 March 2001
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Telephone number: Fax number:
pwork@igc.org Peacework has been published monthly since 1972, intended to serve as a source of dependable information to those who strive for peace and justice and are committed to furthering the nonviolent social change necessary to achieve them. Rooted in Quaker values and informed by AFSC experience and initiatives, Peacework offers a forum for organizers, fostering coalition-building and teaching the methods and strategies that work in the global and local community. Peacework seeks to serve as an incubator for social transformation, introducing a younger generation to a deeper analysis of problems and issues, reminding and re-inspiring long-term activists, encouraging the generations to listen to each other, and creating space for the voices of the disenfranchised. Views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of the AFSC. |
Pieces
Vigil for the Iraqi People, Saturdays, noon-2 pm; Park Street Station, Boston MA; join to protest the sanctions on Iraq; Committee for Peace & Human Rights, 181 Pleasant St, Malden MA 02148; 781/321-1720; cphrboston@aol.com Vigils at Bath Iron Works, Saturdays during Lent (3/3-4/14), noon; contact Maureen Kehoe & George Ostensen, 17 Bayview St, Belfast ME 04915; 207/338-4776 Jazz for Justice: Celebrating Indigenous Rights, 3/6, 7 pm; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge MA 02139; $5; music by Mili Bermejo, Dan Greenspan, & Dean Stevens, & presentations by indigenous rights activists & slides from Chiapas, Mexico; 617/577-1400 Predictions & Prognostications: Affirmative Action under the New Administration, 3/8, 5:30-7 pm; Lesley University, 1815 Massachusetts Ave #305, Cambridge MA; $10; discussion led by Paul Watanabe & Ellen Zucker; Affirmative Action Voices, POB 380928, Cambridge MA 02238; 617/876-3235 Tough Guise (film), 3/8, 6-9 pm; Hutchinson Center, University of Maine, Route 3, Belfast ME 04915; video about ending male violence; for more information, call 207/338-0406 The Cambridge Forum, Wednesdays, 7:30 pm; First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church, 3 Church St, Cambridge MA 02138; 3/14, "AIDS & Women," with Dr. Kathy Anastos; 3/28, "Mending the Middle East," with Allegra Pacheco, an American/Israeli Jewish lawyer who represents Palestinians on the West Bank; 617/495-2727; www.cambridgeforum.org Public Hearing on Girls' Issues, 3/15, 3-6 pm; Roxbury Community College, Student Center #200, 1234 Columbus Ave, Roxbury MA; sponsored by Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, 19 Staniford St, Boston MA 02114; 617/626-6520; mcsw@state.ma.us; www.state.ma.us/women Peacewatch Ireland, 3/18, 11 am; members of Peacewatch Ireland discussing "The Ongoing Search for Peace with Justice;" Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116; 617/244-5581; www.orsillo.com/gspa Feminist Liberation Theologies Lecture Series, Mondays, noon-1 pm; Washburn Lounge, Episcopal Divinity School, 99 Brattle St, Cambridge MA; 3/18, "Silent Bystanders: Shifting the Lens from Beneficiaries of Apartheid to the Oppressed Under Apartheid," with Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela; 4/2, "Defending Palestinian Human Rights: An Israeli Jewish Attorney's First Hand Account," with Allegra Pacheco; 4/30, "Why White Affluent People need Social Justice Now," with Mary Hobgood; FLT Studies, Gale Yee, Episcopal Divinity School, 99 Brattle St, Cambridge MA 02136; 617/868-3450
Women on Top Theatre Festival,
thru Anti-Racism Discussion Series, 3/20, noon-1:30 pm; Community Change, 14 Beacon St #605, Boston MA 02108; with Julie Patino, president of Mass Association of Hispanic Attorneys; bring a lunch; to reserve space, call 617/523-0555 Partnership Education, 3/22, 5:30 pm; Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, 396 Harvard St, Cambridge MA 02138; with Riane Eisler; wheelchair accessible; 617/491-1090; www.brc21.org
Voices of Change (film), 3/23, 7
pm; Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 170 Park St,
Bangor ME 04401; discussion to follow on women & activism
worldwide; Pax Christi Massachusetts Annual Assembly, 3/24, 8:30-4 pm; Matignon High School, 1 Matignon Ave, Cambridge MA; $30 (includes lunch; scholarships available); keynote "The Spirituality of Nonviolence: A Vision of the World's Poor," by Marie Dennis (Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns); for more information, contact Claudia Hunter, 617/923-6204; hunterpaxma@aol.com Development as Freedom: A Conversation with Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate in Economics), 4/3, 5:30 pm; $10/7 for students & seniors; Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, 396 Harvard St, Cambridge MA 02138; wheelchair accessible; 617/491-1090; www.brc21.org Take a Stand, 4/14; $25-50; featuring writer June Jordan & singer Holly Near; fundraising event for Boston Women's Fund, 14 Beacon St #805, Boston MA 02108; 617/725-0035
Celebrate Joe Gerson's 25 Years
with AFSC, 4/21, 6-9 pm; Dante
Alighieri Society, Cambridge MA; to reserve seat or ad space in
program book, contact Rosalie Rippey, AFSC, 2161 Massachusetts
Ave, Cambridge MA 02140; 617/661-6130 x128
Peacework Magazine seeks Data Entry Volunteer; Peacework is a national peace & justice magazine dedicated to the movements for nonviolent social change, published monthly by the American Friends Service Committee; we need someone to help with data entry in our subscriber database, approx. 10 hours/month; contact Phyllis Cohen, AFSC, 2161 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02140; 617/661-6130; pcohen@afsc.org American Friends Service Committee seeks Director of Regional Development; letter & resume to Phyllis Cohen, AFSC, 2161 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02140; 617/661-6130; fax 617/3542832; pcohen@afsc.com Women's Action for New Directions seeks Nuclear Policy Associate; letter, resume, & writing sample to Kimberly Robson, Job Search: Nuclear Policy Associate, 110 Maryland Ave NE #205, Washington DC 20002; fax 202/675-6469; wand@wand.org
Untapped Massachusetts
seeks US Working Group on Race, Health & Human Rights is concerned with integrating international human rights concept & law into domestic work; also discusses the health of race & ethnicity in the US; to join this on-line group, contact Professor Randall, randall@udayton.edu Voices in the Wilderness, a group working to end the sanctions against Iraq, seeks Student Activists to participate in an intensive workshop on the potential of nonviolent direct action, help out in the office, & join the Chicago VitW affinity group in local direct actions; first workshop 3/12-16, others may follow; VitW, 1460 W. Carmen Ave, Chicago IL 60604; www.nonviolence.org/vitw
The Horizons Initiative
seeks volunteers to work with young children who are living in
family shelters & battered women's shelters; daytime
& evening hours available; commitment of 2 hours per week
for 6 months is required; training sessions held monthly; THI,
90 Cushing Ave., Dorchester MA 02125; Friends Meeting at Cambridge seeks individual or couple to be Friend(s) in Residence, to begin summer 2001; Applicants should be experienced Friends; stipend, benefits, apartment suitable for a couple; resume & letter to Friend in Residence Search Committee, Friends Meeting at Cambridge, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138-4816; fmcsearch@aol.com The Nuclear Threat Fellowship Program; $2500 fellowships for younger professors to teach a new course in the general area of nuclear threat; no discipline excluded; we are especially committed to courses that examine nuclear threat from a humanistic & ethical perspective; applications by 3/31; details, Charles B. Strozier, Center on Violence & Human Survival, John Jay College, 555 W. 57th St, New York NY 10019 Institute for Social Ecology sponsors summer 2001 courses including Sustainable Design, Building, & Land Use (6/1-22), Arts, Activism, & Social Change Workshop (6/8-17), Ecology & Community (6/23-7/21), & more; ISE, 1118 Maple Hill Rd, Plainfield VT 05667; 802/454-8493; ise@sover.net; www.social-ecology.org
Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
Summer Institute, 6/5-15; Brattleboro
VT; a professional development program designed to strengthen
& support the community-building & conflict intervention
efforts of peacebuilders from the US & around the world; participants
return to their communities with enhanced abilities to strengthen
civil society, work cross-culturally with the identified "other"
in their region, & serve globally in conflict prevention &
resolution; graduate certificate program also offered; Center
for Social Policy & Institutional Development, School for
International Training, POB 676, Brattleboro VT
Get the Money Out! Public disgust with the electoral process gives us the best chance in decades to win significant improvements to our nation's campaign finance laws. Call your senators to support the McCain-Feingold bill, & ask them not to lift its $1000 cap on individual contributions. For your senator's contact information, call 202/224-3121 or visit www.senate.gov; for more information, contact 20/20 Vision, 1828 Jefferson Place NW, Washington DC 20036; 202/833-2020; www.2020vision.org
NAFTA for the Americas Action Alert;
Canadian negotiators have released their government's position
on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) & agreed to
call for the release of the draft text at this April's
Summit of the Americas in Quebec. US citizens are asked to call
Peter Allgeyer who heads up the US FTAA negotiations at Turn Beauty Inside Out Day, 5/16; join New Moon: The Magazine for Girls & their Dreams in an international celebration of media images that promote healthy behavior for girls & boys; let's celebrate the inner beauty of conviction, caring, & action; organize an event in your area, or participate in our international ad contest (for kids up to age 16), entry deadline 4/15; New Moon Publishing, POB 3620, Duluth MN 55803; contact Linda Estel, 218/728-5507 x10; lindae@newmoon.org; www.newmoon.org
Not Labeled, Not Tested, & You're
Eating It; Despite overwhelming
consumer demand, the Food & Drug Administration's new
rules on genetically engineered foods still do not require safety
testing or mandatory labeling; the FDA has opened a comment period
which ends 4/3; for more information or pre-printed postcards,
contact the Center for Food Safety, 660 Pennsylvania Ave SE #302,
Washington DC 20003; www.centerforfoodsafety.org
Mobilization to End Sanctions Speaking
Tour; the Education for Peace in
Iraq Center has assembled a Spring 2001 speakers bureau to help
campuses & communities across the country mark the 10th anniversary
of the start of the Gulf War; choose among a dozen talented, informative
men & women who speak with authority & embody the spirit
of the popular movement to end sanctions against Iraq; EPIC, 1101
Penn. Ave SE, Washington, DC 20003; 202/543-6176; speakingtour2001@hotmail.com;
Feminism is for Everybody, bell hooks; $12 pb, $40 hb; 140 pp; acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted & welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, & society in this inspiring & accessible volume; also new from South End Press, Loving in the War Years (expanded edition) by Cherrie Moraga; Globalization from Below, the Power of Solidarity by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, & Brendan Smith; & Allies across the Border, Mexico's 'Authentic Labor Front' & Global Solidarity, by Dale Hathaway; SEP, 7 Brookline St #1, Cambridge MA 02139-4146 Fundraising for Social Change, 4th edition; Kim Klein; $35 pb; 403 pp; index, resource list; in this completely revised & updated edition, the legendary Kim Klein takes the reader through each strategy in a step-by-step process with the kind of detail that makes this one of the most user-friendly & celebrated fundraising books available; order from Chardon Press, 3781 Broadway, Oakland CA 94611; 888/458-8688; www.chardonpress.com
Catholic Worker Bookstore Catalogue
offers many titles promoting peace, social justice, spirituality,
& the Catholic Worker movement including new titles The
Bride: Images of the Church, Daniel Berrigan & Hope
Banging at My Back Door, Ed Loring, The Open Door Community;
Catholic Worker Bookstore Catalogue, POB 3087, Challenges to Equality: Poverty & Race in America, Poverty & Race Research Action Council; 369 pp; $26.25 + $3.50 s&h; with forward by Congressman John Lewis; ideal as a course text; PRRAC, 3000 Connecticut Ave NW #200, Washington DC 20008; 202/387-9887; info@prrac.org Contacting Congress, an up-to-date database of congressional contact information for the 107th Congress; includes email addresses & homepages available at www.visi.com/juan/congress
Radio Free Maine
offers audio & video recordings of recent social justice lectures
& events; recent titles include Noam Chomsky on "The
Current Crisis in the Middle East: What Can We Do?"; Julia
Butterfly Hill on "Life Up In the Trees, Action on the
Ground"; & sessions from the November 2000 conference
"The Second Nuclear Age & the Academy" in New
York City; RFM, POB 2705, Augusta ME 04338; 207/622-6629; www.radiofreemaine.com
Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex, 3/9-11; Columbia Law School, New York NY; a northeast regional organizing conference & strategy session for people working against, & affected by, the prison boom; CRE, Box 4053, 341 Lafayette St, New York NY 10012; 212/561-0912; critresisteast@aol.com; www.criticalresistance.org/creast Toxics Action 2001, 3/10, 8 am-7 pm; Curry Student Center, Northeastern University, Boston MA; with Joe Thornton discussing health & policy implications of global chemical pollution; Toxics Action Ctr, 29 Temple Pl, Boston MA 02111; 617/747-4362 Facing the Divide: Mobilizing Networks to Overcome Poverty, 3/18-21; Washington DC; includes plenary & focused networking sessions on the seven planks of the Campaign to Overcome Poverty, & a Capitol Hill breakfast with Bush representatives; Call to Renewal, 2401 15th St NW, Washington DC 20009; 800/523-2773; www.calltorenewal.com Breaking Silence: Healing from Violence, Emancipatory Liturgies for Social Change, 3/24; Cambridge MA; workshop with Diann Neu of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics & Ritual; Congregational Studies & Studies in Feminist Liberation Theologies at Episcopal Divinity School, 99 Brattle St, Cambridge MA 02138; 617/868-3450; ggriffith@episdivschool.org Days of Resistance: Close the School of Assassins, 3/29-4/3; Washington DC; with a new name (the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), the infamous School of the Americas continues training Latin American soldiers; join us in Washington for legislative workshops, organized lobbying, workshops, & a rally; for more information or materials to organize a support action in your area, contact SOA Watch, POB 4566, Washington DC 20017; 202/234-3440; www.soaw.org
617/627-5447; amy.west@tufts.edu
PEAS 2000: A Growing Odyssey,
3/31; Greenfield Community College, Greenfield MA; $45; focuses
on connection between learning & agriculture; contact Providing
Education through Agriculture for Students; Pat Garland Stewart,
18 Kraetzer Road, Ashburnham MA 01430; 978/827-1305; Quaker Peace Roundtable, 4/6-8; State College PA; workshops & panels; plenary by Joe Volk (Friends Committee on National Legislation); music by Aaron Fowler & Laura Dungan; Quaker Peace Roundtable c/o State College Friends Meeting, 611 E. Prospect Ave, State College PA 06801; qpr@quaker.org; www.quaker.org/qpr
Protests against Free Trade Meetings in
Quebec, 4/20-22; for information
on protests at the FTAA summit meetings, on a People's
Summit to run near the meeting from 4/16-4/21, on solidarity events
in the US, & on how to get involved with the Independent Media
Center, contact either the Maine Global Action Network, RR 1 Box
1013, Stockton Springs ME 04981,
International Rights of the Child,
Checks to AFSC earmarked for "Earthquake Relief & Reconstruction" can be mailed to AFSC/Development, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia PA 19102. To contribute via Visa or Mastercard, call 1/888/588-2372, x1. No material donations are currently being accepted.
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