Summer 2020
Table of Contents
The Community Power Issue
In Depth
Explore SectionFrom the Editors
The Community Power Issue – A Letter from the Editor
Like many of you, I’ve experienced grief鈥攄eep personal grief, shared familial grief, collective community grief. But until the COVID-19 pandemic, I had not felt a part of an immense and widespread global grief. So often we in the United States watch from a distance as epidemics, famines, and wars plague other parts of the world. But now we鈥檙e in it too鈥攕heltering in place, social distancing, wearing masks and gloves in public鈥攁nd dying鈥攔ight alongside people in Italy, Japan, South Africa, and most other countries.
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The Light at the End
The pandemic is remaking who we are. It is an opening to a new world where our capacity to love each other is integral to our survival.
Nafeez Ahmed
Commentary
We Had Forgotten That We Are Ecological Beings
If farmers can learn such ways from nature, what about the rest of us?
Patrick M. Lydon
A Square Mile of 鈥淩eady for Anything鈥�
鈥淲hen you have humans and you have heart, you鈥檙e pretty much used to doing what you have to do to make things happen.鈥�
Lornet Turnbull
What Indian Country Remembers About Survival
The community care at the heart of Indigenous response.
Jade Begay
Riding the Waves of Mutual Aid
Volunteer crisis responses are crucial in an emergency. But can they make lasting change?
Micco Caporale
Commentary
A Chance to Cure America鈥檚 Preexisting Condition: Extreme Inequality
Our shared survival requires closing the gap forever, not just in an emergency moment.
Chuck Collins
How to Fund a Just Economic Recovery
The five principles of the 鈥淧eople's Bailout鈥�.
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
When Savoring a Pleasant Moment Is a Radical Act
Small joys are essential for resilience.
Ari Honarvar
Solutions We Love
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Yes! But How?
What鈥檚 in a Social Justice Diet?
You can make whatever diet you鈥檙e currently eating even healthier.
Ray Levy Uyeda
Indigenous Foodways
5 Ways to Eat a Rose
What better time than now, when we鈥檙e slowed down and trying to ward off contagions, to look to traditional medicines to fortify our immunity?
Valerie Segrest
Culture Shift
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Books+Film+Music
It鈥檚 Not as Simple as Rebellion
The ability to hold paradoxes is one of the key demands for climate leadership.
Tim DeChristopher
Books+Film+Music
Where Heroic Resistance Looks Like Knitting and Baseball
A warning about Big Tech and unbridled capitalism.
Valerie Schloredt
Books+Film+Music
