Common Ills community Dallas has often helped us. As we scrambled to pull together something for the Sunday edition he has been one of the many we could call on to help us locate links. (If you haven't figure it out, we're not big on providing links.) As we work on this latest edition, we shoot the breeze and discuss a variety of topics. C.I. brought up that Dallas had e-mailed a list of the people contributing to Code Pink's Stop The Next War Now book and that a post on that would be going up at The Common Ills when we took our first break. On our end, a break means Jess runs out for some sort of vegetable wrap (or Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, but don't pass that on to his healthy living folks!) and Ty's headed off for Cheetos. Dona and Jim argue about who needs to buy cigarettes and who needs to run out and get them while Ava's going through the e-mails trying to make sure nothing important came up on one of the days she wasn't assigned to handle the e-mail. Rebecca usually uses break time to converse with her current man of the moment (that's what Rebecca told us to put in) or to call a friend or two to check in quickly with them. Kat says she just mellows and lights some more incense and turns up the volume of her CD player. Betty says she's usually rushing to transfer a load of clothes from the washer to the dryer and then start a new load in the washer. So we all do various things on our breaks.
But when Rebecca heard about Dallas' list, she said she wanted to post that at her site Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitudes and we agreed that we wanted to post it here as well.
The book addresses the need for responses other than drop a ton of bombs or a ton of more bombs. This is a topic that we've discussed at length for the last two months (and one addressed by Gina and Krista in their gina & krista round-robin each week).
So here is a reposting from The Common Ills.
Book: Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism
Alice Walker
Medea Benjamin
Jodie Evans
Arundhati Roy
Camilo Mejia
Nancy Lessin
Cindy Sheehan
Carly Sheehan
Marti Hiken
MaryAnn Wright
Kit Gage
Patricia Foulkrod
Eve Ensler
Terry Tempest Williams
Rose Kabuye
Elise Boulding
Riane Eisler
Joan Almon
Catherine Ingram
Susan Griffin
Phyllis Bennis
Leslie Cagan
Fridea Berrigan
Eisha Mason
Rebecca Solnit
Diane Wilson
Marti Hiken
Becky Bond
Barbara Ehrenreich
Beth Osnes
Julia Ward Howe
Laura Flanders
Starhawk
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kavita N. Ramdas
Neela Marikkar
Sumaya Farhat-Naser
Gila Svirsky
Shirin Ebadi
Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Rabia Roberts
Jasmina Tesanovic
Pramila Jayapal
Mary Robinson
Helen Thomas
Gael Murphy
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Amy Goodman
Janine Jackson
Andrea Buffa
Nina Rothschild Utne
Tad Bartimus
Patricia Scott Schroeder
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
Chellie Pingree
Lynn Woolsey
Barbara Lee
Jody Williams
Noeleen Heyzer
Helen Caldicott
Randall Forsberg
Joseph Gerson
Gar Smith
Arianna Huffington
Julia Butterfly Hill
Jennifer Krill
Naomi Klein
Benazir Bhutto
Wangari Maathai
Aya de Leon
Alli Chagi-Starr
Holly Near
Juana Alicia
Kathryn Blume
Cynthia McKinney
Adrienne Maree Brwon
Sharon Salzberg
What is the above? A list of the people contributing to Stop the Next War Now which Dallas compiled and e-mailed in hoping it might interest some members in the book. Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism is a book attempting to increase our understanding of possible solutions and responses.
As we noted on Wednesday:
Code Pink has a book out entitled How to Stop the Next War Now. For more information, see Code Pink or BuzzFlash. The book contains contributions from a number of women this community has noted and highlighted. Among the contributors: Medea Benjamin, Amy Goodman, Barbara Lee, Naomi Klein, Eve Ensler, Janeane Garofalo and Arianna Huffington.
Dallas ordered the book via BuzzFlash and he e-mailed this afternoon to pass on the list of contributors thinking it might raise interest in the book. I agree this is an important book. I hadn't thought of purchasing it online from Code Pink or BuzzFlash when I saw it in my local independent bookstore -- I don't think BuzzFlash had offered it yet as a premium because the first I knew of the book was when the cover caught my eye. Whether you purchase the book from an independent bookstore, Code Pink, BuzzFlash, or wherever you usually purchase your books, I'd urge you to consider purchasing it. And for those on limited funds, check your local libraries and utilize their inter or intra library loan programs.
There are responses other than drop bombs and starve off a population (of food or medical supplies). Our current administration knows only war. Which is why so many of us flinch when someone starts saying "We have to do something about ___" -- fill in the blank. In five years our world view has been dangerously warped and our options reduced to one: war.
Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism is an attempt to raise our understanding and provide us with other tools. If it's not your "bag," that's fine. But, like Dallas, I feel strongly about the issue. As does Rebecca and The Third Estate Sunday Review which is why, with Dallas' permission, this entry will be posted at both of their sites as well.
To that, we'd add that if you go to your local library and they don't have a copy, besides requesting that they use the loan programs to obtain it from another library, they also purchase a copy. And if you have the money to spare, you might consider purchasing a copy for your local library.
We'll also add that Betty says she will work into her next entry at Thomas Friedman is a Great Man.