Contents:
September 2001
From the editor's desk
4 THE HUMAN CRISIS OF WELFARE REFORM
by the AFSC Board of Directors
We have yet to learn that the general welfare is our common welfare
5 Welfare: A Racial Justice Issue
that Demands a Religious Response
by Rev. Susan L. Starr
Religious people are called to challenge the belief that welfare reform
has been a "success" at anything other than punishing poor
people, particularly women and children of color—stories from the
field
7 Self-Sufficiency Standard: A New
Tool for Evaluating Anti-Poverty Policy
by Diana Pearce
It changes the question that is asked, and the answers given—hardships
are not about "bad choices" or "bad budgeting,"
but show a simple lack
of needed resources
8 Super-Rich Celebrate Lock Box
Looting
a spoof from United for a Fair Economy
Why raid our own trust funds when we can raid yours?
9 GLOBALIZATION—FOR THE WELFARE
OF WHOM?
Protests at the July 2001 Meeting of the G-8: Firsthand Accounts
from Genoa
by Stefano Agnoletto, Starhawk, and an Italian police officer Boston’s
Independent Media Center
by Emily Allen-Wiles
What the Protesters in Genoa Want
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
State Suppression of Independent Media Centers from the IMC Time
for a Real "Diversity of Tactics"
by Roy Morrison
Blood in the Streets: Reflections on the Terror in Genoa
by Sean Donahue
After Genoa: Why We Need to Stay in the Streets
by Starhawk
Another World is Possible: Scenarios for Change
by Dave Lewitt
14 GLOBALIZATION AND OUTER SPACE
CONTROL
by Gary Lapreziosa
Defending a global economic system in which the US seeks to remain the
controlling authority
14 Keep Space for Peace — Resources for International Protests
15 REVIEWS
Out of the Nuclear Shadow
edited by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian
Two Walk the Golden Road
by Wilson M. Powell and Zhou Ming-fu
16 TURKEY’S WAR ON THE
KURDS
by Agneta Norberg
Reality for people suffering from US and German policy—"You
have to tell this!"
18 IRAQ: Documents Show US Intended
to Degrade Water Supply
from the National Catholic Reporter
The US knew the consequences; it was more concerned
about public relations than innocent people
18 "Your children will have to live with ours"
by Rick McDowell
Over twelve trips to Iraq, I’ve watched hope fade
19 Protesting Sanctions at the US Mission to UN
by Frida Berrigan
Forty-day fast remembers eleven long years of sanctions
19 UN Sniffer Dogs Better Fed than People
by Felicity Arbuthnot
"I’d rather be a dog in America than a child in Iraq,"
said
a 10-year-old in Baghdad
20 REPORT FROM COLOMBIA
by Jim Harney
First-hand witness to the devastation of the Andean Regional Initiative
and Plan Colombia
21 ISRAEL’S ASSASSINATION POLICY
from the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights
Whether the victims are innocent or not, the killings violate the principles
of Israeli and international law
21 In Memoriam—Honoring Eudora
Welty
22 PIECES: Events, Opportunities,
Resources Gatherings
24 Peacework’s Pat Farren Lecture: Readings with Grace
Paley, September 20
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