The Value of Land
Volume: 29
Number: 3
Cal Moen moves on, Jay Cassano Joins WIN After four years in WRL’s national office in new York City as Editor/Publisher of WIN, Cal Moen moved to Vermont last January, to try to edit the magazine as a telecommuter. It didn’t work out that way, and Cal has switched hats, giving up the editorship and…
CALIFORNIA PRISONERS MAKE HISTORIC CALL FOR PEACE BETWEEN RACIAL GROUPS Oakland—Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have announced a push to end all hostilities between racial groups within California’s prisons and jails. The handwritten announcement was sent to prison advocacy organizations. It is signed by several prisoners, identifying themselves as the…
WIN REVIEW Tools for Organizing The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups By Starhawk New Society Publishers, Canada, 2011; 304 pp. $24.95 paperback Starhawk is a rare breed of organizer, able to facilitate large and small meetings, in person or not. Over the years, this reviewer has personally seen her notice and share…
WIN REVIEW Israeli General’s Son Becomes One-State Advocate
WIN REVIEW A Stronger Movement Against War We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America Edited by Elizabeth Betita Martínez, Mandy Carter & Matt Meyer with an Introduction by Cornel West PM Press/War Resisters League; 608 pp; 2012 $19.95 from WRL This impressive collection of essays, edited by Elizabeth…
The War Resisters League is proud to have chosen Asma Mohammed and the Suez Port Workers as the 47th recipient of our annual Peace Award. On November 26, 2011 Asma and her coworkers courageously refused to handle a shipment of 7.5 tons of tear gas exported from the U.S. to Egypt during the days of…
WRL in Chicago War always lands hardest on the working class. So WRL’s Chicago local is known for its alliance with labor. When it became a local ten years ago, under the leadership of Charles Paid- ock, it worked closely with Chicago Labor Against the War. “We shared meeting space on Sheffield and collaborated on…
The WRL organizing team has been working with the new WRL Tear Gas working group to build the campaign that will launch late this fall. We have continued to add to the Facing Tear Gas site, including stories we collected recently at the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. We talked to many people…
Since I was a young girl my summers have been spent in the presence of my grandmother and her olive grove in our small village near the West Bank city of Nablus. My grandmother would take me and my brothers to the olive grove and show us the olive trees that she planted with her…
The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) was recently victorious in a decade-long campaign to shut down two coal-fired power plants in Little Village, a Latino neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side. LVEJO has a variety of programs, such as its now-notorious “toxic tours” of the worst polluters in the community. The organization and staff, almost…
In what has become an emblematic struggle against government plans to open peasant lands to mineral interests throughout the sierras of Peru, local campesinos continue to hold strikes and protests in the northern region of Cajamarca in defiance of a state of emergency and a heavy presence of army and National Police troops. The months-long…
On February 15, 2003, I joined an estimated 15 million people worldwide in protests against the impending U.S. invasion of Iraq. The message that rang through the streets of the world couldn’t have been more clear — the war was immoral, unjust, and illegal. I remember the currents that tore through the crowds that day…
Bayard With regard to the introduction to Bayard Rustin’s speech in the most recent issue of WIN, Vol. 29, No. 2: I remember that Madison Square Garden Rally very well. It was almost a painful cry from Bayard that the movement needed to go into the streets and not be co-opted (as he was already…
This issue of WIN, “The Value of Land,” serves as a reminder of the different ways we understand our relationship to and appreciation for land. For corporations, the land only represents potential profit, a physical obstacle to resources that can be exploited. For us, land is a source of food, the site of our homes,…
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