Present Time No. 178
(Vol. 47, No. 1) January 2015
That members of the RC Community work to become fully aware of the rapid and unceasing destruction of the living environment of the Earth. That we discharge on any distress that inhibits our becoming fully aware of this situation and taking all necessary actions to restore and preserve our environment
Distresses have driven people to use oppression against each other and carry out destructive policies against all of the world. A full solution will require the ending of divisions between people and therefore the ending of all oppressions.
The restoration and preservation of the environment must take precedence over any group of humans having material advantage over others. We can and must recover from any distress that drives us to destroy the environment in our attempts to escape from never-ending feelings of needing more resource.
Table of Contents
Counseling Practice
- Moving Working-Class Issues Forward in RC, Tim Jackins
- Mailing Address for Rational Island Publishers
- A Time for Hope, Barbara Love
- A Dose of Reality, Tresa Elguera
- Connection, Disconnection, Reconnection, and Liberation, Xabi Odriozola
- How to Be a Hero, Jim DuBois
- Please Take a Look
- Who Is Responsible?, several people
- Applications Flexible and Creative, Harvey Jackins
- No Substitute for Thinking, Harvey Jackins
- When in War—Play!, Tal Mizrahi
- The Ebola Crisis, Anne Greenwald and Steve Bromer
- Thinking and Discharging About Ebola, Marsha Saxton
- “Hearing Voices”, Diane Shisk and Janet Foner
- A Diaspora Sister’s Caring, Becky Shuster
- Love Others First, Harvey Jackins
- Quiet Thinking Time, Richard Karmer
- Patterns Make You Forget, Harvey Jackins
- Keeping In Contact With Young People, Tim Jackins
Liberation
- Five articles about the first RC Muslim Workshop, Nazish Riaz and others
- Any Really Good Solution, Harvey Jackins
- Giving Up a Life-Threatening Addiction to Sugar, Susanne Langer
- I Can't Breathe, Dr. Rodney Coates
- Discharging Humiliation, Steve Brown
- Creating a Clear Vision for Our Liberation as We Eliminate Racism, Gregory Lipscomb
- Facing Sexual Objectification, Alima Adams
- “It Revealed Myself to Me”, S.J. Shashikala (Shashi)
- Staying Counselor, Harvey Jackins
- Tackling Classism Together, several people
- A Great Web of Falsehood, Harvey Jackins
- An Elders' Liberation Workshop, Pam Geyer
- Here Come the Elders, Laurie Summers
- My Goals for Elders, Pam Geyer
- A Wonderful Young Jews Workshop, "Bobby Tamara"
- A New Poster
- Young Jews Challenging Internalized Oppression, Alana Eichner
- Women and “the Middle East”, Stephanie Abraham
- Creativity, Harvey Jackins
- Making RC Accessible to Young People, Mari Piggott
- 5 Year Subscription to Present Time
- Realizing the Effects of the Camps, Mary Ruth Gross
- Working on Oppressor Material, Karl Lam
- Wisdom from a Raised-Poor and Working-Class Workshop, Deb Icely
- Facing and Discharging on Sexism, Erin Mansell
- Calling on All Catholic Women of the Global Majority, Bo-Young Lim
Wide World Changing
- Organizing Domestic Workers, anonymous
- Keep Putting Out Good Policy, Harvey Jackins
- The People’s Climate March, Dorothy Marcy
- Following the Leadership of Native Peoples, Jack Manno
- Things Are Changing, Jenny Sazama
- A Favorable Situation, Harvey Jackins
- A Listening Project at the Bristol Climate Change March, Caroline New
- This Is How a Movement Is Built!, Nancy Faulstich
- Answering the Question “What Do You Do?”, Dan Nickerson
- The Healing Power of Action, Rosa Blumenfeld
- If You Move
- Speaking Up, "Lucy Lupo"
- Ready to Fight, Harvey Jackins
- Perhaps We Could Do Something Big, John Braxton
- Sustaining All Life, Ending Classism, Ending War, Julian Weissglass
- “We Can Do This!”, Nancy Faulstich
- The Origins of Oppression and the Discipline of Hope, Brian Smeaton and Dan Nickerson
- Listening, Learning, and Discharging, Christine Selig
- Cooperation More Effective, Harvey Jackins
- Copyright Information
- Important RC Literature
- Appreciating Present Time
Teaching, Leading, Community Building
- What to Think About as We Set Up Our Lives, Jamie Irwin
- Reaching People in Time, Harvey Jackins
- “A Wonderful Weekend”, Apollo Ssemwogerere Vvubya
- Gratitude for RC, Joyce Herman
- Moving Forward by Discharging Old Disappointments and Defeats, several people
- Thinking About the Group as a Whole, Harvey Jackins
- A Workshop on Israel and Palestine, Elizabeth Shefrin
- The 2013 Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities
- Technological Devices at Workshops?, Julian Weissglass and Mari Piggott
- Whom Should We Invite?, Harvey Jackins
- Subscription Notice
- “Let’s Do It”, Michael Levy
- Action Needed, Harvey Jackins
- New from Rational Island Publishers
RC on the Internet
- RC on the Internet: The RC Website
- RC on the Internet: How To Contact Us Online
- RC on the Internet: Online Fundamental Class
- RC on the Internet: United To End Racism
- RC on the Internet: No Limits for Women
- RC on the Internet: Sustaining All Life
- RC on the Internet: Electronic Mailing Lists