Rage On, Granny, Rage On!
Alma Norman is an Ottawa activist, an artist and a “Raging Granny.” HopeDance contributor Wendy Smyer Yu interviews her for this issue to not only learn about this movement but to get into the heart of an activist who seeks to go beyond the mainstream’s view of concerns for the Aging. [...]

Build Here Now: A Report on the Natural Building and Permaculture Convergence
Jaspal Marwah traveled 3,000 miles to attend the week-long Conference as an intern. He quit his bank job to journey to the desert to learn how to build houses from the earth. This report is his lively account of a very exciting annual convergence of natural builders, permaculturalists, and intentional community folks. [...]

Invisibility and Invasiveness of the Cell Phone
Award-winning journalist and author Chellis Glendinning writes not only about the specific dangers of cell phones but explores the cell phone technology in a much broader light, with wit and a brilliance unmatched these days when critical understanding of world events is at an all time low. [...]

Integrative Activism: Radical Solutions
Bob Banner explores five various “progressive” camps that need a shaking-up so we can all stretch into other camps in order to broaden our activism and perhaps our survival rate as well. This is meant to be a “work-in-progress.”

Boomeritis
Famed consciousness philosopher Ken Wilber explores a disease of the Baby Boomers Generation. He calls it “Boomeritis” and this particular reprint comes from his latest book Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free. Check it out and see if it doesn’t ring loud and true.

Comfortable with Uncertainty
Pema Chödrön, a Buddhist thinker and teacher, explores Buddhist teachings as to how they relate to our modern daily living. While “uncertainty” certainly appears to be growing ever more pervasive, Pema Chödrön gives us vital, necessary and welcomed insights.

local sections...

Santa Barbara & South Coast

San Luis Obispo

Santa Cruz

columns...
Making Our Voices Heard
Media Beat with Norman Solomon
Possibilities with Gene Hoffman
Parenting News with Susan Coward
Green Party News
Food News with Suebob
Sustainable Living News
Focus on the Corporation
Health News with Zoe

reviews...
The War on Freedom
by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Everything You Know is Wrong
by Edited Russ Kick

The Power of Now
by Eckhart Tolle

Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett

The Conspirators
by Al Martin

9-11
by Noam Chomsky

All Fall Down
by William Thomas

Cradle to Cradle
by William McDonough & Michael Braungart

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
by Greg Palast

Dark Alliance
by Gary Webb

Erased Faces
by Graciela Limón

Stupid White Men
by Michael Moore

Running on Emptiness
by John Zerzan

Hope’s Edge
by Frances and Anna Lappé