The global economic crisis hitting people hard all over the world.  Unemployment and loss of business are effecting people in many different ways.  It is only natural for people to be worried and fear for the future.   In this interview on American television, communication expert Deborah Beroset talks about ways people can meet the challenges [...]

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Quilt communicates–One Peace at a Time From: Sun Times News Group December 4, 2006 By FELICIA DECHTER Staff Writer The seventh-grade class from Nettelhorst School was as diverse and patchwork as the peace quilts its students were meticulously creating colorful, cotton squares for.The kids were participating in the humanitarian project, One Peace at a Time, [...]

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Moving beyond prison system From the Philadelphia Inquirer By David Parrish Today, everyone is concerned about crime. We all live with the threat of becoming victims. The alarming costs of crime include loss of life, traumatized people, disrupted families, and the enormous financial burden involved in maintaining a police presence and housing an ever-growing prison [...]

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Jamesburg packs revitalization meeting From the Princeton Packet By: Audrey Levine, Special Writer 03/23/2007 The meeting focused on finding ways to better the downtown business district. JAMESBURG — More than 100 residents attended a meeting at the Grace M. Breckwedel School to talk about how to improve the borough’s downtown. The March 15 meeting was [...]

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Landmark Graduates and Jewelry Business Owners Launch a Clear Concience Project See Coverage on KTVU News Oakland, CA Lori Bonn Designs, a 15-year old jewelry business based in Oakland, CA, founded by Lori Bonn Gallagher and operated by her husband, Bill Gallagher, has launched a long term industry project called Clear Conscience jewelry and accessories [...]

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How the Other Half Lives: “Walk a Mile” dares welfare policymakers and welfare recipients to swap lives How’s this for a devastatingly simple solution to an age-old social problem? While Natasha Grossman was studying social work and interning at a welfare-reform lobbying organization in Washington state, she saw first-hand the cultural gap that existed between [...]

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Instead of protesting against the war, Marilyn Sjaastad created a project to get people to demonstrate for peace. Using drums and other precussion instruments, peace activists in 15 cities made noise on behalf of peace. From: The Register-Guard Eugene, Oregon By Andrea Damewood Pounding bongos and shaking cans to keep warm in the finger-numbing weather, [...]

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