Present Time, July 2020
No. 200 (Vol. 52, No. 3)
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Table of Contents
MEETING THE CURRENT CRISES
- An Unprecedented Opportunity, Barbara Love & Tim Jackins
- Boldly Working Together in New Ways , Tim Jackins
- Next Steps with COVID , Tim Jackins
- The Need for Change , Tim
- Postings by Tim Jackins about COVID-19 , Tim Jackins
- Goal 1
LIBERATION
- In Memory of George Floyd , Onii Nwangwu-Stevenson
- Standing Together and Raising Our Voices against Injustice , Fela Barclift
- “We Are Descendants of a Brilliant and Powerful People” , Marion Ouphouet
- Working Together to End Racism
- Stories from an African-Heritage Catholic , Horace B. Williams, Jr.
- RC and Racism, Anne McAndrew
- Immigrants of the Global Majority , Cheng Imm Tan
- Classism and the Climate Crisis , Dale Evarts and others
- Taking Responsibility for One’s Own Re-emergence , Harvey Jackins*
- Direct Production Workers and COVID-19 , Dan Nickerson
- COVID, Sexism, and Classism , Anonymous
- Language Liberation and “Mental Health” Liberation
- From a Young Ex-Psychiatric Inmate , Anonymous
- The Pandemic, and Women in Construction
- Being a Large, Tall, Strong Woman , “Blackbird”
- COVID-19, as Females , Diane Balser
- “Disappearing,” as a Female , “B.L.”
- Sheltering in Place with My Husband , Anonymous
- Calling Out Sexism at Home
- The Women's and Men's Leaders Workshop, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Untangling Racism and Being Female , Sue Yoshiwara
- Keeping My Attention on My Battles against Sexism , Micaela Morse
- Being Female During COVID-19 , “Maria Puentes”
- Ramadan, and Discharging on My Hindu Heritage , Anu Yadav
- A Great Commonality , Harvey Jackins
- Men, How Are You Doing? , Dan Nickerson
- Discharging More While Quarantined , Avi Gladstone
- Trabajo de liberación de los hombres en Euskal Herria-País Vasco (Men’s Liberation), Juan Manuel Feito Guerrero
- Euskal Herriko gizonen askapen lana (Men’s Liberation), Euskerara itzultzailea: Iñaki Kasares
- Men’s Liberation Work in the Basque Country , Juan Manuel Feito Guerrero
- Please consider promoting, ordering, reading, and re-reading Recovery and Re-emergence No. 6 , Anne Piche
- Have you read Listening Effectively to Children? Ever? Lately? You may want to do that—or read it again!
WIDE WORLD CHANGING
- Organizing to Have a Decisive Impact , Diane Shisk
- Organizarse para tener un impacto decisivo , Traducido por Cuca Martínez
- The Reality of Social Distancing in My Culture , “Mngani”
- Nature Returns , Wanjiku Kironyo
- A Difficult and Complex Situation , Anonymous
- Illness and Disability and Video Calling , Aurora Levins Morales
- Africa Is Our Own , Pamela Ukaku
- Connecting, Leading, Organizing , Victor Nicassio
- From a U.S. Health Care Worker , Anonymous
- Union Activists , “Mary Francis Carpenter”
- When Is It Time to Leave an Organization? , Anonymous
- Taking On One’s Own Struggles , Diane Balser
- Swans’ Flight , Sojourner Truth
- The U.S. Election Is Critical to Addressing the Climate Emergency , Diane Shisk
- Remember the Stupidity of the Pattern , Harvey Jackins
- A journal well worth waiting for! Side By Side No. 4, Volume 1, and D—
- Short Talks by Tim Jackins, on CD
TEACHING, LEADING, COMMUNITY BUILDING
- Think-and-Listens, Harvey Jackins
- The Power of Think-and-Listens , Pamela Haines
- Report from Uganda: Family Work and Online Sessions , Naume Atunu
- “Mental Health” Oppression and RC
- Sessions and Literature in Online RC Classes , Nancy Faulstich
- Teaching a Fundamentals Class Online , Pamela Mears
- Making Basic RC Literature More Accessible , Diane Shisk
- The Counselor You Need Is the One You Are Going to Train , Harvey Jackins
- Teaching a Fundamentals Class on Zoom , Anne Greenwald
- Leading an Allies-to-Catholics Gather-in , Carrie Lincourt
- Surprised by How Much I Like Zoom , Trine Maribo Carstensen
- Some Amendments to the Guidelines, for RC Online Events
- An Online Family Class for Young Teenagers , Pamela Haines
- An RC Class Based on the U.S. Election , Anonymous
- Many New People Leading , Jevera Temsky
- Backing Frontline Workers , Jennifer Wexler
COUNSELING PRACTICE
- Helping Young People Fight for Themselves , Chuck Esser
- “Your Children Are Fine Just the Way They Are” , Marya Axner
- A Question about Birth Trauma , Anonymous
- Helping My Daughter , “Susannah Foxworthy”
- Helping Our Son , Anonymous
- Poem, Harvey Jackins
- Zooming in the Time of Corona , Ruth Steinberg
- We Can Be “Big” and Create the Lives We Want , Marlene Melfor
- Thanks to a Native Women’s Zoom Group , Nancy Kile
- Online Sessions in the Republic of Guinea , Mahamadou Cellou Diallo
- Being Allies to People in Asia , “Paper, ink and stone”
- Parents: Go Ahead and Find Each Other , Marya Axner
- Complete Confidentiality Is Essential , Harvey Jackins
- Using RC Literature During the Pandemic , Steve Brown
- Thinking about Ourselves as Parents During the Pandemic , Anonymous
- A Playful Response to Quarreling , E—
- Einen Streit Spielerisch Erwidern (A Playful Response), E—
- Another Effect of Imperialism , Diane Lobaugh
- The COVID Crisis, and Counseling People in New York City , “Masayoshi”
- Death and Dying, Life and Living, and COVID-19 , Joan Karp
- Keep Creating Our Vision of the World We Want , Chantal Esdelle
- Appreciating Present Time and RC Teacher Update 62, Brian Lavendel
- People's Journalism, Harvey Jackins
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