Articles by Sarah Van Gelder
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Sarah van Gelder ·
The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017.
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“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”
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Even if you can’t show up at the wintry encampments, you can join water protectors in other ways: from calling the North Dakota governor to breaking up with your bank.
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A four-month road trip showed me how many of us are already building a better America by working together.
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When we live connected to a community, we are more likely to become champions for one another, not just for ourselves.
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When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.
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For decades, we've been taught that economic growth and buying more stuff will make us happy—while trashing the planet. The good news is, there’s a better kind of happy: It starts with meaningful work, loving relationships, and a...
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In every community I visited, I found people working hard to lay a different foundation for our society.
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Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Today, he says “things have just gotten so much worse.”
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"Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of radical social justice struggles."
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Sarah van Gelder ·
2015 was a year that shook us out of complacency. Black Lives Matter forced the nation to confront the threat of police violence faced every day by African Americans. The refugee crisis coupled with the movement of ISIS into Europe and...
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Many of the legal and diplomatic processes that led to peace in other times of conflict haven't even been tried yet in Syria.
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Sarah van Gelder ·
As U.S. political and media leaders prepare for military strikes against Syria, the parallels to the lead-up to the war with Iraq should give us pause. Weapons of mass destruction, we are told, are being used by a cruel Middle Eastern...
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Our little group of a dozen families was running out of time. After meeting every weekend for three years to plan our hoped-for cohousing community, and after investing much of our savings to acquire a few acres of land, it looked as...
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