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Peace News #2439 June to August 2000

Mayday! Mayday! A16: a guerrillas garden Asylum: a mixed response NPT review: 100 arrested Plowshares Vs Depleted Uranium Viva Vieques! Wars start in spring

Chris Hunter, Taking responsibility PBI Timor, Protecting peace Paul Golding, 50 years too many Miri Heatherwick, Against the action, not the actors

Sian Jones, Guest editorial Vesna Terselic, Empowerment: just another phrase? Roberta Bacic, Fear - a sign that we are alive Cecilia Moretti, What power do we want? Gustavo Esteva, People power and coalitions of dissent Hazel Rennie, Crossing paths Keith Goddared, Inside out Saswati Roy, Economic empowerment and tribal women in India Ippy & David, Squat the lot! Andreas Speck, Collective identities: trap or tool for empowerment Anne Darby, The fourth language Howard Clark, Be realistic, demand the impossible Photomontage, The 1960s decade of empowerment?

Julia Kraft, Power with, not power over Viv Sharples, A model for organising mass nonviolent direct action Ellen Elster, Comment

Do or Die Collective, Do or Die no 8 www.primalseeds.org Asian Dub Foundation, Community Spirit P Bidwai and A Vanaik, New Nukes Gerry Kennedy, The Cold War and the British Peace Movement 1979-1989 Bernadette Meaden, Protest for Peace Magazine reviews: blu, Off Our Backs, Green pepper Magazine reviews: Corporate Watch, News From Within, Philosophy & Social Action Noam Chomsky, Classics in Politics Hugh OShaughnessy, Pinochet, the politics of torture

In a nutshell Obituaries 46-47 Room with a view