Issue 376 - June 2007

Photo: Activists drop banners listing articles of the Constitution

Your Silence Your Legacy

  • Beginning to End Torture
  • Forty years of Occupation
  • A School Grows in Cuernavaca
  • Climate Activism Heats Up
  • Peak Soil


In This Issue

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We needed to create a conference that would educate Friends and move us to action without being overwhelmed or causing despair and paralysis -- an excellent spiritual curriculum challenge.

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Ethanol is an agribusiness get-rich-quick scheme that will bankrupt our topsoil.

From the Editor's Desk
The History of CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror

I looked at those photos, and I didn't see individual abuse. What I saw was textbook, trademark CIA psychological interrogation techniques.

Israeli Soldiers Escalate Violence Against Peaceful Demonstrators in Bil'in
Israel-Palestine: One State or Two?

JVP's stance has always been that the people living in Israel-Palestine are the ones who must decide on their own political formations and how best to resolve this conflict.

Two States: There is No Time for Despair

The Two State solution is the only practical solution in the realm of reality. In the most important sphere, the collective consciousness, it is winning all out.

A School That Is More Than a School: Cultural Exchange in Lesbian and Gay Mexico
One State: We Must Give it a Chance

As Jewish and Palestinian citizens in this state we have relations of blood, of common fate and common disaster which cannot be "partitioned.

Letters
Pieces

Events, Opportunities, Gatherings, Campaigns, Resources

Profiles of Peace: Celebrating 40 Israeli and Palestinian Peace Builders

Brief introductions to the lives and work of Ghassan Andoni, Khulood Badawi, and Felicia Langer

Profile in Peace: Ghassan Andoni
Profile in Peace: Khulood Badawi
Profile in Peace: Felicia Langer