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A.J. Muste Memorial Institute NON-PROFIT ORG. 168 Canal Street, 6th Floor U.S. POSTAGE New York, NY 10013 PAID HUNTINGTON, NY PERMIT No. 14 Muste Notes AJ MUSTE INSTITUTE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING FOR NONVIOLENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES ESSAY SERIES VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1 FALL 2019 2019 Grants: Social Justice Fund October 2019 Dear Friends: A few weeks ago, 16-year-old Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg got in ESSAY SERIES ON NONVIOLENC E an emission-free racing yacht and sailed 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 New York, NY 10013 15 David McReynolds ______ _____________________________________________________________ awareness of their life stories in Myanmar, continued on page 3 continued on page 2 Printed on Recycled Paper Newsletter Design: Judith Rew A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, Inc. Revenue & Expense as of 06/30/19 Revenue Contributions and grants $100,823 7% Investment income $1,225,532 2 • Muste Notes FALL 2019 FALL 2019 84% Muste Notes • 3 Rental and other