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Womenspace Magazine

"Cheers for Volunteers"

"Thirty Years of Herstory"
 

Peace: A Dream Unfolding is a large coffee-table book celebrating the International Year of Peace. Excerpts from essays, poems, scientific reports and novels fill the 250 lavishly illustrated pages. Bernard Lown and Evgueni Chazov, Nobel Laureates in their roles as co-presidents of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, wrote the Forward to this book and presented copies to world leaders they met in their travels. 

Peace was a year-long team project for four or five persons. More than 250 credits attest to the comprehensive scope of the investigation. As editors, we started from the premise that there is a long history of humanity yearning for peace, which has been obscured by the historians' tendency to concentrate on wars -- just as there is a history of women, which has been hidden by history as written by men. 

Peace contains three sections. "The Dream" presents cross-cultural religious and philosophical writing celebrating peace, from ancient Greek and Roman days through the World Wars. Quotations include Lao Tzu, Chief Seattle, Pericles, Lucretius, Martin Bubder, Diderot, Erasmus, Emerson and Einstein. Art includes images from Edvard Munch, Emily Carr, Franciso de Goya and Kathe Kollwitz.

"The Nightmare" describes the horror and potential destructiveness of nuclear weapons. As well as images and accounts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this section reviews arms treaties, nuclear accidents, social/military expenditure comparisons, and early civil defense drills such as "duck and cover". Art includes a comic strip, photos, posters, maps, graphs and cartoons.

"The Awakening" offers wisdom from modern peace movements around the world. Early wakers include Aldous Huxley, Albert Camus and Edna St Vincent Millay. Then there are quotations from people such as Denise Levertov, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Gen Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Atwood, Biship Desmond Tutu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel, as well as organizations such as the War Resisters League, CARE, Project Ploughshares, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Graphics include a Picasso sketch, a Dr Strangelove poster, and photos of people in action, from the Mothers of Plaza del Mayo to the 1981 World Peace March that saw one million people in the streets of New York. 

Womenspace Magazine 
Editor-in-charge for two issues

“Cheers for Volunteers” issue, Dec 2001, 
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editor's Comment; Section 1: Cheers for Volunteers! Formalizing the Sector: International Year for Volunteers background document; Scorecard: Who's Who in IYV; Who Counts As Volunteers?; Section 2: Who's left out? Voluntary or Volunteer? Defining Our Own Work (Dialogue); Underalls: Voluntary Work Supports Economy; Extra-Agencies: Pay Equity Day ; Involuntary "Voluntary" Work (Fr); Spare 28 Hours a Week? Women and Homecare; Lysistrata Goes Global; Section 3: Towards Inclusion : Money, Honey: Who Gets Funding?;  Bridging the Funding Gap; Fundraising for Women's Groups; Rocking the Boat; Excluded! Civil Society and IYV; Squeaky Wheels; Building on Trust.

“Thirty Years of Herstory” issue, Aug 2002. Womenspace Herstory combined an essay contest with an online timeline of what the Canadian women’s movement has achieved since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. More than sixty readers entered essays or visual arts submissions, illustrating what feminism has meant to them. Of those, six won cash prizes of $200 each, and twelve won $50 each. All were published on the site. A small women’s press has contacted me about the possibility of publishing all the submissions in book form, and at least one scholar has let me know that she would use such a book in the courses she teaches.

NeWest Review Contributing Editor, member of editorial co-operative 1990 - 1998