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Remembering Philip Berrigan
    by Johann Christoph Arnold
Phil Berrigan, the great peacemaker, who spent 11 years of his life behind bars for various acts of civil disobedience, died last month. Johann Christoph Arnold, senior minister with the radical Bruderhoff movement, writes an eloquent eulogy of this peacemaker and civil rights activist.

Reconnections: Urban Runoff
    by Eddie Harris
Did you ever consider how much concrete there is in your city and how it prevents water to seep into the earth naturally? Now you can build a pervious concrete driveway that changes all of that. Read Eddie Harris’ report of the new driveway at Owen Dells’ home.

Imagine a World Without Toxic Chemicals
    by James Smallwood
James Smallwood reports on the activities of the pioneering Pesticide Awareness and Alternative Coalition and all the various activities that have spawned from it, like the successful Santa Barbara Organic Festival.

Turning Green
    by Sean Hutchinson
Sean Hutchinson checked out the premiere Green Festival in San Francisco cosponsored by Coop America, Bioneers and Global Exchange, three super paradigm-changing organizations. What he witnessed and experienced blew him away.

Integrative Activism: A Work-in-Progress
    by Bob Banner
There are many articles that attempt to analyze the progressive movement, to inject new blood and vitality into it so that it can effectively thwart the eager hawks in office. Bob Banner attempts to strengthen the progressive movement by encouraging activists to step outside their cult-like camp of ideological fundamentalism and grow new alliances.

Who Wants to Help Build a Stronger Sustainability Movement?
    by John Gallo
John Gallo, like Banner, seeks to strengthen the sustainability movement and demands to raise the question of Vision as well as its organizational skills. Where is the Vision and how do we organize ourselves to become more effective. I suggest that we all read this important document and see where each of us can play a part.

Practicing Democracy in Times of War: Knowing and Using Our Civil Rights
    by Linda Seeley
Linda Seeley reports on the Nuclear Guardianship Training with Fran and Joanna Macy as well as reporting on the next facilitated workshop in February.