Table of Contents – We Have Not Been Moved

We Have Not Been Moved:

Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America

Ultimately, there can be no peace without justice, and no justice without peace. The two great moral issues of our time, peace and human rights, are so closely related that we can say that they are one and the same.

—Coretta Scott King, Madison Square Garden Anti-War Rally, June 8, 1965

 

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth…A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.” …A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. This call for a world-wide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love.

—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam” (1967)

 

CONTENTS

Foreword: King’s Truth: Revolution and America’s Crossroads xv
Cornel West
 
Resisting Racism and War: An Introduction; or, What Will It Take to Move Forward? 1
Matt Meyer, Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez, and Mandy Carter
 
How the Moon Became a Stranger: 11
Chrystos
 
By Any Means Necessary: Two Images 14
Carrie Mae Weems
 
I. Connections, Contexts, and Challenges
 
Helping Hands 19
Karl Bissinger
 
Wild Poppies 20
Marilyn Buck
 
Are Pacifists Willing to Be Negroes? A 1950s Dialogue on Fighting Racism and Militarism, Using Nonviolence and Armed Struggle 21
Dave Dellinger, Robert Franklin Williams, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Dorothy Day
 
Revolutionary Democracy: A Speech Against the Vietnam War 34
Bayard Rustin
 
Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One? 38
Barbara Deming
 
Nonviolence and Radical Social Change 48
Barbara Deming
 
On Revolution and Equilibrium (Excerpt) 50
Barbara Deming
 
Responsible Pacifism and the Puerto Rican Conflict 52
Ruth M. Reynolds
 
Where Was the Color in Seattle? Looking for Reasons Why the Great Battle Was So White 55
Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez
 
Looking for Color in the Anti-War Movement 61
Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez
 
Combating Oppression Inside and Outside 74
Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez
 
II. (Re)Defining Racism and Militarism: What Qualifies? Who Decides?
 
Continental Walk, 1976—Washington, D.C. 81
Janet Charles
 
river of a different truth 82
Liz Roberts
 
Nonviolent Change of Revolutionary Depth: A Conversation with 84
Vincent Harding
 
Regaining a Moral Compass: The Ongoing Truth of King’s Vision 92
Elizabeth McAlister
 
Four Vignettes on the Road of the Broken Rifle: Reflections on War and Resistance 93
Ibrahim Abdil-Mu’id Ramey
 
Questioning Our Reality 97
Alejandra Cecilia Tobar Alatriz
 
Finding the Other America 99
Anne Braden
 
On Being a Good Anti-Racist Ally 102
Ted Glick
 
The Culture of White Privilege Is to Remain Silent 104
Liz Walz
 
Towards a Radical White Identity 110
Susan B. Goldberg and Cameron Levin
 
Weaving Narratives: The Construction of Whiteness 119
Dean Johnson
 
The Pan-Africanization of Black Power: True History, Coalition-Building, and the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party: An Interview with Bob Brown, Organizer for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) 137
Matt Meyer and Dan Berger
 
Rescuing Civil Rights from Black Power: Collective Memory and Saving the State in Twenty-First-Century Prosecutions of 1960s-Era Cases 148
Dan Berger
 
The Unacceptability of Truth: Of National Lies and Racial America 165
Tim Wise
 
Race, History, and “A Nation of Cowards” 167
Bill Fletcher Jr.
 
III. Chickens and Eggs: War, Race, and Class
 
Amache: Japanese-American Relocation Center, 1942–1945—Post Office 171
Mary Jane Sullivan
 
Amache 172
Mary Jane Sullivan
 
The Antiwar Campaign: More on Force without Violence 175
Dave Dellinger
 
Let’s Talk about Green Beans: An Interview with Dorothy Cotton 182
Matt Meyer and Iris Marie Bloom
 
I Beg to Differ 186
Ellen Barfield
 
Militarism and Racism: A Connection? 188
David McReynolds
 
Looking at the White Working Class Historically 191
David Gilbert
 
Chinweizu, War, and Reparations 211
Dr. Conrad W. Worrill
 
On Being White and Other Lies: A History of Racism in the United States 214
Mab Segrest
 
Race, Prisons, and War: Scenes from the History of U.S. Violence 226
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
 
IV. The Roots and Routes of War: Patriarchy and Heterosexism
 
Dean of Students Ann Marie Penzkover and Her Niece Mariah, Wisconsin 241
Andrea Modica
 
Genocide: Remembering Bengal, 1971 242
Sarah Husein
 
Why We Need Women’s Actions and Feminist Voices for Peace 244
Starhawk
 
Terror, Torture, and Resistance 248
Andrea Dworkin
 
Race, Sex, and Speech in Amerika 249
Andrea Dworkin
 
Disarmament and Masculinity 254
John Stoltenberg
 
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House 264
Audre Lorde
 
Practical, Common Sense, Day-to-Day Stuff: An Interview with Mandy Carter 267
Matt Meyer
 
The Rise of Eco-Feminism: The Goddess Revived 271
Kitty Mattes
 
Beyond the Color of Fear: An Interview with Victor Lewis (Excerpt) 276
Peggy McIntosh
 
The Politics of Accountability 279
Jon Cohen
 
Tools for White Guys Who Are Working for Social Change 282
Chris Crass
 
Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing 285
Andrea Smith
 
V. The Roots and Routes of War: Nationalism, Religion, Ageism
 
Kafka’s Amerika 297
William P. Starr
 
Ten Years in Freedom 298
Dylcia Pagán
 
Fragmented Nationalism: Right-Wing Responses to September 11 in Historical Context 301
Matthew Lyons
 
Whiteness Is Not Inevitable! Why the Emphasis on White-Skin Privilege Is White-Chauvinist and Why the Problematic of “Race” Needs to be Replaced with the Restoration of the National Question(s) 331
Fred Ho
 
The Content of Our Character: An Interview with José López 338
Mike Staudenmaier with Matt Meyer and Dan Berger
 
Truly Human: Spiritual Paths in the Struggle Against Racism, Militarism, and Materialism 347
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
 
White Like Me: A Woman Rabbi Gazes into the Mirror ofAmerican Racism 361
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
 
Dark Satanic Mills: William Blake and the Critique of War 366
Joel Kovel
 
Draft Resistance and the Politics of Identity and Status 379
Edward Hasbrouck
 
War Resistance and Root Causes: A Strategic Exchange 388
Jim Haber and Matt Meyer
 
VI. Where Do We Go from Here?
Organizing Against War and Racism
 
Perpetual Peace Matchboxes 397
Carrie Mae Weems
 
Before and After: The Struggle Continues 398
Malkia M’Buzi Moore
 
A Reflection on Privilege 401
Chris Knestrick
 
We Have Not Been Moved: How the Peace Movement Has Resisted Dealing with Racism in Our Ranks 403
Matt Meyer
 
CISPES in the 1980s: Solidarity and Racism in the Bellyof the Beast 421
Suzanne Ross
 
To Live Is to Resist 434
Greg Payton and Matt Meyer
 
Not Showing Up: Blacks, Military Recruitment and the Anti-War Movement 437
Kenyon Farrow
 
A Challenge to Institutional Racism 441
Nada Khader
 
Where’s the Color in the Anti-War Movement? Organizers Connect the War Abroad to the War at Home 443
Momo Chang
 
An Open Letter to Anti-Oppression/Diversity Trainers  446
Daniel Hunter
 
New Orleans: A Choice Between Destruction and Reparations 450
David Billings
 
Why Not Freedom for Puerto Rico? Building Solidarity in the United States: An Interview with Jean Zwickel 455
Meg Starr
 
“National Security” and the Violation of Women: Militarized Border Rape at the U.S.-Mexico Border 461
Sylvanna Falcón
 
From Bases to Bars: The Military & Prison Industrial Complexes Go “Boom” 465
Mumia Abu-Jamal
 
Dismantling Peace Movement Myths 469
Frida Berrigan
 
Structural Racism and the Obama Presidency 476
john a. powell
 
Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency 482
Linda Burnham
 
Where Was the White in Phoenix? ATen-Year Movement Update 485
B. Loewe
 
Moving Forward: Ideas for Solidarity and Strategy to Strengthen Multiracial Peace Movements 490
Clare Bayard and Francesca Fiorentini
 
An Anti-Racist Gandhi Manifesto 512
Sachio Ko-Yin
 
VII. AfterPoems
 
Why War Is Never a Good Idea 517
Alice Walker
 
Reflections after the June 12th March for Disarmament 524
Sonia Sanchez
 
Peace (a poem for Maxine Green) 529
Sonia Sanchez
 
Stop the Violence Matchbox Fishbowl 532
Carrie Mae Weems
 
Acknowledgments: 533
Contributors: 536
Index: 555