Announcements

...The 2002 European Hope & Resistance Gathering will meet May 8-12 at Hobbitstee, a hospice and retreat center in the Netherlands. Hope and Resistance is a nonviolent resistance network organized by ploughshares and other nonviolent resistance groups. Gatherings to explore issues around nonviolent resistance and the escalation of civil disobedience, to create community, to share experiences and to offer one another support. For more information, contact Susan van der Hijden, Amsterdam Catholic Worker, POB 22141, 1100 CC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ploegscharen@yahoo.com.

...The International Space Organizing Conference and Protest (at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale) will take place May 10-12 in Berkeley, California. For schedule and registration information, contact the Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space, POB 90083, Gainesville, FL 32607, 352-337-9274, email: globalnet@mindspring.com web: www.space4peace.org.

...Nonviolent Alternatives announces their 20th season of 2-3 week programs in active nonviolence, conducted with native communities in South Dakota, India, and Sri Lanka. For a full description of programs, fees and applications, contact Nonviolent Alternatives, 825 4th St., Brookings, SD 57006, 605-692-8465, carlek@brookings.net.

...Two Belgian nonviolent action groups have launched "From Bomspotting to BomSTOPping," a campaign to continue mass civil disobedience actions at the Kleine Brogel Air Force Base, where U.S. nuclear weapons assigned to NATO are based, while adding the element of "ploughshares" type direct disarmament of weapons on the base. For more information, contact Forum voor Vredesactie, +33 3 281 68 39; bomspotting@vredesactie.be.

...Friends of a Vermont activist tragically killed by police as he sought political sanctuary in a Brattleboro church last December wish to alert anti-nuclear activists in Vermont that one of the two officers responsible for fatally shooting Robert "Woody" Woodward also works as an armed security guard at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Jim Hoffman writes, "I'm afraid that if (Officer Terrance) Parker were to encounter a demonstrator at Vermont Yankee, he might subject them to the same fate as Woody, particularly given the preset ability of authorities to label anyone near a nuclear plant as a potential terrorist." For more information, visit www.justiceforwoody.org.

...SOA-Watch is co-sponsoring two activist skills training programs this summer. In Denver, June 7-9, SOAW and Witness for Peace will train local organizers for media, legislative, fundraising, arts, and other skills; plus nonviolence training for trainers to prepare for the November 2002 vigil and action at Ft. Benning. In Detroit, at the Pax Christi USA National Assembly on July 26, a similar two-track program will be offered. For more information, contact SOA Watch, POB 4566, Washington, DC 20017, (202)234-3440, email: info@soaw.org web: www.soaw.org/

...Resources for Radicals, an annotated bibliography of print resources for those involved in movements for social transformation, will be available in June, 2002, in a newly revised 4th edition, with index improvements and more clearly defined sections. A wide range of topics are touched on, from meeting facilitation to community gardening to civil disobedience to union organizing. Many new entries focused on globalization, pacifism, co-operatives and masculinity and violence. Work coming from such struggles as the feminist, animal rights, ecology and the peace movement abound. Available post paid for CAN$12, US$13 or US$15 (other countries) from Toronto Action for Social Change, P.O. Box 73620, 509 St. Clair Ave., West Toronto, Ontario M6C 1C0, Canada.