Why do so many attempts to build coalitions across race and culture result in hurt and division? These seasoned activists offer tips on what makes the difference between success and disaster.
Fleeing the violence of Burma's military rulers, Shan women create a sanctuary and a power base by working together.
Waste, pollution, population growth, global
trade rules, and now privatization are threatening billions of
people with water scarcity. How can we reclaim water for all
life?
The Hopi people of the Black Mesa region know how to farm and thrive in the desert Southwest. But a giant coal company is draining the aquifer that feeds their sacred springs and makes their livelihood possible.
Mono Lake activists fought a 16-year David-versus-Goliath battle against the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) to stop water diversions to Los Angeles. Yet the rural community and the city have emerged from the fray as watershed partners.
WTO fifth ministerial: protest, Lee Kyung Hae, Group of 21, globalization
The struggle to bring back endangered salmon draws one community into a new commitment to the well-being of its watershed
A Canoe in Singing Waters by Elizabeth
Grossman, dam removal in Wisconsin
Your lawn and garden can be both beautiful and water efficient. Xeriscaping is the creative use of native plants that are beautiful, drought-tolerant, and sustainable.
As an era of extinctions unfolds, the dawning
understanding of its links to our own health could energize a
movement to save us all
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
Grace Boggs writes a Journey to a New America,
who are "we the people?"
How Burlington became one of America's most sustainable communities.
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