Contents:
December 2000/January 2001
From the editor's desk
4 Justice is What Love Sounds Like: The Legacy of Martin Luther
King, Jr.
by Arnie Alpert
When the words of "I have a dream" sound anything
but radical, is it worth struggling for King's legacy?
5 Racism, Prisons, and the Future of Black America
by Manning Marable
A new leviathan of racial injustice has been contructed across
our county
8 Letters from the Inside
"Imagine living in your bathroom" by Diana Lion,
"So I'm able to be versatile and survive."
from AGAPE
"Church people used to donate warm jackets; the warden
canceled that" by Susan Crane
10 Massachusetts Prison Pilgrimage--Unmasking the Truths
behind the Prison-Industrial Complex
by Mary Trotochaud
When you walk your pospective changes
11 A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases
by James Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan, and Valerie West
A system collapsing under the weight of its own mistakes
12 Moratorium 2000
by Michael Ross
If the lay membership does not follow through, the leaders'
stand, no matter how noble, becomes essentially meaningless
13 Dodging Bullets: Building an Urban Peace Movement
by Dominique Robinson
"Before you are twenty, you'll probably be dead"
15 The Struggle Against Racial Profiling
by Dustin Washington
Have you ever been driving along on a nice evening, and all
of a sudden...
15 The Color of Violence Against Women
by Andrea Smith
We need to develop strategies that assure safety for survivors
without strengthening the oppressive criminal justice apparatus
17 Addressing the Contradictions
by Angela Davis
A call for remedies for women and abolition of the prison
system
17 The Modern Dance of Imperialism
by Teresa Williams
How could such a social system as slavery be deemed acceptable?
Naming the slaveries of today
19 Black Comeback
by L.A. Kauffman
The anatomy of an action-based alliance across racial lines,
against corporate globalization and criminal injustice
21 Free Trade Area of the Americas
by Joanne Comerford
When "free trade" and freedom are far from synonymous,
what strategies can we marshal to combat FTAA?
22 Those Who Did Not "Work it Out" in The Hague
from World Rainforest Movement
Delegates focused more on profits from carbon trade than on
solutions to looming disaster
23 The Wall Between by Anne Braden
reviewed by Joan R. Harris
An act of friendship, principle, and courage that led to three
years of hell
23 In Memoriam: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917 - 2000
24 If you think the MCAS History Test is Relevant, Try this
Exam
by Derrick Z. Jackson
What framework will we choose to evaluate how our nation shaped
the world? Some questions that didn't appear on the MCAS
26 Beyond Counting Ballots
by Chuck Turner
What will be the impact of a new president on those who have
not had a cushioned seat aboard the American prosperity train?
27 NAACP Hearing on Voting Rights of People of Color in Florida
by Susan Guberman-Garcia
A systematic effort to deny the franchise to as many African
Americans as possible
28 A Presidential Pause--Don't Push
by Shepherd Bliss
Waiting for the president has transformed America into a giant
classroom
29 Letters
Dave Dellinger, Michael Fogler, and Georgana Foster
30 PIECES: Events, Campaigns, Opportunities, Resources, Gatherings,
and Holiday Gifts
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