 November 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. Editorial material in Peacework is published under a Creative
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Contents:
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 UN Declaration of Human Rights, Article 4: "No-one should be subjected to slavery or servitude." From a series of posters by Chaz Maviyane-Davies |
4 Torture and Other Secrets
by John Calvi
Either you are moved to act against it, or you stifle
and smolder.
5 When the Torturers Come Home
by Liz Keeney
I think it takes a lot to wound someone so badly that they can
do the kinds of things my father did.
7 Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide
by Andrea Smith
The project of colonial sexual violence establishes the ideology
that Native bodies are inherently violable -- and by extension, that
Native lands are also inherently violable.
10 With Gacaca, Rwanda Combines Traditional and Modern Justice
Systems
by Roxanne Lawson
Gacaca has the potential to be the most thorough process ever undertaken to
bring rank and file perpetrators of genocide to justice
12 The Nobel Peace Prize that Could Have Been
by Joseph Gerson
Since Hidankyo's founding, its members have traveled the world to
describe what they experienced and to demand the elimination of nuclear
weapons.
14 Traveling for Peace: Deciding
When & Where to Join International
Peacemaking Teams (review)
by Christel Jorgenson
Taking a Stand addresses those who have a sense of outrage, who want to act
but find the rallies and the letters insufficient, yet may have hesitations, too.
15 Torture's Dirty Secret: It Works
by Naomi Klein
The people being intimidated need to know enough to be afraid but
not so much that they demand justice.
16 The Tiger Cages of Con Son
by Don Luce
Using maps drawn by a former Tiger Cage prisoner, we diverted from
the planned tour and hurried down an alleyway between two prison buildings.
17 "General Pinochet at the Bookstore" (poem)
by Martín Espada
18 Prisons within Prisons: The Campaign to Close the Control
Units
by Jamie Bissonnette
Prisoners describe feeling "dead to the world." Life becomes defined
by deprivation.
19 Another Kind of Force
by Nancy Hastings Sehested
Where did we get the peculiar idea that further punishment and diminishment
of a person's life will create better human beings?
20 Human Rights and Victim Justice
by Renny Cushing and Susannah Sheffer
Justice for victims -- whose human rights have been so completely
violated -- does not come from violating the human rights of others.
22 Pieces (Events, Gatherings, Opportunities, Resources, Campaigns)
24 Tribute to Rosa Parks
from The Highlander Center
While Rosa Parks was indeed remarkable, her story is also about collective
action, willed risk, intentional plans, and mass movement.
Short Takes:
6 Bring Home the Mass. National Guard
6 US Military Recruiting Data Available
8 Resources on Sexual Violence and Native Organizing
10 Crisis in Darfur, Sudan
13 Thanks to Lobbying, "Bunker Busters" a
Bust
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