April 2000
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Patrica Watson, Editor
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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.
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Contents: April 2000
From the editor's desk
4 Vietnam Remembered
by Doug Hostetter
It is impossible to capture the cruelty and folly of this war
in a few pages
6 With a human being who's about to be killed
by Sister Helen Prejean
The death penalty epitomizes the three deepest wounds we have
in our society: racism, our tendency to choose the poor to pay
the highest price, and our penchant for solving our problems with
military solutions
8 Mumia Prison Walk
by Louise Dunlap
In the anniversary month of state-condoned martyrdoms, a pilgrimage
to tap into spring's power and life
9 Letter from Flint, Michigan
by Michael Moore
In the house were guns, as there are in virtually every home
in this devastated and desperate area
10 Thinking about Amadou Diallo
by Marty Jezer
Law and order, and being black in white America
11 De Militarized Thoughts
editorial from YouthPeace
With each B-2 bomber costing more than 100 good-looking high
schools cost, YouthPeace says, "Enough! Time to take action"
12 No Power Like the Youth
by Robin Templeton
Outraged by Prop 21 and California's "War on
Youth," young activists are doing something about it
12 Democratic Organizing for a Democratic Society, by Roni
Krouzman
a review by Jill Hanley
If we believe that equality and participation in a democracy
are our rights, then we should organize that way
14 After Seattle: Nonviolent Strategy and Tactics
by Roy Morrison
While dynamic, nonviolent tactics can include destruction of
property, principled nonviolence does not include running through
the streets and smashing windows under the cover of a nonviolent
blockade
16 China, NTR, and Liberal Imperialism
by Joseph Gerson
Second and third thoughts are in order before jumping on the
anti-Normal Trade Relations bandwagon
18 Debt Relief for Mozambique
by Sue Dorfman
Even after the media lose interest, we still must focus on
the aftermath of disaster and the complexities of debt relief
and redevelopment
20 Why Arabs Should Lead the Fight Against Joerg Haider and
Euro-Racism
by Rami G. Khouri
Haider and the Freedom Party manifest a new brand of thuggery
masquerading as ideology--political demagoguery, moral charlatanism,
and naked exploitation of fearful people
21 Wars Start in the Spring
by Stasa Zajovic
We have learned to recognize the signs and words of war,
we have been listening to them and experiencing them for too long
a time. We are afraid every spring.'
22 Pieces: Events, Gatherings, Opportunities, Campaigns, Resources
24 Springtime in Washington, and other Actions
Keep Space for Peace, Nonviolent Direct Action at the WTO and
IMF Headquarters, Jubilee 2000 National Mobilization, Million
Mom March, Abolition 2000, Iraq Sanctions
New Hampshire citizen, Doris Haddock, who is ninety years old,
walked across the country (3200 miles) for campaign finance reform.
Granny D arrived in Washington, DC the end of February, and spoke
from the steps of the US Capitol, as she had on many stops along
her route. For more from Granny D: www.grannyd.com
"Shame on you, Senators and Congressmen, who have turned
this headquarters of a great and self-governing people into a
bawdy house. The time for this shame is ending. The American people
see it and have decided against it. Our brooms are ballots, and
we come a-sweeping."
From Dearborn, Michigan, Granny D had this to say:
"What villainy allows this political condition?--the
twin viral ideas that money is speech and that corporations are
people....Parents know that there comes a time when infantile
behavior persists, but the child is too large to do much with.
We Americans still can act in regard to the corporations we have
given birth to, but not by much of an advantage. Our advantage
will evaporate early in the 21st Century if we do not act soon."
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