 November 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. |
Pieces A Woman's Reflections on Life During War & Peace (art exhibit); running through 1/8; Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Saturdays, 11 am- 3 pm; Peace Center & Gallery, 33 East Adams Ave, Detroit MI 48226; Jane Bunge Noffke's original bronze sculpture & other work; jbkoffke@yahoo.com; www.jbronze.com Bring Our Troops Home Now (rally); 11/6, 11:00 am; Vermont State House, Montpelier, VT; speakers from US Labor Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace, & others; march begins at Montpelier City Hall at 10:30 am; Vermont American Friends Service Committee, 73 Main St #19, Montpelier VT 05602; 802/229-2340; www.afscvt.org Ecological Solutions for Economic & Environmental Security; 11/6, 10 am-noon; 11/7, 1 pm-3 pm; $20, $15 for students & seniors; Newton, MA; Urban Art Seminar & Tour provides a demonstration of solar heating, greenhouse living, & energy & water conservation at a private residence; Green Decade Coalition of Newton; 617/969-5927 Ethical Society of Boston Sunday Series, 10:30 am; Longy School of Music, 33 Garden St, Cambridge MA; 11/7, "What Do the 2004 Election Results Mean to You?" with Andrea Perrault; 11/14, "Creating a Saner & Smarter Drug Control Strategy for Massachusetts" with Whitney Taylor (Drug Policy Forum of MA & New England Prevention Alliance); 11/21, "Civil Liberties After the Election of 2004" with Carol Rose (Executive Director of the ACLU of MA); 617/739-9050; esboston@boston.ethical.org Converge/Emerge: Women of the World, 11/11, 7 pm; Lesley University, Marran Theater, Mellen St, Cambridge MA; Susan Orlean (My Kind of Place) & Barbara Sjoholm (Pirate Queen) come together to talk about art, adventure of women's travel, & the craft of writing all about it; wheelchair accessible; Center for New Words, 186 Hampshire St, Cambridge MA 02139; www.centerfornewwords.org Eyewitness to Occupation: Report from Iraq(speakers' tour); Mary Trotochaud & Rick McDowell, American Friends Service Committee representatives in Iraq, will speak about current conditions in Iraq; 11/8, Wellesley Friends Meeting (contact: James Spotts, jimspotts@att.net, 617/630-0842); 11/14, 7 pm, $10, Pleasant St Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant St, Arlington MA (contact: Arlington United for Justice with Peace, 781/316-2018, arlingtonujp@yahoo.com); 11/16, 7pm, Hanover Friends Meeting, Hanover NH (contact: AFSC-NH, 603/224-2407); 11/17, 7 pm, Concord Unitarian Universalist Church, 274 Pleasant St, Concord NH (contact: AFSC-NH, 603/224-2407); sponsored by AFSC & local organizations
Black Death: AIDS in Africa; 11/17, Voices of Inclusion: Disparities in Health Care Summit; 11/17, 8 am-3pm; John F. Kennedy Library & Museum; free admission & parking; breakfast & lunch provided; sponsored by National Conference for Community & Justice, 38 Chauncy St #812, Boston MA 02111; 617/451-5010; www.nccjboston.org Open House: Of Family, Friends, Piano Lessons, & the Search for a Room of My Own; 11/18, 7 pm; Simmons College, 3rd Fl Conference Center, 300 The Fenway, Boston MA; Patricia Williams (Nation columnist, author of The Alchemy of Race & Rights) celebrates the release of her new book Open House Buy Nothing Day; 11/26; for 24 hours millions of people do not participate in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, & the frantic consumer-binge that's become our culture--join them; for posters, clip-art, web banners, handbills, radio clips, or stickers contact Adbusters, 1243 West 7th Ave, Vancouver BC, V6H 1B7 Canada; 604/736-9401; www.adbusters.org
Critical Breakdown; 11/28, 5-8 pm; Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, 85 West Newton St, Boston MA; brings together people of all ages through Hip Hop, spoken word, & other forms of socially conscious performing arts; sign up by 4:30 pm; sponsored by American Friends Service Committee, 2161 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02140; 617/312-9190
Spreading the Word: Annual Gathering of New England War Tax Resisters, 11/12-14; The New School, Kennebunk ME; focus is on outreach to potential new resisters, making our resistance more visible, & two aspects of mutual aid, support & redirection; wheelchair accessible; meals provided; contact Stephen Soucy, POB 5510, Ellsworth ME 04605, sjsoucy@downeast.net or Larry Dansinger at 207/525-7776; invert@acadia.net Transforming Tragedy into Triumph; 11/13, 11:23 am; Greensboro NC; march to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Greensboro massacre when five labor leaders & community organizers were killed by members of Klan & Nazi groups & later acquitted; march in support of the Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission, racial justice, economic justice, free speech & the right to dissent; The 25th Anniversary March Coalition, POB 875, Greensboro NC 27402; 336/230-0001 Women & Water Conference, 2/25-28; Dehradun, India; presentations by activists, workshops, skill development, & time to share networks & strategies in the struggle to maintain clean, affordable water; sponsored by Diverse Women for Diversity, 691 Minna St, San Francisco CA 94103; 415/861-5121; crabgrass@igc.org
Peace Park Project is a grassroots community effort to increase the awareness of the human costs of war by building a stone wall with the names of soldiers killed in Iraq since the US invasion; you can help by working on finding a site for the peace park, publicizing the wall, helping build the wall, or with fundraising; Veterans for Peace, Peace Park Project, POB 347; Asheville NC 28802; www.iraqwall.org Prisoners for Peace Day, 12/1; put aside an hour & write to 4 prisoners imprisoned for their activities for peace; campaign pack available online; War Resisters International, 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DX, Britain; 44-20-7278-4040; www.wri-irg.org
A World Beyond Capitalism (conference) seeks volunteers to help transcend boundaries of gender, race, class, age, ability, sexual orientation, the English language, & endless theory for its 7/22-24/2005 conference; to join an email list & volunteer bulletin board email awbcbupdates@lfhniivaaaa.info; www.lfhniivaaaa.info Global Response International Youth Art Contestseeks entries from artists 18 years & younger; deadline 12/31; Art Contest Information, c/o Global Response, POB 7490, Boulder CO 80306; www.globalresponse.org/artcontest.php Global Exchange Reality Tours to Mexico; educate yourself about international issues through socially responsible travel to Chiapas, Oaxaca, or the US/Mexico border; areas of study include Tierra y Libertad, Culture of Resistance, Uniting Across Borders: Workers, Environment, & Human Rights, & Beyond Borders: Immigration, Militarization, & Free Trade; Global Exchange, 2017 Mission St #303, San Francisco CA; 800/497-1994 x226; www.globalexchange.org New Girls Fund for Social Change is now accepting grant applications; founded by young women philanthropists, this fund seeks to promote social change by supporting the issues of access to health care, prevention of violence, & economic empowerment with grants of up to $3000; contact Shaye Robbins, New Girls Network, 565 Congress St #306; POB 5135, Portland ME 04101; 207/ 774-5513; The Practice of Reconciliation Leadership(course), 12/3-5; Cambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA; instructor Virginia Swain (Director, Institute for Global Leadership); this course introduces you to a unique competency model that links personal, interpersonal, group/systemic, & global leadership skills to ensure respect for human rights & peaceful settlement of disputes; IGL, POB 20044, Worcester MA 01602; 508/753-4172 x3; www.global-leader.org
The Wealth Inequality Reader, Dollars & Sense and United for a Fair Economy, eds; 200 pp; $15.95; 25 substantive, readable essays explore the hidden vector of wealth inequality: its causes, its consequences, & strategies for change; illustrated overview offers the latest statistics in a series of 1-page snapshots, preface by Jesse Jackson Jr; Dollars & Sense, 740 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA 02141; 617/876-2434; www.dollarsandsense.org Our Culture is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge, & Healing in Guatemala; sliding scale; photographs by Jonathan Moller; preface by Rigoberta Menchú Tum; essays by Ricardo Falla, Francisco Goldman, & Susanne Jonas; prose & poetry by Humberto Ak'abal, Heather Dean, Julia Esquivel, Eduardo Galeano, & Francisco Morales Santos; proceeds go back to Guatemala; Spanish edition available; Jonathan Moller, 3245 Utica St, Denver CO 80212; www.jonathanmoller.org Pesticides: From the Fields to Your Table(video documentary), directed, filmed, & edited by Steve Dypiangco; looks at the reality of farmworkers in this country & their exposure to pesticides; Farmworkers Health & Safety Institute, POB 510, 4 S Delsea Dr, Glassboro NJ 08028; 856/881-2507; fhsinj@aol.com Sickness & Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health, Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer, & Oscar Gish, eds; $18 pb & $40 hb; internationally renowned experts show how privatization & reduced social services are having devastating consequences for millions of people; South End Press, 7 Brookline St #1, Cambridge MA 02139; 617/547-4002; www.southendpress.org Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers, Rick Anderson; $14.95; 200 pp; examines the widespread effects of the government's weapons, medicines, & bureaucracies of mass destruction on US soldiers; published by Clarity Press, www.claritypress.com; to order contact SCB Distributors, 800/729-6423; info@scbdistributors.com Alternatives for Simple Living (catalogue); resource guide whose mission is to equip people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly, & celebrate responsibly; includes "Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?" (a booklet with 10 free & fun things to do at Christmas), videos, books, bumper stickers, & cards; 109 Gual Dr, POB 340, Sergeant Bluff IA 51054; 800/821-6153; www.simpleliving.org Ministry of the Arts (catalogue); program of the Sisters of St. Joseph; products include cards, calendars, posters, sculpture, jewelry, Palestinian embroidery; many pieces that celebrate the feminine; 1515 West Ogden Ave, LaGrange Park IL 60526; 800/354-3504; deptm@ministryofthearts.org; www.ministryofthearts.org Challenging US Human Rights Violations Since 9/11, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Report; $24; 400 pp; paths for action against PATRIOT Act, Iraq war, censorship, deportations, detentions, "enemy combatants," slow student visas, library checks, budget cuts; 183 reports on violations of US & UN laws with law text; also from the same publisher, Human Rights Organizations & Periodicals Directory: '03-'04; $55; includes internships; MCLI, POB 673, Berkeley CA 94701; 510/848-0599; issues@mcli.org; www.mcli.org Journal of Palestine Studies (quarterly); sliding scale; published by the Institute for Palestine Studies it focuses on Palestinian affairs & the Arab-Israeli conflict; Spring 2004 was a special issue in honor of Edward Said; JPS, 3501 M St NW, Washington DC 20007; www.palestine-studies.org Let's Go Forward Together Now is the War Resisters League's 2005 peace calendar; $12.95, bulk discounts available; features influential writings & art on war, peace, & social justice from 50 years of the WRL's peace calendars; spiral bound; WRL, 339 Lafayette St, New York NY 10012; 877/269-0138; www.warresisters.org Iraq: A Journey of Hope & Peace, Peggy Faw Gish; $17.99; 296 pp; recounts the work of Christian Peacemaker Teams in trying to head off the Iraq war; Herald Press, 616 Walnut Ave, Scottdale PA 15683; 800/245-7894; www.heraldpress.com 
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