~writing~
4/09 - Berkeley's Climate Action Plan to Fail (Berkeley Daily Planet)
2/09 - A Community-Owned Daily Planet (Berkeley Daily Planet)
1/09 - The Inauguration: Dr. King's Dream Come True? (Berkeley Daily Planet and crossposted to Daily Kos)
12/08 - The Historical Meaning of the Palestinian Flag (Daily Californian)
7/08 - Burned Out on Burning Man: Can the artistic free-for-all go green? (Sierra Club's Sierra magazine) (a rewritten version of this story)
11/07 - Berkeley Grandmothers Break Oak Grove Siege (Berkeley Daily Planet)
11/07 - Open Letter to Chancellor Birgeneau about the Oak Grove with E. Fazio, J. Karadi, C. Oatfield, and M. Sadlowski (Berkeley Daily Planet)
11/07 - Why My Arrest is Community Service: Protesting UC's Management of Nuclear Weapon Labs with Chelsea Collonge (Daily Californian)
10/07 - UC Must Divest from Israel's Apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Daily Californian)
10/07 - How Green was the Green Man?: an Exploration of Burning Man's
Efforts to Become Environmentally Friendly (also on Alternet)
10/07 - Oil's Well that Ends Well: A Crude Awakening for Western
Civilization (a review of Burning Man 2007's central art installation)
09/07 - The Oak Grove is a Sacred Site and Must be Protected (Daily Californian)
05/07 - What Are the Prospects for Peace in the Middle East? (Berkeley Daily Planet)
03/07 - The Road to Nonviolent Coexistence in Palestine/Israel .pdf with Michael N. Nagler, Tal Palter-Palman - a chapter in a book from the Foundation for Coexistence
(click here for a redacted version of this story from PeacePower)
02/07 - Israel's Colonization is the Primary Obstacle to Peace (Berkeley Daily Planet)
01/07 - Jimmy Carter: The Courage to Tell the Truth about Israel's Apartheid (Berkeley Daily Planet)
Spring '07 - Combatants for Peace: A New Path to Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine
(PeacePower)
Spring '07 - Valentine's Day Civil Disobedience: Exposing the Lie of Homophobia (PeacePower)
Summer '06 - Iraq: Yes to Nonviolence, Yes to Justice (with Chelsea Collonge) (PeacePower)
Summer '05 - The Pinch Heard Round the World: Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha 75 Years On (PeacePower)
Summer '05 - Parting Today's Red Sea: Integrative Power, Transformation, and Compassion in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (PeacePower)
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~activism and initiatives~
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organizations I founded or co-founded...
PeacePower magazine
The Phoenix Project for UC Democracy
Conflict
Resolution & Transformation Center (UC Berkeley)
The Phoenix Coalition to Free the University of California
Free Speech Free Trees Student Coalition
Peace and Conflict Studies Student Participation Council
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