Sometime back, maybe going on two years now, Rabbi Michael Lerner spoke here in Santa Barbara, and I went to listen. I waited around afterwards and attempted to inform him about the convention clause, and how it's the answer to the problems we face. A lot has happened since, but I was just recently informed he has a rare form of lung cancer.
Here are the two sites that Rabbi Lerner is associated with. They are very progressive if you have never reviewed their endeavors/policies.
http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/
http://www.tikkun.org/
Dear Rabbi Lerner,
First and foremost, I offer my condolences as to the news of your health. I’m a student of the Stoics, and as they say, the only thing under one’s control is what one says and does. We don’t have control over our bodies. The body is like a child to the mind, we can provide it with opportunity and assistance in the way of diet and exercise, but what it does in response is out of our control. I’m thinking positive thoughts for you and a recovery of your health.
We had spoken after a talk you gave at UCSB sometime ago. It may be going on two years now. We had exchanged an e-mail afterwards, and I attempted to persuade you to recognize how the convention clause of the U.S. Constitution is the actual solution to the problems faced by our civilization.
In your letter in which you lay out your vision, and the current approach to realize it, I can only say again, it’s all so many carts before the horse. Corruption has become institutionalized. There will be no positive change without first convoking and convening a national convention of state delegates here in the United States of America.
I think you and Dr. Cornell West, and Sr. Joan Chittister, and Tikkun, should join with the national group Friends of the Article V Convention to promote the idea. Objectively speaking, with all we clearly know to be true today, it’s our best and last hope of turning the tide.
You signed off by asking forgiveness for the ways you may have failed or offended me in the past. I don’t feel you’ve done either. I understood then, and understand now, how you’re busy pursuing what you thought/think is the best way(s) to create the change so many sensible citizens desire. Perhaps I’m the one who should be asking for your forgiveness for not being more persistent, if that's in some way true, then please forgive me. I can only hope you now recognize that the Article V Convention is not just another issue in a sea of issues, it’s what must occur first before any other positive change can emerge to heal and transform our world. Please consider this, and if you have any questions, please let me know what they are. Until then, I'm wishing you the best.
Sincerely,
John De Herrera