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Black Women and the Peace Movement

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Black Women and the Peace Movement was first published in August 1983. That edition soon ran out, and this second edition has been revised and expanded. It now includes the edited transcript of a speech in January 1984 at a Bristol meeting attended by 150 women and organized by a group of Black and white women. It was one of many meetings, involving Black and white women and men, which were organized to carry on the mushrooming discussion launched by the first edition. The original essay gave a new general perspective on the peace movement. But the question remained: how does this work in practice? How does racism, which we are struggling to overcome in the peace movement as in the rest of the world, actually function to promote war; what exactly are we divided by and what can bring us together? The Bristol speech,'Across the Divide of Race, Nation and Poverty: Women Organizing for Peace', confronts these questions. Its aim is to help the explosive discussions which the first edition g