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Local Choice

A Neighborhood Has A Job To Do

Peter Block | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Neighborhood Function, Local Choice, Community Competence, Life Satisfaction, Community Building, Abundant Community, Peter Block, Neighborhood Power, Local Economy, John McKnight, Asset-Based Community Development, Family Function, Neighborhood, Family, Culture, Healthy Living News
Peter Block

Neighbors have the capacity to know what we need. What we need are the gifts that surround us. What we need is each other. And when we act together, we will find the community way. The democratic way.

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The Nervous American Empire or Raise Your Hands Over Your Head and Don't Move

Peter Block | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Neighborhood Connections, Local Choice, Community Building, American Militarism, American Hegemony, American Century, Abundant Community, Local Politics, Peter Block, Neighborhood Power, American Imperialism, John McKnight, Out of Babylon, 9/11 Impact, Airport Security, Walter Brueggemann, Neighborhood, Healthy Living News
Peter Block

It will soon be ten years since 9/11 and the effects are still with us. One of the obvious ones is the U.S. military's adventures in the rest of the w...

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Neighborhood Wake-Up Call

Peter Block | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Local Choice, Community Competence, Gift-Mindedness, Community Building, Abundant Community, Peter Block, Neighborhood Power, Associational Life, John McKnight, Asset-Based Community Development, Associations, Local Associations, Gifts, Community Development, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
Peter Block

To those who say our neighborhoods are broken, there is a simple process to help awaken neighborhood power by finding out what people love to do and are willing to teach or learn.

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