Peace and Freedom articles from March 2001

Peace and Freedom archives from March 2001

The Written Word.(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... In the 1960s, Canadian educator and author Marshall McLuhan wrote The Medium is the Message about the evolution of transmitting information. In it, he reminded us how we separate pre-history from history by the invention of writing....

Reader's Forum.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2001... Peace and Freedom received many letters regarding the WILPF statement on Palestine and Israel published in our Winter issue. A selection follows. TAKING ISSUE WITH PALESTINE/EAST JERUSALEM STATEMENT I, Dorothy Rom, Chair of the Palm...

Societies of Peace.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Elise Boulding is one of the (s)heroes in the struggle for a more compassionate and peaceful world. She is professor of sociology at Dartmouth College, a WILPF sponsor and a past president of International WILPF. Her book, Cultures of...

The New Slavery.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Economics is famous as the subject that makes many of us glaze over and struggle to stay awake. Kevin Bales has written an absolutely gripping exception, a scholarly economics study that is also a passionate denunciation of human cruelty and...

Passionate Legacies.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ruth Hunter got the idea for her new book during a tea held for "Dangerous Women in Their Eighties." The event was held in 1993, and many WILPF members and others had gathered in Santa Cruz to honor the women. As these octogenarian...

Jane Addams: Past, Present and Future.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
March 22, 2001... Jane Addams is a towering figure in the world peace movement. She has become the archetypal woman reformer of the progressive era in American history. We know her as founder of WILPF, and as our standard-bearer and role model. And yet, for...

Coloring Peace: African-American Activists in WILPF.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
March 22, 2001... There are many notable studies about the peace activism of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The majority, however, limit themselves to the achievements of the organization and focus almost exclusively on the experiences...

Working to Dismantle the War Economy.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... WILPFers helped plan and facilitate the second "Women for Responsible National Security Conference" held in early March at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in South Bend, Indiana. Eight WILPF members attended. The...

Globalization and the South: Some Critical Issues.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Martin Kohr is a friend to WILPF and a partner in our work opposing capitalist globalization. His new book, Globalization and the South: Some Critical Issues, is an adaptation of a paper he presented at the South Summit held in Havana, Cuba, in...

Spring Book Issue.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Challenge Corporate Power; Assert the People's Rights Radical Democracy by C. Douglas Lummis, Cornell University Press, 1996. This book is an exhilarating look at both the concept and practice of democracy. How confused we are about this...

For Sweet Honey in the Rock.(Poem)
March 22, 2001... I'm gonna stay on the battlefield I'm gonna stay on the battlefield I'm gonna stay on the battlefield til I die. I'm gonna stay on the battlefield I'm gonna stay on the battlefield I'm gonna stay on the battlefield til I...

Water Project for Iraq.
March 22, 2001... On average, one Iraqi child dies every eight minutes as a result of the harsh sanctions maintained by the United States and Britain. While I write this article, a group of U.S. military veterans and supporters, from the Iraq Water Project...

A Global Look at Racism.
March 22, 2001... "A conference on racism this summer could be one of the most explosive meetings this organization (U.N.) has ever had, with moves afoot to cast globalization as a racial issue and to demand reparations for the slave trade (Trans-Atlantic) and...

WILPF In Washington.
March 22, 2001... NATIONAL PRO-DEMOCRACY CONVENTION Congress has seen a flurry of new bills addressing electoral reform introduced recently. Perhaps the best is Congressman John Conyers' (D-MI 14) Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001. (HR 1170) ...

Woman to Woman Sexual Violence.(Review)
March 22, 2001... In 1984 I was shocked when I dated a woman who told me a former partner had battered her. I had heard of battering, of course, but never lesbian battering. Several years later I was working at a domestic violence agency. We offered services to...

Committee Corner.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
March 22, 2001... Around and about WILPF Civil Liberties Committee The good news is that most of the immigrants who had been detained through the use of secret evidence have been released. The Secret Evidence Repeal Act will again be introduced in the...

Silencing Dissent in the New Wave of Activism.(ensuring that activism continues)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... In the 20-plus years of my activism I have worked with grassroots activists planning for direct actions and civil disobedience as a part of their strategies to address injustice. I have participated in actions across the United States, large...

Blanche Wiesen Cook on 'WILPF's Eleanor'.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Blanche Wiesen Cook chronicled Eleanor Roosevelt's life in two volumes of biography -- including her activism for peace, social and economic justice and human rights. Cook, who is now at work on her third Eleanor book, "has captured the spirit...

Our Bodies, Ourselves now in Spanish.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Women all over the United States and around the world have regarded Our Bodies, Ourselves as both a resource about women's health and sexuality and a catalyst for mobilizing activism in such critical areas as reproductive health and rights,...

Historic Hearing Held on Ashcroft.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom challenges Attorney General appointment)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Early this year, the St. Louis WILPF branch decided that instead of planning a Race Rave we would focus our attention on thwarting the appointment of John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General. We wanted to work with local African-American groups,...

Deconstructing Economics.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Our book, Women in a World of Money: Making the Local to Global Connections, was inspired by our 23-day journey on the WILPF Peace Train from Helsinki to Beijing to attend the 4th U.N. World Conference on Women in 1995. Exchanging ideas...

The Mother of Invention.
March 22, 2001... Did you ever wonder what Liquid-Paper, windshield wipers and voice-controlled wheelchairs have in common? The answer is they were all invented by women! In her new book, Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women,...

In Memoriam: Ruth Brown.(Obituary)
March 22, 2001... Ruth Anna Brown, a long-time WILPF member and peace activist, recently passed away at the age of 86. The daughter of Danish immigrants, Brown was born in Port Chester, NY. She earned her doctorate (in peace education and the study of "women as...

Editor's Note.(Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... I hope you enjoy this books issue. With so many WILPF members and sponsors being writers (and so many being such informed readers!) we had a tough time choosing what to highlight in this issue. Peace & Freedom also received many letters to the...

ISRAEL-PALESTINE.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... East Bay and Berkeley WILPF Women in Black oppose the occupation every Friday. Palo Alto cosponsored a rally and leafleting on the Stanford University campus. It also had as a meeting topic the Israeli-Palestinian so-called peace process and...

USING ARTS TO PROMOTE PEACE.(high school students prepare plays)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Minnesota Metro's Arts Committee worked for three months with high-school students on one-act plays on issues of war, violence, and peace. Seven plays researched, written, directed and acted by the students were performed for the school and the...

COLOMBIA.(civil war)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... All branches are concerned about the involvement of the U.S. in Colombia's civil war under the guise of a drug war. Palto Alto circulated a petition asking that all U.S. military aid be stopped. Berkeley heard from a member who attended a...

STAR WARS.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Catonsville had a film featuring Dr. Karl Grossman on nuclear weapons in space. Santa Cruz demonstrated against the National Missile Defense System at Vandenberg Air Force Base and made tapes for broadcast on "First Person Singular," 90-second...

CORPORATIONS AND DEMOCRACY.(no more corporate welfare, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Des Moines joined groups fighting a mega mall for West Des Moines involving plenty of corporate welfare. Philadelphia sponsored a discussion with the leader of the Unity 2000 protest march that took place before the Republican Convention. It...

RACIAL RECONCILIATION.(conferences, United States)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Asheville helped organize a "race wave" on the university campus, with testimony, dialogue, mini workshops, and theater. They hope to have it serve as a model for other U.S. communities. Santa Cruz cosponsored a talk on "drug wars" (or the "war...

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, demonstrations)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Los Angeles held a luncheon with a panel discussion, "Women and the Growing International Movement Against Globalization." It, as well as Philadelphia, also participated in the second Global Women's Strike (a strike opposing no pay for...

NEW WAYS OF DOING THINGS.(periodical publishing, management)
March 22, 2001... Fresno has joined other progressive organizations in publishing a monthly insert in a publication called Labor/Community Alliance. It will have a quarterly newsletter. Minnesota Metro has changed administration from the board to a volunteer...