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DEAR readers, Contents

We are thrilled to present
you with the 44th edition of
2. Community close-up:
C.A.L.L. this autumn. As
Bereklauw, Belgium
2018 approaches its end
and we brace for the cold Ali Ayaz
of winter, what could be
better than to warm 6. The Golden Age of
ourselves with some of the inspiring ways that people all Squatting
over the world are reaching out to each other to live and John Komurki
work together.

11. As my friends and I
In this edition, we have collected tales of communities
grow older, we’re setting
that warm and illuminate like a campfire on a cold, clear
our sights on communal
night. Each in its own way, these communities of the
past, present and future, bear the flame of resistance to living
the forces — global and local — that attempt to separate, Douglas Tindall
to dominate and to exploit.
14. There’s community
On three different continents and speaking nearly ten

different languages, the members of the communities and consensus. But it’s no
brought together by this issue build autonomous commune
homes, villages, networks and cities that combat poverty, Tom Verde
loneliness, racism, apathy, despair and urban decay.
They offer hope for the displaced, the homeless, the 18. Urban kibbutzim
aging, the disillusioned and the poor.
plant seeds for improving
They show us that things can be different. That a cold city life
world of isolation, where each individual is forced to face Abigail Klein Leichman

their fate alone, is not the only option.
22. For stressed African
More than that, they show us that where loneliness,
poverty and social disintegration are the swiftly raging migrants in Israel,
undercurrent of post-modern culture and global collective farms of er a
capitalism, community is the opposite and inverse force refuge
that rises up to meet it.
Dina Kraft

They do it quietly, modestly, without fanfare, without 25. The Idea of
slogans and, largely, without coverage in the mainstream Community in the
media. But they are out there every day, resisting.
Franziskusgemeinschaft

May their stories light the way for others.
Heidi Flammer and Martin Treipl
Gabriel Freund, Editor

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