 Summer 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. |
Recent Recordings from Radio Free Maine Radio Free Maine offers an extensive collection of audiotapes and videotapes of lectures, presentations, and conferences related to social justice work from the past several years. Make checks payable to Roger Leisner and mail to Radio Free Maine, POB 2705, Augusta ME 04338; www.radiofreemaine.com; rleisner@maine.edu New titles (among many) include: Noam Chomsky, "A Lecture for the Indigenous Organization of Colombia on the FTAA, Plan Colombia, and the Resistance of the Indigenous U'wa People," with Roberto Perez (President of the Traditional U'wa Authority) and Armando Valbuena (President of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia), recorded on April 22, 2001, at MIT. VHS video $20; audiocassette $11. Howard Zinn and Ray Raphael, "A People's History of Everything," recorded on March 22, 2001 at Fordham University. VHS video $20; audiocassette $11. Daniel Singer, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Eric Dyson, Hilary Wainwright, Noam Chomsky, and Staughton Lynd: "The Freedom to Work and Think, the Freedom to Love and Aspire," (opening plenary session of the 1999 Socialist Scholars Conference), recorded on April 9, 1999. VHS video $20; audiocassette set $20.
Noam Chomsky, "Three Lectures on Freedom, Sovereignty,
and Other Endangered Species," recorded in November,
2000, at Columbia University. VHS video $25; audiocassette $11.
New from Progressive Presses South End Press: Sweatshop Warriors, by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, $18, focuses on immigrant women workers; Propaganda & the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky, by Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian, $16, explores the institutions that shape the public mind; Resource Rebels, by Al Gedicks, $18, discusses the plight of native people facing extinction due to mining & oil companies; SEP, 7 Brookline Street #1, Cambridge MA 02139; 800/533-8478 Curbstone Press: In the South Bronx of America, by Mel Rosenthal, $39.95, photographs by Mel Rosenthal and essays by Grace Paley, Barry Phillips, and more, capturing the complexity and vitality of the author's New York neighborhood; Poetry like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press, expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Martin Espada; Curbstone Press, 321 Jackson St., Willimantic, CT 0622601738; www.curbstone.org Four Walls Eight Windows: How Wall Street Created A Nation, by Olvido Diaz Espino, $27.95, captures the financial condition of the country at the beginning of the 20th century; The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, $13.50, tells the story of one of America's most influential & imaginative activists; Four Walls Eight Windows, 39 W. 14th St #503, New York NY 10011 Resource Center of the Americas, Latino Voices: Stories of Latin American Immigrants & their Impact in a Community, $7.95; The Human Rights Handbook: Effective Practices for Learning, Action, & Change, $19.95, brings together theoretical thinking & practical experience of educators working throughout the world; Bodega Dreams, by Ernesto Quinonez, $12, a novel about life in Spanish Harlem; Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance, by Leonard Peltier, $13.95, a memoir by US political prisoner Leonard Peltier; Resource Center of the Americas, 3019 S. Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis MN 55406 Beacon Press: Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, and Robin D.G. Kelley, $24, telling the tales of the Ludlow Massacre, the Woolworth's sit-in during the Great Depression, and the movie theater musicians' strike in New York; Lay My Burden Down, by Alvin Poussaint, MD, and Amy Alexander, $14, discusses suicide and the mental health crisis among African-Americans; Racial Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights, by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobbs, Jr., $15, shows the lessons of civil rights movement at work in a remarkable educational movement today; Beacon Press, 25 Beacon St, Boston MA 02108; www.beacon.org
Teaching for Change: Africa is Not a Country, by
Margy Burns Knight and Mark Melnicove, illustrated by Anne Sibley
O'Brien, $25, enters into the daily lives of children in
the many countries of Africa; Failing Our Kids: Why the Testing
Craze Won't Fix Our Schools, Edited by Kathy Swope
and Barbara Miner, $8, includes more than 50 articles in a critique
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An Anthology on Racism,, Antisemitism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism
& Classism, edited by Maurianne Adams, $30, over 90 readings
from experts in education and social justice on how to deal the
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