by Janet Heller Howell | Aug 19, 2026
The last words of the Mahabharata* are, “By no means can I attain a goal beyond my reach.” It is likely that justice, a human idea, is a goal beyond human reach. We’re good at inventing things that can’t exist.Maybe freedom cannot be attained through human...
by Janet Heller Howell | Aug 12, 2026
The big political doings of our time are so disheartening that in our generation one feels quite alone. It is as if people had lost the passion for justice and dignity and no longer treasure what better generations have won by extraordinary sacrifices. ~Albert...
by Janet Heller Howell | Aug 5, 2026
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in...
by Janet Heller Howell | Jul 29, 2026
All social justice organizations can trace their origins back some 220 years ago , when three fourths of the world was enslaved in one form or another. In 1787 a dozen people began meeting in a small print shop to abolish the lucrative slave trade. They were reviled...
by Janet Heller Howell | Jul 22, 2026
“ If dominating and destructive relations to the earth are interrelated with gender, class, and racial domination, then a healed relation to the earth cannot come about simply through technological ‘fixes’. It demands a social reordering to bring about...
