Mar 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: March 1999 From the Editor's Desk 4 Calling the Question on Welfare Reform by Ann Withorn "We insist that our elected officials stop creating more desperate poverty for families" 6 The GrandFamilies House by Anne Gelbspan and Janet Van Zandt A place for those stepping in for a missing generation 7 Speak Out Now to Protest the Community Reinvestment Act The CRA has acted as a primary tool for directing affordable housing, small farm, and small business credits into underserved communities 8 Cambridge Mural Cries Out Against Cancer Epidemic by Genevieve Howe Memorializing women activists, celebrating political activism, condemning environmental carcinogens, insisting on the right to a clean environment 10 Women and Water by Susan Murcott "The Nepali peasant women who walked to this conference did so because water is a life and death matter" 12 Review: Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development edited by Jail Silliman and Ynestra King The resourcefulness and ingenuity of local communities of women as agents of global change: feminist scholars take on global issues 13 Women and Life on Earth Call to an organizing meeting for regional sustainable community 13 Turning the Truth on its Head in Cambodia by Paul Shannon Men the US once supported as allies it now condemns as mass murderers and criminals against humanity 14 Letter from Basra by Felicity Arbuthnot "If you are not prone to fainting, I will show you a baby born an hour ago" 15 Signatures to Abolish the Sanctions One Million Signature Campaign and a letter to the nation's students 15 Technology Down on the Farm: Time to Pay Attention Terminator Seeds and Superweeds 16 "Showing Cause" Why He Doesn't Pay for War by Ed Hedermann "[The IRS] will chase him down wherever he goes...[he has] many years worth of noncompliance on his record and has to be dealt with" 17 Nuclear Activists Sentenced; New Englanders on Trial Nonviolent activists: which law to obey? 18 Palestinian Homes in Danger by Doug Hostetter "In the second demolition of their home, the mother refused to leave her house..." 19 Open Letter to Members of the Philippine Senate from Friends of the Filipino People Proposed Visiting Forces Agreement would subvert Philippine sovereignty, violate the constitution, and cause social and environmental degradation 20 Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Crisis: from Alliance to the Brink of War by Dan Connell Two of the world's poorest but best armed states are edging toward regional catastrophe 22 Pieces: Events, Resources, Campaigns, and Opportunities

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