 June-July 2005 
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine
Sara Burke,
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. |
Contents:
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 Women Against Rape (WAR) Logo, 1972. Art Director/Designer: Carole Goodson. Part of "The Design of Dissent" Exhibit of political posters, books, buttons, and magazines, from the 1960s through the present, curated by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic at the New York City School of Visual Arts, June 3 - July 2, 2005. The catalog for the exhibit is also available as a book of the same title, published by Rockport Publishers. Please see stories related to ending men's war against women on pages 10-20. |
4 US Army Makes Surprise Claim: We're
Endangering US High Schools
By Sam Diener
Peace activists have long claimed that military recruiters put the lives of
high school students (and the safety of the people they may be ordered to kill
if recruited) at risk. Now the Army claims to agree.
4 Army's New Special Operations Van Invading US Schools
By Sam Diener
Army regulations forbid educational balance, requiring recruiters to "Ensure
that exhibits create a favorable image of the Army and current Army enlistment
opportunities."
5 Air Force Plans To Invade: 48 High Schools Set to Start AF JROTC
Research by Jamie Munro, materials from CCCO and AFSC-YAM, compiled by Sam
Diener
What's happened here gives you pause for thought. Are you placing your kids
at risk?
6 Army Recruiters Target DC, Hawai'i, Rest of Country
By Suzanne M. Smith and Sam Diener
To what extent do Army recruiters exploit your state?
7 Military Money for College: A Reality Check
By Sam Diener and Jamie Munro
57% of veterans who paid into the program are out $1200, and have received
nothing in return.
8 No Requiem for the Dead After Uzbek
Massacre
By Galima Bukharbaeva and Matluba Azamatova
To the government, we're just dirt. They don't regard us as human beings.
10 Stopping the War on Women of Color: Notes from the INCITE! Color of
Violence Conference 2005
By Vanessa Huang
"Remember that we are only guests here / refugees / nomads here / Where
the buffalo once roamed.…"
12 I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During
Which There Is No Rape
By Andrea Dworkin
Go and organize a truce. Stop your side for one day. On that day when not one
woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't
begin it before that day. Do that for me and for the women whom you say you love.
14 Call For Justice Weekend: Stop Torture
By the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Put US officials on trial for the crime of torture.
15 Honoring a Sister
By Sara Burke
With thanks to my sister, Andrea Dworkin, I say that if there is no peace for
women, there is no peace.
16 Opposing Prostitution As a Form of Male Violence: the Swedish Model
By Marie De Santis
Sweden passed legislation that a) criminalizes the buying of sex, and b) decriminalizes
the selling of sex.
18 Beijing + 10: Revitalizing Global Feminist Resistance
By Robin Lloyd
Global feminism confronts growing militarization, the -dominance of the neo-liberal
economic model, and rising -fundamentalism.
19 Mind the Gaps: Promote Women's Human Rights
By Ritu Sharma
The best investment donors can make is to invest in women and girls.
20 Pakistani Rural Women Organize to End Male Domination
By Meena Munir and Mrs. Nazish Najum
Study circles help women analyze and -mobilize around issues we define collectively.
21 Civil Liberties Hero, Fred Korematsu, Remembered
By the staff of civilrights.org
No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race,
ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned
from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times
for our democracy.
21 A Celebration of the Life of Elmer Maas
By S. Anne Montgomery
Elmer was a remarkable combination of humanist scholar and jailbird.
22 Pieces: Events, Gatherings, Campaings,
Opportunities, Resources
24 Arrested for Carrying a Peace Sign
By Joseph Gerson
When the Army invaded Cambirdge Common, we needed to let them know
we won't allow more young people to become cannon fodder. I told the
police, "The Common is public space. I am peacefully protesting
a criminal war, and I am not moving."
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