Archives Current Issue After Summer 2002, all new articles can be found on The Front Page and related pages. By Issue Summer 2002 Late Spring 2002 Early Spring 2002 Winter 2001-2002 Fall 2001 Late Summer 2001   Summer 2001 Late Spring 2001 Early Spring 2001 Winter 2000-01 Fall 2000 Late Summer 2000 Summer 2000   Spring 2000 Search the Archives of West by Northwest Summer 2002 Trim Bissell   ¡Volveremos! A project to document Living with the Consequences of US Policy in Central America Walt Taylor   Africa: Peace with Justice Northwest Tour Bill Thomson's Middle East Update   Heresies in Pursuit of Peace: Thoughts on Israel/Palestine Voices of Peace   Please Dad, Tell Me: How Do I Stop Being Complicit? My School of the Americas (SOA) Saga   Web links Coffee and Fair Trade   Illegal Logging Threatens Ecological and Economic Stability Public Citizen on the NEI   Science Magazine's Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain John La Forge of Nukewatch   Power to the People. Has God finally given us what we truly deserve? Lord have mercy   Ecstasy of Ecology - Penny Livingston and the Permaculture Institute Watergate   Nuclear Weapons and Media Fog "War On Terrorism": Winking At Nuclear Terror   Consider the Case of Patricia Sweets: The Failing Safety Net of Publicly Financed Health Insurance. Author Norton Juster   Room with a Zoo Mike's Office of Homeland Security   Royal Pains This Is Nowhere   Meet Skip Schiel Summer in the City Photos   Exodus Poems Jane Farmer uses the medieval villanelle   Cedar Tree in her tribute villanelle poem Oregon Shakespeare Festival'   Bach Festival Best of the Web, Focus on the Environment.   Waging Peace The Magic Fish, When Spirits Come Calling, Saving Wilderness in the Oregon Cascades and Cradle to Cradle.   Barbara S. Thompson's My Life Ancient Forest Falling at Berry Patch   The Tales of Jim Foreman Near-total Shutdown Looms for Rockfish along West Coast   A Century Of Splendor, the wonders of Crater Lake National Park Where's Waldo? Waldo Lake   Cogentrix to Aquila, Going from Bad to Worse? Northwest Coalition for Alternative to Pesticides   Trust for Public Lands Heron Watching   The Cat That Flew Sauerkraut and All That   Nighttime Intruder Late Spring 2002 Voices of Peace, Volume V   Dr. Andreas Toupadakis' Notebook W.H. Auden's poem September 1, 1939   Sam Smith, Nobody Left But Us. Robert Jenson, Corporate Power Is the Enemy of Our Democracy.   Alan McKay, DynCorp is Something to Watch Patrick Morris, Hourglass Challenge.   Norman Solomon, New Media Heights For A Remarkable Pundit, Pentagon's Silver Lining May Be Bigger Than Cloud, Six Months Later, The Basic Tool Is Language Marvelous Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival   World Choral Music by Northern Harmony Stephanie Korschun's Insect Drawings   Photographer Stephen Voss That Photo Guy   Williamette Repertory Theatre Barbara S. Thompson's My Life Chapter 3.   Mary Zemke.Standing tall - Opposition floods the proposed Grizzly Power Plant. Norman Maxwell, a Summary of the Fire Road Preservation Struggle   Patricia Frank, Spring Cleaning the Closet. Kimball Lewis Anniversary   Lois Barton, Heron Rookery. M.G. Hudson, Spencer Creek Journal   Ryan Ramon, 45th Parallel, Rain & Ramallah. DEN, from Defenders of Wildlife   WxNW.org WebWise Links Early Spring 2002 Voices of Peace, Volume IV   Michael Nuess rewrites the equation for Peace, Prosperity and Energy. Mary Robinson speaks: Globalization Has to Take Human Rights into Account.   Save Salt Springs Island: Why did it succeed? Pilgrimage to Fort Benning.   Nona Glazer examines Pickets and Policy:A Brief Look at the Current Crisis in Public and Private Health Insurance and Care. David Graeber asks What Real Globalization Would Mean.   "Lake Lorane" on Fire Road, A New Building Site? Kevin reminds us Global Warming Is Real.   Citizens' State of the City (Eugene) Report on Livability. Norman Solomon wonders What Happens To Music?   Barbara S.Thompson's My Life, Chapter 2. Evan Woodward on Public Education: The Next Corporate Battleground?   Ryan Ramon's Life on the Forty-fifth Parallel -- Making Magic, Myth, and Money at the Movies. Lois Barton's Sunnyside of Spencer Butte looks at The Good Old Days?   M.G. Hudson's Spencer Creek Journal WxNW.org Web-Wise Links   A Spring Meditation on Camas Summer at Grandma's   That Photo Guy Winter 2001-2002 A Holiday Blessing for our Readers by Teresa de Avila.   Caroline Williams tells of her family's amazing Tour of Middle East ...by Bike! Voices of Peace Volume III, Special Update Section   Remember The Tevis Cup: A Horse Named Raven Flies Over Mountains and Through the Woods. Michael Lundblad, Save the Planet at the Movies?   Norman Solomon, A Sweet Message For Americans ñ "We Are Family". Interview with Author Ann Brashes   Mary DeDanan is Holding the Light -- Solstice through time and place. Barbara S.Thompson's My Life, Introduction & History   Paula Sanders McCarron considers Reflections: To Live with Abandon. Norm Maxwell reports on the rural preservation legal struggle - now a kind of "Victory" of Fire Road.   Lois Barton shares Some Christmas Memories Buddhist Enviromental Network   Ryan Ramon ruminates about Life at the 45th Parallel AlterNet.org   Links to "Understanding Islam" Sites. The Bum by Ryan Ramon   The Mermaid and the Dolphin -- The final chapter of an eco-adventure by Maura McGoorty. That Photo Guy,   A Gift from Wellsprings Friends School. A High Wind, by Barbara S. Thompson   The Solstice in Grandmother Maple. A Recipe for Water for the children of Iraq   Ward Kelly Lois Barton's Wild Trees     Fall 2001 Voices for Peace, Volume II Why We Oppose the Building of the SE2 Energy Power Plant Free Trade in Misery Farm Workers Walk for Justice Livability Campaign Why We Challenge the Proliferation of Cell Phone Tower Placement Techno Babble My Life in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 8 The Sacred and the Profane Web Humor Knowing Eyes and Turkey Talk Mulching for Fall The Mermaid and The Dolphin, Chapter Three Ward Kelley's Poems Gordon Clark That Photo Guy Memories from Minnesota in Letter from Lorna A Spencer Creek Journal Advice for the Clueless   Late Summer 2001 Rural Rajastan, India Terrorism, Television, and the Rage for Vengeance The Greens in 2004 How Many Innocents May Be Saved GenoaMy Life in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 7, Eugene Home Is Where They Lay Me Down An Alaskan Summer Inland Passage Love Thy Neighbor (but not necessarily their animals) Techno Babble Hoedad Celebrate Reforestation History Hoedads Half & Half --Wild Women of the Woods Life on the Forty-fifth Parallel A Great Ride The Other Oregon John Balzar The Tentative Truce of Fire Road Goats A Spencer Creek Journal The Mermaid and The Dolphin, Chapter Two Poem for Patricia With Your Shield Or On It Barbara Thompson's selected poems Skipping Stones That Photo Guy   Summer 2001 Mr. Solomon dreams of Mr. Orwell in George Orwell in 2001: Speaking from the Grave Simulating Democracy...   National Catholic Reporter's Guest Editorial says Nuclear Power Industry is Dangerous to Taxpayers. Faery & Faery Lore, Folk, and Fine.- by Mary DeDanan   Jane Cox Farmer's The Moth Peter DeFazio with Rushing to Extend a Failed Trade Policy and Energy Deregulation-The Big Lie.   The Mermaid and The Dolphin, Chapter One Nancy B. Wright updates her Manna Seed   Stanley Thompson presents Chapter 6, The Cabinhill Tree Farm as the ongoing saga reveals "My Life in the Twentieth Century". Patricia Frank Loves Libraries!   Readers are sharing ideas and impressions How to Save Social Security   Sarah Susanka talks about her book The Not So Big House with Dave Weich of powells.com. Michael Kemp, artist, builds himself a Yurt, Sweet Yurt   Norman Maxwell updates us on The Tentative Truce of Fire Road Rayon Ramon salutes summer Lawn Care.   Lois Barton remembers the old Chicken House and The Old Man and the Fairies. Spencer Creek Journal records trees and sky.   That Photo Guy Syrena Glade presents her powerful poetry   Michael Kemp uses computer graphics to open his Fantasy Art Gallery The Abundance of Wild Roses by Jacquie Nicholson-Black     Late Spring 2001 Ryan Ramon - The Farm   Moxie and the African Queen by Elizabeth Engstrom To Kill or Not to Kill. Is that the Question? - Kimball Lewis   Court Decision on Measure 7 My Life In The Twentieth Century, Chapter 5, Washington, D.C. and Howard University   The Day of the Quake - Nathan Morgan To Grandmothers House We Go ... tra la la - Lorna Manderschied   Lois Barton's Spring in Rural Western Oregon, The Snows of Spring, and Early April Morning Dave Weich interviews Deepak Chopra   Wings by Doug Tanoury Sam & His Amazing Catch by M.G. Hudson   The Northwestness Of Spring by Patricia Frank. Paintings and sketches by Chamel Raghu   Guy Weese's Photography Mary Gallinger recently returned from Honduras and filed A Limon Journey   Norman Solomon - U.S.-China Dispute, The Digital promise of a global village, and Bad News Bears Change Tone of Media Script. Early Spring 2001 Norman Solomon - Obstinate Memory and the Pursuit of the Present & Fighting AIDS in Africa and Brazil.   Disaster Preparedness and Your Animals - Kimball Lewis. African Notebook: Going to the Beach - Alma Cunningham   Elizabeth Engstrom - "Charlie's Grave." Arthur Jones - "World Holds Its Polluted Breath."   Ryan Ramon - "The Farm." Peg Morton and Michael Carrigan - Vigil to Close the School of the Americas.   1000 Friends of Oregon hail Court Decision on Measure 7. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) - Election Reform Commission.   Pacific NW Sacred Harp Singing Convention Feb 24-25 Norman Solomon - 50 Years Later, The Tragedy of Nuclear Tests in Nevada & From Global South's Side Of The Media Looking Glass.   Stan Thompson - My Life In The Twentieth Century, Part 4, "Turkey, Where East Meets West." Joseph Kinney   "Happy Birthday, Kathy" - Barbara Kelley. David Freeman begins a 225 mile six week wilderness trip with his dog, Tundra: school classes can join him.   Peg Morton - same old School of Assassins. James Gleick   "Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. Lois Barton - Cauldron Tales & Old Stumps.   Nature photographer/ meditator Ginger Thompson Chamel Raghu   Woody Carey - "Cult of Personality" .Guy Weese's Photography   Winter 2000-01 African Notebook: A Note on Transportation   Confirmation Path Greased For Ashcroft? Not So Fast! America's Other Homeless Problem   The US Electoral Fiasco: A View from the Left Open Letter: Dear Ralph & Trust The People   Is the next presidency going to be legitimate? Earth Poem   A Christmas Story Some Ideas For Celebrating Christmas   Olympic Peninsula National Forest Photo Essay Engineering   Afterward William Least Heat-Moon   Philip Pullman City Slickers Get a Christmas Tree   Home, Home On Fire Road Circles   Raven the Fire-giver Guy Weese's Photography   "Cascade Camping Con Caballista or High ho, Silver Fall 2000 A report on Plan Columbia by Joan McIntyre World Teach volunteers in Chiapas, Mexico help a new industry -- Eco-tourism! Apple pie making in The Sunnyside of Spencer Butte by Lois Barton Loving the Loom . And 'Best of Oregon' Show weaveroú` A Season of News Coverage: No Cure For Political Blues and Broadcasters Celebrate Big Gains from Violence and Greed. Living The Labyrinth, Part One My Life in the Twentieth Century , "Education" Facts and Fiction: How Your Animal Shelter Works by Mr. Lewis.Horse Neglect and Abuse in America: Fact and Fiction. A Duck's Life Reggie The Continuing Story of the Battle for Fire Road by Norm Maxwell. Open Letter to the Chancellor of Higher Education Open Letter to the President Carol Huboi Werry, Part One and Part Two Los Dias De Los Muertos Art Late Summer 2000 Dr. Paul Kail on Food and Famine Prevention Living the Labyrinth Series, Part Two, Celebrating Altar-ed States. Congressman Peter DeFazio Earth Prayers by Mary DeDanan and also Bliss Washington Billings. Barbara Kelley's Paving Over Paradise. Alternative Autos , It's A Gizmo! Interview with Anchee Min Joe Thornton's Pandora's Poison. Please Pass The Books/ Picnic Picks Seal poem The Cowboy Way by Kimball Lewis A Jane Cox Farmer poem with painting, On Being Eighty. Norm Maxwell's The Battle for Fire Road. Last Chance for Chase, a story of animal salvation through e-mail by Linda Mecum. Roscoe Caron's America's Teachers: 21st Century Segregation. Green Scene Comments on Nuclear Power Stan Thompson's My Life in the Twentieth Century, Introduction by Patricia Gray. Conversations With Artists, features painter Northwest painter Margaret Stark Kemp by M.G. Hudson. The Courtship of Aunt Lelia, by Maura McGoorty A Prescription for the "Lesser of Two Evils" Election Malaise Animal Welfare and Protection for A New Century by Mr. Lewis. The Mystery of Fox Hollow Manderscheid's On the Waterfront: Cool Views of Seattle from the Ferry. Mary Siegfried's offers haiku photography Eek! The Elk! Photo essay At Home or On the Road - Guy Weese's photography   Summer 2000- The Pan Man. Labyrinths - A Way of Life Jon Kemp Michael Kemp On The Road With Steve Astillero Guy Weese Dr. Addy Gabby protect animals from barbaric leg-hold traps interviews author Paul Theroux inspirational Genetically Modified Foods Wolf Children and Feral Man The Right To Know Heroes and Hellions To Be Or Not Father's Day Is for Daddy The Midwife Summer in the Country Conversion Spencer Creek Journal Classified Ads A Dog's Life Summer in the City Letters to the Editor Editor Spring 2000- Photos by Michael and Jon Kemp To A Young Grandchild Photos by Guy Weese The New Sustainable Forestry Measure Margaret Mead Film Festival Life On the 45th Parallel Young People's Writings Manna Seeds Engstrom's "Rivering" Ask Dr. Addy Gabby Interview with Brooke Stone and Co. Peter DeFazio Book Reviews - Nygren on Walter Benjamin A quote by Nelson Mandela A Logger's Caveat Spencer Creek Journal Sunny Side of Spencer Butte Early Spring Walk