Dear CCI Friends,
Here is a recent interview with Tulsi Gabbard which we find thought provoking. Please give us your thoughts/opinions on her position.
Center for Citizen Initiatives
How the Global South Views the War In Ukraine
Dear CCI friends,
One of our new CCI Board Members, Krishen Mehta, has written an amazing analysis of the rise of the “Global South.” It is rapidly shifting our planet’s power politics. A Multipolar world is replacing the former Unipolar hemisphere in which we in the United States have been the sole lead nation. How will this affect us? Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated by our new CCI Board.
Sharon Tennison
Paula Day
Sylvia Demarest
Pamela Tetarenko
Krishen Mehta
The Way We Live Now
Dear CCI Friends and Colleagues,
We are bombarded with shocking news from all directions these days. Processing it all is critical. We hope you find the following article by Craig Murray helpful and thought provoking.
Center for Citizen Initiatives
The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As we exit this difficult and stressful year we must look ahead with hope for a brighter future. Fortunately, we have many brilliant hearts and minds focused on how we make such a future possible for our world.
The late William Polk had a full and illustrious career studying and helping to steer a wise and just foreign policy for the United States – including serving on JFK’s three-man crisis management team during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Speaking to graduating students at Bennington College almost fifteen years ago, he articulated an analysis of where we stand in the world that is as precisely accurate today as it was then. (When he speaks of “neoconservatives,” add “neoliberals,” and when he references Afghanistan and Iraq, add Ukraine, and the speech could have been written for 2023 graduates.)
Most importantly, he gave his audience members hope and assurance that they held the power to move our country toward a better future in their hands.
We hope you can take a little time to consider this wise man’s appraisal of our country. And it is our hope for all of us that we can truly take to heart his empowering notion that the future is ours to create.
Happy New Year to You All!
Center for Citizen Initiatives
William Polk: Talk at Bennington College students and faculty on September 15, 2008
Holiday Blessings to You
Holiday Blessings to you … 2022/2023
Dear CCI friends and colleagues,
We are thinking of you and your loved ones during the end of this turbulent year 2022! Join us in actively putting out more love, kindness and patience with others, sharing food to those in need, supporting every opportunity from Salvation Army to those standing on street corners with “Help signs.” One such young mother dressed in a normal coat, a child at her side, held a sign saying “I have four small children and lost my job.” Too often we are seeing such evidences among us. Let us be generous wherever we can be.
Let us meditate, chant, pray for those Ukrainian, Russian, Poles and other boys at this moment in uniform in snow, slosh, mud across the world from our safe homes. War is such a tragic use of youth, mid-aged planners and aging generals … it’s an abomination to humankind. Pray that we earthlings will realize how degrading Wars really are. They make us all poorer at the financial, national level and at the spiritual level.
Start the discussion with your neighbors, your club members, your families, your senators, representatives and your spiritual leaders for the sake of our futures … which could end up destroying us and our fragile planet.
Sharon Tennison, Paula Day, Krishen Mehta, Sylvia Demarest, Pam Tetarenko
Center for Citizen Initiatives
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