Peacework volunteer Poppy Gregory performed the considerable labor of compiling and organizing this index,

N.B. The 1998 index appeared in the Dec 99/Jan2000 issue. Omitted from Index 1998: Pokhran-In Search of an Ethics in a Nuclear Age (Dec/Jan); And the Risen Bread, Daniel Berrigan (Dec/Jan). Within this Index 1999, "Dec/Jan" refers to December 1999/January 2000.

AFRICA/ASIA/PACIFIC: general: Turning the Truth on its Head in Cambodia (13,Mar); Open Letter to Members of the Philippine Senate (19,Mar); Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Crisis: from Alliance to the Brink of War (20,Mar); The Deadly Fumes of Environmental Injustice in South Africa (19,May); A Middle Passage of the Heart-Interfaith Pilgrims in Africa (21,May); Buying Sudanese Slaves (11,June); August 6-9 Resources & Events (31,Jul/Aug); Second Guessing Hiroshima (32,Jul/Aug); The Northeast Asia Arc of Crisis (14,Oct); Japan's Nuclear Event (7,Nov); Beleaguered Himalayas: The Crisis in Kashmir (12,Nov); East Timor: East Timor Military-Backed Killings Threaten to Derail Scheduled Election (13,June); East Timor-A Preventable Catastrophe (4,Oct); Recommendations to the UN Human Rights Commission and to the International Community (6,Oct); Investigative Journalist Allan Nairn Arrested (7,Oct); "Must See" Videos on East Timor (7,Oct); Urgent Message from Jose Ramos-Horta (7,Oct); The Continuing Agony of East Timor (6,Nov);

ANTI-NUCLEAR: Nuclear Activists Sentenced; New Englanders on Trial (17,Mar); Second Guessing Hiroshima (32,Jul/Aug); A Nuclear Moratorium? (19,Oct); The Deadliest Gamble in History: Y2K and the World's Nuclear Systems (8,Nov); Nuclear Troublemakers (9,Nov); A Question for George W. Bush (11,Nov); Demonstrating the Popular Will-Abolition Victories in Two Massachusetts Towns (24,Dec/Jan); Remembering an Inspiring Nuclear Abolitionist (25,Dec/Jan)

ARTS: nonfiction: Images of American Radicalism, Paul Buhle & Edmund Sullivan (14,Feb); Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development, eds. Jail Silliman & Ynestra King (12,Mar); The Celling of America; An Inside Look at the US Prison Industry, ed. Daniel Burton-Rose (8,Sept); SUMMER READING ISSUE-(Jul/Aug): The Literature of Poverty, Oppression, Revolution, and the Struggle for Freedom, A Bibliography from Tillie Olsen(4); Notes from One Friend's Bedside Table, Mike True(4); Confronting Both Our Histories and Our Future: 1998 Winners of the Myers Outstanding Books Awards(5); Religion in an Age of Science, Ian Barbour(8); Failure to Quit, Howard Zinn(10); Korea and its Futures, Roy Richard Grinker(9); The Dispossessed, ed. Vinod Raina et al(9); Gaviotas, Alan Weisman(9); The Post-Corporate World, Peter Barrer(10); The Civil Rights Movement: a Photographic History, Steven Kasher(11); fiction: Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy(12);1984, George Orwell(12); Harlot's Ghost, Norman Mailer(12); In the Gardens of the North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff(13); Rebellion of the Hanged, B. Traven(14); Hello? Is Anybody Out There? Jostein Gaarder(18); Some of the Kinder Planets, Tim Wynne-Jones(18); The Book of Changes, Tim Wynne-Jones(18); The Friends, Kazumi Yumoto(18); Tea with Milk, Allen Say(18); Guests, Michael Doris(18); The Story of Colors, Subcomandante Marcos(19); The Hip Mama Survival Guide, Ariel Gore(20); poetry: "Inside the Whale," Mikhail Aizenberg (11,Feb); "Providence, Halfway," Fred Merchant (17,Feb); "kosovo, new hampshire" brian schott kelley (3,May); Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination, essay by Martin Espada (14,Jul/Aug); "Sonia Sanchez," Sayif M. Sanyik(16); "While the Light Still Trembles," George Capaccio (17,Jul/Aug); "She Had Some Horses" and "In Mad Love and War," Joy Harjo (17,Jul/Aug); "Rest 8.6.8.8.6," J. Kates (23,Nov); "The Second Coming," W.B. Yeats (9,Dec/Jan); other media: Alive and Kicking: Patricia Smith in "Professional Suicide"(21); "Besieged," film by Bernardo Bertolucci(22); Women Speak in South Africa (23,Jul/Aug); Radio Free Maine (25,Jul/Aug); "Must See" Videos on East Timor (7,Oct)

BALKANS: Notes on Urgent Causes, Violence, and Kosovo (24,Apr); Letter to David McReynolds (6,May); Crisis in Kosovo-Talking Points (4,May); On the Eve of War, NATO's Humanitarian Trigger (7,May); How to Think About War (9,May); Our Nuclear War in Yugoslavia (10,May); Urgent Warning from Yugoslavia (10,May); From the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (11,May); Why are we in the Balkans? (11,May); A Pope and a Patriarch Make Peace (4,June); An Appeal for Peace in Yugoslavia (4,June); An Appeal from American Jews to the Green Party of Germany (5,June); Letters on War (5,June); The Continuing War in Yugoslavia: Environmental Effects (15,Sept); For a Future to be Possible: Bosnian Dialogue on the Aftermath of War (4,Nov)

DEATH PENALTY IN AMERICA: A Letter from Death Row from Mumia Abu-Jamal (15,Feb); Mumia Update (18,Nov); SPECIAL ISSUE (APR): Thinking about the Death Penalty Today (4); Innocence is Irrelevant (6); When Anti-Racism and Vengeance Collide(8); Justice: Retribution or Restoration (10); Considering Life Without Possibility of Parole (11); State House Testimony on Reinstatement of the Death Penalty (12); To Heal These Wounds (13); Not in Our Name (14); Victim Impact-"to turn our rage" (15); How do you live through that? (16); It was all so horribly implausible (17); Revenge and hate is what resulted in the death of 167 people (18); This started in tragedy and is ending in tragedy (19); Give this Poster a Ride (20); To Repair our Society (21)

ECONOMIC & SOCIAL JUSTICE: Calling the Question on Welfare Reform (14,Mar); The GrandFamilies House (6,Mar); Speak Out Now to Protest the Community Reinvestment Act (7,Mar); The Neighbors Who Put Food on Your Table Need Help, Now (20,June); Part of the International Struggle for Economic Human Rights (17,June); It seems like everyone loves mashed potatoes (18,June); FNB: Cooking for Peace and Social Change (19,June); On the MCAS Test, "No" is the Right Answer (6,Sept); Tax Reform Follies: A Preview of Coming Distractions (4,Sept); Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wage Gap (4,Sept); Some Thoughts on Robert Rubin Leaving the Treasury Department (5,Sept); Field of Dreams or Revenue Streams? (20,Sept); Traditional Dineh Land Rights At Risk on Big Mountain (17,Oct); Make Your Coffee Stronger (24,Oct); Tax Breaks, the Minimum Wage, and You (18,Nov); Not Another Year, Not Another Family (19,Nov); To Dream of a Beloved Community (18,Dec/Jan); The Achilles Heel of the Economy (17,Dec/Jan)

ENVIRONMENT: Technology Down on the Farm: Time to Pay Attention (15,Mar); Cambridge Mural Cries Out Against Cancer Epidemic (8,Mar); Women and Water (10,Mar); Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development, eds. Jail Silliman & Ynestra King (12,Mar); Our Nuclear War in Yugoslavia (10,May); The Deadly Fumes of Environmental Injustice in South Africa (19,May); Biotech: The Pendulum Swings Back (14,June); The Continuing War in Yugoslavia: Environmental Effects (15,Sept); Traditional Dineh Land Rights at Risk on Big Mountain (17,Oct); Global Warming (17,Nov)

GLOBALIZATION: Dollar's Day of Reckoning (12,Feb); Globalization-What It Means for Activists (9,Oct); On the Eve of the Momentous Seattle World Trade Organization Meeting, A Call for a Revolution of Values (8,Oct); A Brief Description of International Trade Agreements (10,Oct); The Costs of Admission to the Club (11,Oct); Fall WTO/Global Economy Actions and Resources (13,Oct); The WTO and Free Trade (20,Nov); Voices from Seattle (19,Dec/Jan)

HUMAN RIGHTS & THE LEGAL SYSTEM: Failure to Quit, Howard Zinn (7,Feb); To The General Assembly of the United Nations (9,Feb); A Letter from Death Row from Mumia Abu-Jamal (15,Feb); Mumia Update (18,Nov); Families United of Men Without a Country (19,Feb); Human Rights and Health: The Infectious Legacy of Apartheid (18,May); Beyond Truth and Reconciliation: Forgiveness (20,May); Dealing with Sex Offenders-How to Repair and Rebuild (16,June); The Celling of America (8,Sept); Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings (8,Sept); Open Letter on Puerto Rican Political Prisoners (9,Sept); Leonard Peltier Freedom Month (18,Nov); Letter from Peltier (18,Nov) Recommendations to the UN Human Rights Commission and to the International Community (6,Oct)

LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN: Requiem-Come and See the Blood in the Streets (18,Feb); On Kidnapping and Murder in Columbia (21,June); Open Letter on Puerto Rican Political Prisoners (9,Sept); A Call for the Demilitarization of Vieques Island (10,Sept)

MEMORIALS/OBITUARIES: Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (16,Feb); Tribute to Pat Farren (16,Sept); Remembering an Inspiring Nuclear Abolitionist (25,Dec/Jan)

MIDDLE EAST: general: Middle East Report (4,Feb); Palestinian Homes in Danger (18,Mar); Israeli Elections; What is Left for the Peace Process? (12,June); Collecting Stories from Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948 (12,Sept); Dateline: Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan (13,Sept); Reckless Disregard (14,Nov); Iraq: A Call to Action on Sanctions and the US War against the People of Iraq (6,Feb); Voices in the Wilderness Declaration (6,Feb); Denis Halliday Tour on Effects of Sanctions (7,Feb); Sanctions Against Iraq-Crimes Against Humanity? (8,Feb); Some International Media Coverage of Iraq (9,Feb); Letter from Basra (14,Mar); Signatures to Abolish the Sanctions (14,Mar); Iraq-Bizarre Targets in the "No Fly Zone" (15,Sept); Iraq-A Campaign of Conscience (22,Dec/Jan)

PEACEMAKING, DISARMAMENT & NONVIOLENCE: "Showing Cause" Why He Doesn't Pay for War (16,Mar); How to Think About War (9,May); Human Costs in Wars of the 1990s (13,May); Mothers' Day Proclamation, 1870 (17,May); Centers, Museums, and Public Memorials for Nonviolent Peacemaking in the US: A Visitors' Guide (14,May); Official at Last-a Martin Luther King Day for New Hampshire (24,June); HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE (June): Background Paper (7,June); Love, Peace, Understanding, and...a Happening in The Hague (8,June); A Low Mark for the Peace Movement? (10,June); Technical Success, but a Political Question Mark (10,June); Creative Expression in a Season of Destruction (11,June); Letter from US Outreach Coordinator, Karina Wood (26,Jul/Aug); and Joseph Gerson Replies (26,Jul/Aug); A Culture of Peace? You Must Be Kidding! (20,Sept); Peacewalk Massachusetts (17,Sept); Peacewalk, Arrests at Submarine Warfare Facility (18,Sept); Stonewalk-Memorial Stone for Unknown Civilians Killed in War (10,May); At the Arlington Memorial Bridge (18,Sept); Global Peace Walk (11,Nov); National Missile Defense Program (8,Nov); School of the Americas (17,Nov)

POLITICAL/SOCIAL ANALYSIS: Critiques of Marty Jezer's "1968: A Rough Perspective," (15,Feb); The Role of Civil Disobedience in Promoting US Democracy (7,Feb); Letter from Russia (10,Feb); Calling the Question on Welfare Reform (4,Mar); Beyond Truth and Reconciliation: Forgiveness (20,May); Reflections at the End of the Century (4,Dec/Jan); World Population-Six Billion (7,Dec/Jan); Whose New Millennium? (9,Dec/Jan); The Sacred Year in Islam (8,Dec/Jan); Running for President? Measure Up to This (14,Dec/Jan); Civil Disobedience for Campaign Finance Reform (16,Dec/Jan); Back to the Future (18,Dec/Jan)

RACE/RACISM: Julian Bond's Message to Clinton's Race Initiative (17,Feb); "Providence, Halfway," Fred Merchant (17,Feb); "A Middle Passage of the Heart"-Interfaith Pilgrims in Africa (21,May); Official at Last-a Martin Luther King Day for New Hampshire (24,June); Race: Confronting Both Our Histories and Our Future: 1998 Winners of the Myers Outstanding Books Awards (5,Jul/Aug); The Enduring Problem of the 20th Century (10,Dec/Jan); In Different Boats: The Myth of Reverse Discrimination (12,Dec/Jan)

WOMEN'S ISSUES: Cambridge Mural Cries Out Against Cancer Epidemic (8,Mar); Women and Water (10,Mar); Dangerous Intersections;Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development, eds. Jail Silliman & Ynestra King (12,Mar); Women and Life on Earth (13,Mar); Mother's Day Proclamation, 1870 (17,May); Women Speak in South Africa (23,Jul/Aug)