16 Articles

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A Place Where Beauty Matters
(1 comments) Beauty DOES make a difference in people's lives as Stratford, Ontario, illustrates.

Sunday, July 20, 2008
You Say You Want a Revolution?
(9 comments) The next American revolution will replace industrialization, "jobs", and the accumulation of things and instead emphasize relationships and communities working together. Check out what's going on in Detroit.

Monday, July 14, 2008
Gardens Save the Day in 'WALL-E' and America's Cities
(1 comments) The feature film, "WALL-E," is a must-see for anyone who cares about cities because it reflects what can happen when citizens take control of their own lives - and plant gardens.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Overlooking the Elephants in the Room
Arguing about religion and politics has become pointless, especially when we refuse to deal with the "elephants in the room" like $4 per gallon oil, two wars we won't end and can't win, global warming, food shortages and price hikes, unprecedented species extinction, sub-prime mortgage failures, crumbling infrastructure, violent weather patterns and destructive earthquakes.

Monday, June 2, 2008
Moving From the Margins to the Mainstream
Check out what veteran peace activist Tom Hayden has to say about ending the war in Iraq, social change and the "Obama Generation."

Monday, May 26, 2008
Memorial Day 2008
Vietnam War veterans reveal the meaning of war and military service.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Doesn't Mince Words About War and Justice
Shirin Ebadi wants Americans to do what they can to stop the Bush administration's threats to bomb Iran as punishment for presumably making nuclear weapons.

Monday, April 28, 2008
Real Women Don't Throw Bombs
(2 comments) After four months of presidential primaries, what a refreshing contrast to see a woman speak forthrightly about justice and peace-especially at a time when the United States is indulged in saber-rattling with Iran.

Friday, April 18, 2008
The Way to Peace Can Be Paved With Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Negotiation
(3 comments) Peace activists' next challenge is to inspire others so deeply that they choose to form a movement for change from violence and war to peace; from hatred to love; from revenge and retaliation to forgiveness and reconciliation; from an obstinate refusal to communicate to negotiation. Here are some recent examples of how the impossible changed everything.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
What the Peace Movement Has Wrought and Opportunities for the Future
(3 comments) Millions of peace activists throughout the United States and the world were unable to prevent the Iraq War from starting and likewise, have been unsuccessful in stopping it. Some might say that the peace movement has been a failure. However, something has changed among peace activists over these past five years of war.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
BTW, What Do the Iraqis Want?
(1 comments) "What three-quarters of the Iraqis want is a complete U.S. withdrawal," said Raed Jarrar. "No mercenaries. No permanent bases. No interference. Only complete withdrawal is the first step toward stabilizing Iraq. After that, we can start healing the wounds of this occupation."

Monday, February 25, 2008
Fall of the House of Bush--A Book Review
Although most Americans regard September 11 as the single event that changed the world, journalist Craig Unger would argue that the 2000 presidential election served as a convergence of the Neoconservatives, Christian Fundamentalists and George W. Bush created "the greatest foreign policy disaster in American history."

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
See What the Young Are Saying...and Be Moved
(8 comments) Over the past six weeks the students in my peace class have looked at global warming, overpopulation, the "clash of civilizations", and resource depletion (i.e., oil). I feared depressing them and even apologized for presenting them with such a glum picture of the future. And then they surprised me.

Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Things They Do for Love
(2 comments) Americans are largely unaware of the vastness and lethality of U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles, say Sisters Ardeth Platte, Carol Gilbert and Jackie Hudson, the three nuns who did time in federal prison for breaking into the N-8 Minuteman missile site in October 2002. Now that the sisters are all back from prison, they explain how their religious commitment and civic duty led them to become activists for nuclear disarmament.

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Space Heroes Revisited
(1 comments) In this year's presidential election we need to call forth a new kind of leader who is willing to confront not only our country's problems but those of "spaceship earth." And we need someone who will inspire us to tackle these problems courageously and confidently with determination and focus. I think Barak Obama might be the one we're looking foru

Monday, January 14, 2008
Primary Blues in Michigan
(2 comments) The Michigan Presidential Primary may be emblematic of what is so disconcerting about this year's election. With our endless and expensive oil war in Iraq, global warming, peak oil, environmental degradation and the need for universal health care, what are the presidential candidates offering as solutions to these problems?