Feb 99 About Peacework Subscribe Now Current Issue Back Issues 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 1999 From the Editor's Desk 4 Middle East Report by Allan Solomonow On a sabbatical visit to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Israel, veteran observer sends notes from the field 6 A Call to Action on Sanctions and the US War against the People of Iraq by Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Edward Said, and Howard Zinn "The only way to avoid complicity in this crime is to do everything we can, and much more than we have been doing, to end the sanction" 6 Voices in the Wilderness Declaration Would you sign your name to this statements? "I have intentionally violated the UN/US sanction" 7 The Role of Civil Disobedience in Promoting US Democracy by Howard Zinn An historian talks about a"long and honorable tradition" in the US 7 Denis Halliday Tour on Effects of Sanctions UN officer who resigned in principled protest speaks in fourteen US cities 8 Sanctions Against Iraq--Crimes Against Humanity? by Richard Falk "It was a major finding at Nuremberg that individuals are directly accountable to international law and have a legal duty to ignore "superior orders"" 9 To The General Assembly of the United Nations by Ramsey Clark A petition to end "genocidal economic sanctions against poor and powerless people" 9 Some International Media Coverage of Iraq by Scott Gurian What one observer found on the web 10 Letter from Russia by J. Kates "Everything is new. But it's the same old life." 11 Inside the Whale Poem by Mikhail Aizenberg 12 The Dollar's Day of Reckoning by Lester Thurow The euro's far-reaching consequences for US monetary and fiscal policy 14 Review: Images of American Radicalism by Paul Buhle and Edmund Sullivan by Betty Zisk An invaluable resource, and some key omissions 15 Letters to the editor Critiques of Marty Jezer's"1968: A Rough Perspective " (Peacework, Issue 291) 16 In memoriam: Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. by Charles Ogletree Tribute to "a towering giant" whose voice of reason championed the weak, the poor, the downtrodden, and the powerless 17 Providence, Halfway Poem by Fred Marchant 17 Julian Bond's Message to Clinton's Race Initiative "Here's one thing--get Americans of European descent to acknowledge the privilege they enjoy because of their race" 18 Requiem -- Come and See the Blood in the Streets by Shepherd Bliss A minister in Chile during the Allende government remembers 19 Families United of Men Without a Country by Leticia Jimenez and Roberto Martinez AFSC staffers on the plight of immigrants 20 1997 Peacework Index 23 Pieces: Events, Resources, Campaigns, and Opportunities

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