SPECIAL ISSUE:
Where To From Here?
Volume: 25
Number: 2
Patty Adams, Steve Borla, Harold Burns, Kate Foran, Danny Malec Voluntown Peace Trust Pam Allee, Kima Garrison, John Grueschow, Paul Maresh Portland WRL Aimee Allison Army of None project Service Women’s Action Network Mark Anderson We are Family Ruckus Society, Indigenous Peoples’ Power project Shane Bastien, Michael Bayly, Joe Cling, Marv Davidov, Bob Kolstad, Lauren…
It was a real privilege to hear from so many smart and dedicated people from across the country who are working for peace and justice. It’s difficult to know how to even begin trying to summarize such a wealth of insights. For all the antiwar movement may be lacking, we found no shortage of brilliant…
As the term implies, base-building means building a social base of support that helps an organization accomplish its goals. A classic base-building model involves identifying a key constituency, bringing people from the constituency into a base that identifies with the organization’s goals, and then facilitating the base’s participation, supporting members to invest themselves and step…
We asked folks about how they connect issues of foreign policy, military invasions and occupations, and global climate change: with domestic issues like healthcare, education, immigration, detention, civil liberties, policing and prisons. Some organizers talked about the economic links between the military budget and social spending cutbacks. Some talked about a culture of violence that…
As an organization that frequently uses the term revolutionary nonviolence to describe our vision and work, we wanted to hear organizers’ thoughts on nonviolence. We asked our interviewees what nonviolence means to them, and also how useful and relevant nonviolence—both the concept and the word itself—is to their work. The concept was important to many…
We interviewed members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Service Women’s Action Network, and other organizers who are military veterans or military family members. We also asked all of our interviewees about the role of soldiers, veterans, and their families in ending war, and how others can best support their efforts. Most…
In the first round of interviews we asked, “How do we build a more multiracial, antiracist antiwar movement, and what inhibits us from doing so?” As a lot of folks also discussed class as an interlocking system of oppression, we added it explicitly to the question. Many organizers discussed how working-class people and communities of…
This is the brighter side of assessing our organizing context. These are the factors that are potentially in our favor. Overwhelmingly, our interviewees pointed first and foremost to popular disillusionment with the current administration and the neoconservative agenda. From Iraq to Katrina to the economy and the environment, opinions and political consciousness have shifted dramatically…
While our interviewees were quick to name what they saw as lacking, some stressed to not get too down on the movement, arguing that specific historical and cultural circumstances limit what organizers can accomplish or at least set barriers that we have to get past. They discussed what they saw as the most significant constraints…
Nobody drew a blank on this question. Our interviewees had plenty of ideas about what the movement lacks. Some organizers first reacted to the question by distinguishing between a pro-peace movement and an antiwar movement, and a few disputed the use of the term movement at all, questioning whether we have a solid enough base…
We are at a critical turning point in our struggle for peace and justice. In the past six years, public opinion has shifted dramatically on key issues, not least U.S. foreign policy. While there is now overwhelming popular support for an end to the occupation of Iraq, an antiwar movement with the kind of people-power…
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