In this issue...
How can we help to build the affordable yet safe, comfortable and attractive housing that this county sorely needs? How can we make people understand the incalculable loss we all suffer when the ancient trees are cut down? What strategies can we use to stop the masters of war, to check the current administration's rush to dominate the world while chiseling away away at our country's bedrock of civil liberties?
Perhaps we can start to find some answers in this issue's theme: reconnecting. If we can find ways to reconnect to our roots in the village, to the spirit of honoring and valuing our planet's natural resources, to the basic freedoms secured through Constitutional rights of individuals and limitations on government, maybe we can start to make a change.
In this issue, you will find discussions of these topics and more. You can read about what the term "organic" means, about a movement for community-based economies, and about a new youth peace group. We're especially happy to feature "Nuestra Voz," written in Spanish, as a way of involving our Spanish-speaking neighbors in the discussion.
As always, you are invited to join in; reader response and submissions are welcomed. If you're not a member of the Mendocino Environmental Center, you are encouraged to support the struggle for environmental and social justice by becoming a member. Details can be found on page 15.
ÐC. Kelly
Copyright Mendocino Environmental Center 2003
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