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Human conversation is the most ancient and easiest way to cultivate the conditions of change - personal change, community and organizational change.

Margaret Wheatley.

The rich/poor gap: inequality just keeps growing

April/May 2013, Volume V, No. 3

The gap between the rich and the poor - and especially between the very rich and most of us - has grown rapidly in recent years (please see our Open Space, The Rich and the Rest, March/April 2011). And it just keeps growing. Read this Open Space for more, plus inspiration from women in the Global South who are working together for their needs and creating forests as well.

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We all know we need to change the world. The Jesuit Forum takes seriously the proposition that a good revolution begins in the hearts and minds of people. We promote small group discussion with an emphasis on listening to awaken social imagination and spiritual freedom.

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The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
We are made wise, not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Isn't the Idle No More movement challenging us to learn to live, choose and act from an awareness of our connection to the whole? Is it not stretching us to create structures that enable all of us to flourish, Indigenous peoples and settlers, land and water, trees and animals?
Sue Wilson csj
The economy is built on nature. It's not jobs versus the environment - we're on a long shift in economics. You can't make water, you have to protect water... The Earth is not a resource, it's a source of life.
Mary Evelyn Tucker
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in ten years, plant trees; if in terms of one hundred years, teach the people.
Confucius 551-479 BC
We have so much knowledge with so little understanding.
Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad, or an economist.
Kenneth Boulding, economist
The land has an owner? How’s that? How is it to be sold? How is it to be bought? If it does not belong to us, well, what? We are of it. We are its children. So it is always, always. The land is alive. As it nurtures the worms, so it nurtures us. How is it to be sold? How bought?
Eduardo Galeano
We are no longer faced with an information problem or a technology problem.   It is a wisdom problem...   The information is there, technology is there - the human heart is not ready, you see.
Van Jones
We should remember that markets are a mirror of human life, revealing daily the way we value ourselves and the earth's resources.   We should not fault the markets for revealing to us the truth about what we really are.
Nicholas Stern, economist
Continuing to pour trillions of dollars into fossil-fuel subsidies is like investing in sub-prime real estate.
Ban Ki-moon
The perverse logic of selfishness must be replaced with the logic of love.
Miguel d'Escoto
We are as much alive as we keep the earth alive.
Chief Dan George
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