 September 2004
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Sara Burke, Managing Editor Sam Diener, Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Telephone number: 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. Views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of the AFSC. |
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Bread & Puppet Museum Open for the Summer daily 10 am-6 pm through 10/31; Hundreds of puppets & masks, cheap art, preparations for performances, lots going on; B&P Farm, Rt. 122, Glover VT; 802/525-3031
Interfaith Candlelight Peace Vigil, 9/10,
Common Ground Country Fair, 9/24-26; Maine Organic Farmers &
Gardeners Association, 207/568-4142; mofga@mofga.org;
Bringing our Pieces Together: Peace Building through Intercultural
Dialogue, 10/22-24; Earlham College, Richmond IN; with Aaron Miller
(former State Department advisor & founder of Seeds of Peace),
Ilyasah Shabazz (author, Growing Up X), Jennie Kiesling
(professor of history at US Military Academy), & many more
speakers & performers; workshops; Plowshares Peace Studies
Project, Earlham College, Drawer #105, Richmond IN 47374;
Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation, 10/23-25; Denver CO;
If you are dedicated to solving group & societal problems
through honest talk, quality thinking, & collaborative action,
this gathering is for you; with Jim Fishkin, Glenna Gerard, Harold
Saunders, & others; post-conference trainings 10/26; sponsored
by the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, POB
402, Brattleboro VT 05302; Close the School of the Americas! 11/19-21; Fort Benning GA; commemorate victims & celebrate resistance to the infamous "School of Assassins"; SOA Watch, 202/234- 3440; www.soaw.org
School Supply Drive for Children of Incarcerated Parents; for the second year in a row, we are helping these kids, K-12, gather backpacks, notebooks, binders, pens & pencils, & other supplies for the school year; monetary donations also accepted, which we will use to buy the items; CIP, Susan Burkart, 6 Hemlock Terrace, Waltham MA 02452; 781/899-6230 Keep Space For Peace: An International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space, 9/25-10/2; for posters or to learn about activities in your area, contact Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, POB 652, Brunswick ME 04011; 207/ 729-0517; www.space4peace.org OPPORTUNITIES Friends Committee on National Legislationseeks Director of Information Services (Communications); FCNL is a non-partisan Quaker lobby in the public interest; letter & resume by 9/15 to FCNL, 245 Second St NE, Washington DC 20002-5795; search@fcnl.org; www.fcnl.org
The Good Life Center seeks Residential Stewards
for Helen & Scott Nearing's homestead on the coast of ME:
a 1-year, renewable appointment for 2 people; apply by 10/31;
for information & application call the Center at 207/326-8211;
information@goodlife.org; Horizons Initiative seeks volunteers to play with children living in homeless shelters throughout Greater Boston; 2-hour weekly commitment for 6 months; 617/287-1900 x306; www.horizonsforhomelesschildren.org
Prison Library Book Drive; All books welcome,
new or used, hardcover or softcover, but no magazines; please
send books to Mark Suse (Counselor Supervisor), Northern Correctional
Institution Library Donations, 287 Bilton Rd, Somers CT 06071;
for more information call Mark Suse at 860/763-8731
Islam from a Quaker Perspective, Anthony Manousos; 18 pp; order
from Friends
Waiting for Rain: The Politics & Poetry of Drought in Northeast
Brazil, Nicholas Arons; 230 pp; 13 halftones, 2 maps; $36.95 hb,
$17.95 pb; also from University of Arizona Press, On Tuesday,
When the Homeless Disappeared (poetry), Marcos McPeek Villatoro;
UAP, 355 South Euclid Avenue #103, Tucson AZ 85719; 800/426-3797;
GrassRoots Recycling Network report on the harms of PVC in PET (number one plastic) bottles; www.grrn.org/pvc/index.html Boston Review: A Political & Literary Forum, $17/6 issues; essays, poetry, reviews, & a regular "New Democracy Forum" in which a wide array of authors offer perspectives on a given topic; BR, E53-407, MIT, Cambridge MA 02139; 617/258-0805; http://bostonreview.net Inside the Pentagon Papers, John Prados & Margaret Pratt Porter; $29.95 + $3 s&h; the creation of the Pentagon Papers, how Nixon decided to resign, analyses of what secrets were at stake & the impact of the publication of the Papers on American politics, an up-to-date treatment of government secrecy cases since the Pentagon Papers, & the reflections of many participants in the affair; University Press of Kansas, 2501 W. 15th St, Lawrence KS 66048; 785/864-4155 Lockdown Prison Heart ($10.95) is a compilation of 38 essays by Illinois prisoners; proceeds benefit Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation. Available at Amazon.com
BRIDGE: Building a Race & Immigration Dialogue in the Global
Economy, Eunice Hyunho Cho, Francisco Arguelles, et al.;
$30 + s&h; exercises, fact sheets, workshop modules, &
other tools compiled as a popular education resource for immigrant
& refugee community organizers; for only $10 more, also receive
the award-winning video Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy;
order from National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights,
10 8th St #303, Oakland CA 94607; www.nnirr.org
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