Fall Reviews: Inform Your Action
Volume: 27
Number: 4
National Committee Renews Direction This summer’s National Committee (NC) meeting was held in August rather than July to accommodate a strategic planning session with consultant Suzanne Pharr. Together with Mandy Carter, Suzanne founded Southerners on New Ground (SONG), a Southern regional organization made up of working class, people of color, immigrants, and rural LGBTQ…
Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC), a Westchester County-based peace and justice organization, has been a force for progressive social change since 1974, starting with the courageous and dynamic leadership of Connie Hogarth and the many dedicated activists who surrounded her and built up the organization. I started working for WESPAC as the sole paid staff…
The China Syndrome Directed by James Bridges 1979, IPC Films, 122 minutes March 11, 1979: The “fallout from ‘[The] China Syndrome’ has already begun,” declared the New York Times. The phrase “China syndrome” wasn’t yet part of the national vocabulary; the Times article had to explain that the phrase had “nothing to do with China.”…
Will War Ever End?: A Soldier’s Vision of Peace for the 21st Century By Paul K. Chappell Rvive Books, 2009, 84 pages, $14.95 The End of War: How Waging Peace Can Save Humanity, Our Planet and Our Future By Paul K. Chappell Easton Studio Press, 2010, 176 pages, $12.95 Two short books by West Point…
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama By David Remnick Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, 656 pages, $29.95 hardcover The Promise: President Obama, Year One By Jonathan Alter Simon & Schuster, 2010, 458 pages, $28.00 hardcover By the People: The Election of Barack Obama Directed by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams 2009, Class 5…
Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States Edited by Team Colors Collective AK Press, 2010, 420 pages, $19.95 You can call the Team Colors Collective’s new book Uses of a Whirlwind a compendium of the interregnum, the time between large movements where activists and intellectuals search for a…
When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent By Anthony Dimaggio Monthly Review Press, 2009, 376 pages, $18.95 The media blitz following the Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the aid flotilla attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza this summer, showed us…
The Bomb By Howard Zinn City Lights Publishers, 2010, 91 pages, $8.95 Bombing from the air makes war seem easy, effective, and bloodless—at least to those of us far from the ground zeroes. “To this day,” Howard Zinn writes, “the victims’ realities of aerial bombings [are] lost to most people in the United States, a…
Poetry and Human Rights: Poems by Dennis Brutus from the Dennis Brutus Collection (Third edition) Edited by Ken Gibbs and Wayne Kamin Worcester State College Press, 2010, 100 pages, Free download at www.worcester.edu/dbrutus When the War Resisters League decided to honor South African poet Dennis Brutus, among others, with our annual peace award at the…
Grace Paley: Collected Shorts Directed by Lilly Rivlin 2010, The National Center for Jewish Film, 74 minutes Grace Directed by Herman J. Engels, Linda Leehman, and Sonya Friedman 2010, Four Corners Productions, 51 minutes “It is the responsibility of the poet to be a woman … to cry out like Cassandra … ” Grace Paley…
Many titles and labels have been ascribed to Tuli: artist, poet, rock star, counterculture guru, beat, yippie, bohemian, anarchist, and pacifist. It is difficult to write about a man born the same year as WRL whose gentle heart and keen political insight produced over 60 years of art. Tuli was the quintessential non-dualist: he lived…
Brutus Tribute I was very happy with the spring (2010) issue of WIN magazine, and I was not familiar with Dennis Brutus. Because of the fine tribute that was written I went out and purchased his book Poetry and Protest. Enclosed are my dues and signed statement of support. Can we hope that George W….
Independent Information = Informed Action “If those in charge of our society—politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television—can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power,” Howard Zinn wrote in Declarations of Independence. “They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” This was in 1991, during the…
An Interview with Musician and Activist Ryan Harvey In the tradition of Woody Guthrie, acoustic guitars are still being used as machines to kill fascists. The nearly dozen musicians of Riot Folk describe their group and mission as “an anti-profit mutual-aid collective of radical artists and musicians…[who] make music to provoke, educate, heal and inspire.”…
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