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After living in the PRAG House collective for 25 years before running for office, a Seattle City Councilor recommends that anyone entering politics consider experiencing intentional community first.
An informal survey raises several compelling questions: Can communitarians
learn to focus on larger-scale politics as much as on internal politics? Should they? What’s proper political etiquette in community? And have you ever met a communitarian who is not left of center?
Also in This Issue (Print Version Only)
· PUBLISHER'S NOTE: WHOLE FOODS: Half a Solution?
· NOTES FROM THE NEW COMMUNITIES TEAM: THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT AND THE ART (DIRECTION) OF CIRCUMSTANCE
· ECOVILLAGE LIVING: TRIUMPHS AND STRUGGLES AT LOS ANGELES ECO-VILLAGE
Alison Rosenblatt & Lois Arkin
· INTERNATIONAL ECOVILLAGES: ECOVILLAGE NETWORK OF CANADA
Russ Purvis
· WE REFUSE TO BE ENEMIES: Community Spirit as an Antidote to Separation
In 2005 and 2007, the founder of Portugal’s Tamera Peace Community led international peace workers through Israel and the West Bank. These pilgrimages touched hearts, minds, and lives, becoming examples of political action totally imbued with the spirit of community.
· A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY: Communities and Global Transformation
Ethan Hughes & Sarah Wilcox-Hughes
Visits to the Ark of Lanza del Vasto, a 60-year-old community movement in France, and the Possibility Alliance, a one-year-old community in Missouri, raise the question: What could society look like if the communities movement chooses to become socially and politically involved at a new level?
· LIVING THE WILD: Ecological Citizenship and the Audubon Expedition Institute
Arin Trook
How do we, as a community of engaged citizens, learn to reflect the lessons of nature in our own lives? How do we learn to think and act with a vision over years and decades and centuries? And can we resist those deep, deep outdoor gear discounts on Buy Nothing Day?
· EMAIL, POLITICS, AND PERMACULTURE
Members of the Eugene Permaculture Guild listserv
A Sustainability Quiz posted on the Eugene Permaculture Guild listserv unleashes a torrent of discussion, criticism, counter-criticism, and appreciation, illuminating local political issues, the interface of politics and ecology, and the politics of talking about politics over email.
· POLITICS AT TWIN OAKS: Distinguishing "Acceptable" from "Combustible"
Valerie Renwick-Porter
When it comes to talking about politics, some topics are like opening a can of worms while walking through a field of landmines.
· PULLING PROPOSALS OUT OF A HAT (OR SOME ORIFICE)
Our newest FIC blogger offers aids to efficient and energizing group proposal generation which replace battling, coercion, and rigidity with curiosity, flexibility, and bridge-building.
· POLITICS ON OPEN LAND
Ramon Sender Barayon
“Who’s in charge?” If the residents at Morningstar and Wheeler’s Ranches had not needed to answer that question repeatedly for county officials, they might have been able to avoid reproducing the external world’s hierarchies altogether. As it was, the best meetings were called by the cows.
· WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY: SOMERVILLE ECOVILLAGE, AUSTRALIA
Bill Metcalf
· REVIEW: DIGGERS & DREAMERS
Toby Champion
· IN MEMORIAM: KAT KINKADE, 1930-2008
