 December2001/ January 2002
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 Weekly Vigil for Justice with Peace, Tuesdays 5:30-6:30 pm; Copley Square, Boston; followed by organizing meeting, 6:45 pm, at Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St; Coalition for Justice with Peace, 617/661-6130 Weekly Vigil for Peace at Park Street Station, Saturdays noon-2 pm; sponsored by the Boston Committee for Peace & Human Rights; for more information call Virginia Pratt at 617/464-7488 Peace Vigils, at Newport War College in Providence RI, Tuesdays 7-9 am; at Undersea Warfare Center in Middletown RI, Thursdays 3:30-5 pm; contact Rhode Island Mobilization for Peace & Justice, POB 23157, Providence RI 02903-4102 Bethlehem & the Birth of a Palestinian State, 12/23, 11 am; Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116; child care provided; for more information & a list of future events, contact Rev. David Carl Olson, 617/266-6710 In the Footsteps of the Freedom Fighters: Photographs from Alabama, Georgia, & North Carolina, 1/6-30; Friends Meeting at Cambridge, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge (near Harvard Square); these black & white photos depict organizations in Georgia, Alabama, & North Carolina providing social services & advocating for justice; Reception 1/13, 12:30-2 pm; slide how "Delta Passage, a Journey Home" 1/24, 7:30 pm; gallery open 9 am-4 pm, M-Fri; contact Skip Schiel, 617/441-7756; schiel@ccae.org; www.ccae.org/~schiel
The Good War & Those Who Refused to Fight It will be
broadcast 1/15, 10 pm, nationwide; it is also available on videotape
for community work & education from the Independent Television
Service; narrated by Ed Asner, The Good War is a timely
1-hour documentary about the American conscientious objectors
who refused to fight in WWII; discussion guide & community
action guide also available to help in setting up a screening;
ITVS, 51 Federal St (1st floor), San Francisco CA 94107 or Mary
Lugo, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Direct Action & Civil Disobedience, 1/21, noon; Lockheed Martin, mall & Goddard Blvds., Valley Forge PA; Lockheed Martin is the world's largest weapons corporation; to participate in civil disobedience, call Brandywine Peace Community by 1/10; Brandywine Peace Community, POB 81, Swarthmore PA 19081; 610/544-1818 Changing Maine, 1/26, 8:30 am-4 pm (snow date 2/23); Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 209 Eastern Ave, Augusta ME: focusing on building multi-issue grassroots groups throughout Maine; sponsored by INVERT/Resources for Organizing & Social Change, POB 776, Monroe ME 04951; Claire Gelinas at 207/674-2358; rutabaga@megalink.net
Inside the West Wing: Women Do Make a Difference, 1/30,
7 pm; 1 Billings Park, Newton MA; Betsy Myers, Deputy Assistant
to President Clinton & director of the first White House Office
for Women's Initiatives & Outreach, will discuss the
importance of bringing women's perspectives on policy issues
to Washington; please call ahead to Freda Rebelsky, 781/643-6740
Save Adult Education in Massachusetts; Call your state legislators, or better yet, visit them to tell them they must restore the $13 million they have cut from adult ed programs; the cuts will mean that many programs will have to shut down mid-year.
Oppose Bush's Military Tribunals! For updates, talking
points, & background materials, contact Citizens for Political
Participation & Action (CPPAX),
The Peace & Justice Center of
Equity Trust seeks Executive Director, & Office Manager;
ET is a small but growing organization with a national program
of land reform & community development finance; inquiries
regarding either position to ET, 539 Beach Pond Rd, Voluntown
CT 06384;
Quaker United Nations Office seeks
Norfolk Catholic Worker seeks people interested in feeding
& sheltering homeless & poor people & in nonviolently
resisting war; community living, room, board, 7 a very small stipend
available; Norfolk Catholic Worker, 1321 W. 38th St, Norfolk VA
23508; Civil Society Seminar on "A Force More Powerful": Studies in Mass Nonviolent Social Movements, 1/10, 1/24, 2/7, 2/21, 3/7, 3/21; AFSC, 2161 Mass. Ave, Cambridge MA 02140; 1st Thursdays video, 3rd Thursdays reading & discussion; pre-register with Brit Eckhart, 617/722-2637 x2; juniper@greennet.net
Advanced Training for Social Action Trainers, 1/29-2/3
(an in-depth week with George Lakey); you will learn the art of
emergent design, explore group dynamics, increase your ability
to cross cultural barriers, & more! A week of rejuvenation
for trainers & teachers; Training for Change,
Woodbury College Weekend Mediation/Conflict Management Program;
Peacemaker Training Institute; 1/2-8; Bangor PA; helps
youth ages 17-25 become more effective peace & justice leaders;
developed by the Fellowship of Reconciliation; Kirkridge Retreat
& Study Center, Bangor PA; POB 271, Nyack, NY 10960; Building & Maintaining an EEO Workplace, 1/29, 8-10 am; Massachusetts Bar Association, 20 West St, Boston MA; $10; walk-ins welcome, but advance registration appreciated; sponsored by Affirmative Action Voices, POB 380928, Cambridge MA 02238-0928; 617/876-4185 Environmental & Labor Delegation to Colombia: Impacts of US Drug War Policy, 1/15-27; sponsored by Witness for Peace; for application & information contact Elizabeth Miller, 202/588-1471; miller@witnessforpeace.org "If I Made The Movies" Essay Contest; this is a chance for kids to celebrate Turn Beauty Inside Out Day by sending filmmakers the message that girls & women should be portrayed as strong, independent, fully developed characters; kids 16 & under are invited to send an essay of 600 words or less, focusing on a movie made in the past 5 years & on how it could be changed to send girls & women a more positive message; postmarked or Emailed by 2/28 to New Moon Publishing, POB 3620, Duluth MN 55803; newmoon@newmoon.org; www.newmoon.org
Peace Studies & Peace Journalism in Costa Rica; a 10-week
study course dealing with social justice, human rights, ethics
in journalism, researching & documenting intolerance in media,
researching & preparing articles for publication, & radio
& news production; with elective Spanish language training;
students live with a Costa Rican host family; session start dates
for 2002: 3/24, 6/9, 9/1; sponsored by Radio For Peace International
& the International Center for Human Rights in Media; RFPI,
POB 025292, Miami FL 33102; 506/205-9092; www.rfpi.org/ipc.html
Peace Action Maine offers a weekly Email bulletin of responses to the war in Afghanistan & other peace & justice events; sign up at peaceactionme@ctel.net If You Are Seeking Conscientious Objector Status, contact one of these organizations: Central Committee for Conscientious Objection, 1515 Cherry St, Philadelphia PA 19102, 215/563-8787, www.objector.org; Center on Conscience & War, 1830 Connecticut Ave N@, Washington DC 20009, 202/483-2220; American Friends Service Committee's Youth & Militarism Program, 1501 Cherry St, Philadelphia PA 19102, 215/241-7176, www.afsc.org Interactive Workshop on Racism in the Media; A 2-day workshop presented at your location by the International Center for Human Rights in Media, dealing with extreme hate groups (Nazis, skinheads, white supremacists, violent homophobes, etc.), their use of media & the Internet to proliferate their messages of hate internationally, the provocation of violence & terrorism resulting from hate & intolerance, & how individuals, communities & educators can respond; for information on how to bring this workshop to your university, organization, or community, contact Gilbert Carmichael, 506/205-9092; info@rfpi.org Peace Resources from Syracuse Cultural Workers is an 8-page pamphlet with excerpts from helpful speeches & articles, facts on Islam, lists of web sites & periodicals, & ordering information for buttons, signs, SCW's own beautiful 2002 Peace Calendar; SCW, Box 6367, Syracuse NY 13217; 315/474-1132; www.syrculturalworkers.org
100 Fires Books, a comprehensive, fully searchable, social
change on-line bookstore; 1200 titles in stock & climbing
fast; enormous diversity of issues; books from every major independent
social change-oriented publisher; fully searchable by title, author,
keyword, or by clicking on any one of 50 general subject headings;
credit card orders placed via secure server on-line (or by mail
in a check); www.100fires.com
New Year's Silent Retreat, 12/30-1/1; Deerfield
MA; A return to silence as an alternative to traditional celebrations;
support & renewal for nonviolent living; Woolman Hill, New
England Quaker Center, 107 Keets Rd, Deerfield MA 01342;
Biotechnology, Agriculture, & Racism,
Let the Trumpet Sound--Nonviolence Working in our World,
1/20-22; New York City; Join the War Resisters League, Voices
in the Wilderness, & the Kairos community for 3 days of education,
& action highlighting the works & words of Martin Luther
King, Jr.; for list of events & speakers, & to register,
contact Voices in the Wilderness, 1460 W. Carmen Ave, Chicago
IL 60640; Quakers & the Global Food Chain, 3/1-3; Deerfield MA; Facing globalization, grounded in solid information & faithfulness; with David Morse & Debbie Humphries; Woolman Hill, New England Quaker Center, 107 Keets Rd, Deerfield MA 01342; 413/774-3431; www.woolmanhill.org
Selma to Montgomery: A Kirkridge Civil Rights Pilgrimage to
Alabama,
Color of Violence 2002: Building a Movement, 3/15-17, 2002;
Chicago IL; sliding scale registration fees; We will work on building
a movement to end violence against women of color in all its forms;
speakers include Angela Davis, Cherie Moraga, Stormy Ogden, Grace
Chang; workshops & organizing sessions; sponsored by Incite!
415/553-3837; incite_national@yahoo.com; complete conference schedule
& registration form at incite-national.org
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This new report from the American Friends Service Committee looks at the rapidly changing panorama challenging basic constitutional protections and civil liberties for people in the US. The report explores developments in the areas of criminal justice and immigrant rights, including the upsurge in hate violence toward immigrants and Muslims; racial profiling; detention without charge for more than a thousand immigrants; and other abuses of authority by law-enforcement and immigration officials. "Hate violence, abuse of authority, and racial profiling are not unrelated issues," said Rachael Kamel, education coordinator for AFSC's Community Relations Unit. "All target communities that are defined as expendable within the larger society; all promise a safety they can never deliver from a danger that is never defined." After September 11: Standing on the Brink of a "Brave New World" is part of the AFSC's Justice Visions series. It is available for free download from www.afsc.org/JusticeVisions.htm. Printed copies may be requested from cruweb@afsc.org or by calling 215/241-7126.
Earlier Justice Visions publications include In a Time of Broken
Bones: A Call to Dialogue on Hate Violence and the Limitations
of Hate Crimes Legislation. This in-depth working paper explores
the perils of relying on "penalty enhancements" to
counter hate violence, and lifts up an alternative vision of community-
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Compiled by William Thompson, PhD (wthomson@umich.edu) At <government.aol.com> you can easily find out who your US Senators and Representatives are, who their staff people are, and how to reach them.
And here are a few other important people to address: President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice:
The White House
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Phone: 202/647-4000
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Women Leaders Online suggests several "highly credible" groups that have long worked for the people of Afghanistan, and are currently accepting contributions. These include: Afghan Women's Mission, 260 S. Lake Avenue, PMB 165, Pasadena CA 91101; www.afghanwomensmission.org The Feminist Majority, 1600 Wildon Blvd. #801, Arlington VA 22209; 703/522-2214; www.feminist.org
InterAction, an on-line association of relief and service
organizations, also has an extensive list of member groups doing
work with Afghan refugees; www.interaction.org
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Hip-Hop for the Holidays; Critical Breakdown, a project of AFSC's Urban Youth Program, has produced a CD with 26 tracks of socially conscious, positive hip-hop and spoken word poetry, recorded at its monthly open-mic event in Boston; $12; pick up a copy at the AFSC office in Cambridge (2161 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA) or order from AFSC Literature Resources at 888/588-2372 Leonard Peltier Holiday Gift Drive for the children of the Pine Ridge Lakota Nation in South Dakota, organized annually by Leonared Peltier & supporters; new toys, winter clothing, & blankets welcomed, & distributed in Leonard's name; send gifts to Roselyn Jumping Bull, POB 42, Oglala SD 57764; for more information, contact the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, POB 583, Lawrence KS 66044; 785/842-5774; www.freepeltier.org Syracuse Cultural Workers Peace Calendar; $12.95; with a glorious picture of frog-headed can-can dancers on the cover, & many other gift items as well; to make an order or request a catalogue, SCW, Box 6367, Syracuse NY 13217; 315/474-1132; www.syrculturalworkers.org www.donnellycolt.com for the best in progressive activist resources: buttons, stickers, posters, t-shirts, mugs & many other peace, freedom & justice items available 24 hours a day; ask us about our school fundraising program; Donnelly/Colt, Box 188, hampton CT 06247; 860/455-9621 2001-2002 TRUCE Toy Action Guide contains information on how to select toys that promote positive play, recommendations for "Toys for Healthy & Creative Play," and a list of "Toys and Toy Trends to Avoid"; visit www.truceteachers.org |
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