A group of Detroit-area teenagers rehearsing a play about "love, hate and rhythm." Their troupe, Mosaic Youth Theater, tackles the big subjects, the hard ones. The company’s play "Crossing 8 Mile" was about the divide between black Detroit and its white suburbs. (See story on here.)

in this issue:
"Reparations"

Letters

Editorial Note

Reparations is not about money
by Ethan Flad

As we went to press

Update

• Iraq under sanctions – and preparing for war
  by David Smith-Ferri
• Bereaved Families’ Forum sets up hotline
  by Robert Hirschfield
• Paul Washington: Philadelphia’s ‘voice of the oppressed’ dies at 81

Louie’s Index

Commentaries

• The siren song of violence
  by Michael Battle
• The privilege of peaceful death
  by Samia Khoury
• Here’s a Christmas Child for You
  by Blaine Paxton Hall

THEME: Reparations

• Indigenous rights and reparations: an interview with Alberto Saldamando
  by Ethan Flad
• Whites and reparations: a call ‘to do our first works over’
  by Jennifer Harvey (Spanish-language version here)

• A new system of slavery – The church’s response to
  the call for reparations can begin with resistance to the prison-industrial complex
  by Rima Vesely
• Moral arguments for reparations: The credibility of South Africa’s TRC is at stake
  by Michael Lapsley, S.S.M. and Karin Chubb
• Theater about love, hate and hope
  by Jane Slaughter

Index 2002

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