View from the Top Esteemed Reader • Jason Stern and the Mayan shaman meet again. Conversation • Lama Pema Wangdak talks with Jason Stern. Community Notebook Bulletin Board of the Intriguing, Edifying & Entertaining Art Party Overnight, Woodstock Film Festival, Vegetarianism Conference, Straw bale workshop and more. Room for a View Is This What Democracy Looks Like? • Joshua C. Robinson reports on recent direct actions. Whither the Movement? • Jim Gordon talks to local activists in the wake of Washington DC protests. Views & News: Short Takes, Updates and Calls to Action US named human rights abuser; juvenile injustice legislation; Government Printing Office cutbacks. Features The Last Mile: Inside the Sing Sing Death House By Will Nixon. A discussion with Scott Christianson and review of his book Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House, and the traveling show of NY State prison artifacts at TSL Warehouse in Hudson. Falling Forward: A Science Fiction Writer Looks at the 21st Century By Brian Dana Akers. A humorous glimpse of what the future might have in store for us. Backbone Frankly Speaking • The Girl Who Came Down From the Stars. Homebirthing with Frank Crocitto. Lucid Dreaming • The Innocent Eye. Beth Wilson reviews Hannah Gray’s photographs at Art & Soul. Quarter to Three • Philosophy of Elian. Sparrow’s commentary on the mystery of nationhood. Ear Whacks • Clubbing in Kingston. Todd Paul on the Chanteuse Club and Knocked Senseless Studio. Planet Waves • Astrology and the Art of Rebellion, Part II. Plus horoscopes with Eric Francis.