From the Stacks: February 9, 2007

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'Games' is a popular theme in our library this week -- it's there in the latest issues of Broken Pencil and Topic's Issue #10. The latter's interpretation of 'Games' includes the vast realm of video and virtual reality games. In 'Weight Loss Revolutionary,' Matt Keene writes about the interactive video game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR), in which players hop, skip, jump, and try to dance along to music and moving arrows that indicate where players should step on an interactive mat. The DDR phenomenon has been making headlines for the game's role in helping kids stay fit. As Matt concludes: 'This is the story of how a video-arcade game transformed a 500-pound depressed teenager into a fit young man who's never been happier.' -- Evelyn Hampton

Like war rhetoric, peace rhetoric often echoes from the highest echelons of policy making by those sheltered from war and poverty. There are smaller voices however, that speak from the thick of social justice struggles, voices that recognize the worthiness of a peaceful endeavor as well as the work it entails. Peacework, a journal published monthly (excluding January and August) by the New England office of the American Friends Service Committee, is one such voice. In the February issue, contributors Natalia Cardona and Jessica Walker Beaumont expose the human costs of the drug war in Colombia and highlight the Indigenous Peace Guard that serves as the nonviolent protector of communities threatened by paramilitaries. After reading the stories and biographies you can check out the back pages for listings of campaigns, gatherings, and resources to aid you in your own peace work. -- Natalie Hudson

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