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...forum maintained its tone of optimistic determination when audience members stepped up for the question-and-answer exchange with Loeb. The main concern was what Loeb had anticipated in his talk: What can I do in my day-to-day life...
Rather than devoting himself to directly attacking the policies of the Bush administration, Loeb defined feelings of fear and isolation as the enemies of change. “It’s easy to create self-fulfilling prophecies of despair,” he said, especially when people don’t have the broader perspective of history, but rather only the immediate results of short-term activism...
...protest may not have stopped the war, Loeb said, “but it changed the dialogue…it brought the issues to the table...
...Loeb mingled historical story-telling with his discussion of recent events. He reminded his listeners of Nelson Mandela’s limited means of keeping hope alive during his 27-year captivity, when he and fellow prisoners continued with such small acts of hope as passing from cell to cell a forbidden scrap of newspaper that an absent-minded guard had dropped on the floor. Or Rosa Parks’ long-time involvement in local civil rights projects long before her famous refusal to move to the back...
...want to create a peaceful world and we’re told that it’s impossible, but it’s a failure of our imagination,” Loeb said. As an illustration, he pointed out that many radical evangelical groups, although conservative on most political issues, are in favor of universal healthcare coverage...