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Volume
84
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in
this
issue:
"The
Global City"
Money
makes the world go round – an interview with Barbara Garson
by Jane Slaughter
Less than half of American citizens have anything to do with Wall Street, even
as little as belonging to a pension fund that’s invested in stocks. But
the doings of Alan Greenspan and the financiers do affect all of us, nonetheless.
Author Barbara Garson, who became famous back in the 1960s as the author of
the anti-war play MacBird!, decided to "get beyond the global babble"
and find out how the rapid and massive flows of money around the world act upon
ordinary people. Spanish version here.
Engaging
the global city – one local struggle at a time
by Anna Olson
A labor-activist-turned-priest
finds sacramental meaning in engaging the global powers-that-be on the streets
of her parish city. "It is much easier to represent the church in the struggle
than to make the struggle central to the life of the church," she reflects.
Urban
ministry in a global age: A conversation with Andrew Davey
by Bill Wylie-Kellermann
A few weeks before the September 11 destruction of the World Trade Center, two
urban activist/theologians pondered together the emerging world order of global
cities. Ironically, the conversation came to rest on a prescient point: the
vulnerability of the global city to
terrorism and collapse.
Globalization
and its discontents
By Clinton E. Stockwell
An expanded version of Stockwell's review of Saskia Sassen's The Global City
Dig
City
By Robert Arellano
An excerpt from Fast Eddie, King of the Bees
Will
faith communities keep faith?
by Peter Selby
