Volume 15 Number 7 * September 2000

Mark prepares the vital ingredients for scalloped potatoes. Instructor Olly Wodin is at left. Photo: Ruby Isaacs.

PEN Insider — Readers' Choice

• Readers React
  • More Foodland Threatened by Development from Bob Stevenson, Ottawa
  • Artichokes or Potatoes from Cyndie Campbell, Ottawa
• Hello PERC Volunteer!
  Isabel Hobson by Anna van der Kamp
• Who's Cooking in Your Community? by Ruby Isaacs
• Peace Festival, Not War Show! by Richard Sanders
• Bombs Away!
• Nature Tour Invites You by Tania Marsh
• Bicycle Co-op Now Open by Jacquie Johnson
• Sign Up Against War! by Sophie Nichol Sauvé
• Golf Course Threatens Wilderness Park from Club des ornithologues de l'Outaouais

Volume 15 Number 7 * September 2000

Readers' Choice

Protestors rally against corporate free-trade policies discussed at the Organization of American States meeting in Windsor this June. Photo: Mike Buckthought.

The PEN gets attention from a resident at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montréal. Photo: Margaret Jensen. Are you travelling, or just enjoying your pesticide-free garden at home? Help us show our readers how the PEN gets around! Take along a copy of the PEN and take its picture, with local points of interest. Send us the photo and we will consider it for publication. Please include your name and phone number, along with a caption and photo credit. Be sure to give us your address if you want us to return your photo.

• Web Watch
  Garlic by Heather Burke
• Peace and Eco Briefs
  Article by Alette Willis
• Activist's Notebook
  Rational or Rationalization? by Mike Kaulbars
• The Organic Gardener
  A Summer Harvest of Strawberries and Potatoes by Ann Cleary
• Lubicons Fight for Their Land by Len Bush
• Guns, Children and the Gun Lobby by John Cameron
• Peacekeeping as Prevention by Wayne Foster
• Letter from Zimbabwe: A Better Life for Farm Workers
• Farmers Work for Better Water by David Mills
• The Illness Costs of Air Pollution by Sharon Boddy
• Garlic Spinach Pizza by I.M. Smellie
• Guatemalan Banana Workers Need Support from Campaign for Labor Rights
• Public Hearings Needed on MOX from Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout
• Turkey Pulls the Plug on Akkuyu Nuclear Plant by Mike Buckthought
• Seniors Cycling Guide

Help Stop Clearcutting Our group, Madzewin ("life in all its aura"), has been maintaining checkpoints since August 14 to prevent clearcutting in Parc La Vérendrye. We need support through funds, assistance with communications, or by coming up to Kokomville. We are also arranging for clearcut tours. Contact Tom Ojik at 727-9733 or Derek James at 236-5750; email: madzewin@hotmail.com

Thanks to:
Mountain Equipment Co-op for funding this issue.

Converted November 12, 2000 - Lg

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