Around the Bend, Volume 4, Number 2, August 1989

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A ~lication of t:he Peace Education Fund of Indiana, Inc.
Volume 4, Number "Al 1 the news that fits we print." August 1989
TAB..E CF CIJ\ITENTS
Pledge of Resistance
Feminist Focus
Up and Coming
WILPF Happenings
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Content Edi tors
- Sebrina Tingley (WILPF) l.4Jomen ' s Interna­tional
League for Peace and Freedan
- Roger Voelker MID1I~ SAl\E/FREEZE
- Steve Francis-Steele (P'LEIJEE) Pledge of
Resistance
- Ellyn Stecker (!\ON) National Organization
for Wo-nen
Up and Coming
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£Rl....P m<ES FPLL PLANS
By Peter Smith
The convention, held in Philadelphia June
16-18, saw Pledge organizers from across
the U.S. 1NOrk out a national program for
the next year, discuss and debate sone of
the critical issues in the Pledge as it
begins its sixth year, and get to know each
other better. Sane topics discussed were:
identifying and evaluating trends over
the past year, particularly the rise in
creative actions and coalitional llllOrk;
nonviolence and the Pledge ' s stance
to.-Jards violent revolutionary movements in
Central ~rica, especially the Fl"LN;
ho-.i to organize against media distor­tion;
formation of caucuses within the Pledge,
including a women's caucus and a caucus on
racism--racism as an integral part of the
policy we are struggling against and our
own racism within the movement.
The Pledge is calling nationally for a
series of nonviolent actions and ongoing
activities through the next year, which
will build to.-Jard large, dramatic, and
creative regional civil disobedience and
legal protest actions focused on Central
~rica in June, 1991Zl. These actions will
culminate a yearlong campaign of visibility
and protest including the following ele­ments:
Demaistraticns Leading to June Regional
Acticn
The following demonstrations are planned:
October 7: The convention endorsed the
"Housing ~" march in Washington, D.C.
and cal led for a Pledge contingent to join
the march from the Pentagon to the Capitol,
making the connection between the war on
the poor abroad and here at home.
The local Pledge group is organizing
buses from the South Bend area to this
march including contingents from as many
organizations as possible. For further
information contact Peter Smith (289-2126).
October 14-18: CISPES has cal led for
nationwide local civil disobedience and
legal protest focusing on the U.S.-backed
Salvadoran death sauad oovernrnent's war