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Muste Notes Spring 2003 4 • Muste Notes Vol. 10/No. 3 ESSAY SERIES ON NONVIOLENCE A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute ESSAY SERIES #1-Spanish (#13): ESSAY SERIES #6: Rosa Luxemburg — #10: Paul Goodman — #15: David Martin Luther King, courageous leader of pacifist, anarchist, activist— McReynolds—longtime Jr.—Spanish language Germany’s democratic The Morality of Scientific activist with the War translation of Loving Your socialist movement— Technology; The Psychology of Resisters League, Socialist Enemies and Letter from a Prison Letters Being Powerless Party presidential candidate Birmingham Jail —A Philosophy of A. J. Muste Memorial Institute A. J. Muste Memorial Institute qty: __________________ qty: __________________ Nonviolence ESSAY SERIES qty: __________________ ESSAY SERIES No. 14 #7:A. J. Muste—foremost #11: Some Writings on qty: __________________ #2: Barbara Deming— Century pacifist War Tax Resistance— the feminist connection theoretician and activist, thoughts, poems, tales to nonviolence—On minister, socialist—Who from resisters, including Peace Agitator: JEANNETTE Revolution and Equilibrium RANKIN Has the Spiritual Atom Bomb? Juanita Nelson,Allen the story of Ginsberg and Pete Seeger “Two Votes A.J. Muste, qty: __________________ Against qty: __________________ War” and qty: __________________ by Nat Hentoff. Other #3: Henry David Writings #8: On Wars of on Peace An activist writer Thoreau—the original Liberation—three essays #12: Sidney Lens— chronicles the peace and labor activist, architect of resistance— on pacifist responses to ‘grandfather’ of the On the Duty of Civil armed freedom struggles, socialist, occasional politi- Disobedience including analysis of cal candidate—six articles current U.S. peace Gandhi’s position spanning three decades on movement—minister, #1: Martin Luther King, qty: __________________ #5: Emma Goldman — the state of the U.S. labor labor activist, pacifist Jr.—America’s leading qty: __________________ fiery orator, anarchist, movement and resister.This 1982 apostle of human dignity— #4: Jessie Wallace agitator for peace and Loving Your Enemies; Letter Hughan—suffragist, peace liberation—Preparedness: #9:Aldous Huxley — qty: __________________ edition contains many from a Birmingham Jail; activist, founder of the War The Road to Universal Twentieth Century vision- photographs and an Declaration of Independence Resisters League—Pacifism Slaughter; The Individual, ary and prolific writer— #14: Jeannette Rankin introduction by Larry from the War in Vietnam and Invasion; On Duelling Society and the State Science, Liberty and Peace —first woman in Gara, a leading historian Congress, suffragist, paci- of the nonviolence qty: __________________ qty: __________________ qty: __________________ qty: __________________ fist—“Two Votes Against War” and Other Writings on movement. The Essays of A.J. Muste Peace” qty: ___________ qty: __________________ The Essays of Edited by Nat Hentoff, preface by Jo Ann O. Robinson. Originally A.J.Muste issued in 1967, this new edition includes Muste’s “Notes for an E D I T E D B Y Muste Institute t-shirts are black cotton with a four-color Nat Hentoff Autobiography,” plus essays on pacifism, civil rights, trade unionism P R E F A C E B Y geometric design and the words: “There is no way to Jo Ann O. Robinson and foreign policy.Written between 1905 and 1966, the essays stand peace, peace is the way - A.J. Muste” Available in large and as an extraordinary companion to our everyday work for peace and extra large (please specify) for $15 each. social justice. qty:________________ qty: (L) _______________ (XL) ________________ If you use this form to order our Essay Series pamphlets, books or t-shirts, we will provide free shipping (via US mail, book rate). Send in your order today! Pamphlets (total qty:) _____ x $1.00 each ($0.70 each for 10 or more) = $ _____________ SHIP TO: The Essays of A.J. Muste: _____ x $20.00 * = $ _____________ Peace Agitator: _____ x $5.00 * = $ _____________ T-Shirts: _____ x $15.00 = $ _____________ I am enclosing a tax-deductible contribution for the Muste Institute’s work promoting active nonviolence and social justice: = $ _____________ Please make check or money order payable to AJMMI and send to: A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, * for bulk rates, contact the Muste Institute office TOTAL ENCLOSED: = $ _____________ 339 Lafayette St., NY,NY 10012 A.J. Muste Memorial Institute NON-PROFIT 339 Lafayette Street ORG. U.S. POSTAGE New York, NY 10012 PAID NEW YORK, NY PERMIT NO. 02030 March 20, 2003 Dear Friends, This is what made an impact on me last year. Along with each of you, I watched war escalate. I watched as the devastating effects NewsMUSTE from the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute of U.S. foreign policy, which we have been crying out against all these years, played in horrifying relief in the mainstream media. I have heard those voices in the world who still believe that military force will solve instead of make problems, big ones. And NOTES here at the Institute I have seen, up real close, the mobilization of a mass movement VOL. 10, NUMBER 3 SPRING 2003 for peace and social justice. This is the fourth and last letter for Muste The World Says No to War Notes that I will write during my stay at the Institute. In each letter I tell you how much it means to me to support a movement as it Organizers believe at least gathers old and new groups to stand against 350,000 people attended the outrageous acts of war and repression. February 15th anti-war demon- Giving that support means something to the stration in New York City. More groups who need money to organize, and it photos and eyewitness reports means a lot to those who of us who give. can be seen at nyc.indymedia.org. This is what made an impact on me last United for Peace and Justice, year. I was given the gift of being able to the national coalition that coor- help, even in a small way, the fight for peace dinated February 15 rallies and social justice. I was given that gift at a throughout the US, was formed time when choosing to do otherwise is not an in October 2002 by more than 70 option. The Muste Institute made it easy for peace and justice organizations, me, as it does for each of us. My year here is including the War Resisters up in April. I will leave thoroughly ener- League, the 80-year old pacifist gized by working around people who give all organization which is fiscally of themselves each day for what I believe in. sponsored by the Muste No matter what else I do, I will keep giv- Institute and based at our build- ing to the Institute, out of gratitude for its ing in Manhattan. Also sustenance of a very wide range of organi- involved is the New York-based zations on my behalf. I hope you will join “Not In Our Name” campaign, me, and that you will allow me to say once which is hosted in our building more, as I did in my first letter a year ago, by the New York Metro chapter that in this time of seemingly overwhelm- of Women’s International ing hatred, your gift to those who counter League for Peace and Freedom with kindness is needed more than ever. (WILPF). With great faith in our work for peace, For more information: unitedforpeace.org warresisters.org PHOTO BY GARTH LIEBHABER BY GARTH PHOTO notinourname.net Diane Tosh New Board Member The Muste Institute Board of Directors development, and human services pro- welcomed a new member in January. grams to families in Cypress Hills, Rebecca Libed, 26, worked for the Brooklyn. Rebecca is also co-coordinator Institute as a part-time administrative of GABRIELA Network New York/New assistant until last fall, while completing Jersey, a U.S.-Filipina women’s solidarity her degree work in nonprofit manage- organization which recently became a ment at New School University’s Milano sponsored project of the Muste Institute. Graduate School. A pacifist, Rebecca is The Muste Institute is pleased to have now the Community Development Rebecca back. We would also like to Project Manager at Cypress Hills Local thank former Board members Mark Community Development Corporation, O’Brien and Lisa Vives, who both left a community-based housing organiza- over the past year, for their dedicated tion that provides counseling, service to the Institute. 2 • Muste Notes Vol. 10/No. 3 Grantee Profile: Lawyers Defend Immigrants and Dissenters Last September, the Muste Institute The Immigration granted $1,500 to the Post 9-11 Project of the Committee of NLG’s San National Lawyers Guild (NLG) San Francisco chapter worked in Francisco Bay Area chapter, for its work in alliance with other groups defense of immigrants and activists affected to organize this demonstra- by the recent curtailing of civil liberties. This tion in front of the INS article was written by Riva Enteen, the chap- building in San Francisco. ter’s program director. The date was January 10, 2003—the second deadline On the morning of September 11, for the “Special 2001, the San Francisco office of the Registration” process. In National Lawyers Guild (NLG) received the week before the deadline, calls from activist groups saying “We the Guild provided legal fear for our civil liberties.” That after- support to community noon, we had 10 activists and 10 Guild groups monitoring the INS attorneys meet in our office to discuss in tracking the number of what the Guild could do. We decided to people being detained. set up a hotline to provide free legal help for people contacted by the FBI or the Julius Rosenberg. He spent 18 years in Nationally, the Guild has gone on Immigration and Naturalization Service prison, and believes times now are much record that we will defend protesters (INS), and to produce and distribute worse than during the McCarthy period engaging in civil disobedience, using the brochures advising people of their of the 1950s, for two reasons: the defense of necessity when appropriate.
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