Dec 98 - Jan 99 About Peacework Subscribe Now Current Issue 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: December 1998 - January 1999 From the Editor's Desk 4 A Nobel Peace by Deahdra Butler-Henderson What is the work of peace, and who's been doing it, Nobel prize or not? 5 A Ray of Hope by Martín Garate Nobel laureate Dr. Amartya Sen and the search for economics based on values where the center is the human person 6 Rebuilding Hope in the Wake of Hurricane Mitch by Mary McCann Sanchez Recovery and reconstruction-understanding the past, envisioning a future 8 Report from Nicaragua by Carolina Castrillo Field notes from the days following the storm 9 It Wasn't Just the Hurricane: Confronting Structural Adjustment by Chris Tilly On preventing human-made disaster and standing up to the World Bank and the IMF 10 Human Rights in the US: World Leader in High Tech Repression by Joshua Rubenstein In the court of world opinion, is the US in the docket? 11 Greetings from Poor and Homeless Familes by Cheri Honkala "Welfare Reform" and hidden stories of economic human rights violations 12 The Great Shopping Cart Caper by Jeff Dietrich Giving shopping carts to the homeless-a subversive business 13 Pokhran: In Search of an Ethics in a Nuclear Age by Kamla Chowdhry If people know and understand the implications of technologies dealing with death and destruction on a wide scale, why do we persist in using them? 15 Nativity Under Siege by Kathy Kelly Message from Iraq, November 1998 15 Depleted Uranium-Atomic Victims In heavily-shelled Basra there are nine times as many cancer deaths as there were before the Gulf War 16 Nuclear Witness: The Globalization of Hibakusha by Joseph Gerson The tragedy and courage of hidden victims 18 Desmond Tutu and the Interfaith Pilgrimage Introduction by Louise Dunlap "God wanted apartheid to end in South Africa, but God didn't send poison gas to destroy the perpetrators. God depends on you, and you, and you" 20 For Martin Luther King Excerpts from Dr. King's speeches, a talk by Nancy Davis, and a calendar "If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness" 22 In Memoriam: Henry Hampton, Kwame Ture, and the Orangeburg Massacre 24 And the Risen Bread by Daniel Berrigan Review by Fred Marchant 25 War and Madness: Hell, Healing, and Resistance edited by Daniel Hallock Review by Michael Uhl 26 1968: A Rough Perspective by Marty Jezer "I am struck by the decisiveness of the actual events and how delusional and wrong-headed were the movement's reactions" 29 Missing the Point about Pinochet by Paul Shannon The monster, the press, and the collaborators 29 Two poems from Chile by Victor Jara and Pablo Neruda 30 Pieces: Events, Campaigns, Resources, and Opportunities Letter, 31 Correction, 32

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