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July August Handful 12 Pages 1 Handful of Salt Volume XXXVXXXV,, Number 444 JulyJuly----August,August, 2011 Let’s re- engaging young people to increase their ignite the involvement in PJALS and to support youth-led torch: efforts. We will a 7-month leadership development program for young activists (ages Re-starting 16-22), from student groups, faith communities, our young and community groups as well as new PJALS activist members. We’ll offer a series of workshops on topics including corporate power, racial justice, leaders nonviolence and militarism, campaign planning, program! project coordination, conversations to move someone to take action, and effective meetings. By Liz Moore, PJALS Director Every month, program participants will volunteer with a group of their choice (including Since the early 80’s, PJALS’ vibrant youth PJALS of course!). program helped countless young people get a We want to provide a gathering place for taste for social justice. I started coming to the young people to ask questions, to educate each youth program (then called Youth for World other, and to explore social justice work Awareness) in 1991—I felt I’d found an oasis together. We can create a program unique for its of like-minded people from different high focus on hands-on organizing skills and we can schools, encouraging each other to ask help grow a vibrant network of young people questions and to educate ourselves about issues committed to social justice. we cared about in our world. I remember We need your help in two ways: impassioned conversations, making signs for 1. Will you donate now to help re-start this protests, and a fundraising concert. I felt like I’d great program? Costs will include dedicated found a political home and began to learn the staff time, materials, food, and, if we can, bus organizing skills that I’ve continued to use since passes and stipends for those who complete the then. commitment. Your donation of $50, $100, or Now we’ve kicked off our fundraising drive any amount will help launch this exciting to re-start PJALS’ youth program and to create program! It's easy at www.pjals.org/contribute. an Organizer position to staff it and other peace 2. Will you help us connect with young family and justice work, thanks to the commitment and members or friends? Can you connect us with a generosity of wonderful folks at our May group at a high school, college, your faith auction. This effort is part of our 3-year goal of community, or elsewhere? Call us! 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 six times a year by the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane. Its name comes from Gandhi’s salt tax protest in India, a successful, nonviolent, grassroots action that created significant social change against overwhelming resource advantages. Steering Committee David Brookbank, Megan Cuilla, Linda Greene, Mark Hamlin, Linda Krogh, Rebecca Lamb, Roseanne Lasater, Mike Nuess, Avery Rendon, Erica Scott, Ken Isserlis (Steering Committee Advisor) Staff Liz Moore, Director; Dale Raugust, Shar Lichty, AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteers; Volunteers Gabriel Chavez, Amanda Hunt, Garrett Havens, Deborah Gardner, Vickie Scott-Woodley, Chris Berg, Pam Olson, Victoria Thorpe, Candace Finity, Darlene McCarthy, Nancy and Jeremy Street, Michelle Platt, Tom Schmidt, Dean Ellerbusch, Greg Lahti, Joyce Weir, Larry Bernbaum, Contact PJALS: 509-838-7870, www.pjals.org, [email protected] Volunteers Make It Happen Contact Dale at 838-7870 to share your time and talents. Volunteer Opportunities, Wish List Contact Dale at 838-7870 or [email protected] External Hard Drive for computers for back-up and storage. About $100 Activist Change Theater, Next Meeting is June 28th at 5:30 in the Com Builidng Lobby Canopy, 10’ x 10’, About $250. July 10: Jordan Valley School Building Printing our Next issue of the Handful, Project, 35 W Main $450; Mailing our next issue $100. August 13: Hispanic Heritage Festival, PJALS’ expenses for one month, $6,000 11-6, Volunteers needed for tabling Case of Copy Paper, $48 August 20: Unity in the Park, 11-4 Volunteers needed for tabling Office chairs and desktop computers less than two years old. Become a Handful Contributor. Volunteers for office work and other We welcome your articles, subject to editing tasks beginning September 2011 for space and appropriateness of content. Contact [email protected] 3 Caucus’ Peoples Budget. You can find a link to Bring Our Billion$ Home this poll on our website: www.pjals.org. The poll By Shar Lichty gives a side-by-side comparison of the three pro- PJALS new banner debuted at Bloomsday and was posed budgets and asks which one you prefer. Par- recently in the Pride Parade. Its beautiful blue ticipants are asked to provide their zip codes in background displays the message of our flagship order to track information by congressional dis- campaign, “Money for People, Not for War: Bring Our trict. This information will be used in the future to Billion$ Home.” approach our elected Representatives. Please visit When we launched this movement building our website for more information on Bring Our campaign, we had set an initial goal of gathering 500 Billion$ Home and to take this quick poll which individuals and 10 organizational endorsements by closes on July 15, 2011. June 30, 2011. We began signature collection on MLK Day at the Unity March where we collected over 250 signatures. Since that time volunteers have been gathering signatures at various events and Balancing the Budget on the presentations have been given to a variety of organizations. I am proud to report that we have Backs of the Most Vulnerable surpassed our initial goal and currently have over 700 By Shar Lichty individuals and 12 organizational endorsements. The organizations which have endorsed our campaign are: Despite the efforts of the Our Economic Future PDA Spokane; Veterans for Peace, Spokane Chapter; Coalition, which PJALS is a part of, to close tax The LGBT Center; Dempsey’s Brass Rail; Code Pink, loopholes and preserve vital services, the legisla- Spokane; Boundary County Peace Group; Sustainable tors passed an all-cuts budget. Structures; Senior Legislative Coalition of Eastern The work of this coalition and its members did Washington; MEChA of EWU; Scary Feminists of increase discussion around and consideration of EWU; Eastern Washington Voters; and Yak Research. closing some of the 567 tax loopholes, which con- I am currently working to put together a presentation tribute to the revenue problem our state continues to deliver to organizations when we request their to face year after year. There were several bills endorsements. We will first be seeking endorsements introduced during the special session that called for from the 25 co-sponsors of the Peace & Economic closing of specific loopholes while dedicating Justice Action Conference this past March who have funding to specific programs, placing sunset dates not yet endorsed. In addition to this list, we will be and putting better transparency measures into approaching local chapters of Unions who are place; however, with the passage of I-1053 last affiliated with U.S. Labor Against the War. November which instituted a 2/3 majority require- As part of this campaign, I have been participating in ment to raise taxes, none of them survived. “The New Priority Networks” monthly conference While this year’s budget managed to make re- calls. This network includes several organizations ductions rather than eliminations to several pro- across the country with campaigns similar to ours, grams as originally proposed by the Governor, calling for an end to the wars, reduction of Pentagon these reductions and the elimination of programs budget and a shift in spending to services that benefit such as the cash portion of Disability Lifeline will our communities. These calls provide a great resource be devastating to many individuals in our commu- of ideas and the opportunity to learn from organizers of nities. Enormous cuts to vital public health, educa- other campaigns across the country. The New tion and safety infrastructure make up 90% of the Priorities Network has launched an online poll to budget solution for the next biennium with the gather information on which federal budget the public prefers: Obama’s, Ryan’s GOP, or the Progressive Continued on page 5 4 patriarchy to the partnership of solidarity Moving from Domination to Partnership translates on an international level to a by Dale Raugust rejection of the domination politics of the old world to the cooperation of the new world in In June I participated in “The Ultimate which stronger nation states do not dominate Men’s Summit” an online series of web weaker ones. Eisler speaks of there being two seminars. One of the most soul stirring was previous revolutionary movements in the the discussion of how we, as men, and we, as a history of humankind: the agricultural society, can move from a patriarchal mindset revolution and the industrial revolution. This to one of solidarity, not replacing patriarchy movement from domination to solidarity with another oppression, such as matriarchy, Eisler labeled the “ecological revolution”, an but moving to a place where the talents and appropriate title as the movement is more than dispositions of each person, female or male, just male-female relationships, but our determines the responsibility and authority relationship between racial, ethnic, religious, that each person will share. national and all other groups including our Riane Eisler, author of The Power of relationship to the planet. Partnerships , and other books on male-female Domination by stronger nation states relations and partnership spirituality, was one prevents effective global partnerships for of the presenters at the Men’s Summit.
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