June 15, 2004 Dear Friends,

We’re sad to report the recent loss of two friends of the Muste Institute. David MUSTE Dellinger was a well-known activist, a close News from the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute associate of A.J.’s for many years, and a member of our advisory committee. Nancy Muste Baker, A.J.’s last surviving child, was always supportive of the Institute’s work and her father’s memory. You can NOTES read more about both of them in this issue. You can also read here about our most VOL. 11, NUMBER 4 SUMMER 2004 recent grantees and their efforts to keep important issues like civilian casualties, Nonviolence Trainers war profiteering, conscientious objection and the death penalty in the public eye this election year. As activism swells and word Build Capacity spreads about the Muste Institute, we have Twenty-two people gathered at the addressing oppression issues, incarcera- been flooded with proposals from groups scenic Cayuga Nature Center near tion, affinity groups and health issues doing wonderful work. Unfortunately, Ithaca, New York, on April 2-4, 2004, for related to direct action. At the end of the we’re forced to send many of them away a weekend training for nonviolence training, participants were tired but empty-handed. We wish we could expand trainers organized by Syracuse Peace much better prepared to work as nonvi- our grantmaking program to meet the Council and partially funded by a grant olence trainers. “My favorite aspects tremendous need. Can you help? from the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute. were the role play section and the part I hope you’ll take a moment to read the The training was designed to make where we facilitated a section,” wrote enclosed letter from Muste Institute sup- upcoming nonviolent actions more one participant in the final evaluation. “I porter and noted activist historian Howard effective by: (1) developing new trainers felt these two really contributed to what Zinn, and that you will join Howard and and (2) improving the skills of existing I consider to be a real breakthrough me in giving generously to the Institute’s trainers. experience overall.” efforts to foster and sustain the growing The training brought together A 125-page resource manual for non- nonviolent movement for justice. activists from many parts of upstate violence trainers was provided to New York, as well as from New York participants to assist them as they return City and Massachusetts to work to their communities to build the move- In peace, through sections on nonviolence, group ment for peace and justice. For more process and consensus, role plays, and information, contact Syracuse Peace legal issues. The four lead trainers also Council, 315-472-5478, spc@peacecoun- Murray Rosenblith presented or led exercises on the role of cil.net, www.peacecouncil.net. Executive Director the facilitator, designing agendas, —Andy Mager, Syracuse Peace Council Nancy Muste Baker, 1916 - 2004

Nancy Muste Baker (born Ann sang, “Oh, it’s sister Jenny’s turn to Dorothy Muste in 1916) was the first throw the bomb….” child of A.J. Muste and Anna Huizinga Nancy graduated at the head of her Muste. She was born in Newton, class from Katonah High School, where Massachusetts, where A.J. had his first Brookwood was located. Through the parish. Nancy’s earliest memories were generosity of wealthy pacifists, she was of Brookwood Labor College which her able to go to Swarthmore College but, father led after he had organized the dreadfully homesick, she finished her American Workers Party. At Brookwood, degree at Barnard, where she made life- the family lived in the midst of a com- long friendships. After college, Nancy munity of young people committed to married John Baker (her high school workers’ rights and to strengthening sweetheart), the son of an intelligent but their abilities as labor organizers. Nancy impoverished family. Nancy and John would talk about the people she met (known to all as Jack) struggled to make there and her family’s role in the com- ends meet during the last years of the munity. She particularly remembered depression. Jack worked first as a man- their participation in Saturday evening ager at the A&P, and then by dint of entertainments – one of the songs they ability and diligence as a draftsman in sang as a family was The Bomb Song the shipbuilding industry. Nancy served OF RICHARD BAKER COURTESY PHOTO where Nancy and her quite-staid parents continued on page 2 Nancy Muste Baker 2 • Muste Notes Vol. 11/No. 4 David Dellinger, 1915-2004

“The best tribute to a dead leader is to mament, the Assembly of Unrepresented carry on his work—or better still to carry on Peoples, and the Fifth Avenue Peace one’s work more creatively. When the dead Parade Committee. leader is A.J. Muste, one will try to work He was one of the “Union 8”, a group more persistently, more shrewdly and with of seminarians who in 1942 chose to appreciation of all those who work by differ- refuse their automatic conscientious ent methods or at a different pace.” objector status by refusing to register for These words opened the introduction the draft at all. He served several prison of the A.J. Muste memorial issue of terms during World War II for these Liberation magazine in September 1967. actions. Never one to pass up an oppor- They were written by David Dellinger, tunity to agitate, Dave was involved in who died on May 25 at the age of 88. protests against racial segregation in the

Thirty-six years later, they could just as prison system. He is best known for his WHITE PHOTO: DAVID accurately be applied to Dave’s life and membership in the Chicago 8; a group of Dave Dellinger speaks at the Alternative work. protest organizers who were indicted for Bicentennial rally July 4, 1976. Dave was something of a protégé of conspiracy during the 1968 Democratic A.J.’s and worked closely with him from National Convention. ography From Yale to Jail. In 1993, the the World War II period until A.J.’s Throughout his life, Dave was an ecu- Institute also supported a book tour death. Dave was, along with A.J. and menical activist. While maintaining his which promoted the book’s publication. Barbara Deming, one of the best known personal commitment to pacifism and Dave spent the last thirty years of and most influential pacifists of the late nonviolence, he worked closely with a his life in rural Vermont, teaching, 20th Century. In addition to serving with wide range of groups and organizers. writing and continuing to organize and A.J. as an editor of Liberation, Dave During the late 1980s, the Muste participate in a broad number of worked directly with him on the Institute worked with Dave’s associates protests. He is survived by his wife, Quebec-to-Guantanamo Walk for disar- to create a special fund to support him Elizabeth Peterson, five children, two while he completed work on his autobi- sisters and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. One of his sons, Raymond, predeceased him. Zinn Film Hits —Murray Rosenblith Theaters Nancy Muste Baker continued from page 1 “Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train,” a docu- as a social worker, paid only for every mentary by Deb Ellis and Denis other week she worked. Mueller about the famous historian and After Nancy and Jack’s children John activist, is being released theatrically and Richard were born, Nancy worked this summer. The film, which was sup- in the offices of the Fellowship for ported with a grant from the Muste Reconciliation, where A. J. had landed Institute and previewed in New York after returning to religious pacifism VANUNU FREE AT LAST last October at a special Institute-spon- from labor organizing and radical poli- Mordechai Vanunu was released on April sored screening, will be aired in June in tics. Throughout her life, Nancy revered 21, 2004, after serving nearly 18 years in Portland, Oregon, and in Provincetown her father and his radical positions. Israeli prisons for blowing the whistle on and Boston, Massachusetts. The film Nancy and Jack had an international life, Israel’s nuclear program. The US will open for its commercial run at New living and working in England, China Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu York City’s Cinema Village starting on and Canada, with interludes back in received grants from the Muste Institute July 23. Some screenings will feature their home in New York. Jack died in in September 1993 and February 1998 for special appearances by Howard Zinn. 1981 and Nancy spent the next years educational and advocacy work on behalf For details, see http://firstrunfea- alternating between New York and her of this political prisoner. This photo, taken tures.com/howardzinn.html son Richard’s home in Massachusetts. In in jail, shows Vanunu with Mary and 1996, Nancy followed her son Richard to Nicholas Eoloff, longtime activists and The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute St. Louis and died there in March of Muste Institute supporters who legally makes small grants to groups 2004, after a long battle with congestive adopted Vanunu as their son. Activists are engaged in nonviolent education and heart failure and dementia. now working to get Israel to stop restrict- action for social justice. Our next She retained to the last her humor, ing Vanunu’s rights to travel and speak deadlines are July 23 and October 22, her interest in gardening and nature, freely. For more information: www.nonvi- 2004. Guidelines are on our website at and her ability to sing all the verses of olence.org/vanunu www.ajmuste.org. The Internationale. —Shirley Baker Summer 2004 Muste Notes • 3 New Grants, April 2004

DENVER JUSTICE AND PEACE development and economic assistance the election campaign. COMMITTEE programs. This grant goes for SAN DIEGO MILITARY COUNSELING Denver, CO: $1,500 Palestinian Nonviolence Support PROJECT Since 1979, the Denver Justice and Program trainings, seeking to develop a San Diego, CA: $1,500 Peace Committee has promoted peace strong, unified, indigenous Palestinian The San Diego Military Counseling and economic justice for Latin America. nonviolent movement, cultivate skilled Project was founded in 2003 to provide This grant goes for the Global Solutions community leaders, to inspire and military service personnel with informa- to Violence Education Project, educating attract Palestinians to the nonviolent tion about their rights and discharge students about international issues, cre- movement and publicize these efforts. ating future activists and leaders around options and support their efforts to MIROVNA AKECIJA issues of globalization, human rights speak out, organize and protest against and nonviolent conflict resolution. Prilep, Macedonia: $1,000 military activities. This grant goes for Mirovna Akecija (Peace Action) was production and distribution of outreach EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER/MIRA formed in 2001 by the Group for and publicity materials. Austin, TX: $1,500 Antimilitarist Action (GAMA) and Anti- SER PAZ This grant goes to the Poultry Militarism, Anti-Violence (AMAN). This Guayaquil, Ecuador: $10,000 (SFE) Workers Justice Campaign, a joint proj- grant goes for an international seminar on This grant from the Institute’s donor- ect of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights conscientious objection and peace, organ- advised Sheilah’s Fund East goes for the Alliance (MIRA) and Equal Justice ized with War Resisters International in work of SER PAZ with high-school stu- Center’s Mississippi Poultry Workers June 2004 in Ohrid, Macedonia. The sem- dents and at-risk youth in Guayaquil, Justice Campaign. The two groups bring inar seeks to increase the visibility of Ecuador, providing peer conflict resolu- together Latin American immigrant conscientious objection in Macedonia and tion and education toward building a workers and African American workers strengthen networking among CO groups. in Mississippi with supportive commu- culture of peace. NEBRASKANS AGAINST THE DEATH nity leaders to hold the poultry industry WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE PENALTY accountable for abusive labor practices. New York, NY: $1,500 Lincoln, Nebraska: $1,500 War Resisters League, founded in GROUND ZERO FOR PEACE Nebraskans Against the Death 1923, advocates Gandhian nonviolence Brooklyn, New York: $1,000 Penalty was founded in 1981 after as the method for creating a democratic Ground Zero for Peace was founded Governor Charles Thone vetoed a bill society free of war, racism, sexism, and by firefighters, EMTs and paramedics passed by Nebraska’s legislature which human exploitation. This grant goes for who assisted in rescue and recovery would have repealed the state’s death the “Stop the Merchants of Death” efforts at the World Trade Center on penalty law. This grant goes for the Campaign, a speaking campaign about September 11th, 2001. These emergency Rural Empowerment Project, an effort to the companies which profit from wars, “first responders” seek to promote non- expand the statewide movement to end invasions and occupations. violent alternatives to war and create the death penalty by building local lead- fellowship with other first responders ership in Nebraska’s rural communities. YOUTH INTERVENTION FOR PEACE throughout the world. This grant goes PROJECT PEACEFUL TOMORROWS for a trip by GZFP members to Bujumbura, Burundi: $2,000 (INTF) Cary, NC: $1,000 Afghanistan to meet with Afghan col- Youth Intervention for Peace Project September 11th Families for Peaceful leagues, and to raise awareness in the seeks to confront the negative forces Tomorrows was founded in February US about the extent and impact of US which lead young people in Burundi to 2002 by relatives of 9/11 victims to pro- military operations in Afghanistan. participate in inter-ethnic violence for mote effective, nonviolent solutions to political ends, and to introduce them to HOLY LAND TRUST terrorism and to acknowledge their nonviolent methods of action as a viable Bethlehem, Palestine: $1,000 common experience with all people sim- and constructive alternative. This grant Holy Land Trust was founded in 1997 ilarly affected by violence. This grant from the Muste Institute’s International to strengthen and improve the lives of goes for the “Stonewalk 2004” Project, Nonviolence Training Fund (INTF) goes children, families and communities in highlighting the issues of civilian casual- for a nonviolence training program for the Middle East through community ties and the human costs of war during youth in Bujumbura this summer.

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