7. Environment

Worker Solidarity After the Work is Gone: The Story of Fuerza Unida

San Antonio, TX, 2006. Petra Mata and Viola Casares, co-directors of Fuerza Unida. Photo: Storycorps (www.storycorps.org)
Authors: Alyson Lie

Summary:"I remember when we had our first protests we used to hide our faces behind the poster boards because we were nervous and embarrassed."

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Sustainable Joy: Reclaiming our Energy for Environmentalism

Gardeners with squash
Authors: Katherine Fisher

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Rather than getting bogged down in fear and grief about what is happening to the earth, these authors invite us into a joyful, proactive response.

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Citizens of an Earth Democracy: Vandana Shiva Offers a Vision for our Times

Vandana Shiva with microphone
Authors: Anna Gyorgy

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If it is tapped, says Vandana Shiva, the largest energy source we have "is the internal energy of human beings in all its dimensions -- spiritual, cultural, emotional, intellectual, physical."

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From the Editor's Desk

Ant washing dishes drawing
Authors: Sara Burke

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NEW STRATEGIES FOR THE OBAMA ERA

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Everything Is Different — But our Work Goes on: A Report from United for Justice with Peace

Authors: Joseph Gainza

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Just as the sources of the crises confronting
us are connected, so too must be the
solutions we bring forward and
demand be implemented.

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In Brazil, Indians Rejoice as Supreme Court Affirms Land Rights

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Inequality, Gentrification, and the Right to the City

Los Angeles, CA, 2005. A graduate of Economic Survival Class, a 10-week, bilingual curriculum that offers students self-advocacy skills, an understanding of how everyday systems work, contact information to resource organizations, and financial literacy.
Authors: Gilda Haas

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Grassroots urban planners are taking back the land, the plans, the ideas of who and what the city is for.

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Imagining a New Global Eco-Economy: A Future US Presidential Blog Post

San Francisco Main Public Library, February 2006. PHOTO: THOMAS HAWK
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson

Summary:Excerpt from the concluding novel in the Science in the Capital series, Sixty Days and Counting.

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Robust Utopias: A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson

Students at a demonstration in Paris, March 26, 2006. PHOTO: MALIAS VIA FLICKR
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson Sam Diener

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A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson By Sam Diener

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