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A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute across the Atlantic. She joined other #2: Barbara Deming – #9: Aldous Huxley – A. J. Muste Memorial Institute ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES #15: David theA. J. Muste feminist Memorial Institute connectionA. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute TwentiethA. J. Muste Memorial Century Institute ESSAY SERIES No. activists at the Global Climate Strike ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES 14 No. McReynolds – to nonviolence – On visionary and prolific 15 Revolution and Equilibrium writer –OUT Science, OF PRINT Liberty longtime activist convergence at the United Nations in (PHOTO COURTESY NOT1MORE) COURTESY (PHOTO and Peace with the War late September. #3: Henry David Resisters League, Thoreau – the original – JEANNETTE #10: Paul Goodman DAVID During her address at the U.N. Climate RANKIN McREYNOLDS Socialist Party architect of resistance – On pacifist, anarchist, activist presidential the Duty of Civil Disobedience – The Morality of Scientific “Two Votes Action Summit, Greta admonished world Against A candidate Technology; The Psychology War” and Philosophy Other – A Philosophy leaders, “You are failing us. The eyes of all #4: Jessie Wallace of Being Powerless of Writings Nonviolence Hughan – suffragist, peace on Peace of Nonviolence future generations are upon you. Right here, activist, founder of the #11: Some Writings on War Resisters League – War Tax Resistance right now, is where we draw the line.” Pacifism and Invasion; On – thoughts, poems, tales Young Greta’s journey is one of a long Duelling from resisters, including Juanita Nelson, Allen from a Birmingham Jail and list of clarion calls by fearless individuals. #5: Emma Goldman – Ginsberg and Pete Seeger Peace Agitator: The #1: Martin Luther King, Jr. Declaration of Independence The International Forest Defenders Conference in 2018 brought together over 50 frontline environmental Social change milestones, marked by fiery orator, anarchist, from the War in Vietnam. Story of A.J. Muste, – America’s leading apostle agitatorA. J. Muste Memorial for Institute peace andA. J. Muste Memorial#7: Institute A. J. MusteA. J. – Muste foremost Memorial Institute #12:A. J. MusteSidney Memorial LensInstitute – peace by Nat Hentoff. defenders with security specialists, academics, lawyers, and funders. Not1More defenders joined the conference the actions of a few, grow into move- of human dignity – Loving liberationESSAY SERIES – Preparedness:ESSA Y SERIES20th CenturyESSA PacifistY SERIES andESSA laborY SERIES activist, from Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey and Brazil. Your Enemies; Letter from a theoretician and activist, #14: Jeannette Rankin – A 250-page biography ments of many. Like stacked dominoes, The Road to Universal socialist, occasional first woman in Congress, with many photos, Birmingham Jail; Declaration Slaughter; The Individual, minister, socialist – Who Has political candidate – six of Independence from the War the Spiritual Atom Bomb? suffragist, pacifist – profiling the The Muste Institute’s 2019 Social Justice and their current struggles. they shift public consciousness. A few Society and the State articles spanning three ‘grandfather’ of the in Vietnam. Also in Spanish “Two Votes Against War” courageous women, standing up against #8: On Wars of Liberation decades on the state of U.S. peace movement – Fund grants reflect the range of issues activ- When activist groups traveling from – see #13. #6: Rosa Luxemburg – the U.S. labor movement and Other Writings on courageous leader of – three essays on pacifist Peace minister, labor activist, ists are tackling in creative and cost-effective around the country to the nation’s capital abuse by powerful men, emboldened pacifist and resister. Germany’s democratic responsesOUT to OFarmed PRINT #13: (Spanish) Martin ways. Here are a few of our recent grantees: need support from kindred spirits, they can unknown thousands to say, “Me Too,” socialist movement – freedom struggles, Luther King, Jr. – Spanish Introduction by Larry Prison Letters including analysis of language translation of Gara. In 2016 three women founded Not1More call on the Mobile Screen Printing Project and demand justice. Community resi- Gandhi’s position Loving Your Enemies, Letter (N1M), an environmental campaign group of the D.C.-based group, The Sanctuaries, a dents in Ferguson, Ohio stood strong The Essays of A.J. Muste: Edited by Nat Hentoff, preface by Jo Ann O. Wear Your Peace Shirt. that supports frontline environmental newly-formed multi-cultural arts commu- in the face of police violence against Robinson. Originally issued in 1967, this 500-page edition includes Muste’s “Notes for Muste Institute t-shirts are black cotton with a four- color geometric design and the words: “There is no way to defenders at risk of serious injury or death, nity. The Sanctuaries shares its expertise in African Americans, leading to Black an Autobiography,” plus essays on pacifism, civil rights, trade unionism and foreign policy, peace, peace is the way – A.J. Muste” Available in large and written between 1905 and 1966. and investigates the root causes of environ- training artists to work alongside activists Lives Matter. Native American teenagers extra large. Shirts are made in the U.S.A. mental conflict. N1M investigates environ- to build power and shift culture, making helped halt an energy pipeline, averting mental conflict and crime, working closely demonstrations and actions more effective. devastation to their Dakota homeland. IF YOU USE THIS FORM, SHIPPING IS FREE—SEND IN YOUR ORDER TODAY! with at-risk defenders and communities in Sane Energy Project is committed to Football players, backed by their coach, Essay Series Quantity Pamphlets (total qty:) _____ x $2.00* (any 5 free with purchase of Essays book) $______Cambodia, West Africa and Brazil. A social replacing fracked gas infrastructure with went on strike amid a series of hate 1 Martin Luther King, Jr. ______Sampler Pack _____ x $20.00 (one each of all 13 available pamphlets) $______2 Barbara Deming ______justice fund grant will help them work with community-led, sustainable energy. To that speech incidents—that administrators The Essays of A.J. Muste _____ x $20.00 $______3 Henry David Thoreau ______frontline environmental defenders in Para, end, we are funding its Direct Action Tour: failed to address—on the Columbia, 4 Jessie Wallace Hughan ______Peace Agitator _____ x $5.00 (free with purchase of Essays book) $______Brazil where they face violence, and killings. 6 trainings in New York State in nonviolent Missouri campus. T-Shirts (XL only) _____ x $15.00 $______5 Emma Goldman ______For two years, more than 730,000 grassroots activism and community activism Recall the summer of 1969. Beyond 6 Rosa Luxemburg ______* Bulk rate: pamphlets are $1.40 each for a total of 20 or more. 7 A. J. Muste ______I am enclosing a tax-deductible contribution for the Muste Institute’s Rohingya began fleeing to Bangladesh to against fracking. well-known social justice luminaries, 8 On Wars of Liberation ______work promoting active nonviolence and social justice: $______escape a violent campaign of ethnic cleans- A new generation of student leaders is local mavericks left an indelible mark on 9 Aldous Huxley ______* for bulk rates, contact the Muste Institute office TOTAL ENCLOSED $______our society. Politically-charged women 10 Paul Goodman ______ing. World Comics India’s Grassroots Comics learning to help shape foreign policy to priori- 11 War Tax Resistance ______SHIP TO Please make check or money order pay- Project works to empower and humanize tize human needs over military solutions. took over the underground newspaper 12 Sidney Lens ______able to AJMMI and send to: Rohingya immigrants in India—of which Over 100 students from more than 25 Peace The Rat, transforming it into one of the ______A.J. Muste Memorial Institute 13 Martin Luther King, Jr. (Spanish) ______there are 17,500—to document and raise student chapters, with support from a first second-wave feminist newspapers 14 Jeannette Rankin ______168 Canal Street, 6th Floor Action 15 David McReynolds ______New York, NY 10013 awareness of their life stories in Myanmar, continued on page 3 continued on page 2

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Investment income $1,225,532 2 • Muste Notes FALL 2019 FALL 2019 84% Muste Notes • 3 Rental and other income On the Set of “Skin” 2018 Financials: What You Helped Support$139,342 10% A few scenes in the recently-released feature film “Skin,” written and directed A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, Inc. Social Justice Fund A.J. MUSTE MEMORIALRevenue & Expense INSTITUTE, as of 06/30/19 INC. continued from page 1 by Guy Nattiv, were filmed in the Muste Revenue & Expenses as of 06/30/19 Muste grant, will attend the 4th annual Peace Office. The movie is inspired by the true Action Conference in New York State. story of Bryon Widner who escaped from the RevenueREVENUE ExpenseEXPENSE The People Empowerment Program in Vinlanders Social Club, a white supremacist Liberia is working to improve deplorable group and over a two-year period removed Contributions Grants health conditions of detainees in Liberian his white power tattoos—many cover- and grants $88,488 5% prisons. They lack adequate food, essential ing his face and neck. Assisting in Bryon’s $100,823 7% medical supplies, pure drinking water, beds departure from the group is real-life activ- and ventilationOther program such that detainees become ist Daryle Lamont Jenkins (played by Mike Investment chronicallyservices ill with pneumonia, scabies and Colter of “Luke Cage”) of One People’s Project income TB. Their$909,479 Promoting 51% the Rights of Women (onepeoplesproject.com). In 2019, Nattiv $1,225,532 in DetentionManagement Project will address violations won his first Oscar for a short documentary 84% against, andand general improve the rights of, female by the same name. Rental and other income prisoners$689,769 through 39%monitoring and aware- $139,342 10% ness raising.Fundraising It will also strive to improve high rates of pretrial detention cases by advocat- Stonewall Inn resisted against a police raid, political times, no one knows what will $103,070 6% Dear Friends ing for speedy trials and case processing continued from page 1 resulting in a series of riots that lead to the ignite major social upheaval. The Muste support and documentation. in the United States, educating America on gay liberation movement and today’s fight Institute has always put its money on the Contributions and grants: Grants: The AfriRemedy project aims to advocate the difference between gender and sex. The for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. groups and individuals who stoke the fires $100,823 $133,620 and lobby against the military sexual harass- Young Lords Party was born to Puerto Rican These examples, and many more, are a of change in their own communities, each ment and rape of women in Zimbabwe. It youth in East Harlem, ushering in years testament to how acts of conscience reso- one a beacon for other activists. Expense7% 7% is a direct response to the atrocities that of street activism that transformed how nate for decades. They are a renewed call to Investment income: Other programGrants services: occurred during demonstrations fueled by health care is delivered in the City among action when property interests prevail over We see you, $1,225,532 $1,041,652$88,488 5% inflation and fuel price increase, and from other gains. Look for our board member human needs. 84% 57% military killings of ordinary citizens during Johanna Fernandez’s forthcoming book The The Muste Institute believes, and invests Other program the August 2018 presidential elections. Young Lords: A Radical History. Patrons at the in, the power of the people. In tumultuous Heidi Boghosian Rental and other income: Administration:services Whenever Zimbabweans protest social $139,342 $600,192$909,479 51% injustices, military forces retaliate violently. 10% 33% History (University of North Carolina Press) Management The project will advocate for peace and to will be published in February 2020. and general push for legal action towards perpetrators of Welcome New Board Members Fundraising: human rights violations. The Muste Institute is pleased to welcome three new members to its board of directors: $62,600$689,769 39% Mitty 3% Fundraising King Angry Men, (New Press) and Torture in the Owens $103,070 6% A.J. Muste Downing U.S., 2nd Edition, (AFSC). has a background in Memorial Institute is an attorney and developing commu- SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND: 13 grants ($55,900) in the U.S. and beyond for organizing, mobi- 168 Canal Street, 6th Floor • New York, NY 10013 founder of the Johanna nity land trusts and lizing, and educating in favor of immigrant rights, racial justice, worker empowerment, phone (212) 533-4335 • email [email protected] www.ajmuste.org Human Rights- Fernandez other models of health care access, educational rights, nonviolent movement building, transnational Racial Justice teaches 20th affordable housing, solidarity, land and housing rights, and justice for Palestine; and in opposition to war and Board of Directors Center, advocat- Century U.S. followed by work in militarism, criminalization and mass incarceration, the death penalty, nuclear weapons, James A. Cole Mitty Owens King Downing Nina Streich, Treasurer ing and organiz- and economic injustice. history, the micro-lending and credit unions. His work Johanna Fernandez Robert T. Taylor, Secretary ing on criminal history of has included the Center for Community Ynestra King Diane Tosh, Chair and economic social move- Self-Help, the Ford Foundation and the SHARED SPACE SOLIDARITY GRANTS: $73,500 to tenant groups in the Muste Matt Meyer Carol Kalafatic, Vice Chair injustice, including police practices, racial ments, the Office of Financial Empowerment under shared space for undocumented youth organizing, media justice, anti-war and anti- Peter Muste profiling and mass incarceration. Most political NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mitty has militarism education, labor solidarity, tenant advocacy, and related work. Emeritus members: recently he ran the Mass Defense program of economy of also run his own consulting firm offering Susan Kent Cakars David McReynolds the National Lawyers Guild. He also directed American strategic planning and organization devel- SPONSORED AND ENDOWMENT GRANTS: $198,095 in support for severral proj- the Healing Justice Program of the American cities, and opment to nonprofits. He has served on ects in the U.S. and beyond promoting feminism, self determination, human rights, Staff Heidi Boghosian, Friends Service Committee (AFSC), and is the African- several economic and social justice boards, international justice, and nonviolent resolution of conflicts; opposing war, militarism, Executive Director former national coordinator of the ACLU’s American history at Baruch College. including Yale University’s Dwight Hall imperialism, occupation, and displacement; and educating about climate change, Eric Bachman, Campaign Against Racial Profiling. King is a Founder of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Center for Public Service and Social Justice, nuclear power, and the environment. Program Associate, INTF contributor to the following books: Twelve Home, her book The Young Lords: A Radical Global Exchange. A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, Inc. Revenue & Expense as of 06/30/19

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A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute across the Atlantic. She joined other #2: Barbara Deming – #9: Aldous Huxley – A. J. Muste Memorial Institute ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES #15: David theA. J. Muste feminist Memorial Institute connectionA. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute TwentiethA. J. Muste Memorial Century Institute ESSAY SERIES No. activists at the Global Climate Strike ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES 14 No. McReynolds – to nonviolence – On visionary and prolific 15 Revolution and Equilibrium writer –OUT Science, OF PRINT Liberty longtime activist convergence at the United Nations in (PHOTO COURTESY NOT1MORE) COURTESY (PHOTO and Peace with the War late September. #3: Henry David Resisters League, Thoreau – the original – JEANNETTE #10: Paul Goodman DAVID During her address at the U.N. Climate RANKIN McREYNOLDS Socialist Party architect of resistance – On pacifist, anarchist, activist presidential the Duty of Civil Disobedience – The Morality of Scientific “Two Votes Action Summit, Greta admonished world Against A candidate Technology; The Psychology War” and Philosophy Other – A Philosophy leaders, “You are failing us. The eyes of all #4: Jessie Wallace of Being Powerless of Writings Nonviolence Hughan – suffragist, peace on Peace of Nonviolence future generations are upon you. Right here, activist, founder of the #11: Some Writings on War Resisters League – War Tax Resistance right now, is where we draw the line.” Pacifism and Invasion; On – thoughts, poems, tales Young Greta’s journey is one of a long Duelling from resisters, including Juanita Nelson, Allen from a Birmingham Jail and list of clarion calls by fearless individuals. #5: Emma Goldman – Ginsberg and Pete Seeger Peace Agitator: The #1: Martin Luther King, Jr. Declaration of Independence The International Forest Defenders Conference in 2018 brought together over 50 frontline environmental Social change milestones, marked by fiery orator, anarchist, from the War in Vietnam. Story of A.J. Muste, – America’s leading apostle agitatorA. J. Muste Memorial for Institute peace andA. J. Muste Memorial#7: Institute A. J. MusteA. J. – Muste foremost Memorial Institute #12:A. J. MusteSidney Memorial LensInstitute – peace by Nat Hentoff. defenders with security specialists, academics, lawyers, and funders. Not1More defenders joined the conference the actions of a few, grow into move- of human dignity – Loving liberationESSAY SERIES – Preparedness:ESSA Y SERIES20th CenturyESSA PacifistY SERIES andESSA laborY SERIES activist, from Malaysia, Cambodia,Thailand,Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia,the Philippines, Turkey and Brazil. Your Enemies; Letter from a theoretician and activist, #14: Jeannette Rankin – A 250-page biography ments of many. Like stacked dominoes, The Road to Universal socialist, occasional first woman in Congress, with many photos, Birmingham Jail; Declaration Slaughter; The Individual, minister, socialist – Who Has political candidate – six of Independence from the War the Spiritual Atom Bomb? suffragist, pacifist – profiling the The Muste Institute’s 2019 Social Justice and their current struggles. they shift public consciousness. A few Society and the State articles spanning three ‘grandfather’ of the in Vietnam. Also in Spanish “Two Votes Against War” courageous women, standing up against #8: On Wars of Liberation decades on the state of U.S. peace movement – Fund grants reflect the range of issues activ- When activist groups traveling from – see #13. #6: Rosa Luxemburg – the U.S. labor movement and Other Writings on courageous leader of – three essays on pacifist Peace minister, labor activist, ists are tackling in creative and cost-effective around the country to the nation’s capital abuse by powerful men, emboldened pacifist and resister. Germany’s democratic responsesOUT to OFarmed PRINT #13: (Spanish) Martin ways. Here are a few of our recent grantees: need support from kindred spirits, they can unknown thousands to say, “Me Too,” socialist movement – freedom struggles, Luther King, Jr. – Spanish Introduction by Larry Prison Letters including analysis of language translation of Gara. In 2016 three women founded Not1More call on the Mobile Screen Printing Project and demand justice. Community resi- Gandhi’s position Loving Your Enemies, Letter (N1M), an environmental campaign group of the D.C.-based group, The Sanctuaries, a dents in Ferguson, Ohio stood strong The Essays of A.J. Muste: Edited by Nat Hentoff, preface by Jo Ann O. Wear Your Peace Shirt. that supports frontline environmental newly-formed multi-cultural arts commu- in the face of police violence against Robinson. Originally issued in 1967, this 500-page edition includes Muste’s “Notes for Muste Institute t-shirts are black cotton with a four- color geometric design and the words: “There is no way to defenders at risk of serious injury or death, nity. The Sanctuaries shares its expertise in African Americans, leading to Black an Autobiography,” plus essays on pacifism, civil rights, trade unionism and foreign policy, peace, peace is the way – A.J. Muste” Available in large and written between 1905 and 1966. and investigates the root causes of environ- training artists to work alongside activists Lives Matter. Native American teenagers extra large. Shirts are made in the U.S.A. mental conflict. N1M investigates environ- to build power and shift culture, making helped halt an energy pipeline, averting mental conflict and crime, working closely demonstrations and actions more effective. devastation to their Dakota homeland. IF YOU USE THIS FORM, SHIPPING IS FREE—SEND IN YOUR ORDER TODAY! with at-risk defenders and communities in Sane Energy Project is committed to Football players, backed by their coach, Essay Series Quantity Pamphlets (total qty:) _____ x $2.00* (any 5 free with purchase of Essays book) $______Cambodia, West Africa and Brazil. A social replacing fracked gas infrastructure with went on strike amid a series of hate 1 Martin Luther King, Jr. ______Sampler Pack _____ x $20.00 (one each of all 13 available pamphlets) $______2 Barbara Deming ______justice fund grant will help them work with community-led, sustainable energy. To that speech incidents—that administrators The Essays of A.J. Muste _____ x $20.00 $______3 Henry David Thoreau ______frontline environmental defenders in Para, end, we are funding its Direct Action Tour: failed to address—on the Columbia, 4 Jessie Wallace Hughan ______Peace Agitator _____ x $5.00 (free with purchase of Essays book) $______Brazil where they face violence, and killings. 6 trainings in New York State in nonviolent Missouri campus. T-Shirts (XL only) _____ x $15.00 $______5 Emma Goldman ______For two years, more than 730,000 grassroots activism and community activism Recall the summer of 1969. Beyond 6 Rosa Luxemburg ______* Bulk rate: pamphlets are $1.40 each for a total of 20 or more. 7 A. J. Muste ______I am enclosing a tax-deductible contribution for the Muste Institute’s Rohingya began fleeing to Bangladesh to against fracking. well-known social justice luminaries, 8 On Wars of Liberation ______work promoting active nonviolence and social justice: $______escape a violent campaign of ethnic cleans- A new generation of student leaders is local mavericks left an indelible mark on 9 Aldous Huxley ______* for bulk rates, contact the Muste Institute office TOTAL ENCLOSED $______our society. Politically-charged women 10 Paul Goodman ______ing. World Comics India’s Grassroots Comics learning to help shape foreign policy to priori- 11 War Tax Resistance ______SHIP TO Please make check or money order pay- Project works to empower and humanize tize human needs over military solutions. took over the underground newspaper 12 Sidney Lens ______able to AJMMI and send to: Rohingya immigrants in India—of which Over 100 students from more than 25 Peace The Rat, transforming it into one of the ______A.J. Muste Memorial Institute 13 Martin Luther King, Jr. (Spanish) ______there are 17,500—to document and raise student chapters, with support from a first second-wave feminist newspapers 14 Jeannette Rankin ______168 Canal Street, 6th Floor Action 15 David McReynolds ______New York, NY 10013 awareness of their life stories in Myanmar, continued on page 3 continued on page 2

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