July/August 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. |
August 6-9 Resources and Events EVENTSA-Bomb Victims New England Tour, 8/2-8/11; Iwao Nike and Seiroku Kondo, hibakusha from Japan, and Dorothy Purley, Pueblo Indian Atomic Survior, make public appearances in Pittsfield MA (8/4), Great Barrington VT (8/4), Cambridge MA (8/5-6), Storrs CT (8/7), Old Lyme and Groton CT (8/8), New Haven CT (8/9); for times and locations: 617/661-6130 Walk for Peace begins at 6 am, 8/6 in W. Concord MA at Starmet, maker of depleted uranium penetrators, proceeding to Raytheon weapon manufacturers' headquarters in Lexington MA for a 5:30 pm vigil; ends on 8/9 with a blockade of Raytheon's plant in Andover MA; Hattie Nestel, POB 248, Athol MA 01331; 978/249-9400; haleyathol@aol.com Beyond the Bomb: A New Agenda for Peace & Justice, 8/6-9, Albuquerque NM; commemorate the bombings at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic bomb; protest US plans to resume nuclear bomb production; call for the abolition of nuclear weapons; speakers, workshops, entertainment, & nonviolent demonstration; Peace Action, 1819 H St. #420, Washington DC 20006; 202/862-9740 x3038; www.peace-action.org/beyond.html Brandywine Peace Community Events: 8/6, Hiroshima Day, Lockheed Martin, Mall Blvd., Valley Forge PA, vigil at 8 am (the time of the Hiroshima bombing), nuclear age remembrance & nonviolent civil disobedience at noon; 8/9, Nagasaki Day, Lockheed Martin/US Navy Aegis Warship site, Centerton Rd., Moorestown NJ, vigil at 7:30 am, ceremony for victims of current US warmaking at 11 am (the time of the Nagasaki bombing); BPC, POB 81, Swarthmore PA 19081; 610/544-1818; brandywine@juno.com Demonstration at Seal Beach Nuclear Weapons Station in California, 8/7, 11 am; sponsored by the Long Beach Peace Network, 562/438-6505 Protest at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 8/6; rally & nonviolent direct action, 2:30 pm, Livermore CA (nonviolence training 7/31, 10 am-noon); contact Sherry Larsen-Beville, 510/663-8065 or Bruce Allen, 415/242-0906 August Peace Walk, 8/3-8, "Tromp Trident Trek" from Ashland WI to US Navy Project ELF near Clam Lake WI; orientation 8/3, Prentice Park; 52-mile peace walk begins 8/4; outdoor tent camping, group meals, discussions, music & planning for nonviolent action at PE; Nukewatch, POB 649, Luck WI 54853; 715/472-4185; nukewtch@win.bright.net Stonewalk, pulling the Memorial Stone for Unknown Civilians Killed in War from the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, MA to Arlington National Cemetery, 7/4-8/6; 508/652-1994; www.peaceabbey.org Generations of Peace: An Evening of Abolition with youth voices, peace activists & Hibakusha, 8/5, 5-9 pm, Grace Church, 56 Magazine St., Cambridge MA; for information, Cathy Hoffman, Cambridge Peace Commission, 51 Inman St., Cambridge MA 02139; 617/349-4694; choffman@ci.cambridge.ma.us A Family Event to Commemorate the Bombings, 8/5, 6 pm; Woodrow Wilson School Plaza of the Princeton University Campus, Princeton NJ; paper crane folding, dance performance, music, speakers (a Pakistani physicist, two Hibakusha, & a Gulf War veteran), & to end the evening all will float candles on the pond; sponsored by Coalition for Peace Action, 40 Witherspoon St., Princeton NJ 08542; 609/924-5022; cfpa@cyberenet.net Hiroshima Day Peace Concerts, 8/6, 7:30 pm, Calvary Baptist Church, Providence RI; music of Holborne, Bach, Couperin, Ravel, Liviu Comes, Marko Tajcewicz & Alan Hovhaness; contributions to benefit Balkan refugees; CBC, 747 Broad St., Providence RI; 401/461-7507; jconrad@tiac.net 8/6, 7:00 pm, Cambridge Friends Meetinghouse; Arabic and Albanian traditional folk music, to benefit refugee families from Iraq and the Balkans; 5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle St.), Cambridge MA; 617/876-7360 Faith & Resistance Retreat, 8/5-9, Holy Name School, W. Virginia Ave. & Neal St. NE, Washington DC; follows a dynamic of reflection-action-reflection; presentations by Sr. Ardeth Platte, Philip Berrigan, Marie Dennis, Felton Davis, & Hibakusha (atom bomb survivors); children's program available; contact Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, 503 Rock Creek Church Rd. NW, Washington DC 20010; 202-882-9649 Hiroshima Day Commemoration, 8/7, Seaville Friends Meetinghouse, Rt. 9, Seaville NJ; speeches by two Hibakusha and a slide show on medical effects of nuclear bombs and the Abolition 2000 Campaign; A-Bomb survivors will tour New Jersey from 8/4-8; for locations call Norm Cohen 609-601-8583/8537 CAMPAIGNSSend Solidarity Messages to the 1999 World Conference Against A & H Bombs being held in Japan August 3-9; use the web site www.twics.com/~antiatom; sponsored by Hiroshima & Nagasaki Days International Joint Action for Nuclear Free 21st Century US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is posting an international petition opposing US & French explosive nuclear fusion programs; Sally Light, Tri-Valley CARES, 2582 Old First St., Livermore CA 94550; 925/443-7148 Make Cranes for Peace; on 8/6 in unity with Peace Day (observed in Japan) children in Santa Fe NM will decorate the Children's Peace Statue with garlands of cranes; send cranes strung on strong string to CFP, POB 22745, Santa Fe NM 87502; www.networkearth.org WEBwww.middlepowers.org "Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons," summary of major issues involved with nuclear weapons proliferation & abolition hiroshima.tomato.nu/english/index_e.html features survivors' stories, Peace Park tour, letters from the world & more; designed by Hiroshima survivor Miyoko Matsubara www.napf.org/peacelinks.html provides links to many other Hiroshima & Nagasaki sites www.napf.org/calendar/events_current.html lists commemorative events in Japan & around the world |
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