Present Time, January 2022
No. 206 (Vol. 54, No. 1)

An oppressive society depends on you not fighting for yourself. It counts on you taking more and more mistreatment, poverty, and unawareness, without standing up against them. That's how oppressive societies stay in place. We need to learn how not to let that happen. In particular, you need to learn to fight for yourself. There are thousands of good issues: related to you personally, about your family, your neighborhood, your people, about the world - there's no shortage of issues. It's important that you are able to take a stand in opposition - and doing so simply for yourself is a good place to start.
Tim Jackins
Table of Contents
WIDE WORLD CHANGING
- The New Climate Initiative , Tim Jackins
- Sustaining All Life and the COPs , Diane Shisk
- Sustaining All Life at COP26 , Teresa Enrico
- “We Are Committed to Ending Racism as We Pursue the Goals of SAL” , Janet Kabue
- The Future Will Require Classless Societies , Harvey Jackins
- Sustaining All Life poster COP 26
- COVID and SAL at COP26 , Diane Shisk
- Reports from COP26 , Erin Huang-Schaffer
- The Emotional Burdens of Oppression and Climate Change , Marshall Ifeanyi
- Making a Family Friendly Environment , Marya Axner
- Eliminating Racism in Climate Activism , Phyllis Beardsley
- Staying Hopeful While Facing the Climate Crisis , Erin Huang-Schaffer
- No Human Enemies , Russ Vernon-Jones
- Every Group of People Is Important , Harvey Jackins
- The COP26 Coalition Movement Assemblies , multiple
- Much of the RC Literature Now Available in PDF Format
- How to Lead Great Groups on the Climate Emergency , Diane Shisk
COUNSELING PRACTICE
- Preparing to Play a Larger Role , Tim Jackins
- Discharging on Health-Related Issues , Marsha Saxton
- Rapid Response Counseling , Aurora Levins Morales
- For All Co-Counselors , Sojourner Truth
- You Are a Remarkable Being , Harvey Jackins
- A Letter from Prison , C—
- Una carta desde la cárcel (A Letter from Prison), Traducción realizada con la versión gratuita del traductor www.DeepL.com/Translator
- Being on a Tech Team Is Educational-Change Work , Hannah McHugh
- How I Came to Understand RC , Phil Rees
- Discharging While Making Music , Flip Breskin
- Practicing an Instrument , Tam Kistler
- “What Works Is Connection and Discharge” , Chuck Esser
- Adopting an Attitude of Full Respect , Harvey Jackins
- Grandparents, Please Share Your Experiences! , Randi Freundlich
- About Me as a Grandmother , R—
- Really Being with My Grandchildren , P—
- Please take a look
- We Need a Change of Consciousness about Crying , J—
- Being a Grandmother Is Pure Joy! , G—
- Enjoying Being a Grandfather , Z—
- My Story Is Different , M—
- Being Supportive of My Granddaughter’s Parents , O—
- Copyright Information
- Who We Are , K Webster and Tim Jackins
- Sustaining All Life No. 3
- Sustaining All Life / United to End Racism t-shirts
LIBERATION
- Global Majority and Indigenous People , Barbara Love
- An Exciting Challenge , Harvey Jackins
- Appreciating BLCD 2021 , Alfred Asika
- No Longer Alone , Marlene Melfor
- Reflections on BLCD , Alison Reeves
- Drugs and Ending Classism , M—
- My Body Is for Me and Me Alone What I’ve Figured Out about My Decision to Be a Large Woman , Mary Sue Lobenstein
- Some Highlights of Jewish Liberation , Cherie Brown
- From an Australian White Ally , R—
- Catholics: You Have an Important Story to Tell , Joanne Bray
- Artists and the Environment , Cecilia Lim
- Some Thoughts about Creativity , C—
- A Musicians’ Liberation Workshop , Chana Rothman
- Musicians as Workers , Ty Citerman
- The Jewish Women’s Workshop , Cherie Brown
- “Women Who Are Jewish” , S—
- Re-evaluating about the Men in My Jewish Family , Z—
- Educational Change Work Is for Everyone , Chris Hughbanks
- Responding to Attacks, as a Raised-Poor Man , Gary Hollander
- Language Liberation and the “Mental Health” System , Xabi Odriozola
- About Speaking “Correctly” , C—
- The Importance of Language Liberation , Kathy Manns
- A Few Good Men, Crying, Andrew Gaertner
- Being a Catholic Nurse , Karen Lasota
- “At Home” with Other Health Care Workers , John Graham-Pole
- Class Backgrounds and Our Strengths , Harvey Jackins
- “Internalized Sexism Could Have Killed Me” , J—
- if you move...
- Cancer and Women’s Liberation , Joanne Bray
- My Family and Female Cancers , Tresa Elguera
- Women’s Reproductive Health and “Mental Health” Liberation , Erin Mansell
- Mothers of Teenage Girls , Tokumbo Bodunde
- Growing Up a Jewish Puerto Rican Latina , Aurora Levins Morales
- Interacting with Three of the RC Websites
- Black Re-emergence No. 14
- Short Audio Recordings by Tim Jackins
- Side by Side No. 4, Volume 1
- Working Together to End Racism
TEACHING, LEADING, COMMUNITY BUILDING
- On Transition , Tim Jackins
- Janet Kabue—Our Next International Commonality Reference Person for Care of the Environment , Diane Shisk
- Pleased to Be Moving Toward Becoming International Commonality Reference Person for Care of the Environment , Janet Kabue
- The Retirement of Jo Saunders , Tim Jackins
- From Jo , Jo Saunders
- Reach for a Great Variety of Students , Harvey Jackins
- The Africa Pre-World Conference , Ekua Forson
- Bringing Global Majority and Indigenous People into Our Area , Susan Seibel
- We Are Not Teaching Something “Brand-New” , Harvey Jackins
- Back Issues
- A Format for a Men’s Gather-in , Karl Lam
- Getting a Broader Picture of Each Other’s Lives , Jonathan Shaw
- Being Encouraged to Lead , Sondra D. McCurry
- Leading Large Women , Joani Janaway
- A New Procedure for Organizing Workshops Using the RC Website
- The RC Community and the Working Class , Jacqueline “Jackie” Kane
- An Updated Chapter in the Fundamentals Teaching Guide-Part II
- What If the Working Class Were Well Represented? , Kara Huntermoon
- Doing Family Work on Zoom
- RC Leadership and Parenting Teenagers , T—
- RC Events and My Teenage Daughter , M—
- When I Was a Teenager , H—
- RC Activities Contribute to My Parenting , B—
- A Zoom Tech Team Tries Something Different, Joelle Hochman
- Fundraising for RC Projects, Susan Whitlock