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It’s always a good time to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in. There is a future clearly laid out for us in which decision-making power belongs to those who have the money, and their decisions will support short-term profit value, making every other human and natural value subordinate to it. We will have less and less freedom, less and less of the services we need to sustain life and community, less and less of all the things people really care about and love.
By April ThompsonMarch 2003We have been blockading all day in a giant spider web: an intersection entirely surrounded by webs of yarn that effectively prevent movement into the street. The intersection is held by a cluster from Asheville, North Carolina, that includes many labor-union members. We are blockading arm in arm with the ecofeminist Teamsters. In front of the police barricade, a group of protesters are “locked down”: sitting in a line with their arms chained together.
By StarhawkMarch 2003My feelings change like the changing seasons. The trees will be bare soon and the darkness will call to me again. Miklós Radnóti: “Sometimes a year looks back and howls, / then drops to its knees. / Autumn is too much for me.”
By Sy SafranskySeptember 2002The Sun doesn’t usually report on current events, but September’s terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. marked a turning point for all of us. We put out a call to our writers, inviting them to reflect on the tragedy and its aftermath. The response was overwhelming. As word got around, we received submissions not only from regular contributors but from writers who are new to The Sun’s pages.
By Leslie Pietrzyk, Elissa Nelson, Stephen J. Lyons, Michael Ventura, Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Alison Luterman, David Budbill, Sparrow, Genie Zeiger, Martha Gies, Lorenzo W. Milam, Al Neipris, Alix Kates Shulman, Steve Almond, Peter Coyote, Rebecca Seiferle, Pat MacEnulty, Gillian Kendall, Stephen Elliott, Alyce Miller, Susan Parker, Michael Matkin, Jessica Anya Blau, Dulcie LeimbachNovember 2001When we said, “Be a Christian,” who we really got that from was Thomas Merton: Be what you are. You are already katallagete; you are already reconciled. So behave as if that’s true. It’s a fine point to make, but it’s a very important and, I think, radical point.
By Jeremy LloydMay 2000When I was able to open my eyes, I saw lying next to me a young man, nineteen, maybe twenty at the oldest. He was in shock, twitching and shivering uncontrollably from being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed at close range. His burned eyes were tightly closed, and he was panting irregularly. Then he passed out. The sidewalk was wet from the water that a medic had poured over him to flush his eyes.
By Paul G. HawkenApril 2000November 1999Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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