Part of the record-breaking throng (over 1,150,000 demonstrators signed in) who filled the mall in Washington, DC at the March for Women's Lives, speaking out for "Choice, Justice, Access, Health and Global Family Planning." April 25, 2004. Photo: Ramanujam Rajopal, ACLU-WA

2 From the Editor's Desk

4 Speeches at the March for Women’s Lives
Seventy-five years ago, my mother died following an illegal abortion. We must not let my family’s tragedy be repeated.

6 Base Intentions: The US Military Whitewashes the Exploitation and Trafficking of Women in S. Korea
by Vivion Vinson
American MPs still police the clubs where women who have been trafficked are trapped.

8 Najaf Emergency Peace Team Demonstrates in Iraq
by Mario Galvan
The soldiers we met inside this base, and the people of the resistance we met in Najaf, are playing out a tragedy being written by powerful men far away from the suffering and pain they are causing.

10 Sudanese War is Genocidal
Compiled from reports by the UN, Reuters, et al
About 20 of my relatives were taken away. We were crying out for rescue, but no one came.

12 Haiti: A Way Forward?
by Kevin Murray
Our number one priority is putting an end to impunity. Haiti needs reconciliation, but there can be no reconciliation without justice.

14 US Trained and Supplied Haitian Paramilitaries
in the Dominican Republic
by Amy Goodman Interviewing Dr. Luis Barrios
Information from lawyers, journalists, ex-military personnel, and current members of the Dominican military indicate that 200 members of the Special Forces of the United States trained these so-called Haitian rebels before they returned to Haiti.

15 Preemptive Intervention in El Salvador
by Chris Ney and Kelly Creedon
The Bush administration manipulates fear to tip an election outcome.

16 Afghan Prisoners Abused by US Military
Excerpted from Human Rights Watch
There is compelling evidence suggesting that US personnel have committed acts against detainees amounting to torture.

16 Army Condones Rape by US Soldiers in Iraq
Compiled from reports in The Denver Post
A sergeant accused of assaulting three battalion soldiers admitted to the crimes. His sentence: a reprimand.

17 Uncoupling Marriage and the State
by Amy Beth and Jim Jer-Don
We wish the work of queers and straight allies would be to forge access to all basic human needs universally, rather than creating limited access for a few to existing, and unsatisfactory, institutional offerings.

18 Reflections of a Con Con Peacekeeper
by Lisa Graustein
He interrupts me repeatedly, then tells me that I am not a Quaker. I fall for the bait.

20 Chain Reaction for Peace
by Hattie Nestel
Our affinity group maintained solidarity, which meant no special consideration for our octogenarians or teens.

21 Letters
On Cuba and the American Library Association

22 Pieces
Events, Resources, Gatherings, Opportunities, Campaigns.

24 The Brown Decision 50 Years Later
by the Editors of Rethinking Schools
We support desegregated institutions and schools because history has shown that power and resources in a racist society follow people with white skin. In this society “separate” has always been and will continue to be “unequal.”

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