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Communities Magazine #172 (Fall 2016) - Service and Activism

Communities Magazine #172 – Service and Activism

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Service and Activism

The Fall 2016 issue of Communities focuses on Service and Activism. Authors explore how communitarians can help others and the planet, both through embodying a culture of cooperation and service and through reaching out to make a difference in the wider world.

Articles in “Service and Activism”

  • Publisher’s Note—Community, Social Justice, Responsibility, and Accountability by Sky Blue
  • Notes from the Editor—The Need for Greater Purpose by Chris Roth
  • Community Living as Social Activism in Camphill by Kam Bellamy
    In Camphill communities, people of all abilities have a voice.
  • Innisfree Village: Lifesharing in a Service Community by Nancy Chappell
    Adults with disabilities and residential caregiver volunteers share the challenges and joys of community life at Innisfree.
  • The Gesundheit! Institute: A 45 Year-Old Communal Hospital Experiment by Patch Adams
    In a decades-long project with worldwide reach, medicine, humor, and community become vehicles for social change.
  • Service in Community: A Fijian Success Story by Philip Mirkin
    An ecovillage benefits its neighbors by hosting nurses for a transformative week in the islands.
  • When Each One of Us Changes Our Mind, the World Changes: Life with Konohana Family by Yoko Oki
    At the foot of Mt. Fuji, spirituality and community play key roles in healing physical and mental ills.
  • Taking Death by the Hand by Lindsay Hagamen
    Through its Natural Burial Cemetery, Windward allows individuals, even in death, to foster the growth and renewal of life.
  • Activism and Service at Black Bulga Community: Inspiring, Nurturing, Challenging, and Not All Hard Work by Geoff Evans
    At Black Bulga, the experience of community provides vital support for members to be effective change agents in the wider world.
  • Coming of Age in Service Community by Jen and Hilary Bayer
    Growing up in a community with a strong commitment to changing the world can be both enlivening and challenging.
  • Not the Last of the Mohicans: Honoring Our Native Predecessors on the Land by Jeff Golden
    How can we do right by the native peoples whose ancestral homelands now host our intentional communities?
  • The Case for Mass Civil Disruption and Resistance: The story of how 15 intentional communities and experiments came together to form a national coalition to defend life, come hell or high water by Ethan Hughes (edited by Laila Johnson and Gavain U’Prichard)
    Activists and communitarians gather to ask: “How do we respond to our current global crisis?”
  • Activism Revisited: Personal reflections on trying to make a difference by Daniel Christian Wahl
    Through the power of our attention, and our actions and failures to act, we are all shaping the future.
  • The Co-Evolution of My Communities, Co-Intelligent Process, and Activism by Tom Atlee
    From the Great Peace March to Walnut Street Cooperative, community, process, and social change continue to converge.
  • The Choices We Make by Paul Freundlich
    More than four decades after their shared time in India, former Peace Corps Volunteers still feel the connections and transformations it created.
  • Grassroots Activism Starts at Home by Dan Hines
    At the RareBirds Housing Co-operative, community life and outside activism deepen and strengthen each other.
  • Homelessness and Tiny Houses: Two Worlds Intersect to Foster Community by Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell
    Those inspired by the tiny house movement can help those with no homes to become part of it.
  • After the Harbin Fire: Reflections on a Community Disrupted, Not Defeated by Geoffrey Huckabay
  • Utopian Polish and the Dust of Everyday Life: Twenty-Five Years of Creative Failure—What Can We Learn from the ZEGG Experiment? by Dieter Halbach
  • Aging in Community: How an Older Couple Helped Launch a New Multi-Generational Ecovillage Neighborhood by Wallace Watson
  • The Seven Steps of Sociocracy—Putting it All Together by Diana Leafe Christian
  • Creating Cooperative Culture—Happiness in Communal Life: A Scientific Project by Bjørn Grinde

 

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