Apr 99
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor
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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. |
Resource ListEVENTS Living our Faith: A National Conference to Organize the Religious Community Against the Death Penalty, 4/8-11; Airport Hilton, San Antonio TX; $75 registration fee + food & lodging; with Sister Helen Prejean, Toney Anaya, and Arun Gandhi; workshops, training sessions, local actions; contact Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project at AFSC (see below)
ORGANIZATIONSAmnesty International USA, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., 5th floor, Washington DC 20003; 202/675-8582; great web site at www.amnestyusa.org/abolish Mass. Citizens Against the Death Penalty, POB 3404, Boston MA 02101; 617/338-1040; mcadp@channel1.com Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty; contact Kurt Rosenberg, AFSC, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia PA 19102; 215/241-7137; krosenberg@afsc.org The Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project works nationally with official religious bodies, and at the grassroots to link individuals and faith communities; AFSC, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia PA 19102; 215/241-7130; pclark@afsc.org Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation, Renny Cushing, 2161 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140; 617/497-5273
RESOURCESAgainst the Death Penalty, Gardner C. Hanks; 208 pp.; $11.99 pb; "Anyone with an interest in capital punishment should own this surprisingly reasonable handbook of facts, arguments, & statistics." (Friends Journal) Herald Press, Scottsdale, PA, 1997. The Death Penalty: The Religious Community Calls for Abolition, AFSC; 28 pp; strong statements of opposition to capital punishment from thirty major religious organizations, along with contact information for each group; order from the Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project, AFSC (see above) 1999 Abolitionist Directory, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; 54 pp.; well-organized contact lists of religious, national, and state organizations (and some individual activists), with descriptions of their work; National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, 1436 U Street NW #104, Washington DC 20009; 202/387-3890; www.ncadp.org Johnny D, 1992, 15-min video; this 60 Minutes production uses a 1988 Alabama trial to show how the criminal justice system often operates when the accused is African-American; available from AFSC film & video library; Paul Shannon, AFSC, 2161 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02140; 617/497-5273 Campaign Against the Death Penalty, 1987, 30-min video; very effective presentation of the campaign by Amnesty International to give visibility to the death penalty in the US as a human rights issue; available from AFSC film & video library (see above) |
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