September 99 About Peacework Subscribe Now Current Contents Events & Resources Back Issues National AFSC NERO Office American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02140 Telephone number: (617) 661-6130 Fax number: (617) 354-2832 Email address: 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.

CONTENTS: SEPTEMBER 1999 From the editor's desk 4 Tax Reform Follies: A Preview of Coming Distractions by Chuck Collins and John Miller Time to pay attention to those who aren't sharing in the US's economic boom 4 Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wage Gap Review by Juliet Schor Our economy has been getting increasingly unequal. Does it matter? 5 Some Thoughts on Robert Rubin Leaving the Treasury Department by Jim Harney The former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs has done a good job at furthering the maldistribution of wealth 6 On the MCAS Test, "No" is the Right Answer by Eleanor Martin "Taking a paper and pencil test to gradate is not the way to fix education" 8 The Celling of America Review by Horace Seldon On the failure of outrage at what is done with prisoners in the US 8 Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings Readers' commentaries Recommendations from Peter Matthiessen, Joy Harjo, Desmond Tutu, Wilma Mankiller, Howard Zinn 9 Open Letter on Puerto Rican Political Prisoners by Elizabeth McAllister "Clinton's conditions for release would violate the meaning of their lives" 10 A Call for the Demilitarization of Vieques Island Take three minutes to protest social and ecological devastation of this Puerto Rican island 11 Iraq-Bizarre Targets in the 'No Fly Zone' by Felicity Arbuthnot "...decimation, on the occasion of a unique astral and religious millennium, at a place of special sanctity" 12 Collecting Stories from Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948 Review by Hilda Silverman The Nakba: Oral history from Palestinians who have experienced their people's catastrophe 13 Dateline: Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan by Elaine Hagopian Notes from a visiting scholar's journal 15 The Continuing War in Yugoslavia: Environmental Effects by Ruth Yarrow Whether 'unintended consequence' or outright violation of the Geneva Conventions, NATO bombing has left a mess 17 Peacewalk, Massachusetts From an Andover, MA depleted uranium factory to the gates of Raytheon 18 Peacewalk, Arrests at Submarine Warfare Facility Joining a proud tradition of protest of submarine-based nuclear warfare 18 At the Arlington Memorial Bridge Address by Lewis Randa Memorial for Unknown Civilians Killed in War is headed home 20 A Culture of Peace? You Must Be Kidding! by Michael True "Peace, once defined as the lack of war, is coming to be seen as a much broader, dynamic process." 20 Field of Dreams or Revenue Streams? by Randy Divinski Saving Fenway Park is about more than summer games 21 Pieces: Events, Opportunities, Campaigns, Resources, Gatherings 24 Tribute to Pat Farren-September 16 An invitation to all of us

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