Swords into pen points

By ANITA SKEEN
On Feb. 1, I received an e-mail from Sam Hamill, poet and editor of Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Wash., which has published more than 240 books and CDs, including works by five Nobel laureates and three Pulitzer winners. He wrote the following:
Dear Friends and Fellow Poets: When I picked up my mail and saw the letter marked “The White House,” I felt no joy. Rather I was overcome by a kind of nausea as I read the card enclosed: Laura Bush requests the pleasure of your company at a reception and White House Symposium on “Poetry and the American Voice” on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 at one o’clock.
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Poets against the war

Activists gear up for Saturday’s antiwar march
When Colin Powell made his case for war before the United Nations last Wednesday, a blue cover was thrown over Picasso’s masterpiece, "Guernica," behind the podium. Diplomats told The New York Times that the painting, which depicted brutal images of a Spanish town’s 1937 bombing, would send a mixed message to the audience. The large-scale tapestry was covered with the Security Council flags.
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Nothing modern about Iraqi war, professor says
What is the relationship between war and modernity, or the belief in progress? The German scholar, Hans Joas, a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, is author of the recently published book “War and Modernity,” Joas is the guest speaker at Michigan State University’s First Annual Peace and Justice Studies Lecture this Friday. Daniel Sturm interviewed Joas.
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Anti-War Activities

Second GoLocal meeting set in Lansing for Feb. 20
Last month City Pulse sponsored a luncheon discussion on the concept of developing a more self-reliant economy in Greater Lansing. The theory, as promulgated in the book “Going Local,” by Michael H. Shuman, is that communities need to rely more on local businesses than on global corporations because locally owned businesses are less likely to leave a community for merely economic reasons than are global corporations.
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