Special Issue: America
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Special Issue: America
A diversity of articles, biographies and vingettes that reflect the awakened nature of the U.S., the heartfelt human foundations of our country and hope for the future by authors such as:
Wendell Berry • Eric Utne • Nancy Jewel Poer
Ralph White • Mark Finser • Paul Gierlach • Julia Butterfly Hill
Betty Staley • Stan Padilla • Rabbi Michael Lerner
Christopher Schaefer, Ph.D. • Judy Wicks
Meg Gorman • Scott Russell Sanders
Terry Tempest Williams • Walter Duncan and more…
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
3. From the Editors
4. The Founding of the United States, Nancy Jewel Poer
7. Native Americans and the Gift of Nature, Stan Padilla
8. The Legend of High Tor or the Ramapo Salamander,
Adapted by Christopher Schaefer, Ph. D.
9. In the Light of Human Experience: African Americans in
the United States, Walter Opha Duncan IV
11. High School 1971, Christiana Quick-Cleveland
12. Human Dignity: Teaching Tolerance, Nancy Jewel Poer
15. Awakening to Spirit in 19th Century American
Literature: America—its Gift and its Shadow, Betty Staley
19. The Will to Power and its Tragic Consequences for America and the World, Christopher Schaefer, Ph.D.
26. Gandhi’s Seven Social Ills, Christopher Schaefer, Ph. D.
27. I Had a Dream, Eric Utne
28. The Spirit of Religion, Paul Gierlach
31. After the Fall: Why America Needs a Spiritual Left,
Rabbi Michael Lerner
32. The Quest to Remain Human, Meg Gorman
34. The American Media and the Health of Democracy,
Ralph White
37. Moving Money for Positive Social Change, Mark Finser
38. The Local Living Economy Movement, Judy Wicks
40. Common Wealth, Scott Russell Sanders
42. An Excerpt from The Unsettling of America,
Wendell Berry
44. The Future of Food and Democracy in the 21st Century:
Report from Marin County, California, Christian Heath
45. People’s Grocery, Paul Gierlach
46. Excerpt from Chief Seathl’s Letter
46. Choose Hope, Julia Butterfly Hill
48. Shelter from the Storm, Raoul Cansino
50. Urban High School Expanding, Paul Gierlach
52. Recommended Reading
52. Star Wisdom, William Bento
Biographies
11. Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. Marshall Rosenberg
14. Peace Pilgrim
16. Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. Mattie J.T. Stepanek
22. Dwight David Eisenhower
24. Eliot Spitzer
25. Granny “D” Haddock
30. Terry Tempest Williams
36. Bill Moyers
36. Woody Guthrie
39. Lynne Twist
43. Organic Consumers Association
43. A Community Farm
47. John Muir
47. Rachel Carson
49. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
