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LETTERS – MAY, JUNE, JULY 2013

“Ambitious plans. Good luck with them…” [In regard to The Reader Magazine expanded nationwide.] – Noam Chomsky “We don’t have to keep running up this treadmill. L...

Publisher’s Note: The New American Frontier

Publisher’s Note In 1955, shortly before his death, Albert Einstein, along with a group of Nobel Laureates, helped write a declaration that laid out a game plan for the survival of the human...

Take a Stand

How can people on Main Street work together to fix what’s wrong today? VALICIA STONE “People need to get involved and stop thinking like they can’t do anything because if no one does an...

How You Can Restore MainStreet

Americans’ long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business—ev...

Action: Join Local Movement Creating Greater Power

To download the sign up sheet, click the following link: http://www.readernation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/LocalIndependenceSignUpSheet.pdf

A Thousand Points of Light Can Win Climate Change Fight

In the last 200 years we’ve added more atmospheric CO2 than at any time over the past 650,000 years according to NASA. Excess CO2 creates a dysfunctional planet that responds in unpredictable, d...

The Declaration of Local Independence

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One way we can shift greater economic and political power back to our local communities so that national policies on nuclear weapons are closer to what the people want is through consciously buying fr...

Hunting Passion

by J.F. Herrera It all started in 7th grade in SoCal when I found I could not speak in front of anyone. The words had been slapped out of me for not knowing how to speak in English. So began my li...

The New Enlightenment in Local Communities

by Chris Martenson (Reposted with permission from the Post Carbon Institute) It can feel pretty personally overwhelming to learn about all the economic, environmental, and energy challenges in store...