Pieces Apr 99
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor
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. Views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of the AFSC. |
EVENTSPeace Vigils, Tuesdays, 6:30-8 am, Naval War College, Newport RI; Thursdays, 6:30-8 am, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Middletown RI; contact Charlie McGarry, 4 Farewell St. #104, Newport RI 02840; 401/848-9849 Peace Vigil, Wednesdays, noon-1 pm; protesting US war against the people of Iraq; Federal Building, Western Ave., Augusta ME; contact Tom Sturtevant, 207/377-2370 or Josh Jackson, jjackson81@maine.edu Domestic Violence Vigil, every Thursday, 8 pm, following the death of a woman killed by her partner or family; Longfellow Square, Portland ME; contact Greg Ford, 207/774-5939 x145 Violence & Society Art Exhibit, 4/2-5/2, Friday & Saturday 2-6 pm, Sunday 1:30-5 pm; Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Boston MA; 617/244-5581; istanley@argento.bu.edu Save the Children Refugee Photo Exhibit, 4/5, 6-8 pm; MIT Student Center, 84 Mass. Ave., 20 Chimneys, 3rd floor; photos taken by children in the Ein el Helweh camp in southern Lebanon; with lecture & video by project coordinator Peter Fryer; sponsored by MIT Arab Student Organization; contact Maysa Sabah, maysa@mit.edu Russia's Nuclear Legacy: Coping with the New Threat, 4/6, 5:30-7:15 pm; with Richard Falkenrath, Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons; JFK Library, Boston; 617/929-4554 Report of Iraq Fact-finding Delegation, 4/7; Cambridge, MA; this group, from Campaign for the Iraqi People, returned from Iraq on 3/28; for more information, contact Jennifer Moorehead, Boston Mobilization for Survival, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138; 617/354-0008; mobilize@jps.net
YouthPeace Experiment: A Nonviolent Weekend,
4/9-11; Voluntown, CT; $5-25; participatory workshops on how to
become an activist; sponsored by War Resisters League, POB 1093,
Norwich CT 06360; Hate & Violence: Racist Images in Popular Culture, 4/10-12; $15-25 per day; Cleveland Center, 1320 Sumner St., Cleveland OH; sponsored by the Committee of 500 Years of Dignity & Resistance, POB 620151, Cleveland OH 44102; 216/631-4767 Serenity Award Ceremony for Rev. Roy Bourgeois, 4/11, 4-6 pm; First Baptist Church, 90 North Main St., West Hartford CT; Father Roy is a leader in the 15-year nonviolent crusade to close the School of the Americas; music by Bread & Roses; sponsored by the Serenity Center, 90 North Main St., West Hartford CT 06107; Lynn Johnson-Martin, 860/561-2343 x2 Russia Today from a Historian's Perspective; 4/11, 2 pm; with Roberta Manning, a Boston College history professor working with Russian colleagues on the study, "The Tragedy of the Soviet Village"; Old South Church, 645 Boylston St., Boston MA; sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom; 617/364-3013 Torture, Terror, & Tyrrany, 4/11, 3 pm; Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME; a talk by William Shultz, Amnesty International; sponsored by Communiversity, 150 Congress St., Bath ME 04530; 207/443-2187 Tax Day Work Parties in Maine, 4/15; "Our Taxes & Our Labor for Human Needs" in Portland, Skowhan, & Bucksport/Belfast; Maine War Tax Resistance Resource Center, POB 776, Monroe ME 04951; 207/525-7776
Women from Northern Ireland & the Republic
of Ireland & Women from Palestine & Israel Envisioning
Peace, No Frontiers: A Free Concert of Irish, Jewish, Arabic, & American Songs, 4/15, 7:30 pm; Unitarian Society, 220 Main St., Northampton MA; Elise Young, 413/472-5343; elise@javanet.com
Worker Rights in a Global Economy,
An Act of Conscience,
4/16, 7:30 pm; documentary about tax resisters Randy Kehler &
Betsy Corner of Colrain, VT; Speak Out Against the Launch of the USS Winston Churchill, 4/17, 12:30-4 pm, Bath Iron Works, Bath ME; Jack Bussel & Mike Donnelly will speak; call if interested in participating in planned civil disobedience action; Peace Action Maine, 104 Oak St. #32, Portland ME 04101; 207/874-2826; peaceactionme@ctel.net Ethical Society of Boston: "Electronic Civil Disobedience, with Carmin Karasic, digital artist & website developer, 4/18; "Battlegrounds of Employment Law: Damages, Forced Arbitration, Health Insurance" with Rob Mantell, attorney, 4/25; all talks held at 10:30 am, at the Ethical Society of Boston; child care provided; Ethical Society, 1 Follen St., Cambridge MA 02138; 617/739-9050 Developing a Framework for a Just Global Economy, 4/21, 6:30-9:30 pm; St. Ignatius Church, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill MA; with Brian Herir, SJ, Acting Dean of Harvard Divinity School; contact Van Hardy, MicroVenture Group, 2 Claremont St., Boston MA 02118; 617/536-6555; microventure@earthlink.net Alternative Citizens' Summit to De-nuke NATO, 4/23, 11 am; 14th St. & Constitution Ave., Washington DC; join the call for the elimination of nuclear weapons, support for the UN, & a greater emphasis on cooperative security; music, speakers, & the presentation of a Citizens' Communique; sponsored by Fourth Freedom Forum, 733 15th St. NW #700, Washington DC 20005; 202/393-5201; amillar@fourthfreedom.org Conference on Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, 4/24, 9:30 am-3:30 pm; Shanklin Hall #107, Wesleyan University, 237 Church St., Middletown CT; $10 ($5 for students); with speakers Betty Burkes, Michio Kaku, & Jonathan Schell; cosponsored by AFSC, 55 Van Dyke Ave., Hartford CT 06106; 860/522-6995
Personal Callings to Peace Witness,
Patricia Smith in "Professional Suicide: A Day or Two in the Life of the Woman who Single-handedly Ruined American Journalism", 8 pm, 4/24; Wheelock Family Theater (wheelchair accessible), 200 The Riverway, Boston MA; $15 in advance, $18 at the door; sponsored by the Sojourner Feminist Institute, 42 Seaverns Ave., Boston MA 02130; 617/524-0415
HOPE Festival (Help Organize Peace Earthwide),
4/24, 10 am-5 pm; Brewer Auditorium, Brewer ME; Earth Day Shaker Heights: The Struggle for Integration, 4/26, 10 pm; a 1-hour documentary airing on WGBH; highlights the remarkable efforts of a Cleveland suburb to forge and maintain a successfully integrated community; The Struggle for Integration Film Project, c/o Stuart Math Films, 32 Cooper Square, New York NY 10003; 212/358-1020
Boston Encuentro (Gathering) for Humanity
& Against Neoliberalism, 5/1,
1-4 pm; Room 424, Academic Building, Roxbury Community College,
1234 Columbus Ave., Boston; monthly meetings to organize against
global capitalism, privatization, & so-called neoliberalism,
& in favor of humanity; May meeting topic will be organizing
for participation in worldwide actions on June 18; Boston Encuentro,
POB 204, Close the School of the Americas, 5/1-4; SOA's alumni are responsible for massacres, assassinations, rapes, torture & "disappearances" in Latin America; 5/1, noon-5 pm, White House rally; 5/1, 8 pm, Celebration of Hope concert with Pete Seeger, Bonnie Raitt, & others; 5/2, 2-7 pm, civil disobedience training; 5/3, 7 am, Pentagon vigil & civil disobedience; 5/3-4, 10-6 pm, Capitol steps vigil; SOA Watch, POB 4566, Washington DC 20017; 202/234-3440
Moms Not Bombs!
5/7-9, Luck WI; celebrate the original intent of Mothers' Day,
a universal declaration of non-cooperation with war-& protest
the Trident submarine system & its electronic trigger Project
ELF; speakers, music, education, & nonviolent direct action;
Anathoth Community, The Cellist of Sarajevo: Concert in the Key of Peace, 5/8, 8 pm; $18-50; Sage Hall, Smith College, Northampton MA; Cellist Vedran Smailovic, formerly of the Sarajevo Opera, risked his life during the war in Bosnia by playing for 22 days in the bread line where 22 people had just been killed. In his stand for human dignity & to honor the dead, Smailovic continued to play in the burned out Sarajevo Library, the destroyed Symphony Hall, & throughout Sarajevo. Benefit concert for the Karuna Center for Peace Building (www.karunacenter.org); tickets from Northampton Box Office, 800/843/8425 Ariel Moves, 5/14-15, 8 pm; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center; $12; The national dance company Aero, Inc. was born out of Dance Umbrella's International Festival of Wheelchair Dance, & this concert promises to challenge perceptions of traditional dance & movement; CMAC, 41 Second St., Cambridge MA 02141; 617/577-1400
Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Why Not Nuclear Abolition?
Memorial Service for Irene Johnson,
Money & Social Change Conference,
OpportunitiesBoston Women's Fund seeks Development/Marketing Director; letter & resume by 4/12 to Jean Entine, Executive Director, BWF, 14 Beacon St. #805, Boston MA 02108; fax 617/725-0277
Jubilee Partners Volunteer Program,
serving God & people from around the world in a Christian
community setting; JP is concerned about being effective peacemakers
& promoting justice around the world; JP has a Walk In Peace
program in Nicaragua committed to healing the damage of war; for
more information or to send a contribution please contact Volunteer
Coordinator, Jubilee Partners, POB 68, Corner GA 30629; |
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