Immigrant deportions, NSEERS, National Security
Entry Exit Registration System, immigrant rights, Pramila
Jayapal
An indigenous people at the tip of South
America reclaims health, culture, and the vitality of the
land.
a story of a vegetarian who learned how to hunt
on his land. He developed his own personal ecology, which
included eating locally and responsible
hunting.
Nane Alexandrez returned from Vietnam to a
community struggling with drugs, violence, and poverty.
Determined to reach young people with alternatives to violence,
he started Barrios Unidos. but to succeed, he found he had to
confront his own addiction.
"The Seed Lady of Watts" is getting fresh food
into an area better known for its toxics and
poverty
A dying man thought he’d spend his last days
cleaning a small creek behind his house. Did he save the creek?
Or was it the creek that saved him?
bioremediation using mushrooms, How fungi can
cleanse water and toxic spills
Phylis Bennis, Harlan Cleveland, Frank T. Griswold, Michael Lerner, and Marc Luyckx :: A roundtable exploration of what might happen if the U.S. chose a path that is neither the Clinton-promoted future of corporate globalization, nor the Bush Doctrine of endless war.
Deliberative democracy through study circles.
Vandana Shiva is a physicist and an organic farmer, an instigator of India’s historic “tree-huggers” movement, and a renowned author. She speaks internationally on the perils of globalization, while mobilizing fellow citizens to reclaim their rights to life itself.
Nordic welfare society, Finland, Martha
Organization,
Cumulative voting and instant runoff, Voting revolution, Alternative voting systems
Erosion of Liberty Since September 11, DOJ
allows detenton without charges, US Patriot
Act
Solidarity solutions in Argentina, barter clubs
as a solution, Brukman Factory takeover, author Lisa Gale
Garrigues, worker-owned cooperatives as a solution to Argentina
crisis. YES!
about corporate abuse, Stakeholder Alliance,
corporate stakeholder rights, corporate responsibility as a
solution
The suicide economy is all too ready to cast off used material, disadvantaged people, and troubled neighborhoods. These living economy entrepreneurs are turning throwaways into gold.
of land and hope, by Frances Moore Lappe &
Anna Lappe, Landless Workers Movement, MST, YES! A Journal of
Positive Futures,
Nonviolent intervenors transform our response
to conflict. Building a new force by Michael n. Nagler, an
article on the Nonviolent Peaceforce. YES! A Journal of
Positive Futures,
Appalachian Sustainable Development, ASD, sustainable forestry and wood products program, sustainable farms.
While the ruling elites occupy themselves with
seeking to restore faith in the pathological institutions on
which their power and privilege were built, the rest of us can
embrace this moment of economic failure as an historic
opportunity. Through our individual and collective choices, we
can grow into being the economic institutions, relationships,
and culture of a just, sustainable, and compassionate world of
living economies that work for all.
Grace Boggs writes a Journey to a New America,
who are "we the people?"
How Burlington became one of America's most sustainable communities.
redistribution of wealth, jubilee, cancelling
debt by edict, Clean-slate tradition
Music can tell truths that otherwise go unheard, inspiring action, and sustaining resistance.
Of all the things a war-ravaged country needs,
theater isn’t high on many lists. But in a Bosnian town,
theater is re-forging links, re-membering a dismembered
community, and helping youth play again.
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