 July-August 2000 American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor 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. Views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of the AFSC. |
This poem, #1 in a series entitled "Latter
Day Prison Poems," was presented as a keepsake to honor the
recipients of PEN New England's third annual Vasyl Stus Freedom-to-Write
Award, presented in June at Radcliffe College. The award is named
in honor of one of Ukraine's most celebrated poets, and recognizes
writers who have suffered for the peaceful expression of their
views, and whose courage in the face of opposition has been exemplary.
Daniel Berrigan and his brother Phillip (who was unable to attend
the ceremony because he is in prison for his participation in
Plowhares vs. Depleted Uranium) were honored by PEN this year. My Brother's Battered Bible, Carried into Prison Repeatedly
That book A book! the guards They toss it back, harmless. -- Daniel Berrigan
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