5.16.01 confronting internalized oppression

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Immigration policy is race policy in this country, as it has been since the genocide of its native people.

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I feel like a leader because I know I can say what I mean.

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By depriving ex-cons of opportunity, current laws promote crime.

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Preaching to the choir is important - they need to know the score!

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Judith Mahoney Pasternak on feminist poetry

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Dialogues about the girls' suffering have motivated 131 excisers to quit, and three villages to renounce the practice.

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The worker-owners of a Nicaraguan sewing cooperative have faced Hurricane Mitch, homelessness, unemployment, power outages, mistrust, professional disputes, and global capitalism. The cooperative thrives.

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Thirty-nine years ago, on January 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a day that was to change my life forever.
As I now contemplate another January 20th I cannot help but think of the young men and women who have been wounded in the war in Iraq. They have been coming home now for almost three years, flooding Walter Reed, Bethesda, Brooke Army Medical Center and veterans hospitals all across the country.

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Peacework asked activists across the country to fill in the blank, "If I could show one under-appreciated film or video to a room full of potential organizers, I'd show..." and explain why or how they'd use that film.