April 2001
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Patrica Watson, Editor
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Contents:
April 2001
2 From the Editor's Desk
4 King's Spirit in Memphis, Seattle, and Quebec
by Jim Douglass
MLK's vision of a beloved community can fill the streets
of Quebec City in resistance to the same policies he gave his
life for resisting
5 Weaving a Web of Solidarity--A Feminist Action Against
Globalization
by Starhawk
Women bear the brunt of the violence of globalization, and,
despite the oppression, they continue to rise up--Women's
actions at Quebec
6 Disasters: What the United Nations and its World Can Do
by Ben Wisner
The earthquake didn't kill, but the buildings did
8 The Taliban and Islamic Teaching
by Azizah Y. al-Hibri
While the Taliban's reasoning is faulty, we must remember
that children die in Afghanistan because of Western sanctions
9 Still Bombing Iraq
by David McReynolds
The United States has used Saddam Hussein as a kind of permanent
demon, and in the process invented a new and entirely inaccurate
history of the conflicts involving Iraq
11 Sharon's National Unity: Shoring Up the "Iron
Wall"
by Jeff Halper
When the occupation policies of settlement, closure, and military
control did not break Palestinian resistance, the "consensus"
in Israeli politics was to reassert more direct authority
12 Interfaith Peacebuilders Program
from FOR's Middle East Initiative
Listening to both sides, helping repair the damage with the
Fellowship of Reconciliation
13 Bush's Nuclear Weapons Policy: The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly
by David Culp and Ned Stowe, FCNL
An interim report for activists, and a warning on the price
tag
15 The Bush Tax Cuts--Beware of Pretty Packages
by Chris Hartman
Who will benefit? What will be lost? Despite Bush's
proclamation that "we have met our needs," we face
a host of pressing public needs
16 An Open Letter to the New Administration and Congress
from the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees and fourteen others
A simple agenda for "Everybody's President"
17 A Message from Granny D
The same senators who think Bill Clinton was wrong to sell
pardons don't mind a bit when they themselves sell political
policy for campaign donations
17 Legislation by Regulation and the Creation of a Permanent
Underclass
by Chuck Turner with an introduction by Jamie Suarez-Potts
The state is trying to accomplish through regulation a denial
of rights of ex-felons that cannot be accomplished through law
18 In the Matter of Vieques
Testimony by Maria I. Reinat-Pumarejo
Sixty years of continued violence, insults, racial hatred,
ecological damage, and disease certainly drive people to self-defense
18 Full Moon Boat, Poems by Fred Marchant
Reviewed by Kevin Bowen
Marchant steers us straight off into the wreckage of our recent
wars
20 Justifiable Homicide
by Susannah Sheffer
It is up to us to speak of the shame of living in a country
that methodically and dutifully plans to put people to death
21 PIECES: Events, Opportunities, Campaigns, Resources, Gatherings,
Short Takes, Letters
"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've
got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with
me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't
mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity
has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me
to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've
seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want
you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised
land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about
anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen
the glory of the coming of the Lord."
--Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968,
the night before his assassination
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