June 2001

Views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of the AFSC.

Index 2000

This Index 2000 was prepared by Peacework intern Mary Biggins, a graduating senior at Concord/Sudbury (MA) Regional High School.

AFRICA/ASIA/PACIFIC Repeating History: Toxic Lessons from Five Wars (Feb); Appeals for Solidarity with Burma (Mar); Burma: Upcoming Events (Mar); What is the Massachusetts Burma Law, and Does it Matter? (Mar); Vietnam Remembered (Apr); China, NTR, and Liberal Imperialism (Apr); Debt Relief for Mozambique (Apr); In Korea, a Demand for Accountability (May); Nago Spells "Seattle" in Japanese (May); No-War-No-Peace, and now Total War, Take Huge Toll in Eritrea (June); Training for Terrorism in Indonesia (June); Breakthroughs: Nonviolent Strategies for Peacemaking and Peacekeeping (Jul/Aug); Voices of Truth and Hope: On the Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Jul/Aug); The Killing Continues in Indonesia (Oct); The Sri Lankan Conflict: Broadening the Debate (Oct); Naming Genocide in Africa (Oct); A View of the Korean Summit Five Months Later (Nov)

ANTI-NUCLEAR/ANTI-MILITARISM Behold a Pale Horse: The Secular and Spiritual Crisis of American Politics (Feb); Repeating History: Toxic Lessons from Five Wars (Feb); Missile Defense: A False Sense of Security (Feb); Candidates Thoughts on Missiles (Feb); Master of Space (Feb); Gun Control, Please (Mar); Letter from Flint, Michigan (Apr); Wars Start in the Spring--about Mobilization and Threats of War (Apr); De Militarized Thoughts (Apr); Still Small Voice in the Nuclear Era (May); The Death of Joseph Terry Riordon (May); Protecting Children from War: What the New International Agreement Really Means (May); The Osprey & the Big Picture (May); Boston Vigil to Close "School of Assassins" (May); Missile Defense or Non-Proliferation: Where is Real Security? (June); Vieques, Yes! Navy, No! (June); AFSC Nominates Denis Halliday and Kathy Kelly for Nobel Peace Prize (June); Striking Back at the Empire: The Steady Resistance of Noam Chomsky and Eqbal Ahmad (Jul/Aug); Peace Action to Block Trident at Seattle Seafair (Jul/Aug); Breakthroughs: Nonviolent Strategies for Peacemaking and Peacekeeping (Jul/Aug); Voices of Truth and Hope: On the Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Jul/Aug); Questions on Nuclear Disarmament for Candidates for Congress (Sept); Vermont Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons to Focus on Congressional Elections (Sept); Playing with Nuclear Fire: Lessons from the Kursk Catastrophe (Oct); Citizens and Candidates on National Missile Defense and the Build-up of Nuclear Arms (Oct); Action Alert: Senate Mini-Nuke" Plan Could lead to Nuclear Testing (Oct); The Killing Continues in Indonesia (Oct); Masculinity as a Foreign Policy Issue (Nov); Review: Michael Ignatieff's "The Warrior's Honor" (Nov); Elections and Illusions: Seeing Double in Belgrade (Nov); War is Hell, Not Cause for Celebration (Nov); Nuclear Denial (Nov); "Beware Men Untouched..."--Air Wars in the 20th Century (Nov); The Age of US Hegemony (Nov); US Military Training: Exporting Democracy? (Nov)

ARTS/BOOK REVIEWS Books: Her War Story: Twentieth Century Women Write About War, Sayre P. Sheldon (ed.) (Mar); How "Hey, Little Ant" Became a Book (May);The Warrior's Honor by Michael Ignatieff (Nov); The Age of US Hegemony (Nov); The Wall Between by Anne Braden (Dec/Jan); SUMMER READING ISSUE (JUL/AUG): The State of Our Libraries; 1999 Prize Books on Bigotry and Racism; Beyond Harry Potter: Children's Books Too Good to Miss; Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky; Confronting Empire: Interview with David Barsamian by Eqbal Ahmad; The Lexus and The Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman; Drinking the Sea at Gaza and Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass; The Color of Crime: Racial hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions by Katheryn Russell; Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer; Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang; Parallax Vision by Bruce Cumings; Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change by Chuck Collins and Pam Rogers; No Alternatives? Nonviolent Responses to Repressive Regimes by John Lampen; Nonviolent Intervention Across Borders: A Recurrent Vision by Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan and Thomas Weber Honolulu; Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation in Africa by Bill Sutherland; Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva; Broken Vessels: Essays by Andre Dubus; Blanche on the Lam, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, and Blanche Cleans Up by Barbara Neely Poetry: "Fire and Ice," by Robert Frost (Feb); "Can't Tell," by Nellie Wong (May); "Father From Asia," by Shirley Geok-lin Lim (May); Comebacks and Counterweights (Jul/Aug); "The Conscientious Objector," by Karl Shapiro (Jul/Aug); "My Brother's Battered Bible, Carried into Prison Repeatedly" by Daniel Berrigan (Jul/Aug); Other media: Kwame Toure--Ready for Revolution, 1941-1999 (Feb); Streetfeet, American-ness, and Danger (Jul/Aug); Sebastiao Salgado and the Militant Photography of Work (Jul/Aug); King Hedley II: An August Wilson Work in Progress (Jul/Aug); Without Sanctuary: Voyers to Our Own History (Jul/Aug)

BALKANS The Fate of Chechens (Feb); Repeating History: Toxic Lessons from Five Wars (Feb); Feminist Politics in the Anti-War Movement in Belgrade from 1991 to 1999 (Mar); Wars Start in the Spring (Apr); Elections and Illusions: Seeing Double in Belgrade (Nov)

EDUCATION The State of Our Libraries (Jul/Aug); Finding the Light: The Library at Community Change (Jul/Aug); Beyond Harry Potter: Children's Books Too Good to Miss (Jul/Aug); Dunce Caps for Which Presidential Candidates? The Education Proposals of Bush, Gore, & Nader (Sept); If You Think the MCAS History Test is Relevant, Try this Exam (Dec/Jan)

ELECTION 2000 Candidates Thoughts on Missiles (Feb); Nader/Green Party Campaign Still the Best Hope Despite Glitches (June); Who for President? The Left is Split (Sept); The Left and Electoral Participation (Sept); Letters (Sept); Moderate or Militant: Will the Real Dick Cheney Please Stand Up? (Sept); Liberman, Democrats, and Jews (Sept); Winona La Duke: Yearning to See Some Kind of Justice (Sept); Dunce Caps for Which Presidential Candidates? The Education Proposals of Bush, Gore, & Nader (Sept); Ain't Fallin' for That One Again (Sept); Green Politics 2000: The Enigma and the Advocate (Sept); Questions on Nuclear Disarmament for Candidates for Congress (Sept); Can We Do Elections Better? Try Instant Runoff Voting (Sept); Citizens and Candidates on National Missile Defense and the Build-up of Nuclear Arms (Oct); Beyond Counting Ballots (Dec/Jan); NAACP Hearing on Voting Rights of People of Color in Florida (Dec/Jan); A Presidential Pause--Don't Push (Dec/Jan)

ENVIRONMENT Master of Space (Feb); Repeating History: Toxic Lessons from Five Wars (Feb); Urgent! Talk it Up (Mar); Why the Precautionary Principle? A Meditation on Polyvinyl Chloride and the Breasts of Mothers (Mar); The Politics of Genetically Engineered Foods: The United States versus Europe (May); Moments of Shocked Silence (May); Vieques, Yes! Navy, No! (June); Exporting Democracy or Undermining Human Rights (June); The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Jul/Aug); Green Politics 2000: The Enigma and the Advocate (Sept); Those Who Did Not "Work it Out" in The Hague (Dec/Jan)

GLOBALIZATION How We Really Shut Down the WTO (Feb); After Seattle (Feb); The Meaning of April 16 (May); Competing Visions of a Globalized Future (Jul/Aug); The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Jul/Aug); New England Global Action Conference (Nov); Free Trade Area of the Americas (Dec/Jan); The Modern Dance of Imperialism (Dec/Jan)

HUMAN RIGHTS Myth of Reverse Discrimination Revisited (Feb); At Stake in the Battle Over Gays in the Military (Feb); Why the Precautionary Principle? A Meditation on Polyvinyl Chloride and the Breasts of Mothers (Mar); Lesbians Build Bridges in Brooklyn (Mar); Selected Protests, Arrests, and Actions (Mar); Defending Colombia (Mar); What's Up with Pacifica? (Mar); With a human being who's about to be killed (Apr); Thinking About Amadou Diallo (Apr); No Power Like The Youth (Apr); Democratic Organizing for a Democratic Society (Apr); Open Letter, April 17 (May); Moments of Shocked Silence (May); Exporting Democracy or Undermining Human Rights (June); Briefly Noted (Jul/Aug)

JUSTICE/THE LEGAL SYSTEM/THE DEATH PENALTY Arrests Update (Feb); With a human being who's about to be killed (Apr); Mumia Prison Walk (Apr); Thinking about Amadou Diallo (Apr); Demonstrators Subject to Widespread Police Abuse (May); Open Letter, April 17 (May); Speaking Out on the Innocence of Leonard Peltier (June); Breakthroughs: Nonviolent Strategies for Peacemaking and Peacekeeping (Jul/Aug); Black, Poor, and Incarcerated: Criminal Justice in America (Jul/Aug); Massachusetts Interfaith Prison Pilgrimage (Oct); Racism, Prison, and the Future of Black America (Nov); Justice is What Love Sounds Like: The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. (Dec/Jan); Massachusetts Prison Pilgrimage--Unmasking the Truths behind the Prison-Industrial Complex (Dec/Jan); Imagine Living in your Bathroom (Dec/Jan); So I am able to be Versatile and Survive (Dec/Jan); Church People used to Donate Warm Jackets; the Warden Canceled that (Dec/Jan); A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases (Dec/Jan); Dodging Bullets: Building an Urban Peace Movement (Dec/Jan); The Color of Violence Against Women (Dec/Jan); Addressing the Contradictions (Dec/Jan); Moratorium 2000 (Dec/Jan)

LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN Defending Colombia (Mar); Resources on Columbia (Mar); Urgent! Talk it up (Mar); Triumph and Turmoil in Bolivia (May); Exporting Democracy or Undermining Human Rights (June); The Legend(s) of Saint Elian (June); Now It's Colombia's Turn (Oct); Enrique Alvarez: Presente! (Nov)

MEMORIAL/OBITUARIES Kwame Toure--Ready for Revolution (Feb); Justice is What Love Sounds Like: The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. (Dec/Jan); In Memoriam: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000 (Dec/Jan)

MIDDLE EAST Repeating History: Toxic Lessons from Five Wars (Feb); Palestine--Dismantling the Matrix of Control (Feb); Negotiations--No Illusion in Palestine (Feb); Why Arabs Should Lead the Fight Against Joerg Haider And Euro-Racism (Apr); Iraq under Siege (May); Middle East Report, May 2000 (June); Upstaged but Not Silenced, A UC Berkeley Senior Speaks Truth to Power (June); AFSC Nominates Denis Halliday and Kathy Kelly for Nobel Peace Prize (June); Striking Back at the Empire: The Steady Resistance of Noam Chomsky and Eqbal Ahmad (Jul/Aug); "The Mother of the Child"--Palestinians Speak from Gaza (Jul/Aug); Palestine "Intransigence" or Media Bias? (Sept); Iraq Album, Summer 2000 (Oct); The Failure of Camp David II (Nov); "Amazing Sorrows" (Nov)

MOVEMENTS/COALITIONS/ORGANIZING After Seattle, What? (Feb); How We Really Shut Down the WTO (Feb); Lesbians Build Bridges in Brooklyn (Mar); Gun Control, Please (Mar); Letter from Flint, Michigan (Apr); No Power Like The Youth (Apr); Democratic Organizing for a Democratic Society (Apr); After Seattle: Nonviolent Strategy and Tactics (Apr); The Politics of Genetically Engineered Foods: The United States versus Europe (May); The Health Care Revolution has Only Just Begun (June); Breakthroughs: Nonviolent Strategies for Peacemaking and Peacekeeping (Jul/Aug); Addressing Issues in the Streets--Philadelphia Report (Sept); Notes from a Quaker Peacemaker (Sept); A Tactical Critique of Philadelphia (Sept); Speak Up About Coverage of Protests in Los Angles (Sept); New Wave of Organizers--Young and Racially Diverse (Sept); Lessons from the Right on Building a Movement (Oct); It's not called Organizing for Nothing: An Editor's Impassioned Plea (Oct); War is Hell, Not Cause for Celebration (Nov); Nuclear Denial (Nov); Black Comeback (Dec/Jan); Beyond Counting Ballots (Dec/Jan); Free Trade of the Americas (Dec/Jan)

RACISM Behold a Pale Horse: The Secular and Spiritual Crisis of American Politics (Feb); Myth of Reverse Discrimination Revisited (Feb); Why Arabs Should Lead the Fight Against Joerg Haider And Euro-Racism (Apr); 1999 Prize Books on Bigotry and Racism (Jul/Aug); Finding the Light: The Library at Community Change (Jul/Aug); Black, Poor, and Incarcerated: Criminal Justice in America (Jul/Aug); Voyers to Our Own History (Jul/Aug); Racism, Prison, and the Future of Black America (Dec); Dodging Bullets: Building an Urban Peace Movement (Dec/Jan); The Color of Violence Against Women (Dec/Jan); If you think the MCAS History Test is Relevant, Try this Exam (Dec/Jan); The Struggle Against Racial Profiling (Dec/Jan); The Modern Dance of Imperialism (Dec/Jan); Black Comeback (Dec/Jan); NAACP Hearing on Voting Rights of People of Color in Florida (Dec/Jan); Addressing the Contradictions (Dec/Jan)

PEACE MAKING/NON-VIOLENCE Behold a Pale Horse: The Secular and Spiritual Crisis of American Politics (Feb); Upholding Local Democracy (Mar); After Seattle: Nonviolent Strategy and Tactics (Apr); Letter from Flint, Michigan (Apr); Wars Start in the Spring (Apr); 1999 Prize Books on Bigotry and Racism (Jul/Aug); Finding the Light: The Library at Community Change (Jul/Aug); An International Nonviolent Peace Force for the New Millennium (Nov); Dodging Bullets: Building an Urban Peace Movement (Dec/Jan)

POLITICAL/SOCIAL ANALYSIS Behold a Pale Horse: The Secular and Spiritual Crisis of American Politics (Feb); The American Criminalization of Poverty (Feb); How We Really Shut Down the WTO (Feb); After Seattle, What? (Feb)

WOMEN'S ISSUES Feminist Politics in the Anti-War Movement in Belgrade from 1991 to 1999 (Mar); Against My Will (Mar); Why the Precautionary Principle? A Meditation on Polyvinyl Chloride and the Breasts of Mothers (Mar); Masculinity as a Foreign Policy Issue (Nov); The Color of Violence Against Women (Dec/Jan); Addressing the Contradictions (Dec/Jan)

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