 September 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. |
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 Teacher Juanita Coleman listens to an 82-year-old student reading her lesson in an adult education class, Gee's Bend, Alabama, May, 1939. This photo is part of a series documenting the Farm Security Administration's (FSA) work in Gee's Bend, which included helping residents build a school, a cooperative store, and a cooperative mill. Similarly, women from Gee's ZBend established Freedom Quilting Bees in the 1960s to support the community and the civil rights movement. These quilts are now exhibited in museums worldwide. Photo: Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs, http://memory.loc.gov) |
4 Instant Runoff Voting for a Healthier Democracy
by Steven Hill & Rob
Richie
IRV could be passed into law right now.
5 The Fire Teaching
by Fred Marchant reviewing The Fifth Book of Peace
Kingston listens with utmost attention
and open-heartedness to the voices around her.
6 The Media Carta
by Adbusters, The Culturejammers Network
Without a media democracy, we lose the
power to shape our own consciousness, our own future. We lose
even the power to imagine what the future might look like.
8 Consciousness + Commitment = Change
by Jim Haber reviewing Globalize
Liberation
Articulations of our goals ring hollow
unless we imagine what actions we might take immediately to begin
reaching for the world these words describe.
9 False Profits
by Frida Berrigan reviewing Corporate Warriors
The trade association for private military
firms is called the International Peace Operations Association.
10 Oil's Well that Ends...
by David White reviewing The Party's Over
What happens when the irresistible force
of oil demand meets the immovable object of oil supply?
11 Knitting Together
by Elaine Mar Z
The lessons began when I was six or eight
or ten -- I forget the specific age, only the cyclical nature
of the ritual.
12 Reporting in the Flesh
by Lesley Hazleton reviewing Reporting
From Ramallah
Steel yourself. Her friends and neighbors
are well acquainted with both Israeli and Palestinian jails. They
have been detained, beaten, and tortured.
14 Scavenging Humanity
By Jonathan Fichter reviewing Notes from the Hyena's Belly
Mezlekia transforms from student to activist
to guerilla to refugee and back again.
15 Ironies for Our Time
by David Thoreen reviewing Democracy
Joan Didion has always been tuned to the
small details that suggest the big picture, to the personal or
family moments that represent the national temper.
16 A Preoccupation with Stories of Occupation
By Lani Gerson
These children, in stories set in World
War II, might as well be today's children in Afghanistan, Iraq,
and, yes, Palestine.
18 The Jane Addams Book Awards
Recognizing books that promote peace, social
justice, world community, and/or equality of the sexes and all
races while also embodying literary and artistic excellence.
18 The Coretta Scott King Book Awards
African-American authors and illustrators
of children's books had not been recognized with awards. From
that seed, the Coretta Scott King award was born.
19 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Winners
A primer on social change organizing and
advocacy, guiding the reader though everything from strategy to
research to analysis to organizing to building coalitions to working
with media.
20 Highlights from the AFSC Film and Video Library
by Penny Adams with Sarah Klinkenberg
Perhaps the largest lending library of
programs on peace and social justice issues in the country.
21 Letters: Dialogue on Same Sex Marriage
The tension between a national legislative
agenda and a grassroots organizing focus can fuel creative change.
23 Pieces
Events, Gatherings, Opportunities, Resources
24 The State vs Art
by Emma Miller
Artists face 80 years in jail for creating
bio-conceptual-art.
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