Have you taken time to read the new Winter/Spring Issue of our Peace & Freedom magazine?
And don’t miss the Thursday, February 18, webinar with article author, Gloria McMillan!
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Children playing in Hull-House, ca 1900. From Rabbi Hirsch’s Neighborhood in Winter: Jane Addams and Hull-House’s Early Years Jane Addams and Hull House's Early Years. Winter/Spring issue of Peace & Freedom. Photo courtesy of the Swarthmore Peace Collection.
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Yes, I know – it was probably a surprise to receive Peace & Freedom through a January 28 Alert and read it online or printed out at your desk!
You also learned that this is not just a one-time experiment, but a strategy to save on costly printing and mailing expenses by alternating between digital-only (an online edition like this issue) and print/digital (i.e., both print and online versions, like past issues). Additionally, this change can allow us to publish P&F more often – on local, national and international topics and featuring our issue committee, branch, and member work.
I include detailed instructions below for how you can read this issue, using the online Yumpu site. But before that, I want to tell you about this issue! At first, I thought I’d write about a few articles to inspire you to read this issue, whether online, on your screen, or printed out. But the articles are all so good, I’ve decided to summarize, instead.
The content of the first article I’ll mention is part of the topic of the webinar this Thursday. “Rabbi Hirsch’s Neighborhood in Winter: Jane Addams and Hull-House’s Early Years” is tucked in near the end of this issue. Author, Gloria McMillan, eloquently describes what led Jane Addams to found Hull House in the meat-packing section of Chicago in 1889 – far from the affluent area where she lived.
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Register today and tune in to learn more about
Jane Addams, the Two Chicagos, and the U.S. Rich-Poor Divide Today
Thursday, February 18 at 5:30 PST / 8:30 EST
This webinar features Gloria McMillan and her fellow scholar, Mattius Rischard, with Darien De Lu facilitating. Registration is required for this Zoom webinar
Discover why "spatial maps" of urban spaces, like the two Chicagos, are still relevant and what real effects they have on people’s lives. Further information is here.
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I’ll add here that Addams was awarded her 1931 Nobel Peace Prize just when right-wing fascism and Hitler were on the rise. Today we must not focus only on right-wing fascism, but also on neo-liberal social and economic policies that perpetuate corporate and class interests that are equally dangerous and must be equally opposed. |
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Also at the end of this issue is a wonderful tribute honoring Vivian Schatz: “Remembering Vivian Schatz: Lifelong Peace Activist and Environmentalist.” Schatz worked in the Nuclear Freeze movement in the early 1980s, as I and many other of our WILPF sisters did. Now along with many other allies, we’re supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Prop. 1. Surely, Jane Addams and the women in The Hague could never have imagined this existential threat.
Left: Vivian Schatz
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As WILPF US President, Darien De Lu, writes in her letter at the start of the magazine, “Bringing 100+ years of experience and an informed analysis to the peace and justice movement, we can unite with others on widened initiatives for disarmament and diplomacy.”
Vicki Elson builds on that in “Feeding Two Birds with One Scone: Converting Warheads to Windmills.” She similarly inspires us to envision a world at peace and rallies us – along with Ellen Thomas’s campaign for Prop. 1, now titled the “Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic Conversion Act” – to abolish nuclear weapons and Move the Money to Human Needs.
Other WILPF authors bring us up close to the struggles for peace of women in other countries. These articles remind us how important it is, right now with this new administration, that we advocate for a foreign policy based on feminist principles of peace-making. Be sure to read these!
- Val Moghadam, “Iran and the United States: What Might a Feminist Foreign Policy Look Like?”
- Leni Villagomez Reeves, “In Colombia, the Struggle Continues”
- Odile Hugonot Huber, “Border Walls Bring Misery and Discrimination”
- Barbara Taft, “The Roots of Separation, or How Walls Develop”
- Robin Lloyd, “Sameena Nazir on Women’s Rights and the Desire for Peace in Pakistan”
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Sameena Nazir and WILPF US member
As WILPF US President, Darien De Lu, writes in her letter at the start of the magazine, “Bringing 100+ years of experience and an informed analysis to the peace and justice movement, we can unite with others on widened initiatives for disarmament and diplomacy.”
Vicki Elson builds on that in “Feeding Two Birds with One Scone: Converting Warheads to Windmills.” She similarly inspires us to envision a world at peace and rallies us – along with Ellen Thomas’s campaign for Prop. 1, now titled the “Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic Conversion Act” – to abolish nuclear weapons and Move the Money to Human Needs.
Other WILPF authors bring us up close to the struggles for peace of women in other countries. These articles remind us how important it is, right now with this new administration, that we advocate for a foreign policy based on feminist principles of peace-making. Be sure to read these!
- Val Moghadam, “Iran and the United States: What Might a Feminist Foreign Policy Look Like?”
- Leni Villagomez Reeves, “In Colombia, the Struggle Continues”
- Odile Hugonot Huber, “Border Walls Bring Misery and Discrimination”
- Barbara Taft, “The Roots of Separation, or How Walls Develop”
- Robin Lloyd, “Sameena Nazir on Women’s Rights and the Desire for Peace in Pakistan”
Importantly, we can’t change the system without understanding the role that money creation and debt play in our economy and how to break the grip of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. Dorothy Van Soest and Mary Sanderson explain these so well in “Money Creation Is a Form of Violence.”
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We cannot forget, as Judy Adams shows in “Paper Crane Exhibit Takes Flight in Menlo Park”, how “Artful Activism” attracts an audience to WILPF and our work.
And Pat Hynes in “A Pandemic Within the Pandemic” alerts us with alarming statistics to the “task of eliminating the structural roots of violence against women and girls” both here and in other countries. It’s not only the pandemic that imposes this system of violence; the climate crisis, environmental injustice, conflict, and war also put women at risk of violence.
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Don’t miss the articles at the end of the issue. Jan Corderman’s, “A Virtual Tour of the WILPF US Office!” shows you our Des Moines, Iowa, home base. Marybeth Gardam in “Friend-Raising at WILPF US Has Come a Long Way” will inspire you to reach out to friends to tell them about WILPF and forward this P & F online to them. You might also point out to your friends the article “Branches Get Innovative: Activism Takes New Forms” and the inspiring plans for Congress – “Zooming ahead: WILPF US 34th Triennial Congress.” Be sure to let them know how to “read” this issue.
How You Can Read This Issue
Keep in mind that these instructions are general and you may need to adjust them, depending on what device you use and your experience.
To begin, open the magazine link here and you will be on the Yumpu site. The P&F color front page will appear. This issue is 30 pages of text; plus the front and back covers.
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Three Options for READING and PRINTING this P&F:
A. Read It Online With Yumpu, you can read the issue right on the Yumpu site, on your computer screen.
These reading directions work best if you use the Chrome or Safari browsers for viewing the P&F on Yumpu. You can still read the issue online, even If you use a different browser that is not fully “supported” by, i.e., doesn't work perfectly on, the Yumpu site; you’ll just have to experiment a little more, adapting these directions.
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Go to the far right of the screen to find a large white > and click on this arrow to “turn the page ahead”, or go to your far left and to find the large white < to “turn the page back.”
- If you move your cursor to the bottom of the window for the Yumpu site, you will find to the far left a large white dot. Move it slowly to the right to scroll through the magazine pages, to show you page by page.
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If the article print you see is too small to read, you have two choices: a) Double-click on the small page. It will get larger. When you first click on the text, wait a moment (or move the page a bit) and it will get sharper! To move on the page, click and – holding that click – move around. To return from the page to the magazine, just double-click. b) Look in the area at the bottom of the Yumpu window, on the far right. If your browser is supported, you’ll see a large white button between a minus sign to the left and a plus sign to the right. By scrolling that white button, you can enlarge the type size and then use your cursor to move the page so you can read the area you select. Again, the enlarged print will get sharper after a moment. Double click or shrink the view size to get back to the magazine.
B. Download this Peace & Freedom That way you can save it, view it as a PDF, and/or print it out.
- Go to the upper right of the Yumpu window and click on the middle of the three icons; it looks like a cloud. (The word “download” will drop down.)
- Your computer will now download the PDF file using your usual program or application, and you can choose where to save the file.
- You can now open the PDF file and read this issue, control the window width and magnification of view options, and scroll through the pages.
- You can select the pages you want to print, or even print the entire issue.
Note if you’re printing: You probably don’t want to print “all” – the entire magazine – in color, because that will use about $15 in ink!
C. Use Yumpu to Print One or More Pages A special advantage of Yumpu is that you can easily print out individual pages, if you’re using the Chrome or Safari browsers.
- Use the arrows or the large white dot (see A, above) to go to the page you want.
- ln the upper right in the Yumpu window, click on the leftmost of the three icons.Choices (Left page, Right page, All) will appear.
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If you’re using the Chrome or Safari browsers, you can click on your choice under this print icon to print pages out – in either black and white or color, depending on your settings and the ink in your printer. –> If your browser is not “supported”, follow the instructions in B, above, to download the magazine as a PDF for printing.
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I hope these pointers help you navigate our online Peace & Freedom magazine so you can enjoy the articles!
Let us know how you feel about the Yumpu site! Email your comments on Yumpu – or on other aspects of this virtual PDF – to info@wilpfus.org
Remember to preregister for the webinar Thursday, to learn more about both the world of Jane Addams and the separations between spaces in the U.S. of today.
Yours for disarmament, diplomacy, and just social and economic policies,
Nancy Price
At Large Member of the WILPF US Board and Co-convener of the Earth Democracy Issue Committee
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