September 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. |
Tribute to Pat Farren The Alderman-Farren Family and Peacework We will also bear tribute to Pat in the best way we know how-by honoring two projects that exemplify his dedication to peace, justice, and community empowerment: Stonewalk and the Hip Hop Youth Tour of Civil Rights sites in the American south. Thursday, September 16, 1999 6:00 - 7:00 Reception and refreshments, 7:00 - 9:00 Gathering in the Quaker Meeting House Slideshow organized by Glenda, Caitlin, and Jesse Singing with Ben Tousley Presentations about Stonewalk (Lewis Randa) and Project Hip Hop (Kazi Touré and friends) Sharing and silence: a time for all of us to remember and rejoice in Pat's life For directions, please call AFSC, 617/661-6130 Donations: The Pat Farren Fund for Peacework Pat expressed his desire to many people that Peacework continue after his death. This fund will be used to honor Pat's wish and ensure that Peacework maintains the quality and influence to which he had built it. "The key stories of the 20th century are not those of the war rooms, the boardrooms, or the newsrooms, but those of the living rooms, kitchens, and neighborhoods, of the storefronts and street corners, of the community centers, union halls, picket lines, and public parks." "The thought of just being 'an American citizen' without being a radical, feels empty, lacking, hollow, and mechanistic. For there is a higher duty, I believe, that many of our active sisters and brothers embrace: the duty to stand up for, to stand with, to be present in accompaniment with those being ground down by this system. In doing that, in acting in that way, even when our numbers are painfully small and when our protests are ignored by the so-called 'mainsteam media,' we are present with the inconceivably vast, cosmic community of liberation." -Pat Farren, founding editor, Peacework
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