Progressive Values Stories: Peter Harvey on Community versus Intolerance

by WhatAre Progressive Values [courtesy of Blog for America]

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. 
Howard Thurman

I interviewed Peter Harvey at a Oakland, California Democracy for America meeting.  Peter  passionately talked about the progressive value of community and shared an early memory of the community reaching out to him.  However, he thinks that conservatives have completely missed the mark of religious teachings by going off into intolerance 
 

Progressive Values Stories: Peter Harvey on Community versus Intolerance

I’m Peter Harvey from Piedmont, California.  My job is program manager for NASA projects, and I think progressives see government as a way of combining all of us and making us all part of each other.  We are a community, and that sense of community should not be just with the nation, but with the world.  We have a global climate crisis, that we need to come together.