Issue 385- May 2008
Mobilizing for Peace on Mother's Day
- Zimbabwe
- Desmond Tutu
- Environmental Justice
- Barbara Seaman
- Radical Nonviolence
In This Issue
 Colleagues of mine in Zimbabwe were jailed and tortured by the Mugabe administration, but I was expected by pro-Mugabe activists in the USA to say nothing, and indeed, to deny everything. |
 Instead of addressing the issues that the women are protesting about, the government has responded by using brutal force and attacking anybody who engages in peaceful demonstrations and protests, even peaceful ones. |
| From the Editor's Desk | ||
| Mobilizing Mothers: Transmuting Rage & Sorrow into Peacemaking | We need to learn how to celebrate and develop our resilience. When we can do that, we bring life back into our lives and into the lives of our communities. | |
| Silence the Violence: A Healing Vigil in Oakland | ||
| When Silence is Deadly: A Quaker Calls for Radical Nonviolence in Our Streets | We need to learn how to celebrate and develop our resilience. When we can do that, we bring life back into our lives and into the lives of our communities. | |
| Coming to Terms: Bereaved Families Take Action Against the War | This country must come to terms with what was done in our name. I will make this my life's work if need be. | |
| We Cannot Be But As God Has Made Us: Desmond Tutu Receives Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Award | How tragic that our church, the Episcopal Church, should be so obsessed with this particular issue of human sexuality, at a time when God's children all over are facing massive, massive problems. | |
| Human Rights & Dignity for All: Activists Around the World Fight the Repression of Sexual Minorities | Rivera fought a landmark lawsuit, bringing issues of gender identity into the public view, finally winning the right for trans people in Chile to legally change their name and sex. | |
| A Declaration by Zimbabwe Civil Society | We observe with great concern the continued abuse of executive and military powers to subvert the expressed will of the people. | |
| The Zimbabwe We Want | Zimbabwe needs a new national vision to restore our self-confidence, dignity, and hope. | |
| The Dream Reborn: Bringing King's Vision Forward into a Green Economy | It has always been assumed that attendance at environmental conferences would always be 90 percent white and overwhelmingly affluent. Not this time. | |
| Majora League:An Interview with Majora Carter, Founder of Sustainable South Bronx | The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally. | |
| Honoring a Pioneer of Women's Health: Barbara Seaman (1935-2008) | "In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doctors - calmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, women's liberation began at that moment." | |
| Bits & Peaces |
