February 2000 About Peacework Subscribe Now Current Issue Events & Resources Back Issues Back Issues Index 2001   2000   1999 National AFSC NERO Office American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02140 Telephone number: (617) 661-6130 Fax number: (617) 354-2832 Email address: 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.

Contents: February 2000 From the Editor's Desk 4 Behold a Pale Horse: The Secular and Spiritual Crisis of American Politics by Bill Strickland "How did America become this 'rough beast slouching' not toward Bethlehem but toward Hades?"   6 Kwame Toure - Ready for Revolution, 1941-1999 by Reginald Jackson A photographer's homage to splendid anger   7 Myth of Reverse Discrimination Revisited by Anne Braden A decade later, there remains a "solid white wall of resistance to admitting that a problem still exists"   8 The American Criminalization of Poverty by Dave Oehl "What do you get when you cross a booming national economy with homelessness? Fewer homeless people, right? Wrong."   10 Repeating History: Toxic Lessons from Five Wars by Hattie Nestel Agent Orange, Depleted Uranium, and the ghosts of Hiroshima   11 At Stake in the Battle Over Gays in the Military by James Carroll Can the US military defend the American dream? or Who's in Charge Here?   12 How We Really Shut Down the WTO by Starhawk Nuts and bolts of organizing while the whole world is watching   13 After Seattle by Mike Prokosch The challenges to helping a movement grow   14 The Fate of the Chechens By Peter Jarman Two wars in half a decade-what's going on?   15 Palestine - Dismantling the Matrix of Control by Jeff Halper Understanding the matrix and its workings is critical if Palestine is not to become merely a bantustan   17 Negotiations - No Illusions in Palestine By Doug Hostetter A durable peace for Palestine and Israel-only with "equitable distribution of land and water resources and democracy for both peoples"   18 Missile Defense: A False Sense of Security by Michelle Ciarrocca A look at the National Missile Defense system and a plea for arms control   19 Candidates Thoughts on Missiles By Bradley, Gore, Bauer, Buchanan, Bush, Forbes, Hatch, Keyes, McCain Does America need a national missile defense system to defend itself against nuclear attack?   20 Master of Space By Karl Grossman Despite a UN resolution entitled "Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space," the US military has a long range plan   21 Arrests Update   22-24 Pieces: Events, Campaigns, Gatherings, Resources, Opportunities, Letters

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