 June 2004 
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine
Sara Burke, Managing Editor
Sam Diener,
Pat Farren,
2161 Massachusetts Ave.
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Fax number: 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:
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4 Sexual Domination in Uniform: An American Value
by Linda Burnham
Degradation and weakness are still equated with the female in this man's army.
5 US Companies Sued for Torturing Iraqis
by the Center for Constitutional Rights
These corporations built their businesses by extracting -information from detainees
in Iraq -- by any means necessary.
5 Supreme Court Hears Appeals Challenging Unlimited Presidential Power
to Detain
If there were 600 Americans in a cave in Afghanistan and Al Qaeda decided to
hold them indefinitely, the US would be pretty unhappy.
6 Am I Human or Not? Guantánamo
Detention Undermines Human Rights Worldwide
by Amnesty International
All of the mobilization will have been in vain if, when all is finished, we discover
that in the process we have destroyed the very freedoms for which we fought.
7 10-Point Strategy to End Unjust Security Detention and Abuse
by Human Rights First
Provide all those in custody visits by the Red Cross -- and due process.
8 Prisoner Abuse: How Different are US Prisons?
by Human Rights Watch
A culture of brutality has developed in which correctional officers know they
can get away with excessive, unnecessary, or even purely malicious violence.
9 Don't Burn the Flag. Wash It.
by Molly Little
One boy said the fatherland's face was dirty and they had to wash it.
10 Boston Activist Charged With Felonies for Nonviolently Protesting
Torture
by Justin McIntosh and www.bostonindymedia.org
The "Abu Ghraib prisoner" and the blinded "Statue of Liberty" got
up on milk crates, the "Guantánamo prisoner" knelt on the ground
with his head down, and "Rumsfeld" stood, holding the chains.
12 Korean-Americans Promote Peace
Sanghyuk Shin
Regardless of their opinions on the North Korean regime, another war in Korea
is unacceptable to Koreans and Korean-Americans.
13 US Aided Indonesian Military Terror Blocking Further Aid Could Save
Lives
by John M. Miller
If terror is the use of violence against civilians for political ends, then
the Indonesian military should be considered the major terrorist organization
in the archipelago.
14 Peace, Conflict, and Nonviolence Studies in India
by Michael True
In light of the Gandhian tradition, Indian institutions of -learning have a
unique contribution to make to peace education.
15 The Challenge and the Promise of the Boston Social Forum
By Jason Pramas
The concept is simple: create a space where progressives can gather to network,
build alliances, put forward their best analysis of the present, and express their
visions of the future.
16 Activists Find Gas Guzzling Rappellant
by Kate Berrigan
Our 40' x 60' banner: "Ford: Holding America Hostage to Oil."
17 Preventing Genocide
by Donald Paneth
No lessons about genocide prevention can be learned if the genocides are blotted
out of the world's consciousness.
18 Dave Dellinger Remembered
by Jay Craven
Dave extended his unique articulation of protest, progressivism, and civil
disobedience from the 1930s all the way into the 21st century.
20 I Offered a Gift and Got Back More: Dialogue Group Responds to Hate
Crimes
by Saffiyah Ally
The hate that was targeted at them had missed its mark. It had not broken their
spirits.
21 Artwork of Empathy: An Interview with Yoshiro Sanbonmatsu
by John Sanbonmatsu
My work begins with feelings, with a perceived sense of injustice. I try to
confront the public by exposing the atrocities.
Letters: On Responding by Larry Dansinger
22 Pieces
Events, Resources, Gatherings, Opportunities, Campaigns.
24 Shoulder to Shoulder with Midge MacKenzie
by Ellen Shub
An award-winning documentary filmmaker whose life's work focused on feminism,
peace, human rights, and social justice
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