Contents
November-December 2009
50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World
Doctors Without Ethics
Why hasn’t the medical profession taken a stand on torture?
by Justine Sharrock, from Mother Jones
As the Crows Fly
The urban wild’s most resilient creature shows us what’s beautiful, what’s ugly, and what’s missing
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, from the book Crow Planet
The Fight for Urban Forests
by Linda Underhill, from the book The Way of the Woods
Blue-Collar Brilliance
An educator challenges society’s assumptions about intelligence, work, and class
by Mike Rose, from The American Scholar
Death Watch in the Desert
Humanitarian activists and federal agents do battle on the Mexican border
by Tim Vanderpool, from Tucson Weekly
Emerging Ideas
Baghdad ’s Underground Railroad
Covert shelters help Iraqi women escape violence and abuse
by Anna Badkhen, from Ms.
Localwashing
How corporate America is co-opting “local”
by Stacy Mitchell, from Gambit Weekly
Uncle Sam’s True Colors
Activists thwart recruiters
by Anisha Desai and Maryam Roberts, from Dollars & Sense
Keep on Bikin’
Bike manufacturing comes back to America
by Libby Tucker, from New Internationalist
Gleanings
Reggae’s Rude Boys Go to War
The line between reality and performance blurs
by Ross Simonini, from The Believer
Border Crossing for a Root Canal
Mexico’s dental paradise for the underinsured
by Bobby Neel Adams, from Diner Journal
When the Killers Come Calling
Thugs terrorize a Guatemalan journalist’s family
by José Rubén Zamora, from Pen America
Seismic Symphony
The Alaskan landscape as orchestra
by Alex Ross, from The Place Where You Go to Listen
Mindful Living
Poolside in Hell
Is voluntourism doing anyone any good?
by J.B. MacKinnon, from Explore
Growing Old, Moving on Up
Aging women dream of a radical retirement community
by Beverly Suek, from Herizons
Shopping at the Spiritual Supermarket
This museum has a religion for everyone
by Judith Fein, from Spirituality & Health
Eating Meat for the Environment
On many sustainable farms, animals are essential
by Lisa M. Hamilton, from Audubon
Mixed Media
There’s a DJ in the Concert Hall
Mason Bates’ “symphonic electronica” is not for the easy listener
by Thomas May, from Listen
Big Screen, Little Risk
Microcinemas bring classics and cult films to a passionate audience
by Rob Nelson
Plus: Music, film, and book reviews
Shelf Life
The Art of Digital Storytelling
by Danielle Maestretti
Forward
Men’s Night
by Eric Utne
Dispatches from:
Azure, Guernica, In These Times, U.S. Catholic, Censorship News, Technology Review, Momentum, Urbanite, Landscape Architecture, On Wisconsin, Dissent, San Francisco Chronicle, Manteca Bulletin, Orion, Sierra, Verge, Governing, Mother Earth News, Stanford, Art Papers, New Statesman