Contents

• Foreword / Alice Walker
• Preface / Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans
• Introduction / Arundhati Roy
• Ch. 1. It starts with one voice
• Regaining my humanity / Camilo Meijia
• Breaking the code of silence / Nancy Lessin
• From Cindy to George / Cindy Sheehan
• A nation rocked to sleep / Carly Sheehan
• Understanding the U.S. military / Marti Hiken
• Essential dissent / Mary Ann Wright
• Protect your right to dissent / Kit Gage
• We must separate the warrior from the war / Patricia Foulkrod
• Ch. 2. From a culture of violence to a culture of peace
• The new paradigm we hold within / Eve Ensler
• The open space of democracy / Terry Tempest Williams
• Warriors for peace / Rose Kabuye
• Choosing peace / Elise Boulding
• Building a just and caring world : four cornerstones / Riane Eisler
• The challenge of educating for peace / Joan Almon
• Dark enough to see the stars / Catherine Ingram
• The mind can be a prison or a door / Susan Griffin
• Ch. 3. Building a stronger antiwar movement
• Activists as ambassadors / Phyllis Bennis
• A permanent people’s movement / Leslie Cagan
• A life in the movement : an interview with Frida Berrigan / Medea Benjamin
• The patience to win / Eisha Mason
• A new coalition / Rebecca Solnit
• The art of misbehavin’ / Diane Wilson
• Nurture new activists / Marti Hiken
• Not Ronald Reagan’s antiwar movement / Becky Bond
• Ch. 4. Strengthening women’s voices
• A new counterterrorism strategy : feminism / Barbara Ehrenreich
• Mothers of all the world’s children / Beth Osnes
• Mother’s day proclamation / Julia Ward Howe
• W stands for war / Laura Flanders
• Feminist voices for peace / Starhawk
• Freedom through solidarity - the lie of "liberation" / Sonali Kolhatkar
• Global women for peace / Kavita N. Ramdas
• Empowering the silent majority / Neela Marikkar
• Ch. 5. The humanity we share
• We refuse to be enemies / Sumaya Farhat-Naser and Gila Svirsky
• The pillars of peace / Shirin Ebadi
• A mother’s plea / Nurit Peled-Elhanan
• Pilgrimage for peace / Rabia Roberts
• A letter to my imaginary American friend / Jasmina Tesanovic
• Making America a hate-free zone / Pramila Jayapal
• What we expect from America / Mary Robinson
• Ch. 6. Unspin the media
• The guards are sleeping : an interview with Helen Thomas / Gael Murphy
• Heading into the cave with a torch / Katrina vanden Heuvel
• The power of dissent / Amy Goodman
• Building a better media / Janine Jackson
• Be the media / Andrea Buffa
• Hope versus cynicism / Nina Rothschild Utne
• Killing the messenger with kindness / Tad Bartimus
• Ch. 7. Hold our leaders accountable
• On not passing the buck / Patricia Scott Schroeder
• Democracy is a lifestyle / Doris "Granny D." Haddock
• Making our voice heard / Chellie Pingree
• Get SMART : a better response to terrorism / Lynn Woolsey
• Finding our conscience again / Barbara Lee
• Ch. 8. Disarm the world
• A world working together / Jody Williams
• Seating women at the peace table / Noeleen Heyzer
• Ending the nuclear crisis : a prescription for survival / Helen Caldicott
• Nonproliferation : the U.S. imperial double standard / Randall Forsberg
• Colonizing the globe, one base at a time / Joseph Gerson
• Armies for peace / Gar Smith
• Ch. 9. Protect and respect resources
• Victory cars / Arianna Huffington
• Conserving our resources, resisting war / Julia Butterfly Hill
• Oil addicts anonymous / Jennifer Krill
• Bring Halliburton home / Naomi Klein
• Ending poverty, ending terrorism / Benazir Bhutto
• The cracked mirror / Wangari Maathai
• Ch. 10. Celebrate joyful revolution
• Grito de Vieques / Aya de Leon
• Lessons from the field : igniting the spirit of joy / Alli Chagi-Starr
• Planet called home / Holly Near
• Picture peace / Juana Alicia
• Making a scene / Kathryn Blume
• The new America / Cynthia McKinney
• To the next generation of peacemakers / Adrienne Maree Brown
• The opportunity of imprisonment / Sharon Salzberg
• Afterword / Medea Benjamin