Matthew A. Taylor


wordsmith

"The wordsmith is true to himself and to the people when his clarity causes disquiet." (more)

~writing~

new - 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)

03/07 - The Road to Nonviolent Coexistence in Palestine/Israel .pdf with Michael N. Nagler, Tal Palter-Palman - a chapter in a forthcoming book from the Foundation for Coexistence (click here for a redacted version of this story from PeacePower)

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)

~blog~

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~about me~

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~initiatives~

Some organizations I founded or co-founded...

PeacePower magazine

Conflict Resolution & Transformation Center (UC Berkeley)

The Coalition to Free the University of California

Free Speech Free Trees Student Coalition

Peace and Conflict Studies Student Participation Council

~a past life~

Versus Books

email: matthew.wordsmith{at}gmail{dot}com

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