Food Revolution: Americans Lose their Appetite for Anonymous Food
Why are farmers鈥� markets, community supported agriculture, direct farm-to-household marketing, organics, and humanely raised meats all on the increase?
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Java Justice
A Jewish Ugandan coffee farmer partners with Christian and Muslim neighbors to produce jobs, understanding, and a great coffee. Thanksgivingcoffee.com
A Stranger at the Door
Although Las Posadas is a beautiful ritual, the reality it addresses is a painful one: the reality of human need and exclusion.
95 Theses or Articles of Faith for a Christianity for the Third Millennium
Like Luther, I present 95 theses or in my case,
95 faith observations drawn from my 64 years of living and
practicing religion and spirituality. I trust I am not alone in
recognizing these truths. For me they represent a return to our
origins, a return to the spirit and the teaching of Jesus and
his prophetic ancestors, and of the Christ which was a spirit
that Jesus鈥� presence and teaching unleashed.
The Prophets Versus Empire
Is it time for Americans to build a culture that rejects empire and adopts the principles of the Jubilee?
Just, Green & Beautiful Cities
Carl Anthony on the regional equity movement, and making cities work.
Two Crises, One Solution
We face devastation of the natural world and violence in human communities. There's a way to solve both these crises. A reverence movement would anchor a different economics, a restorative economics. Working with nature, we can create wealth sustainably and spread it more equitably. Solution-based, investment-driven environmentalism.
Seven Great Ideas for Movement Builders
Movement building is not just about winning on a particular issue, says Grace Lee Boggs. It is about advancing the evolution of human society.
Bill Moyers – On Journalism
Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing media monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors鈥攂ut it鈥檚 getting tougher
A Phoenix from the Ashes
Our youth, our natural world, our neighbors鈥攁ll are treated as expendables. What we need is a joining of movements based on valuing all life.
Mother of Exiles
In the U.S. today, immigrants are taking the blame for everything from environmental stresses to terrorism to the poor job market. What鈥檚 at stake for all of us in this debate?
Carry Me Away
Yet this is a sort of knowledge that
generations before us have already held, a way of appreciating
the world that we might share without trauma, without hard
lessons, if we but remember how our ancestors used to
live.
The Time For Nonviolence Has Come
International Solidarity Movement and the power of nonviolence
Fearlessness: Finding Peace in Activism
I do not feel particularly brave when I speak. I am simply propelled by the force of what I want to say.
Dismantling the Fortresses of Fear
Rachel Corrie. A story about Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions.
Time To Be, Time To Love
Time to Be, Time to Love by Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, shabbat shabbaton,
Mushroom Power
bioremediation using mushrooms, How fungi can
cleanse water and toxic spills
Women, Citizenship, and the End of Poverty
Nordic welfare society, Finland, Martha
Organization,
Let the Sun Shine In
about corporate abuse, Stakeholder Alliance,
corporate stakeholder rights, corporate responsibility as a
solution
Building a New Force
Nonviolent intervenors transform our response
to conflict. Building a new force by Michael n. Nagler, an
article on the Nonviolent Peaceforce. 大象传媒 A Journal of
Positive Futures,
Economies For Life
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.
Journey To a New America
Grace Boggs writes a Journey to a New America,
who are "we the people?"
It Shall Be a Jubilee Unto You
redistribution of wealth, jubilee, cancelling
debt by edict, Clean-slate tradition
The (sometimes) Beautiful American
Throughout its history the United States has
shown two faces: one that鈥檚 peaceful, promoting justice and
self-determination, and one that鈥檚 selfish, defining its
national interests in ways that promote suffering and brutality
abroad.
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