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From ISE board member and outstanding singer/songwriter Ben Grosscup:
Boston Tragedy Reveals Inevitability of Vulnerability
By Ben Grosscup
Public acts of inexplicable and horrific violence such as what we saw in Boston on Monday reveal basic vulnerabilities that are painful but necessary to face.
My whole family converged in Boston [...]
(This article was published by Communalism: A Social Ecology Journal, Issue #2 Spring/Summer 2010)
Many communities in New England have a tradition of town meeting, dating back to the American Revolution. In recent years, activists have brought campaigns to these institutions on a range of issues, including nuclear energy, climate policies, civil liberties, U.S. wars, and genetic [...]
(This article was published by Gene Watch, Volume 20 Number 3 May – June 2007.
http://www.gene-watch.org/genewatch/volume20.html)
Since the year 2000, in many parts of New England — especially Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts — there has been renewed interest in bringing resolutions to town meeting on a range of national and [...]
During crisis events, people often show their most compassionate and even heroic sides. In Hurricane Katrina’s disruption of every day life, most people in New Orleans have done the best they can to help each other. While decried as “looting” by the officials of order and private property, reports have shown that people [...]
While election seasons are widely seen as times when the polity practices politics, this is an illusion; electoralism that accepts the premises of representative democracy is conceptually distinct and incompatible with practicing true politics. Politics involves public debate on the issues of a self-manging political community that leads to social policy. Voting is [...]
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