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John C. Ormins 7-01-2000

I REALLY ENJOYED the article about community organizing and the churches ("Saul Alinsky Goes To Church," by Helene Slessarev, March-April 2000).

I'D LIKE TO RESPOND to Bernard Cullen's letter ("Giving Our All," January-February 2000) regarding my article "Life on the Auction Block" (November-December 1999).

Bob Untiedt 7-01-2000

AS ONE OF THOSE organizers of the Pacific Institute for Community Organizations network, I write to say thanks for Helene Slessarev's article "Saul Alinsky Goes to Church" (March-April 2000).

Finding himself in agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union and at odds with Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson said "a moratorium [on executions] would indeed be very appropriate..."

After a year of encampments that successfully halted bombing exercises by the U.S.

A coalition of conservative Christian and Jewish leaders known as the Interfaith Council for Stewardship and the Environment has released "The Cornwall Declaration"...

Ruth Carroll 7-01-2000

THANK YOU FOR Julie Polter's article with information on alternative and low-cost funerals.

Christian groups in the United States and Sudan have called for the boycott of BP-Amoco...

Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2000

Madonna Kolbenschlag died January 29 in Santiago, Chile, while attending a meeting of the School of Ecofeminist Spirituality and Ethics. She was 64.

A Baltimore County judge exceeded sentencing guidelines and gave Philip Berrigan, 30 months in prison for damaging an A-10 Warthog aircraft, such as those used to fire depleted uranium ammunition in Iraq and Kosovo. 

One outcome of the circus surrounding the Elian Gonzalez case has been increased scrutiny of U.S.-Cuba policy and renewed hopes for a better relationship with the island nation.

David Beckmann 7-01-2000
Can one person make a difference?
Resources for study and action.
Elizabeth Newberry 7-01-2000
Bringing people together.
The Editors 7-01-2000
Millions of people died in the slave trade. African AIDS deaths will soon exceed those horrendous numbers. The future of the continent isn't all that's at stake.
Daniel Lamberton 7-01-2000

You can imagine why they call this ship a tender

Michaela Bruzzese 7-01-2000

The Covenant to Overcome Poverty needs you!

Resources for Study and Action

Two Guatemalan military officers have been arrested and charged with the April 1998 murder of Catholic bishop and human rights advocate Juan Jose Gerardi.

Eugene Martin 5-01-2000

Letter to the Editors