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spring, 03 inspiration for the season • Here comes summer! Ritual Ragout: The Day of the Sun by Donna Henes • Goddess Emerging by Evalena Rose • You Call Her and Prayer, poems by Maylie Scott • Mi Alma/My Soul by Alma Luz Villanueva • Astarte, the Easter Goddess • Justice by Deda Divine • Mother Chord by Ambika Talwar • Mother, remember us, by Lauren Raine • Nerthus by bethroot gwynn • I Pray to You by Nadia Tarzai • All praise to Jennifer Berezan for her Praises for the World commentary KUCINICH • Consider Kucinich by Stephanie Hiller • Kucinich can be elected, by Jean Shinoda Bolen • Readers respond: Women in the military Women for a Better World FEATURE: • The White Birch Tree Kolo: Bosnian women express their grief by Danica Anderson USA • The Mourning Procession - Good Friday in Sebastopol by Stephanie Hiller • Letter to the IRS by Kristen O'Connor • Resignation letter by Mary A. Wright • Anita Ramasastry, Watch out: Here comes Patriots Act II • Arianna Huffington, We have a winner in Iraq. Corporate America. • Swaneagle Harijan, It does happen here: Slow motion genocide of the Dineh people • Do you want a different president in 2004? A talk by Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky • Kucinich can be elected by Jean Shinoda Bolen • Bush can be impeached! letter by Karil Daniels AFGHANISTAN • Kabul Leadership Conference: Women address causes of violence from V-Day • Afghan women keep on fighting for inclusion Photographer brings news from the Afghan women's peace circles • Oust those Northern warlords -- they're just like the Taliban from Human Rights Watch • Shooting at Malalai Hospital - from RAWA • Letter to President of Pakistan IRAQ • Iraq - Putting Women Center Stage • Iraqi Women's Plan for Rebuilding their Country • Iraq and Afghanistan - Commentary from RAWA • Mervis Reisig Letter to Barbara Boxer regarding Afghanistan • Arundhati Roy: Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates • Gila Svirsky, A Busy Couple Days, Jerusalem, April 3 • Remembering Rachel Corrie by Gila Svirsky with a letter by Rachel's mother •Searching to end the lament by Gila Svirsky • Starhawk, More from Rafah, April 12 • Starhawk, A Bone from Raffah, March 28 CANADA • Margaret Atwood, Letter to Americans EUROPE • Letter from Romania ECONOMY: Hope from deflation • Iraq, the Dollar and the Euro A New Economist foresees improvement in the global economy by Hazel Henderson feature profiles SURVIVING THROUGH SHARING AT HOPE'S EDGE AWe interviews mother and daughter team, Frances and Anna Lappe by Stephanie Hiller AWe Interview • Anita Roddick: "Unstoppable by any earthly force" by Stephanie Hiller • Go local: Helena Norberg-Hodge counters the global economy by Stephanie Hiller offerings • The Journey by Marie Lavendier • Green Lady, by Sonja Geoghegan something savory • The playful art of goddessing FROM Finding New Goddesses by Barbara Ardinger: women's spirituality • Gloria Steinem, Remember our power! • Joan Marler, The Myth of Universal Patriarchy, a review of The Myth of Matriarchal Pre-History • Kahn-Tineta Horn, Peace Moccasins • Janine Canan, Poems healing • Grandmothers Manifesto by Lotus Linton Howard • On Being Prepared in Times of Peril by Donna Henes • Trouble and beauty by Patricia Lynn Reilly • Herbs that heal anxiety and fear by Susun Weed her story • Mary Maggiore, Peace work/ piece work in women's history • Liberty and Justice on Maryland's State Seal And where are they now? by Ann Forfreedom