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International Conscientious Objector Month: South Korea

Authors: War Resisters International

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You CAN Teach a Sneetch: Dr. Seuss and Conversations about Social Responsibility

Picture of Star-Bellied Sneetch with Snoot in the Air
Authors: Sam Diener

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While The Sneetches taught about the interaction between discrimination and capitalism, Horton Hears a Who is Dr. Seuss' exploration of genocide.

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Cultures of Peace: Reflections on the UN Declaration's First Decade

Authors: Michael True

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From the Editor's Desk

Authors: Sara Burke

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Closer to a Death-Penalty-Free World: But in 2008: 2390 Known Executions

For the World Day Against the Death Penalty, an anti-death penalty message was projected against the Roman Collosseum, a former public mass execution site. Italy banned the death penalty in 1947. PHOTO: NOVEMBER 30, 2006, FABIO RENZETTI VIA FLICKR
Authors: Amnesty International

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Capital punishment is a legalized process of physical and psychological terror.

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Uprooting the System: Reflections on the Strategic Use of People Power

Protester against corporate globalization and patenting seed varieties, Seattle WTO meeting, November 1999 Photo: Spinnerin via Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ame/162825118/
Authors: David Solnit

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We need to articulate people-power-based strategies or folks will de-mobilize every election cycle.

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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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Eat Locally, Act Globally: Fair Trade, Food Sovereignty, and the Food Crisis

Coffee Cooperative Meeting
Authors: Phyllis Robinson

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It's time for Fair Traders to tone down the marketing rhetoric and return to the educational goals of our mission.

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On Beyond Coffee: Fair Trade and Workers' Rights in a Changing Economy

El Salvador demonstration
Authors: Stephen Coats

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While Fair Trade certification is an important instrument for making positive change, the most fundamental issue for workers in the Global South is the rules of global trade.

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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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