Issue 377 - July-August 2007

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I told her about chanting "Kill the people, burn the village," and how that chant still runs through my veins to this day.

Counter-recruitment organizing is the most practical way to tangibly resist United States policy that, while cutting funding for education, employment, and social programs, promotes war and empire. It exposes the relationship between, and acts to correct, both local and global injustices.

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Men stand outside hardware stores to solicit donations from other men for local domestic violence shelters.

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White elites have long fanned the flames of racism among white workers in order to block multi-racial alliances for change.

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Poetry plays a crucial role in articulating, representing, and sustaining war resistance.

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Open source software can prevent monopolistic companies from controlling how we communicate.

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Stories from centuries of Quaker peacemaking have much to offer those of us seeking to practice peace today. I don't know about you, but I need guidance and inspiration for the humble, daily walk of practicing peace. Being preached at doesn't help, nor does being told to suppress my anger and be nice. Nor, in fact, does having peacemaking saints and heroes held up and idealized, because I compare myself to them and feel inadequate.

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Penny Adams is a social worker and a volunteer with the AFSC Film and Video Library, AFSC-NERO.

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