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Molly Marsh 5-01-1999

Want to make profitable movies? Don’t make them R-rated.

Molly Marsh 5-01-1999

In a new report from Cambridge University’s World Conservation Monitoring Center in Britain, scientists say that humans have destroyed more than 30 percent of the natural world since 1970

Molly Marsh 5-01-1999

Housing and Urban Development officials and Native American tribal leaders are launching a project to build and renovate housing on tribal lands.

Wangari Maathai, above, coordinator of Kenya’s Greenbelt Movement, was attacked in January with several others as she attempted to plant trees in the Karura forest, near Nairobi.

Marvin Rees 5-01-1999

"To overcome a nearly 400-year legacy of unregulated business and investment that gave us slavery, colonialism, and widespread human and economic exploitation, today we introduce HR 772." That is

Former boxing champion Muhammad Ali, the newly appointed "international ambassador" for Jubilee 2000, visited Britain in February to accept the Freddie Mercury Prize for the debt relief campaign.

Molly Marsh 5-01-1999

In the first such case in nine years, the Internal Revenue Service has taken longtime activist and war tax resister Ed Hedemann to court.

Molly Marsh 5-01-1999

The AFL-CIO placed the Mt. Olive Pickle Company on its national boycott list in February. 

Molly Marsh 5-01-1999

Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch, testified last December at the extradition case for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Tonita Cheatham 5-01-1999
Coalition stands for rights of public housing residents.
The Editors 5-01-1999
Our lead CultureWatch piece is a profile of writer Anne Lamott, who some would consider, at least on sight, to be an unlikely evangelist.
Jim Wallis 5-01-1999

Focusing the faith community's moral energy.

Kristine Jensen 5-01-1999

Debt Relief is Hunger Relief

John K. Stoner 5-01-1999

DAN BERRIGAN’S lament ("Letters," March-April 1999) about the general’s clothes in his post-repentance picture suggests several things to me

Bev Hoffman 3-01-1999

IT WAS GREAT to read your articles about the resurgence of the nuclear disarmament movement in the January-February 1999 issue.

Steve Neff 3-01-1999

I AM CONCERNED about Aaron McCarroll Gallegos' article ("Practicing What We Preach," January-February 1999).

The Editors 3-01-1999
Hurricane Mitch already spurred us to publish one commentary ("A Mature Compassion," by Marvin Rees, January-February 1999).
Molly Marsh 3-01-1999

National Summit addresses impact of welfare reform.