Issue 367 - July-August 2006
Summer Reading Issue
Featuring
- Earth Democracy
- Hochschild on Mobilizing Conscience
- Nonviolent Computer Games
- Iranian Dissent
In This Issue
 Zia Mian reviews: Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer; The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, by Odd Arne Westad; America Against the World: How We are |
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the first Clamshell protests against the impending Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant (held August 1, 1976), Peacework is pleased to make available for free download our "Clamshell Alliance at 20" special issue from July/August, 1996. |
 A Force More Powerful Video Game, www.afmpgame.com Reviewed by Darius Kazemi, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. |
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace by Vandana Shiva, South End Press, 2005. Reviewed by Anna Gyorgy, the coordinator of the Women and Life on Earth project in Berlin, Germany. Its multilingual ecofeminist website is in development at: www.wloe.org, contact: agyorgy@wloe.org. |
| US Joint Chiefs Planned Terrorist Attacks on the US | Two books reveal that the US military approved a plan to attack US cities, citizens, and military bases -- and blame it on Cuba. | |
| Pieces | ||
| Freedom Riding to Canaan's Edge | Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Raymond Arsenault and At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 by Taylor Branch. | |
| From the Editor's Desk | ||
| Infusing Nonviolence into College Teaching and Learning | Prudence A. Moylan reviews Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts by J. Denny Weaver and Gerald Biesecker-Mast. | |
| Defying a World of Denial: A Visit with Adam Hochschild | Metta Spencer interviews Adam Hochschild, author, most recently, of Bury the Chains. | |
| Caanan test | ||
| Bittersweet Songs of Empathy | Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett, Harper Collins, 2001. $13.95 pb. Reviewed by Erin Miller, a writer and a member of Peacework's Program Committee. | |
| A Declaration of Peace | ||
| Gamers of the World Unite | Compiled by Peacework intern Dave Taber. | |
| Rights Abuses Escalate in El Salvador | Compiled by Peacework intern and freelance writer Dave Taber. | |
| Gustavus Myers Anti-Bigotry* Book Awards | ||
| Coretta Scott King Book Awards | ||
| Jane Addams Book Awards | Linda B. Belle is the executive director of the Jane Addams Peace Association, 777 United Nations Plaza, 6th floor, New York, NY 10017-3521, 212/682-8830, japa@igc.org. For a complete list of books honored since 1953, see www.janeaddamspeace.org. | |
| Nobel Women's Initiative Calls for Peace between, Human Rights within, Iran and the US | ||
| Memorializing 9430 Victims of the Death Penalty in Iran... and Counting | ||
| Defying Dictators | Unarmed Insurrections by Kurt Schock, University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Reviewed by Dave Taber, a Peacework intern and a freelance journalist. | |
| The Drama of Enacting Change: the Hartbeat Ensemble and Activist Theater | Denis Lazor is a board member of the Hartbeat Ensemble, 860/548-9144, www.hartbeatensemble.org. | |
| Building an America Beyond Capitalism | This piece originally appeared in GEO (Grassroots Economic Organizing) Newsletter, © 2005, POB 115, Riverdale, MD, 20738, www.geo.coop. Introduction and interview by Len Krimerman, editor of GEO. | |
| Iranian Women Protesters Strategize Against Violent Repression | Ziba Mir-Hosseini is senior research associate at the London Middle East Institute, School Of Advanced Study, and will be global visiting professor of law at New York University in the fall of 2006. A longer version of this piece appeared in Middle East Report Online, www.merip.org. | |
| Peacework Cartoon Contest WINNER! | ||
| Vermont Walk for a Nuclear-free Future August 6-9 | ||
| Moving Images: New Films Available | Shelby Knox undertakes a lonely struggle for real sex education, a gay-straight alliance, and a religiosity that rejects bigotry. |
