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
Since winning election to Congress in 1996, US
Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has proposed such
radical ideas as a Department of Peace, universal health care,
and action on climate change. His speech, 鈥淧rayer for
America,鈥� got one standing ovation after another at an
Americans for Democratic Action event in Los
Angeles.
Music can tell truths that otherwise go unheard, inspiring action, and sustaining resistance.
Of all the things a war-ravaged country needs,
theater isn鈥檛 high on many lists. But in a Bosnian town,
theater is re-forging links, re-membering a dismembered
community, and helping youth play again.
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.
what is real security? The answer may be found
by basing engineering on nature. Natural systems are efficient,
diverse, dispersed, and renewable, hence, inherently
resilient.
In the early days of the campaign, I often
wondered whether the oppressive conditions of Selma were just a
figment of my own analysis because the people here seemed so
uninspired to oust Smitherman. I realized later that people
only needed the spirit of hope combined with inspired 鈥減eople
power鈥� and the timing of 鈥淕reater power鈥� to overcome
their worst fears and make lasting changes a
reality.
The Campaign of Conscience joins North Americans who oppose the war in Iraq. They organize acts of civil disobedience and continue to provide humanitarian aid to Iraqis.
More than a hundred years after it helped overthrow the Queen of Hawaii, the Congregational Church musters the courage to face its past and apologized for the church's role in 鈥渢he unprovoked invasion of the Hawaiian nation.鈥�
What America has just learned, very painfully,
is that we have not loved enough. Through our own ignorance, we
have helped create a world where desperate people will gladly
sign up to be the messengers of death. And now that death and
destruction have reached our own shores, we must decide how we
are going to respond: with love, or with fear.
Why do we always think we can put an end to killing by waging war? It never works, for reasons that should be obvious.
Speech given at Princeton considers the fallibility of our justice system and the finality of death.
For those who have too much, less is not just more鈥攊t's better.
Sociologist and Holocaust survivor Samuel P. Oliner writes about what motivates altruists and heroes who put the welfare of others alongside their own. Reaching out to others has been the force behind much that is good in the world.
The Compassionate Listening Project is a reconciliation effort based on the ideas of Gene Knudsen Hoffman, a Quaker peacemaker. Participants are trained to listen respectfully to all sides of the conflict, with a goal to build the international constituency for Mideast peace while offering a practical tool for conflict resolution.
For a sundancer and bundle-keeper in the Dakota tradition, the world and the spirit are identical.
heart of a muslim by Jamal
Rahman,
By following designs in nature we can make
things that will do what we need done without the harmful
waste.
Walden Bello reviews Klein's book on the culture of brand capitalism and the rise of the anti-corporate globalization movement.
Examines the policies, technologies, and
strategies that could lead the US and the world to a
sustainable energy future.
its founding in 1987, Hopi Solar Electric has
installed photovoltaic systems on more than 300
homes.
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