CPTnet
March 18, 2000
CHICAGO: CPT to participate in Re-imagining Politics Conference

CPT has been asked to present its vision for unarmed intervention in violent
crises at a conference sponsored by the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning on
May 18-20 at Riverside Church in New York City.

Entitle Re-imagining Politics & Society at the Millennium:
Creating a Caring, Ethical & Sustainable World, the conference
seeks to "create a new language and credo that can unify the disparate
movements who realize the long-term damage to our personal and planetary
well-being by the political, economic,
and cultural status quo."

Conference organizers write, "In contrast to the often narrow agenda of
traditional progressive and conservative politics, we seek to explore how
our psychological and spiritual needs can be integrated into an agenda of
human rights, corporate and political ethics, and the healing of our
relationship to nature. We offer an opportunity for those . . . who have
often felt excluded from the existing liberal/conservative political debate,
to come together to discuss how ethics, a concern for the common good, and a
community spirit of caring can begin to replace the cynical self-interest
and corporate-technocratic worldview that currently dominate public
discourse."

Re-imagining Politics and Society is envisioned as a successor to the
National Summit on Ethics and Meaning held in Washington, DC in 1996, which
was attended by over 1,800 people.

 The Foundation for Ethics and Meaning is affiliated with Tikkun Magazine--a
progressive Jewish publication-- which contacted CPT several years ago
because of its work in Hebron and has published articles by CPTers who have
worked on the Hebron project.

Interested people may find registration and other information at
www.meaning.org/fem/update.html. They may also request information from
NYOCreg@aol.com or by calling 212-219-2527, ext. 129.