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
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, “Prayer for
America,” 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’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.
Throughout its history the United States has
shown two faces: one that’s peaceful, promoting justice and
self-determination, and one that’s 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 “people
power” and the timing of “Greater power” 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 “the unprovoked invasion of the Hawaiian nation.”
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.
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