December 9, 2007: Double book launch and celebration for Building Commons and Community by the late Karl Linn and Undoing the Silence by Louise Dunlap

Carl Anthony remembers his first meeting with Karl Linn in North Philadelphia in the 1960s. He describes Linn’s influence on the fields of planning, architecture and landscape architecture, how his community projects provided a model for the first domestic peace corps, and how Linn bridged the intersections of social justice and environmental issues.Carl Anthony is an architect and planner, Ford Foundation Fellow and former Ford Foundation Director of Community and Resource Development, co-founder and former executive director of Urban Habitat, convenor of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development, and former president of the Earth Island Institute. He wrote the epilogue for Building Commons and Community.

Berkeley City Council Member, Linda Maio, remembers Karl Linn and the Peralta Community Gardens.

Author and free-speech activist Louise Dunlap talks about how we are silenced as children but can find our voices to speak up.She is offering workshops with lessons from her book – Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing — in dozens of American cities and South Africa this year. Check the New Village Calendar for one near you or contact us about arranging a program for your organization.