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  Ploughshares Fund :: Home
Ploughshares Fund and the organizations we support are marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by assessing today's nuclear threat and taking stock of what the world has learned in the intervening sixty years.
Ploughshares Fund is sponsoring "Hiroshima: The Original Ground Zero", a week of special programming on nuclear weapons issues on LinkTV.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Arms Control Today have produced special editions commemorating the Hiroshima anniversary, while other groups have planned public events in their communities to raise awareness of the new and persistent threats to global security posed by the presence of nuclear weapons.
www.ploughshares.org   (169 words)

  
 Project Ploughshares Home Page
John Siebert appointed as Executive Director of Project Ploughshares
Project Ploughshares is an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches established in 1976 to implement the churches' call to be peacemakers and to work for a world in which justice will flourish and peace abound.
The mandate given to Project Ploughshares is to work with churches and related organizations, as well as governments and non-governmental organizations, in Canada and abroad, to identify, develop, and advance approaches that build peace and prevent war, and promote the peaceful resolution of political conflict.
www.ploughshares.ca   (240 words)

  
 Ploughshares, the literary journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
WELCOME TO Published three times a year in quality paperback, Ploughshares offers almost two hundred pages per issue of great new stories and poems, guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Stories, poems, and essays from Ploughshares have appeared at least 135 times in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.
Ploughshares receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
www.emerson.edu /Ploughshares/Ploughshares.html   (418 words)

  
 Ploughshares Fund
Under Lilienthal's leadership, the Ploughshares Fund has continually ensured that funding was available to support cutting-edge initiatives for stopping the spread of weapons of war.
Ploughshares is deeply involved in efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, ban landmines and implement international controls on the spread of small arms.
Lilienthal is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the Center for International Policy, the University of California Press and the international advisory board of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
www.commondreams.org /pressreleases/april99/040799a.htm   (252 words)

  
 Indymedia UK - Plymouth ploughshares action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Around 50 members of the Trident Ploughshares campaign group took part in the demonstration as workers arrived at the yard this morning.
The demonstration was the culmination of a five-day Trident Ploughshares international disarmament camp in the city.
During a similar camp last November, two Trident Ploughshares activists boarded HMS Vanguard and the base was subjected to a mass blockade.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/10/278684.html   (325 words)

  
 New Internationalist: Ploughshares four: personal disarmament at work
The women took out household hammers and blow by blow disabled all those components and devices that were connected to weaponry -- like the nose cone, the radar, the bomb attachment under the wings and the control devices in the cockpit.
Some days later Angie Zelter, the fourth Ploughshare, was arrested after publicly stating her intention to disarm a Hawk.
The Ploughshares philosophy, which is not based on any particular religious doctrine, is about breaking through fears for personal safety and taking responsibility for actions.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_281/ai_30543526   (525 words)

  
 The Swords And Ploughshares Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Swords And Ploughshares Museum is dedicated to the memory of the many and often ultimate sacrifices made by our forebears in the pursuit of peace and democracy.
The Museum represents a unique approach to military history as its primary focus is on the Citizen Soldier (the Militiaman and Reservist) at peace and at war.
Another unique aspect of the Museum is the cooperative effort by private collectors to provide a venue for the display of their personal collections.
www.calnan.com /swords   (174 words)

  
 Trident Ploughshares Updates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Trident Ploughshares spokesperson Jane Tallents said, "Whether people are being found guilty of Breach of the Peace for protesting about Trident does not just depend on the facts of the case but also on the courts interpretation of the law.
Preparing the way for the Trident Ploughshares Disarmament Camp scheduled at Aldermaston June 13-18, the "Telesubbies" affinity group cut many holes in the security fence on June 6.
The Trident Ploughshares website at www.tridentploughshares.org is very informative about the campaign issues, history, and future actions.
www.nonviolence.org /nukeresister/nr129/129tp.html   (899 words)

  
 Ploughshares : The Room Where I Was Born @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Start / P / Ploughshares / April 01, 2004 / The Room Where I Was Born
Years from now, this fascinating and dangerous book will surely be recognized for its important contribution to the new century's American poetry.
Read 'Ploughshares: The Room Where I Was Born' with a FREE Trial for instant access »
static.highbeam.com /p/ploughshares/april012004/theroomwhereiwasborn/index.html   (179 words)

  
 identity theory | interviews | don lee (2004)
Long-time Ploughshares editor Don Lee has recently published his second book, a novel entitled Country of Origin.
Now mostly what we like to do is get people who have had their early work in Ploughshares a long time ago and have established themselves and now want to give something back.
DL: If you were able to sit at Ploughshares, at my desk, you would see that the writing, the things we get, seem to be getting better and better.
www.identitytheory.com /interviews/birnbaum153.php   (5814 words)

  
 Pit Stop Ploughshares Head to Oct. 24th. Trial- Update & Call for Solidarity! - Dublin Anti-War - Indymedia Ireland
The DVD/video features the Pit Stop Ploughshares 5, U.S. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Iraq Veteran Kelly Dougherty, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire, former U.N. Assitant Secretary General Dennis Halliday and "Voices in the Wilderness" founder Kathy Kelly.
On the eve of Peter, Clare, & Teresa departing New York to attend the Pit Stop Ploughshares trial in Dublin/March 2005, the F.B.I. raided their 3 houses and the house of co-defendant Danny Burns.
They were initially charged with one felony "interfering with a federal officer in the course of his duty".
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=71148   (2067 words)

  
 PEACE ON TRIAL!
On 3rd February 2003, as part of ongoing resistance at Shannon Airport, the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmed a US warplane.
Within the month, three of the four companies contracted to ferry US troops and weapons had left Ireland.
The DVD/video features the Pit Stop Ploughshares 5, U.S. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Iraq Veteran Kelly Dougherty, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Marriead Corrigan MacGuire, former U.N. Assitant Secretary General Dennis Halliday and Voices in the Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly.
www.ploughsharesireland.org   (364 words)

  
 Harry Browne: The Pitstop Ploughshares
But listen to the Pitstop Ploughshares group for a few minutes and it becomes obvious that they're not putting their faith in any such nod-and-a-wink "Irish solution".
The immediate spin on the Ploughshares group was that they had 'overpowered' a policeman during their wee-hours action, though no assault charges were subsequently proffered.
At the Shannon 'peace camp' the Ploughshares 5 came together and planned their action in a matter of less than two weeks.
www.counterpunch.org /browne06212003.html   (1416 words)

  
 Scoop: 4 Disarm Ship in New York City During Fleet Week
On Sunday, May 25, at about 4 pm, four Catholic Workers, calling themselves the Riverside Ploughshares, went aboard the USS PhilippineSea during the 16th Annual Fleet Week hosted by the Intrepid Museum in New York City.
We come here today to enflesh the prophecy from Isaiah, "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks" (2:4).
Therefore I join the Riverside Ploughshares in an act of faith, offered to God as a plea for the lives of my children, and all children.
www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/WO0305/S00259.htm   (1143 words)

  
 SEEDS OF HOPE - EAST TIMOR PLOUHGSHARES: On January 29, 1996, borough counselor Joanna Wilson from Merseyside, gardener ...
Another member of the group, Angie Zelter, an environmental campaigner from Norfolk, publicly stated she intends to carry out a future ploughshares action at BAe to continue the process of disarmament there.
BAe immediately issued an injunction against the women, prohibiting them from BAe facilities so as to prevent “further interference in its businesses.” On August 1, 1997, the four women held a press conference calling for the prosecution of BAe for aiding and abetting murder in East Timor.
Contact: Seed of Hope Ploughshares, e-mail: Ricarda@gn.apc.org; and East Timor Action Network, PO Box 1182, White Plains, NY 10602; (914)428-7299; etan-us@igc.apc.org.
www.plowsharesactions.org /webpages/weba.htm   (705 words)

  
 Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A project of the Canadian Council of Churches, Project Ploughshares undertakes policy research, education, and advocacy programs to promote the peaceful resolution of political conflict, demilitarization, and security based on equity, justice, and a sustainable environment.
Project Ploughshares posts its annual armed conflict report on their website, this provides a brief history of each armed conflict and has updated information about the conflicts as it is available.
In April 1996, Canadian peace groups created the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons to facilitate co-operation between Canadian groups and individuals working for the abolition of nuclear weapons, both within Canada and in co-operation with the global Abolition 2000 coalition.
www.projectpeacemakers.org /links.html   (1715 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - Beating swords into ploughshares - Saturday | April 16, 2005
Jamaica Gleaner - Beating swords into ploughshares - Saturday
For nearly 70 years our political parties and trade unions have been at war with each other.
Is he out-of-step, or is he going to try to bring back the left-right-left march of militancy to the political stage?
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20050416/cleisure/cleisure2.html   (806 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Six peace protesters released
Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police stopped the group at about 0700 BST on Friday close to the camp at Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth.
The arrests came on the second day of the camp, which is being held by the anti-nuclear campaign group Trident Ploughshares.
Trident Ploughshares confirmed the 10 people are peace activists.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/3161796.stm   (241 words)

  
 Morphing swords into ploughshares - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
His comment, "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness", has been a metaphor for the phenomenon of extracting beneficial things from even the most evil of circumstances.
Isaiah made a prophecy - as yet unfulfilled - that "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more".
It was more like a plea than a prediction, but ironically, has come true with a sharp twist.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20050527T200000-0500_81258_OBS_MORPHING_SWORDS_INTO_PLOUGHSHARES.asp   (1077 words)

  
 Poetry Daily Feature: Angie Hogan - Ploughshares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Known for its compelling fiction and poetry, Ploughshares is widely regarded as one of America's most influential literary journals.
Each issue is guest-edited by a different writer for a fresh, provocative slant — exploring personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles — and contributors include both well-known and emerging writers.
This unique editorial format has made Ploughshares, in effect, into a dynamic anthology series — one that has established a tradition of quality and prescience.
www.poems.com /ploughog.htm   (188 words)

  
 Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance (Texas a & M University Military History Series, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance (Texas a and M University Military History Series, No 36) - Hotel Resource Book Store
Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance (Texas a and M University Military History Series, No 36)
Not only is it well-written, the excellent research is immediately available to the reader due to the footnotes being located at the bottom of the page, rather than the inferior lay-out method of placing footnotes at the end of the book.
www.hotelresource.com /bookstore/asinsearch_089096632X.html   (184 words)

  
 Poets&Writers, Inc.
AS A WRITER AND THE EDITOR OF Perhaps best known as editor of Ploughshares, a post he’s held for sixteen years, Don Lee published his first book, Yellow (Norton, 2001), at the age of 41.
Two years later he applied and was accepted to the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston.
You know, I talk about focusing on editing and working at Ploughshares, but part of that is that I was afraid to put myself on the line.
www.pw.org /mag/dq_lee.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Christian Aid - Transforming Guns Into Ploughshares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For many demobilised soldiers, an illegal weapons cache has seemed like a guarantee of security in an economy and a society devastated by war.
But for the past seven years the Transforming Arms into Ploughshares project, partly funded by Christian Aid through the Christian Council of Mozambique, has offered to exchange illegal weapons and ammunition for useful tools and construction materials.
We are transforming your guns into ploughshares, so you can cultivate your land and get your daily bread."
www.vanguardonline.f9.co.uk /020109.htm   (553 words)

  
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Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810 James Sidbury ISBN: 0521598605
Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810
Please wait while we find you the best price for Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810, this should take no more than 30 seconds.
www.bookhead.co.uk /0521598605.aspx   (80 words)

  
 Information about the current Iraq crisis and what you can do   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Project Ploughshares contributed to the dialogue by preparing two documents.
Project Ploughshares Calgary created its own Response to Foreign Policy Dialogue Questions.
The Ploughshares Statement on Iraq background document, which explains in much greater detail what strategies Ploughshares proposes.
ploughsharescalgary.ca /iraq.html   (1021 words)

  
 FF3/98 - Trident Ploughshares 2000
Die Pflugscharaktion erkennt den Mißbrauch der Macht, die Krieg immer ist und das zutiefst Unmoralische, andere töten zu wollen.
Das Trident Ploughshares 2000-Projekt muß im Zusammenhang mit der aktuellen Arbeit der internationalen Friedensbewegung gesehen werden, die sich aktiv an der nuklearen Abrüstung, seit dem ersten Gebrauch von Nuklearwaffen in Hiroshima und Nagasaki vor über 50 Jahren, engagiert.
Kontaktadresse: Trident Ploughshares 2000, c/077 42-46 Bethel St., Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 INR, Britain, Telefon ++44-1603-611 953, Fax ++44-1603-666 879.
www.friedenskooperative.de /ff/ff98/3-09.htm   (406 words)

  
 NDVAEV20-e   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A number of our colleagues are actively involved in that, so I'm going to give the first question or the first opportunity to Mr.
As the chairman said earlier, this morning we had the pleasure of receiving testimony from Project Ploughshares.
This morning we had expert witnesses, as you know, from Project Ploughshares, and I asked the same question there.
www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/36/2/NDVA/Meetings/Evidence/ndvaev20-e.htm   (15367 words)

  
 FindArticles in Ploughshares Monitor: June 2002
FindArticles > News and Society > Ploughshares Monitor > June 2002
Save a personal copy of any page on the Web and quickly find it again with Furl.net.
A letter to the Prime Minister of Canada.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go2599/is_200206   (240 words)

  
 ISRAEL: Ploughshares activist to be deported   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Zelter, a founding member of the Trident Ploughshares and the International Women’s Peace Service, arrived at Ben Gurion airport on October 24.
Zelter was detained and interrogated by Israeli authorities for over 12 hours, before being denied entry to the country.
In 2001, the Right Livelihood award, also known as the “alternative Nobel Prize”, was awarded to Zelter and the Trident Ploughshares, along with Israeli peace activists and founders of Gush Shalom, Uri and Rachel Avnery.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2004/605/605p22b.htm   (533 words)

  
 index.html
This website contains various notes and briefings that may be useful for Trident Ploughshares (TP) activists.
Much of the information is a bit technical, and the concentration is on support for those who are arrested and/or charged for relatively minor actions/offences, and who want to represent themselves or at least do some detailed legal work themselves.
This document was last revised: 5/7/2001 (The briefings are revised separately.
www.andrewgray.uklinux.net /legalsupport   (270 words)

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