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Welcome to West By Northwest online
magazine, a progressive, bimonthly journal of rural and city life, ecology, arts
and letters from a Northwest prospective. We are celebrating
our second year on the web, thanks to all our readers and contributors who have made
this journal possible.
In the season of earth's renewal this issue is dedicated to the memories of Carlton
Zane who loved and explored the Northwest, Ida Mower, our role model of grace and
wisdom and Alan Katz, our own Yiddish story teller and songster. And to Laddie, a
brave heart.
Voices for the World
Voices of Peace
We focus on the war in the Middle East with statements from AFSC and Defenders of Children International and Letters from Ramallah and more. Web link to the New York Times' review of The Golem.
Dr. Andreas Toupadakis'
Notebook collects his recent writings about war and peace.
W.H. Auden's poem September
1, 1939 captures a universal and historic moment.
Sam Smith of the Progressive Review writes Nobody Left But Us.
Voices of the Nation
The Anne Frank tour in Portland and the Anne Frank House online --she'd be surprised by the ways her memory is kept.
Robert Jenson explains why extraordinary Corporate
Power Is the Enemy of Our Democracy.
Alan McKay says DynCorp is Something
to Watch with thanks to Sam Smith's The Progressive Review.
Norman Solomon's selected pieces on New Media Heights For A Remarkable Pundit, Pentagon's Silver Lining May Be Bigger
Than Cloud, Six Months Later, The Basic Tool Is Language
Art, Theater, Photography and
Poems
Introducing our international correspondent, Patrick Morris, actor and director writing
on the theatre's Hourglass Challenge.
The annual
Marvelous Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival
is coming to Portland in May!
World Choral Music by Northern Harmony is coming to the Southern Willamette Valley! Heaven
on earth.
Introducing photographer and web designer Stephen Voss and his love affair with form and
light.
Stephanie Korschun's Insect Drawings, a class apart.
Guy Weese's Gallery from That Photo
Guy, spring images to remember.
Visit our link to the Williamette Repertory
Theatre's web page, producing local, professional theater
at its best.
Autobiography
Barbara S. Thompson's My Life chronicles a journey of courage by a real story teller,
Chapter 3.
powell's.com Dave Wiech Interview
Judy
Blunt's incredible story of her Montana ranch life with
the Northwest's best literary interviewer. (Hit "back" to return here.)
Voices of the Northwest
Mary Zemke of Stop Cogentrix says "Standing tall - Opposition floods the proposed Grizzly Power Plant." With a link to Save Our Valley, opposing the proposed Coburg plant.
Norman Maxwell writes to the Editor - a Summary of the Fire Road Preservation Struggle.
Patricia Frank tackles Spring Cleaning the Closet.
Kimball Lewis, animal welfare advocate, remembers an Anniversary
when his dog Donner was murdered.
Voices of Spencer Creek Valley
Lois Barton's Sunnyside of Spencer Butte finds the Heron Rookery.
M.G. Hudson's Spencer Creek
Journal remembers Laddie and the baby goats as the war
on terrorism affects Spencer Creek Valley
Ryan Ramon's Life on the 45th Parallel, Rain & Ramallah.
Best of the Web
WxNW.org WebWise Links, and introducing the Williamette Repertory Theatre's web page.
Visit the DEN, from Defenders of
Wildlife.
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Our Vision
Who are the readers united by reading West by Northwest? We see you as seekers
of truth and joy, hope and dynamic democracy. You believe that life and love are
essential. You love to explore the world of ideas and places in person and in your
armchair. You care passionately about the fate of humanity as well as the planet's.
You support good causes as best you can. You know we must find peace and justice
for all beings, especially we humans who have such a profound effect upon this world
(and maybe others) and each other. You seek a wide community of committed world citizens
who work in their own "back yards" to make a difference. You read West
by Northwest because you know that from the particular to the
universal is a matter of a few degrees of the compass.
Our range of emphasis corresponds to the historic bio-region of the Pacific Northwest
which stretches from the coast of Big Sur, California to Southern Alaska and points
in-between. This is the area of the world we shall look at through the lens of our
own 'observatory' based in Spencer Creek Valley, Oregon. Spencer Creek Valley is
not on the maps but is a very real place whose people face many of the issues of
people all over the world including the challenge of change and preservation.
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Our Mission
To give voice to "ordinary" people .
To build local and world wide community through the tools of Internet technology.
To remember our past and rethink our future.
To celebrate our here and now. |
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please write us at publisher@westbynorthwest.org or visit Contributors'
Guidelines page.
West by Northwest.org is a not-for-profit, community based project of Spencer Creek
Press. Generating income for sustaining publishing costs, right livelihood, and paying
contributors are our financial goals. We are not registered as a 501(c)(3) at this
time, so donations are not yet tax-deductible. We hope to have official not-profit
status within the year.
Next issue will be online June 4, 2002. Do
to the webmaster's Finals and end of the year projects, we will be out Friday June 14.
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