The Transpartisan Journey
Posted by Mark Gerzon on February 17, 2015
It was a typical transpartisan moment.
It was a typical transpartisan moment.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, where trans-everything is popular, a new political movement is taking form: transpartisanship.
From Van Jones, Ralph Nader, and Joan Blades on the left, to Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist and George Shultz on the right, advocates from both sides of the political divide are gathering in the bay area, exploring ways to combine forces and break the polarization and demonization that gridlocks the political process.
September 20th I was invited to share the Living Room Conversations story at the Religions of the Earth Conference in NY preceding the climate march. I was thrilled because faith leaders are natural champions for respectful open-hearted civil engagement. These leaders were gathered to lift up the role of moral leadership in conserving nature for future generations.
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