legislature to endorse a constitutional convention to put the Global Marshall Plan and the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment into the revised constitution. And it would be great if readers of this statement were to call the White House and your Congressperson and two Senators to demand a federal intervention to make it a federal crime for a police officer to shoot an unarmed civilian. Just saying ... be creative!
Ok, this is the place for your creativity in your own Thanksgiving celebration. Ask friends and others to contribute to the calling out of all the aspects of our society and our world where justice is whimpering but about which we can tell the stories of those who managed to stand up against injustice, even at great personal risk. Tell stories from your own lives or from the lives of others whom you've known about all these years -- stories of how you stood up for justice and lived to tell the tale!! You'll find it a useful spiritual practice this Thanksgiving, not as replacement for more personal things you are grateful for, but as a supplement to that way of thanking the universe for all the good in our lives.
And when you are finished doing so, write up your stories and send them to me: RabbiLerner.tikkun@gmail.com for possible use on the Tikkun website.
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