“What is miss­ing I think from the equa­tion in our strug­gle today is that we must unleash rad­i­cal thought… Amer­ica has never been moved to per­fect our desire for greater democ­racy with­out rad­i­cal think­ing and rad­i­cal voices being at the helm of any such a quest.” Harry Belafonte, February 2013 

Imagine America when today’s chil­dren are rais­ing chil­dren of their own. What kind of coun­try will Amer­ica be? We must face the fact that today’s multiple crises put the future of humanity at risk. What we believe, how we think and what we do now – or don’t do — will create the reality.

The content of this website represents just one person’s world­view that has evolved over a lifetime. I think of it as a virtual dialogue with thinkers and writers reflecting diverse voices. There is always more to the story. My dri­ving force is a desperate concern about what the world will be for our grand­chil­dren. This is about the big picture, opening hearts and minds to new possibilities, about igniting a powerful public dialogue for the common good, about unleashing radical thoughts to transform America.

With audacious faith, Phyllis Stenerson

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

see About this project and An Open Letter to America

Sources of material posted at www.ProgressiveValues.org include Alternet.org, AmericanProgress.org, Billmoyers.com, Commondreams.org, Democracynow.org, Enlightennext.org, Esquire.com, GeorgeLakoff.com, Huffingtonpost.com, Krugman.blogs.nytimes.com, Minpost.com, motherjones.com, Onbeing.org, Pfaw.org, Philosophynow.org, Politico.com, Religiondispatches.org, Robertreich.com, Rollingstone.com, Salon.com, Sojo.net, Thedailybeast.com, TheNation.com, Thinkprogress.org, Tikkun.org, Tomdispatch.com, Truth-out.org, Uuworld.org, Yesmagazine.org and more

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