Issue 392 - February 2009

Peacework February 2009 Cover

Race and the Global Economy

  • Military Bases
  • Gaza
  • Peace Strategies
  • Jim Harney
  • Urban Teens
  • Labor on the March


In This Issue

Inequality, Gentrification, and the Right to the City
Los Angeles, CA, 2005. A graduate of Economic Survival Class, a 10-week, bilingual curriculum that offers students self-advocacy skills, an understanding of how everyday systems work, contact information to resource organizations, and financial literacy.

Grassroots urban planners are taking back the land, the plans, the ideas of who and what the city is for.

Whose New World order?: Mode 4 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrants
A young man in his sleeping tent in a camp set up by migrant indigenous workers from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The workers live under tarps next to a field of wine grapes. These workers are Chatinos, who use their cultural practices and family ties to

Mode 4 will produce migrant labor on a huge scale, and give corporations and compliant governments the freedom to exploit it without regulation or limits.

From the Editor's Desk
Remitters, Unite!: Migrant Workers Draw on their Financial Power

The money transfer industry is largely unregulated, and extracts wealth from the most economically marginalized communities all over the world.

Recognizing and Resisting Global Apartheid

A rising movement states that true development lies beyond growth and efficiency and should instead enable dignified lives.

Justice is Served: Restaurant Workers Organize in the US and Around the World

As long as you’re thinking about sustainable and local food, let’s talk about sustainable labor conditions too, because you’re never going to have a sustainable food system without sustainable labor conditions.

How Many Divisions?

Only when the horrible scenes from Gaza started to appear on Western TV screens, did world public opinion gradually begin to change.

We Need a Change in Israel/Palestine Policy
Everything Is Different — But our Work Goes on: A Report from United for Justice with Peace

Just as the sources of the crises confronting
us are connected, so too must be the
solutions we bring forward and
demand be implemented.
US Workers Have Had Enough: A Call for Labor to Regain its Defiant Voice

A social justice movement cannot
always play by the rules, but has to call
upon its members and supporters to
make their voices heard — publicly
and defiantly.
Imagine. Pray. Resist. Build.

There is something to meeting head-on
the evil of the world and being in
solidarity with the impoverished — hope abounds.
What’s up with the Violence?

I think to myself, if so many teenagers
are dying now my whole generation of
teenagers is going to be gone by the
time I turn eighteen.
SECURITY WITHOUT EMPIRE:A NATIONAL ORGANIZING CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN MILITARY BASES
In Brazil, Indians Rejoice as Supreme Court Affirms Land Rights
WE, PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI BEREAVED FAMILIES, MAKE THIS URGENT APPEAL
NEW STRATEGIES FOR THE OBAMA ERA
STATE OF THE DREAM 2009: THE SILENT DEPRESSION

Resisting the Pull of Violence
Bits & Peaces

Events, Gatherings, Resources,
Campaigns, & Opportunities