1999 Index
This is an index of 1999 feature stories, editorials, guest columns, reviews and profiles. The index is arranged in alphabetical order by the author's last name. An index of artists and poets whose work was published in 1999 editions of The Witness is also included, arranged in alphabetical order by the artist's and poet's last name.
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Al-Islam, Amir
African-American Muslims and AIDS 3/99
Antolini, Holly Ly man
Naming our demons? 4/99 Thanksgiving without apologies 11/99
Arbogast, Marianne
Arons, Marsha
The funeral 12/99
Artress, Lauren
Following the Spirit's compass 7-8/99
Atlee, Jennifer
'Red thread': a cry of hope 12/99
Bailey, Randall C.
HIV/AIDS and 'holy hatred' 3/99
Bell, Carol
Theological education for a new century? [Interview with Steve
Charleston] 4/99 Berner, Leila Ga
HIV/AIDS: Substituting Jewish values for moral etiology 3/99
Berrigan, Frida
Cruel Kosovo legacy 9/99
Bird, Edie
Disassembling apartheid: an interview with David Goodman 12/99
Brahinsky, Rachel
Kids for sale: making profits from elementary school 4/99
Braley, Grace
The unfulfilled promise of 'free trade' 9/99
Brown, Daniel A.
Portraits from a pilgrimage 7-8/99
Cabezon, Jose Igna cio
Buddhism and sexual ethics in the age of AIDS 3/99
Campbell, Will
A disowned history of oppression 7- 8/99
Carpenter, Murray
Traveling fish: a health index 6/99
Turning back to the river 6/99
Charleston, Steve
Set Leonard Peltier free 10/99
Christ, Carol
Womb of the goddess 7-8/99
Clift, Jean Dalby and Wallace B.
Dream pilgrimage 7-8/99 Fighting evil 'down under' 12 /99
Colatosti, Camille
Living in debt; a national way of life 9/99
Nuclear weapons today 10/99
Should Social Security play the stock market? 9/99
Squandering the future: a nation of children living in poverty 4/99
What are working parents to do? 4/99
Cook, Christopher
Consolidated cornucopia: how corporate food is ploughing small farmers into the ground 1-2/99
Crew, Louie
Breaking silence in Harare 3/99
Dage, Martha
Coming home in Russia 7-8/99
Doherty, Catherine de Hueck
Pilgrimage culture shock 7-8/99
Duchene, Lisa
At the point of no return? 6/99
FLOC
Organizing farmworkers 1-2/99
Fontaine, Carole R .
Youth and age: a view from the Bible 5/99
George, Rosemary
Receiving golden grace 5/99
Gorman, Michelle
"Pawpaw guy" revives interest in age-old fruit 1-2/99
Griswold, Frank T.
Calling for Jubilee debt relief 9/99
Hacker, David
From the ground up: saving the black farmer 1- 2/99
Hamm, Mike
CFS and anti- hunger advocacy 1- 2/99
Hunt, Mary
Theology in a pandemic 3/99
Jarrett, Emmett
Urban Caucus meets 5/99 What's in the choice of a Thanksgiving turkey? 11/99
Lamb, Jane
Lansky, Mitch
A strategy to save and restore forests 6/99
Lawrence, Kathy
Just Food in New York City 1-2/99
Mann, Peter
Sacred meals, everyday meals 1- 2/99
Mascarenhas, Michelle and Gottleib, Robert
Healthy farms, healthy kids 1- 2/99
McCullough, Laura M.
The community food security movement 1-2/99
Meadows, Donella
'Food.Health.Hope. ': Monsanto, the transgenetic revolution and ethics 11/99
Seven reasons for rejecting a potato 11/99
Means, Russell
A militant activist seeks to become an elder 5/99
Mercer, Renay
Portraits from a pilgrimage 7-8/99
Merson, Michael H.
Prevention is achievable 3/99
Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Three million 'invisible' seniors begin to organize 5/99
Panikkar, Raimon
Mount Kailasa 7- 8 /99
Prothrow-Stith, Deborah Addressing deadly consequences 4/99
Raines, Robert
Portraits of generosity 5/99
Remen, Rachel Naom i
'Professionals don't cry' 12/99
Safransky, Sy
One hand clapping 5/99
Samuel, Leah
Selling peacetime nuke power 10/99
Tracking the Underground Railroad 7- 8/99
SLUG
San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners 1-2/99
Scheibner, Anne
Plumbing Thanksgiving's "Untold Story" 11/99
SEARCH for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel
Religious leaders urge Palestinian rights 4/99
Sehested, Ken
'We shall all be received in Graceland' 7-8/99
Shaw, Lee
We welcome you, but not your gun 7-8 /99
Shimpfky, Richard
Favoring justice over lying fallow 6 /99
Shott, Heidi
Bringing creation into the church 6/99
Slaughter, Jane
A do-or-die target audience 4 /99
Harvest's blood, sweat and tears 11/99
'We are treated like slaves' 11/99
Who says the economy is booming? An interview with John Stauber 9/99
Slemp, Dennett C
Tibet: a dilemma for Christians in the West 5/99
Smith, Gregory Dea n
Portraits from a pilgrimage: Symphony of drums 7-8/99
Solheim, James
Ala. murder of gay man 5/99
Doss resigns 5/99
Tohono O'odham Community Action
Tohono O'odham community food system 1-2/99
Werbe, Peter
Campaigning for nuclear abolition now: Jonathan Schell 10/99
Searching for economic alternatives 9/99
Witness staff
A gathering of rural chaplains 1- 2/99
A simple, overwhelming problem [Y2K] 3/99
EDS honors Wylie- Kellermann 7-8/99
EPF activists arrested at Nevada test site 7-8/99
Remembering Frances Schwab and Mary Durham 1-2/99
Speaking out against the bomb 7-8/99
Wortman, Julie A.
The bioregional vision: an interview with Kirkpatrick Sale 6/99
'In that great gettin' up morning': an anniversary interview with
Barbara Harris 1- 2/99
What is ailing America's adolescents? an interview with Patricia Hersch 4/99
Wylie-Kellermann, Bill
A politics of pilgrimage 7-8/99
Wylie-Kellermann, Jeanie
Celebrating America's elderly as a resource 5/99
Trading speed for perspective 5/99
Yamada, Mitsuye
'A cave with no exit' 12/99
Zinn, John
Getting to enough 9/99
ARTISTS
Acker, Bonnie 5/99
Alford, Constance Keith 12/99
Anderson, Judith 9 /99
Anderson, Kirk 4,6,7-8,10,12/99
Azarian, Mary 1- 2,11/99
Beckman, Mary 11,12/99
Bergt, Michael 12/ 99
Brown, Daniel A. 7-8/99 Creating a safe place for dreaming [Marianne Arbogast] 4/99
Burke, Bill 10/99
Bussell, Joe 3/99
Caravaggio, 1-2/99
Carpenter, Margot Hart Dale 6 /99
Chagall, Marc 3/99
Condyles, Kirk 10/ 99
Curry, John Steuart 9/99
Drewes, Werner 11/ 99
Dufaut, Prefete 7- 8/99
Ferren, John 3/99
Finkle, Harvey 4/9 9
Gericault, Theodore 9/99
Habib, Dan 4/99
Heda, William 1- 2 /99
Hernandez, Max 3/9 9
Homer, Winslow 6/9 9
Hopkins, Eric 6/99
Ire, Jennifer 7- 8 /99
Jacquette, Yvonne 10/99
Johnson, Evan 4/99
Jonik, John 1-2/99
Kent, Rockwell 6/9 9
Klee, Paul 3/99
Lentz, Robert 5,11 /99
Lichtenstein, Andrew 4 /99
Loudon, Tom 12/99
Luzwick, Dierdre 4 /99
Maruki, Iri and Toshi 12/99
McLaughlin, Alain 4/99
McMillen, Mildred 9/99
Millet, Jean- Francois 1-2/99
Ndege, Charles 12/ 99
Parker, Buffy 6/99
Puleo, Mev 5/99
Richardson, Jan 12 /99
Rosen, Jack 10/99
Roundy, Jane 6/99
Santow, Loren 4/99
Schiel, Skip 7- 8/ 99
Schuerholz, Dana 10/99
Solheim, Jim 3/99
Swift, Thor 4/99 Tomorrow, Tom 3,5,9/99
Vo-Dinh 12/99
West, Jim 9,10,11/ 99
Wolfe, A.J. 4/99 Zadig, David 1- 2/ 99
EDITORIALS
Arbogast, Marianne
Risking new worlds 7-8 /99
Cox, Anne E.
Community food security: just food 1-2/99
Wortman, Julie
Can we at least agree on the need to save lives? 3/99
Embracing a politics (and spirituality) of place 6/99
Grounds for arrest 9/99 Looking for a reason to feast 11/99
On radical intentions 9/99
What's in a name? 4/99
Wylie-Kellermann, Jeanie
Evil is real: God crucial 12/99
Teaching what you know to be true 5/ 99
KEEPING WATCH
Charleston, Steven
The Cambridge Accord 12/99
Franz, Marian
Alternative service for drafted dollars 5/99
Holt, Patricia
Independent bookstores fight back 10 /99
Hunt, Mary E.
Conduct unbecoming 9/99 Report from Iraq 11/99
Smith-Ferri, David
Solomon, Norman
TV offers illusion of war 6/99
POETS
Gervin, Charles 11 /99
Kgositsile, Aneb 4 /99
McKay, Claude 6/99
Murillo, Rosario 10/99
Natambu, Kofi 9/99
Oliver, Mary 3/99
Phillips, Jennifer M. 7-8/99
Red Hawk 5/99
Vest, Hilda 12/99
REVIEWS
Abbey, Lucy
Safe Passage: Making It Through Adolescence in a Risky Society by Joy Dryfoos 4/99 Ackerman, Denise M .
Living at the Edge: Sacrament and Solidarity in Leadership by Penny Jamieson 6/99 VS
Arbogast, Marianne
Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement by Janet Poppendieck 1-2/99
Bach, John
Hell, Healing and Resistance by Daniel Hallock, 12/99
Carpenter, Judith P.
Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire by Margaret Bullitt-Jonas 11/99
Chisolm, Janet
The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest by
Ellen Meloy 10/99
Manana, Gloria House
The Lure of the Local by Lucy R. Lippard 6/99
Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey
Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival by Andrew
Sullivan 399
Wylie-Kellermann, Bill
The Street Lawyers by John Grisham 9 /99
Wylie-Kellermann, Jeanie
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson 7- 8/99
Zola, Nkenge
Living for Change by Grace Boggs
WITNESS PROFILES (listed by subject )
Allen, Jimmy
Unburdening a secret [Marianne Arbogast] 3/99
Cooper, Angelique
Recovering from civil war [Julie A. Wortman] 12/99
Harding, Vincent
Accepting the mantle of mentor [Rose Marie Berger]5 /99
McKibben, Bill
The beginning of joy [Marianne Arbogast] 9/99
Overall, Martha
Perry, Rhonda
Organizing in the midst of rural crisis [Julie A. Wortman] 1-2/99
Phillips, Butch
'The river is our lifeblood' [Marianne Arbogast] 6/99
Vanunu, Mordechai
Imprisoned by nuclearism [Marianne Arbogast] 10/99
Velasquez, Baldema r
Ordained to organize [Kate DeSmet] 1 1/99
Williams, Rosemary
Putting money in perspective [Kate DeSmet] 7-8/99
THEMES
Jan./Feb. Community food security
March HIV/AIDS: Overcoming religious barriers to prevention
April A national disregard for children
May Aging:Learning to be an elder
June Embracing a politics of place: the Penobscot watershed
July/Aug. Journeys of the spirit: the power and politics of pilgrim age
Sept. Living in debt
Oct. Nuclearism today
Nov. Harvest feast ?
Dec. Recovering from human evil