• Refining the FIC Events program (where will we go next?)
• Report on the Communities magazine staff summit happening in Sept
• Set the production schedule for the next book edition of Communities Directory
• Craft the 2009 budget

Join us for up-tempo meetings amidst the gorgeous fall colors of the Midwest. We'll save you a seat in the circle and you can learn first-hand what's happening in the North American Communities Movement, and where you might fit in.

For details about attending the FIC meetings see http://fic.ic.org/org_mtgs.php and
contact: Jenny Upton | jenny --[at]-- ic.org  | 434-361-1417

We hope to see you in Rutledge this fall.

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Help The FIC Events Team Plan For San Francisco, Philadelphia

Come behind the scenes of the FIC! The FIC events team is seeking a few enthusiastic (and preferably, but not necessarily, experienced) volunteers to help with our next events. If you live in the Philadelphia or San Francisco Bay areas, we're coming to your neighborhood in the next year!

If you would like to help make our upcoming events locally relevant and just plain more successful, please connect with
  Ma'ikwe, our events team coordinator
  (660) 883-5881
  maikwe --[at]--solspace.net

Thanks!
Ma'ikwe

Created by, for, and about women, the twenty-eigth edition of the We'Moon date book is dedicated to the elders and ancestors who have come before us and who can serve as our guides in these troubled times. The world is indeed at a crossroads, poised on the edge of an uncertain future. A full-color feast of women's art and poetry from around the world helps to create a compelling portrait of this theme led off by a stunning painting of an owl on the cover.

We'Moon 2009 is also a well laid-out appointment book as well as an astrological and earth rhythms guide. It features a convenient week-at-a-glance format. Combining form and function in ways that delight the eyes and the mind, it provides an important source of support in daily life.

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We Refuse to Be Enemies: Community Spirit as an Antidote to Separation by Leila Dregger. In 2005 and 2007, the founder of Portugal's Tamera Peace Community led international peace workers through Israel and the West Bank. These pilgrimages touched hearts, minds, and lives, becoming examples of political action totally imbued with the spirit of community.

A World of Possibility: Communities and Global Transformation by Ethan Hughes and Sarah Wilcox-Hughes. Visits to the Ark of Lanza del Vasto, a 60-year-old community movement in France, and the Possibility Alliance, a one-year-old community in Missouri, raise the question: What could society look like if the communities movement chooses to become socially and politically involved at a new level?

Living the Wild: Ecological Citizenship and the Audubon Expedition Institute by Arin Trook. How do we, as a community of engaged citizens, learn to reflect the lessons of nature in our own lives? How do we learn to think and act with a vision over years and decades and centuries? And can we resist those deep, deep outdoor gear discounts on Buy Nothing Day?

Email, Politics, and Permaculture by members of the Eugene Permaculture Guild listserv. A Sustainability Quiz posted on the Eugene Permaculture Guild listserv unleashes a torrent of discussion, criticism, counter-criticism, and appreciation, illuminating local political issues, the interface of politics and ecology, and the politics of talking about politics over email.

Every Politician Should Live in a Commune by Nick Licata. After living in the PRAG House collective for 25 years before running for office, a Seattle City Councilor recommends that anyone entering politics consider experiencing intentional community first.

Searching for Republicans...And Other Elephants in the Community Living Room: A Politics in Community Survey by Chris Roth. An informal survey raises several compelling questions: Can communitarians learn to focus on larger-scale politics as much as on internal politics? Should they? What's proper political etiquette in community? And have you ever met a communitarian who is not left of center?

Politics at Twin Oaks: Distinguishing "Acceptable" from "Combustible" by Valerie Renwick-Porter. When it comes to talking about politics, some topics are like opening a can of worms while walking through a field of landmines.

Pulling Proposals Out of a Hat (or Some Orifice) by Laird Schaub. Our newest FIC blogger offers aids to efficient and energizing group-proposal generation which replace battling, coercion, and rigidity with curiosity, flexibility, and bridge-building.

Politics on Open Land by Ramón Sender Barayón. Who's in charge? If the residents at Morningstar and Wheelers Ranches had not needed to answer that question repeatedly for county officials, they might have been able to avoid reproducing the external world's hierarchies altogether. As it was, the best meetings were called by the cows.

The issue also includes letters, notes from the new Communities team, a Good Meetings panelist discussion of "Business and Well-Being," a publisher's note on "Whole Foods: Half a Solution?," articles on Los Angeles Eco-Village, Ecovillage Network of Canada, and SomerVille Ecovillage, a review of Diggers & Dreamers, REACH ads, and four pages memorializing community visionary and founder Kat Kinkade.

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Winter and Spring issues: The theme for the winter issue (#141) is Scarcity and Abundance and the theme for the spring issue (#142) is Festivals and Gatherings. If you're interested in submitting articles, photos, or illustrations to future issues of Communities, please follow this link for details.

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