Breaking Down Buildings, Building Up a Neighborhood
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.
YES! Article archive
Of Land And Hope
of land and hope, by Frances Moore Lappe &
Anna Lappe, Landless Workers Movement, MST, YES! A Journal of
Positive Futures,
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. YES! A Journal of
Positive Futures,
From the Earth, Up
Appalachian Sustainable Development, ASD, sustainable forestry and wood products program, sustainable farms.
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?"
Pieces of the Puzzle
How Burlington became one of America's most sustainable communities.
It Shall Be a Jubilee Unto You
redistribution of wealth, jubilee, cancelling
debt by edict, Clean-slate tradition
Interview With Rep. Dennis Kucinich
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.
Who’s Afraid of Music
Music can tell truths that otherwise go unheard, inspiring action, and sustaining resistance.
Bridging Balkan Rapids
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.
The (sometimes) Beautiful American
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
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.
Get Your Vote On
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.
What Happens To Your Heart
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.
Old Pain, New Hope
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.”
Choose Love
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.
Wendell Berry: The Failure of War
Why do we always think we can put an end to killing by waging war? It never works, for reasons that should be obvious.
Danny Glover: The Death Penalty in This Great Nation of Ours
Speech given at Princeton considers the fallibility of our justice system and the finality of death.
Affluenza’s Nothing New: The Disease That Ails America
For those who have too much, less is not just more—it's better.
Ordinary Heroes
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.
Just Listen
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.
Tom Goldtooth: In the Native Way
For a sundancer and bundle-keeper in the Dakota tradition, the world and the spirit are identical.
Heart of a Muslim
heart of a muslim by Jamal
Rahman,
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