 October 2005
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Sara Burke, 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. Editorial material in Peacework is published under a Creative Commons Views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of the AFSC. |
DoE Rules Students Can Opt-Out Themselves Many school districts around the country have claimed that only parents can opt students out of the handover of school directory information to military recruiters. But in a vindication for activists, the Department of Education’s Family Policy Compliance Office confirmed in an email to a member of the Seattle, WA Opt-Out, Walk-Out Coalition, “we have determined that a school must honor a request made by a student who took the initiative to tell a school not to disclose his or her name, address, & telephone number to military recruiters.” Activists in Hartford, CT used this infromation to convince the district to delay handing over the names until their opt-out policy could be reassessed. For more information, contact: Carrie Hathorn, calni04@yahoo.com. 
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