1 Handful of Salt Volume XXXVIVXXXVIV,,,, Number 333 September ––– OctoberOctober------November 2015 Calling Young Activist 40 years...half a lifetime? 40 years...a long time to be in a career Leaders! 40 years...a fabulous accomplishment for By Teresa Kinder, YALPista class of 2015 and justice in Spokane. and PJALS Office Manager

Summer is quickly nearing an end Yes--beginning in October 2015 , and meaning only one thing: it is time for a new culminating in October 2016--PJALS will be Young celebrating its 40 th Activist anniversary in Leaders substance and style. Program We hope you (YALP) can all join us for our class! membership meeting As on September 10 th a YALP where we will honor graduate our volunteers; as it is from 2015 I you who have been sincerely responsible for PJALS urge remaining a strong everyone to voice in our join YALP. James, Victoria, Chris, Bri, Ryan, Teresa, Roupe, Trung, Kasey, community today. YALP was and Jamie — YALPistas of the class of 2015 So join us at instrumental in giving me the foundational the Community Building on Thurs Sept 10 skills of organizing and activism. The (Continued on page 7) connections with other youth cannot be understated. YALP is the only place I can find In This Issue Page where young minds can come and work together. Rusty Nelson: Losing WWII 3 Last year’s cohort was made up of Respect immigrants 4 members of the labor movement, the LGBT community, social work students from Eastern Death penalty at the tipping point 5 Washington University, multi-generational How many Presidential candidates have 8 (Continued on page 11) you moved? Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane Affiliate of the Fellowship of Reconciliation 35 W. Main, Ste 120M, Spokane, WA 99201 · 509-838-7870 · www.pjals.org 2 The Handful of Salt is published quarterly by the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane. Its name comes from Mohandas Gandhi’s salt tax protest in , a successful, nonviolent, grassroots action that created significant social change against overwhelming resource advantages.

Steering Committee: Louise Chadez (Vice Chair), Cly Evans (Chair), Dom Felix, Jessica Jahn, Adrian Murillo, Taylor Weech, Deb Svoboda, Ray Thorne (Secretary) Welcome Dom & Adrian! Thank you Deb Svoboda for serving as Chair!

Staff: Liz Moore, Director; Shar Lichty, Organizer; Teresa Kinder, Office Manager, Andrew Lackey, Administrative Assistant

Volunteers: Christy Anderson-Crosen, Krista Benson, Andy Castrolang, Lee Chilberg, Deb Conklin, Tim Connor, Pauline Druffel, Bart Haggin, Mark Hamlin, Kelly Matthews, Mary Naber, Rusty Nelson, Teresa Nevins, Mike Nuess, Dale Raugust, Tom Schmidt, Lynn Sexton, Alison Smith, Patrick Van Inwegen

Contact PJALS: 509-838-7870, www.pjals.org, [email protected]

Volunteers Make It Happen Contact Shar at 838-7870 or [email protected] to share your time and talents.

WANTED: Bookkeeping Assistant, Steering Committee Nominations Bookkeeper, Treasurer, or CPA are now open! We’re seeking new members of our financial The PJALS Steering Committee is our gov- team! We need volunteers to work with and erning board. Steering Committee members eventually replace our current interim serve for 3 years to set forth the vision of our Treasurer and bookkeeper, Mike Nuess. work, approve and oversee programs, raise Duties include tracking income and expenses funds. For more information and a nomination in Quickbooks, issuing checks to vendors, form, contact Liz Moore at [email protected]. semi-monthly payroll, reconciling bank statements, filing various reports and WANTED: Volunteer Coordinator information with the state, completing annual Recruits volunteers via email/telephone; tracks IRS reporting, and reporting monthly to the volunteer hours in database. Plans for PJALS Steering Committee. volunteer needs for events of various sizes and Become a Handful Contributor. schedules accordingly. Must posses excellent verbal & written communication skills & have We welcome your articles, subject to editing knowledge of Word/Excel and Google Docs; for space and appropriateness of content. knowledge of Salesforce preferred. 10+ hours Contact [email protected] a month. Training provided! 3 Rusty Nelson on but as moral leaders for peace and nuclear Peace and disarmament. That it has been 70 years is

frightening. Not so much because so much Losing WWII time has passed for those of us already upon the scene and affected by the war, but because We did it, again. We those with the power to pull the plug on this observed the anniversaries horrible science of death have not pulled the of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and plug, but have run gleefully with doomsday Nagasaki. A few of us gathered by the river technology spilling in their wake, like children and recalled the 70-year-old tragedy that still playing with scissors and matches in a paper casts a pall upon the entire population of our house. planet. There was a brief but important We've built and tested A-bombs, H- discussion of several aspects of the bombings, bombs, big and bigger, with multiple mass premeditated murder and extended warheads and billion-dollar delivery systems. suffering of scores of thousands of Japanese Remember the nuclear subs with enough civilians, and the thoughtful and determined missiles and payload to destroy the entire way survivors have brought their cities back to planet with one attack from an undetected spot life, not only as thriving commercial centers in the ocean? Remember the rail-mounted MX missile system proposed for Fairchild Airforce Base, back when there were nukes aplenty, already, for the ancient B-52s we saw over Spokane almost every day? It's been about 50 years , now, since Americans began peeling away layers of secrecy and President Truman's coverup about the decision to use the bomb after the war was virtually over. And still, we beg that we not be told the truth. We don't want to know that the Japanese had been ready to surrender since April and were being stonewalled by U.S. generals who couldn't stand for the war to end without deploying our precious weapon, developed by some of the world's finest scientific minds and thousand of laborers who Nancy Nelson, retired co-director of PJALS, as she knew only that they were being well-paid to participates in the PJALS Hiroshima Day Remem- somehow support the war effort in strange brance on August 6. Members placed white flowers locations like Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and in the Spokane River and then delivered 11,000 Hanford. We don't want to know that the signatures in support of peace with to Senator second bomb, built at Hanford, was dropped Murray and Rep. McMorris Rodgers. On Aug 25 on Nagasaki before Japan could comprehend members of PJALS and Veterans for Peace met what had happened at Hiroshima, much less with Senator Cantwell’s staff as well. (Continued on page 9) 4 Respect Immigrants communities of social conscience guiding policy direction towards the protection of the By Adrian Murillo, PJALS Steering politically and economically vulnerable. Committee Nationally and locally, social conscience is spawning a greater I moved to awakening, gaining Spokane a year ago. When momentum, steadily I first learned of the city’s climbing that moral arc “sanctuary” ordinance as it towards justice for all. now stands, I thought to No human being myself: I’ve landed in a is illegal just as no baby is city with a social born illegitimate anymore; conscience. I can do good that way of thinking and work here. This tells me talking has no moral Spokane is for all. standing in this changing Good progressive world. There are policy direction starts with documented and our common ground, undocumented people and humanity’s shared needs and vulnerabilities. no one has the credible 99% of us populate this common ground authority to burden and threaten the struggling to survive, hopefully among undocumented with negative, slanderous hospitable people and neighbors. judgment, criminal stereotyping or racial But some people reject this common profiling. ground, swept away by reactionary and racist Protecting the victims of civil political currents. They insist true security and drug wars, official corruption, the ravages requires social conditions of rampant of poverty and ecological ruin is nothing to be suspicion and paranoia about the changing ashamed of. The message we must keep on face of things. sending is that we refuse to be the misers of The anti-immigrant group Respect love like the xenophobes among us. Washington wants police and city employees I hope PJALS members and allies to embody and implement their racism and deepen their commitment to supporting and vigilant cynicism, create a climate of fear and organizing Latinos in this area because despite uncertainty. What’s next? The enforced the fact there are many kinds of immigrants in display of armbands designating status? this area, it is Latinos and Mexicans in But local law enforcement cannot particular who get singled out by one local solve a situation which is—in scope and city council member and many right-wing scale—a complex, geopolitical issue. demagogues like that pendejo Trump. As Hannah Arendt noted in The It is long past time to recognize and Origins of Totalitarianism: “The Rights of accept Mexico is family, connected by blood Man had been defined as inalienable because and history, and deserves to be seen as a they were supposed to be independent of all primary relationship of the U.S. governments. There can be no social justice without Adrian 5 The death penalty is at the These three cases represent what most folks would call "the worst of the worst." tipping point Capital cases require the jury to be willing By Shar Lichty, Organizer to consider a death sentence and this was the case for the two cases that went to PJALS has worked for over 30 years trial—and yet those juries returned with a to end the death penalty in Washington and we sentence of life without parole. The are finally nearing the finish line. prosecutor then made a deal with the third During the last legislative session our defendant for life without parole. local group, Inland NW Death Penalty When juries who are willing to Abolition Group, coordinated with Safe & Just consider a death sentence returning a Alternatives to achieve significant gains sentence of life without parole for crimes toward legislative repeal of the death penalty. like these it sends a loud message to We gathered a record number of postcards for prosecutors and legislators. legislators in With the Governor's the 6th, 4th, & moratorium, a prosecutor who 7th legislative was not able to get a death districts, we sentence for these horrific strengthened crimes despite the millions of Republican dollars spent, and increased bi- support for partisan support for repeal of the repeal, and we death penalty we are likely at brought the the tipping point in Washington voices of State. Murder Will Washington be the Victims' next state to abolish this barbaric policy? Families for Reconciliation to the table. Would you like to help us make that happen? All of this left us in the best position Here are a couple of ways you can for repeal we have seen yet and in a good make a difference: position to continue the momentum forward • Join us on Tuesday, October 20th from 6 during the next legislative session. -8pm (location TBA) to listen to Becky This summer we saw some victories O'Neil McBrayer of Murder Victims' in court that further strengthen our work. Families for Reconciliation . Her story is During the past few years, King County spent a powerful example of the extra pain over $15 million pursuing the death penalty in families experience when the death three cases-all three ended with a sentence of penalty is an option. life without parole. Two of these cases • Join our Inland NW Death Penalty involved defendants in the Carnation Abolition Group which meets on the 2nd Murders—the horrific murder of one and 4th Wed. of each month at the PJALS defendant’s family on Christmas Eve, office to help strengthen our work during including two young children. The other was the next legislative session. the Monfort case—he was convicted of killing a police officer.

6 PJALS Opportunity Calendar All meetings are located at the Community Bldg 35 W. Main unless otherwise noted. Info: 838-7870, [email protected], or pjals.org/calendar September October • 3, Thurs: Anniversary Team, 5p-6p • 1 Thurs: Peace & Justice Action • 9, Wed: Police Accountability Coalition Committee—all welcome! 5:30pm meeting, 5:30pm • 8, Thurs: Palestine- • 9, Wed: Veterans for Peace meeting, Committee 6pm, Liberty Park United 6:45pm Methodist • 10, Thurs: PJALS Gratitude Potluck, 5p • 14, Wed: Police Accountability -7p Coalition meeting, 5:30 pm • 22, Tues: PJALS Steering Committee • 14, Wed: Veterans for Peace meeting, meeting, 6pm 6:45pm • 23, Wed: Death Penalty Abolition • 15, Thurs: PJALS 40th Anniversary Committee, 5:30pm Kickoff “A Force More Powerful: The • 24, Thurs: Palestine-Israel Human Salt March” 7p, Magic Lantern Theater, Rights Committee, 6pm, Liberty Park 25 W. Main. United Methodist • 20, Tue: PJALS hosts Murder Victims’ • 26, Sat: PJALS Fall Workshop: “Race: Families for Reconciliation speaker, The Power of an Illusion” 9a-5p, lunch location/time TBA. included. See insert. Register: • 22, Thurs: Palestine-Israel Human www.pjals.org/RPI Rights Committee, 6pm Liberty Park • 30, Wed: Young Activist Leaders United Methodist Church Program Open House, 6p to 7p. Come • 27, Tues: PJALS Steering Committee learn about the best leadership meeting, 6pm development program for young • 28, Wed: Death Penalty Abolition progressives in our region! All welcome. Committee, 5:30pm PJALS Gratitude Potluck & Membership Meeting Thursday, September 10, 5pm-7pm Join us to recognize our wonderful volunteers, break bread together, enjoy conversation, and cover business in a short membership meeting! We cry out our Gratitude to PJALS members and volunteers who have keep PJALS going strong! 7 PJALS 40th Anniversary, cont from page 1 at 7pm for a Gratitude Potluck for volunteer appreciation and gratitude to all who make PJALS such a wonderful community -- as well as our annual membership meeting! The kickoff for our anniversary year will be on Thursday, October 15 from 7- 9pm . Join us at the Magic Lantern Theatre for our screening of the documentary "A Force More Powerful" on Gandhi's salt march. This will be followed by a short discussion of the film in the theatre. Then we will gather in the Community Building for food, drink and continued conversation. We will continue to have quarterly gatherings on Thursday nights to celebrate our year, as well as our annual Action November Conference and our benefit auction. * December 17 th Peace Potluck • 5, Thurs: Peace & Justice Action * February 26-27 Action Conference Committee—all welcome! 5:30pm * April 21 Potluck • 11, Wed: Police Accountability * July 21 Potluck * And our 40 th Anniversary Celebration Coalition meeting, 5:30pm GRAND FINALE in October 2016. • 11, Wed: Veterans for Peace meeting, We also plan to have monthly 6:45 pm brown bag luncheon discussions. These will include other segments of The Power of • Palestine-Israel Human 12, Thurs: Force and guest speakers. Rights Committee, 6pm Liberty Park We hope you will join us for these United Methodist Church events and make a renewed commitment to • 15, Sun: Deadline for calendar items & become more involved with PJALS over the next year. To volunteer for some of these submissions for Handful of Salt great events, call us at 838-7870. publication We look forward to another great • 19, Thurs: Peace & Justice Action year of commitment to peace and justice and recognition of all past volunteers have Committee—all welcome!, 5:30pm done to promote the common good in • 24, Tues: PJALS Steering Committee Spokane and throughout the world. And we meeting, 6pm also look forward to planning and • 25, Wed: Death Penalty Abolition preparing for our next 40 years with passion and vision. Committee, 5:30pm — Louise Chadez 8 How many Presidential to the unjust deaths of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, candidates have you moved to and other Black people whose lives have been add a position to their taken from them by law enforcement all over platform? the country. Why is it necessary for Black By Liz Moore, Director Lives Matter to challenge people who want to I was reading Facebook posts and lead our country to also lead on ending the articles as I came home from camping, the day deaths of Black people? after Senator Bernie Sanders was pre-empted Since that day, both Hillary Clinton by Black Lives Matter in Seattle, after he and and Jeb Bush have also been challenged by Governor O'Malley (also a Presidential Black Lives Matter activists. Sanders has candidate) had been challenged at Netroots articulated a powerful issue position that calls Nation by Black Lives Matter. At the time, out "the four central types of violence waged Sanders had no statement about racial justice against black and brown Americans: physical, on the Issues page of his website. He's from political, legal and economic." Vermont, with relatively few people of color, But at the time, some white and he lives inside the Beltway bubble, but progressives responded to the BLM challenge still ... he or his advisors should have in ways I found disappointing and distressing. recognized the need to lead on racial justice in I want to share my admiration and respect for the USA in 2015 as “the people's candidate." the leadership and courage of Black Lives It's rather stunning to me that Matter. apparently no candidate was ready to lead on In the same way that we at PJALS one of the most pressing issues of our time, an choose to spend our energy meeting with issue made pressing by grassroots folks in Senator Murray's staff to urge her to support Ferguson and all over the country responding (Continued on page 9) Summer of Action! City Council meeting on July 13. Here are some activities your involvement and •Attend Greater Spokane Progress' Civic support has made possible! Engagement & Organizing Training, July 22. •Peacekeeper training, June 4. •Co-facilitate "Race: The Power of an •Boycott: The Art of Economic Activism, Illusion" training at Fairchild July 23. poster exhibit June 3-12. •Hiroshima Remembrance Day August 6 and •Recruiting and leading the Peacekeeper Team delegation to deliver to Senator Murray & for the Pride Festival, June 13 Rep. McMorris Rodgers a joint letter against •Young Activist Leaders graduation! See increasing Pentagon spending as well as photo on front cover. Our 4th class, June 16! 11,000 signatures from Washington •PJALS Summer Workshop: "Invest in constituents supporting peace with Iran and People, Not the Pentagon" June 20. urging support of the Iran Deal. •Attend Sheriff Knezovich's talk "The Modern •Co-sponsor screening "A Bold Peace: Costa Threat to Law Enforcement" June 29. Rica's Path of Demilitarization" August 13. •Co-organize Smart Justice Spokane's •Anchor and host the national action on Quarterly Meeting July 8. August 26 to tell Senator Murray, Senator •Co-organize and help lead Spokane for All: Cantwell, and Rep. McMorris Rodgers to Spokane Says No to Racism and Profiling at support the Iran Deal! 9 Presidential candidates, cont from page 8 Losing WWII, cont from page 3 the deal with Iran, but only drop off petitions accelerate its efforts to surrender. Or that for the entrenched Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Japan was counting on to get the Black Lives Matter first seeks to move their Japanese plan of surrender to the U.S., even as likeliest ally, Senator Sanders, to raise Stalin prepared to attack Japan and grab a expectations of him in order to raise share of spoils, while we were killing expectations of other candidates. Smart. hundreds of thousands of Japanese to warn I appreciated people I knew engaging Russia to back off and quit pushing its luck, if thoughtfully, listening to each other and to the a country with 20 million fatalities in the war BLM leaders as well as sharing their own might be said to have luck. thoughts without imposing their opinions on And so the Cold War was begun others. I also read several responses that before the “Good War” was cold. And the seemed to be coming from a significant Cold War brought more and larger nuclear arrogance based in the writers' sense of being weapons, more and larger fears and entitled and qualified to assess and judge the suspicions, more elaborate secrets, alliances tactic. That arrogance put me in mind of and reasons to lavish the world's wealth upon Peggy MacIntosh's classic "White Privilege: the race to nuclear destruction. Unpacking the Invisible Backpack," which 45 years ago, it was painfully includes passports, maps, and codebooks as apparent that the nuclear arms race would kill well as a "Your opinion matters all the time" us all, even without nuclear war, and 190 card. nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Many white people who are working Treaty (NPT). Perhaps the NPT has kept us class, not Christian, women, GLBT, or from destroying the world, so far, and it otherwise the subject of discriminatory probably saved Britain and France from going actions, prejudices, or policies of exclusion or bankrupt trying to keep up, but the best oppression have our own realities of our own language of the treaty is just words on paper. experiences. We can own our experiences The U.S. and Russia kept up their deadly without thinking that gives us experiential competition until the Soviet Union unraveled, knowledge of the reality of Black people and Russia decided it could keep us nervous knowing every 28 days a law enforcement with less extravagant gambles. China kept officer kills another unarmed Black person. building, deploying and sharing with scary I saw more than one white person (Continued on page 10) state they might not be an ally to Black Lives Matter anymore unless they were "won over" to support the tactic. What does that mean? racism is the most fundamental definition of Does it mean they'll start believing Black lives white privilege. The choice (or threat) to don't matter? What level of support is at stake? exercise that privilege is quite a stunning Does it mean they won't "like" things on comfort with that unearned privilege. Facebook anymore? They won't challenge For those of us who are white who racist statements made by co-workers or wonder or fantasize about what we "would friends? They won't work to change policies have done" during the Civil Rights that disadvantage people of color? Ultimately, Movement: the time is now. This is the the choice to be or not be an ally in opposing Movement for Black Lives. What will we do? 10 Losing WWII, continued from page 9 corporations developing countries like North Korea. India having taken and acquired the technology and took control of nuclear their game of chicken to the global level. weapons, one can Israel, without ever admitting it has a nuclear only wonder what weapons program, developed a competitive justice might look arsenal and refuses to tell anyone where its like in this case. missiles are pointed, while demanding that the This U.S. subsidize its military and keep Iran out of year, Japanese the nuclear weapons club, at any cost. Prime Minister Paper cranes come originally 26 years ago, we passed on the Peace Abe was criticized from the ancient Japanese Dividend from Russia's withdrawal of the for a lack of tradition of origami or paper arms race. The U.S. chose to continue sincerity in his folding, but today they are spending its treasure on war and preparations expression of known as a symbol of wishes for war, sparing the military-industrial regret for the for peace. This can be traced complex the inconvenience of a robust middle attack on Pearl back to a young girl named class. Harbor upon the th Sadako Sasaki, who died of Last year , the Republic of the 70 anniversary leukemia ten years after the Marshall Islands filed suit against the nuclear of the end of the atomic bombing. Sadako was powers who signed the NPT, the U.S., U.K., war. Finally two years old when she was China, Russia and France, at the International Emperor Akihito exposed to the A-bomb. Nine Court of Justice and U.S. Federal Court. The had to bow a bit years later when she was in little island nation of 70,000 people charges more deeply and the sixth grade (1954), she these populous and prosperous countries have add a few tears to suddenly developed signs of violated the NPT and international law by appease U.S. an illness. She was failing to pursue an end to the nuclear arms media. That's diagnosed with leukemia. race and ignoring the mandate for general and supposed to make Believing that folding paper complete . us Americans feel cranes would help her The Marshall Islands is facing a huge better about recover, she kept folding challenge, but its standing has been squashing two them to the end, but on acknowledged, and who can say it lacks major cities, as if October 25, 1955, after an evidence to support its claims. Between 1946 it had been eight-month struggle with the and 1958, the U.S., alone, turned much of this retaliation for disease, she passed territory into a radioactive wasteland with no Pearl Harbor. away. Sadako's death fewer than 67 above-ground bomb tests. Many (Uncomfortable triggered a campaign to build atolls were obliterated after populations were fact: the A- a monument to pray for world evacuated, and the Marshallese still struggle bombed cities peace and the peaceful with related health problems. Yes, we have harbored very few repose of the many children made payments to mitigate the inconvenience, military personnel killed by the atomic bomb. but the Marshallese want us to honor the treaty beyond the U.S. to prevent another country from such a Navy prisoners of miserable experience, not to mention the war who died in the Hiroshima blast.) And atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With (Continued on page 11) 11 Calling Young Activist Leaders, continued some of your friends, children, or from page 1 grandchildren need a little push to become an PJALS members, and different racial active participant in activism. Multi- backgrounds. We all came together showing generational PJALS members are a strong the importance of intersecting our force to be reckoned with! communities and building inter-community Disenfranchised youth gather to communication. Everyone is accepted for who explore today’s oppression of their they are. Every different perspective brings perspectives and their peers. Where else can fresh insight and eyes to the struggles we all you find a young group of passionate see. Without the meeting of different individuals who will be advancing social communities YALP would not be the same. change decades into the future together? Are you or a young progressive you Trung Nguyen said, “YALP gives the know interested in learning a new skillset to younger generation the chance to truly make a be a stronger activist tomorrow? YALP is difference in the community. YALP proves looking to help foster and grow your skills at that young people want to do more than sit creating the change you want to see in the around. We want to make a lasting positive future. One YALP alumni commented, “Not effect.” Last year we learned how to run only did this program give me numerous, effective meetings, fundraise, gain media explicitly useful tools for my activism, it attention, public speaking, effective ways to refueled my spirit every month and encourage mobilize our communities, and most me immensely to stay involved and active. I importantly the significance of self-care. was treated like my work really mattered.” Have your thoughts and feelings PJALS recognizes the importance of heard, join YALP now! youth in getting our goals achieved. Perhaps

Losing WWII, continued from page 10 Once again, it is left to us. We must Japan is under continuous pressure to build a advocate and educate for peace, seeking and globally competitive military. speaking the truth. It is a terrible burden, but it Next year , we will elect a new president gives us hope and solidarity, and new with neither plans nor intentions to resources are appearing all the time to help us acknowledge or address the true costs of our deal with ignorance, greed and hopelessness. greatest war crime, the bombing of Hiroshima Don't just oppose war, , and and Nagasaki. Continuing costs include: institutional violence. Discuss alternative enemy creation; perpetual limited warfare; plans for security in your country, your thermonuclear weapon stockpiles; corporate- neighborhood and your home. Share your driven proliferation of military weapons; the plans with your friends, your social network, radioactive aspect of war's environmental your government leaders. We can't let this go devastation and the pathetic inadequacy of our on for another 70 years. - R elaborate schemes for storage and cleanup of nuclear waste; a vast, expanding, and lethal spy network, and; widespread hopelessness about institutional violence. 12 Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane Non-Profit Org. 35 W Main, Suite 120M U.S. Postage Spokane, WA 99201 PAID (509) 838-7870 Spokane, WA Permit No. 263

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