1 Handful of Salt Volume XXXVIV, Number 1 March –April-May 2015 PJALS hosts Chris Hedges “Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt” Peace and Justice Action Chris Hedges Evening League is excited Appearance to host Pulitzer Tuesday March 10, 2015, at 7:00 pm Prize-winning at the Bing Crosby Theater, journalist and 901 W. Sprague writer Chris Tickets at pjals.org/hedges or TicketsWest Hedges in $18 in advance/ $20 at the door Spokane! $10 student Called Group Rates: Contact Liz: [email protected] “Champion of the 99% – Mortal Special Reception & Dinner Enemy of the 1%” by the LA with Chris Hedges Press Club, Hedges asserts we are riding the Join us for a limited-seat reception & Thai crest of a revolutionary epic, from the Arab dinner with Chris Hedges, 4:00 pm to 6:00 Spring to movements against austerity in pm on Tuesday March 10. Tickets to the Greece to the Occupy movement and beyond. Special Reception and Dinner include From the vantage point of a world on the edge, admission to the Evening Appearance. Chris Hedges investigates what social and Tickets $65. Limited tickets are available psychological factors cause revolution, now only at pjals.org/hedges rebellion and resistance. Hedges’ message is clear: popular uprisings in the United States In This Issue Page and around the world are inevitable in the face of environmental destruction and wealth “My Name is ” play 4 polarization. Death Penalty Repeal News 5 and 8 Hedges – a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign correspondent 6th annual Action Conference 6 for nearly two decades in Latin America, (Continued on page 7) Young Activist Leaders & interns 8, 9, 11 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 quarterly by the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane. Its name comes from Mohandas Gandhi’s salt tax protest in India, a successful, nonviolent, grassroots action that created significant social change against overwhelming resource advantages.

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Plans for volunteer needs for events of various sizes and Become a Handful Contributor. schedules accordingly. Must posses excellent We welcome your articles, subject to editing verbal & written communication skills & have for space and appropriateness of content. knowledge of Word/Excel and Google Docs; Contact [email protected] knowledge of Salesforce preferred. 10+ hours a month. Training provided! 3 Rusty Nelson on dared to break away from the herd, assert their Peace and War individuality, and distance themselves from the senseless killing that is part of every war. I Trying to Support knew the military could not be trusted to spare the Troops Manning for her courageous display of integrity, but I'm not ready to accept her harsh It must have been sentence, either. Most of Bergdahl's story several years ago because remains mysterious, but it seems to me that he the signs we held said “Free Bradley could not justify what he was being told to do Manning,” and we Vets for Peace didn't have regarding people he did not hate. I don't to defend Chelsea Manning's transgender expect him to be treated very well. rights while bringing attention to the Manning's supporters are struggling to persecuted, military whistle-blower Americans raise legal funds, but the media are tired of the were trying to ignore. At an event in story, which never had Riverfront Park, I was approached by two much traction with them, burly young men who said they were active anyway. Bergdahl's case, duty military and considered Manning to be a too, is slipping out of the traitor. They thought the army intelligence public eye, as we are analyst's reporting a massacre by U.S. quietly told, every week or helicopter crews was insignificant compared two, that a decision will to the release of other classified information to be made, soon. The Wikileaks. At least they knew something Pentagon spin doctors about the case. But then, they issued a don't want you to challenge they might like to have back, now. remember the soldiers whom they can't “If you want to do something for an American squeeze into the hero mold. For instance, soldier, put our government to work to free they're not going to email you updates on how Beau Bergdahl.” Sgt. Bales is getting along in prison for How things change. Private Manning, practicing his military craft on randomly known now as Chelsea, is serving a 45-year selected Afghan civilians. It's hard enough for prison sentence while the soldiers she reported them to keep a lid on the most egregious cases remain uncharged and unpunished. Sgt. Beau of military sexual trauma. Bergdahl is back in the U.S. after a Meanwhile, we are treated to plenty of controversial hostage/prisoner exchange, media coverage of other byproducts of awaiting a decision on whether he will be perpetual war, and we're warned about public charged with a crime. The story is different comments regarding our military adventures from the one several years ago, and several and adventurers. The Brian Williams kerfuffle men from his unit want to see Bergdahl reminds us that we can even get into trouble punished for being a deserter and putting them for the way we praise our heroes in the armed at risk. forces. In fact, I contemplated writing about I have an affinity for Chelsea Williams' problems, myself, until it became Manning and Beau Bergdahl, not because they clear that every valid observation and found themselves in the midst of a stupid, conjecture on the subject has already been illegal war, as I once did, but because they (Continued on page 10) 4 Powerful award-winning play, demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in the city of Rafah. My Name is Rachel Corrie, to Following her death, Rachel Corrie’s be shown in Spokane emails from Palestine received global By Justin Mauger attention. In 2005, her emails and earlier nd On March 2 , 7pm, the award- writings were presented as the play “My winning play, My Name is Rachel Corrie will Name is Rachel Corrie”. The award-winning be shown at the Magnuson Theater on the play, edited by and journalist campus of Gonzaga University. This play is was initially shown at the brought to the Gonzaga Campus by Spokane’s in , and now, Palestine-Israel Human Rights Committee in despite attempts at censorship, protests and collaboration with Gonzaga student Forrest much controversy, has traveled the world. Potter and featuring actress Erin Fitzgerald. The play has been shown in cities as varied as This play is presented free of charge and open Dublin and Dallas, and Jerusalem and New to the public. We hope that PJALS members York City, and now Spokane for a single will join us in attendance at this important showing. event. The New Yorker magazine said “The Rachel Corrie was a gifted writer and play shrewdly does not show Corrie dying; it peace activist from Olympia Washington. As shows her living, in all her funny, lively, a student at The Evergreen State College, she melancholy and manipulative immediacy… proposed an independent-study program and Her words bear witness to the deracinating went to the , Palestine, to create a madness of war, a hysteria that infects not Rafah-Olympia Sister City relationship, only those doing the fighting but also those where, in her work as a peace and human ambitious to do the saving.” rights activist she helped protect Palestinian This play is a project of Spokane’s homes from illegal demolition. While Palestine-Israel Human Rights Committee, a practicing Gandhian nonviolence, clad in group that creates opportunities for the fluorescent orange and shouting over a Spokane community to engage and learn about bullhorn, she was crushed to death by an the situation in Palestine-Israel. We support Israeli bulldozer as she attempted to stop the equal human rights for all in Palestine and Israel and see justice as a requisite for peace. “Hearing her story and studying her words in print clearly shows that Palestinians are people, just like me and you, and they deserve human rights, too.” says Jennifer Calvert, the committee’s co-chair. 5 We are Tipping into Repeal meetings for positive and helped advance the by Shar Lichty voice of victims' families. Our delegation of 6 While I arrived later that day and we all gathered for was working on the fantastic food and conversation. freedom to marry Lobby Day was a great success this campaign I year and we all left feeling hopeful. "What a watched the nation difference a year makes." "I can't believe reach a tipping how different our meetings were this year." point and a flood of "Even legislators who aren't with us are states passing listening and engaging in respectful legislation conversations this year." These are a few of following Washington successfully defending the statements I heard more than once while I it at the ballot. I have been working on the was in Olympia lobbying for legislative repeal death penalty for nearly 9 years and am of the death penalty. witnessing the same thing occurring at a PJALS had a delegation of 6 folks national level --we are tipping into repeal! from the 3rd, 6th, and 4th legislative districts Recent National Victories include who traveled to Olympia to join with others increased discussion and bi-partisan support across the state for Death Penalty Lobby Day for repeal, the Supreme Court of the US last week. There were 61 individuals (SCOTUS) considering the constitutionality of representing 18 districts participating in 26 lethal injection, Attorney General Eric Holder meetings with law makers for a busy and calling for a national moratorium pending the upbeat day of lobbying. Postcards were SCOTUS ruling, Montana passing a bipartisan delivered to all legislators in districts that had bill for repeal out of committee, 9 of 15 and 9 them. PJALS played a key role in gathering of 12 scheduled executions for Jan. and Feb. postcards in the 3rd, 6th, 4th, 7th, and 9th--we respectively have been halted, Pennsylvania reached critical mass in some of the more has issued a moratorium, and Florida has conservative districts and this was the first halted all executions pending the SCOTUS time any were received from the 7th. Thank ruling. you to all of you who helped collect postcards PJALS played a key role in bringing and/or signed one--they really do make a forth the voices of Murder Victims' Families difference! for Reconciliation by hosting Jason Ortiz and We have made significant advances Pat McCoy for a Spokane event and on the issue here in Washington with true bi- connecting them with folks in Western partisan support, increased conversations, and Washington who did the same. They spent a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee roughly a week in Washington working with before the bill cutoff date. I listened to a the state campaign as well to develop a Voices Republican co-sponsor of the House bill speak booklet highlighting victims' families from on the issue with the same passion I speak Washington. This booklet was delivered to with and realized we are almost there. Because legislators and is available electronically here. this is a budget year it is unlikely we will win Cly Evans and I went to Olympia a day early this year but our continuation to build support and joined with Jason and Pat for meetings will put us in a very good spot for the with legislators prior to Lobby Day. These possibility of repeal in 2016! 6 Our 6th Annual Peace and Meet Our Action Conference Economic Justice Action Keynote Conference By Shar Lichty by Teresa Kinder, intern We are thrilled to have Judith March is bringing with it this year's LeBlanc, Senor Organizer with Alliance for a Action Conference that has become the largest Just Society as our Keynote Speaker at this gathering of over 200 progressive thinks from year's Peace & Economic Justice Action across Washington and neighboring states. Conference. Check out our fantastic list of This year we will be hosting 24 fabulous workshops and register now to enjoy early workshops on a broad range of issues focusing bird rates at pjals.org/2015conference. on education, action, and skill building. Judith is currently organizing a project Conference goers tell us the to create a national Native leadership network Conference provides a "great variety of to provide support for strategic planning and programs and the opportunity to meet new capacity building trainings in Indian Country. people!" Another reported, "I met amazing She was the Field people the mingle times were so productive Director for Peace and interesting. The energy at the conference Action, a national and the reception was amazing. Wow! It is grassroots organization hard to feel hopeless about America's current representing 90,000 state when getting together to make a change members committed to a like this." fundamental change in This year come and learn how you can U.S. foreign policy. She build creative and effective actions in Eric coordinated the Move the Ross's 'Escalation of Creative Nonviolent Money Campaign, an Direct Action Tactics' workshop. Also learn effort to organize how to effectively talk to your legislators with grassroots coalitions of Gloria Ochoa, Blaine Stum, Lori Kinnear, and community, labor and peace groups to change Shar Lichty. national spending priorities from wars and The Conference will feature weapons to fund jobs and public services as workshops focusing locally and one of the steps towards a “new economy” internationally. Join David Brookbank and Jan that works for all. Treecraft in 'Nicaragua: Cristiana, Socialista y She has worked on a national level for Solidaria.' Or, travel with Mary Rupert and over 30 years on campaigns ranging from Larry Shook in 'Journey to Afghanistan and labor rights, racial justice to peace, and Back with a Young Soldier.' disarmament campaigns. She served two terms Join us March 20th for the reception as a national co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, the national coalition that organized before the conference for a great evening of nd socializing. Then come on Saturday March 21, the movement to oppose the 2 war in Iraq. In for the Peace and Economic Justice Action 2014 she received the National Priorities Conference. For full details and to register go Project’s Democracy Champions Award. to http://pjals.org/2015conference. Let your Judith is a member of the Caddo Tribe voice be heard. of Oklahoma. She lives in Harlem, New York. 7 Chris Hedges, continued from page 1 surrendered to corporate interests or been so Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans – decimated as to become ineffectual, shutting writes and speaks extensively on war, religion, down the possibility of incremental and American culture, empire, and the conflict in piecemeal reform that is vital to the the Middle East. Hedges has reported from maintenance of a democratic state. His latest more than 50 countries for the Christian book is The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Science Monitor, National Public Radio, the Myth of Human Progress. His forthcoming Dallas Morning News, and the New York book Wages of Rebellion will be available for Times, for which he was a foreign pre-order at the event and will be published in correspondent for 15 years and where he won May 2015. the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of global Chris Hedges has written for Foreign Affairs, terrorism. Granta, The New Statesman, Harper’s, His bestseller War Is a Force That Mother Jones,The Nation, Adbusters, and The Gives Us Meaning draws on the many New York Review of Books. He writes a conflicts he covered to explore what war does weekly column for Robert Scheer’s web to societies and individuals. He examines faith magazine Truthdig.com and is a senior fellow and belief in American society in his books at The Nation Institute. Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten For information on Event Sponsorship Commandments in America; his New York or how to help promote this event, contact Liz Times bestseller American Fascists: The Moore at [email protected]. Christian Right and the War on America; and I Don’t Believe in Atheists - his critique of New Atheists such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens – which was praised by The Times Literary Supplement as the most astute dismantling to date of the New Atheist argument. In the bestseller Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, he examines the illusions that beset American culture as it retreats into fantasy and severs itself from reality. In Death of the Liberal Class, he argues that the pillars of the liberal establishment – the press, liberal religious institutions, labor, public education, culture, and the Democratic Party – have 8 Murder Victims’ Families for Young Activist Leaders Reconciliation member calls Program report: "Justice for end to death penalty needs to be done in society!" by Jamie McDaniel by Jamie McDaniel, intern The night when PJALS hosted Murder Greetings from Victims' Families for Reconciliation member your YALPistas! We Pat McCoy proved have had an exciting and to be an evening of educational last few powerful words months in the Young which instilled the Activist Leaders will to fight for the Program, and we are abolition of the very grateful for our death penalty in the workshops! We are community. always looking forward Pat McCoy to the third Tuesday of invited us into his every month! past to be able to I know first see how he, as the loved one of someone who hand that our young has been murdered, really feels about use of activist leaders are the coolest, most capital punishment on their perpetrators. His interesting and enlightening individuals out story having come out of Spokane made his there. YALP member Kacy Kräcke says, “I message even more powerful because it hit think YALP is very useful when it comes to literally so close to home. Pat's sister was being a successful organizer. Everyone in this murdered in Spokane in 1974, a time when the program knows the importance of what justice death penalty was not legal in Washington. needs to be done in society.” Pat expresses that there is not a single Another YALPista, Trung Nguyen, member of his family that wishes the revenge, says, “YALP gives the younger generation the which the law thinks we all desire, was chance to truly make a difference in the sought. He said, “We were satisfied that he community. YALP proves that young people was convicted and confined." He expressed to want to do more than sit around. We want to us the make a lasting, positive effect." importance I could not agree more with you guys! of closure for the family, which is case itself is over so that the family can behind not done the healing process. With the help of Jason when a Ortiz, another member of Murder Victim's murder is Families' for Reconciliation, the audience was put to taught about the importance of what the death death, but penalty really means in our society; both when the fiscally and personally. 9 Welcome Social Work Welcome Social Work Practicum Student Teresa Practicum Student Jamie! by Liz Moore By Victoria Huckabee Teresa Kinder Jamie McDaniel is a senior in the is a senior at EWU, Social Work program at Eastern Washington completing her social University. She is from the Spokane area and work practicum with a enjoys spending time with her family and her Community Organizing new dog, Momota. Internship at PJALS. "I She is passionate about human rights was tired of seeing and loves protesting for anything she feels is a people around me worthy cause. At PJALS she works mostly on thinking they couldn't abolishing the death penalty. make a difference," she In addition to being a full time student says. and intern, she also works as shelter staff at "I'm passionate about lots of social Crosswalk Teen Shelter and is a visitation justice issues. Everything is so important, and specialist at Empowring Inc Services. Jamie for me it depends on what has momentum at loves to travel the moment. I do love LGBT issues, anything and spent the around that is my passion." summer Teresa is a graduate of the Mead exploring school district. Her first step to put her values Ghana, the into action was to attend a meeting with U.K., Washington CAN. She volunteered with them Germany, the on paid sick days. "I had worked at Walmart Jamie McDaniel (center) while Netherlands, and I saw what it was like to not have paid traveling in Ghana France, sick days. It was ridiculous. I saw people who Manaco, Italy were sick working, and I worked in meats, so Switzerland, and Denmark. sick people are touching your food all the Jamie is still undecided about her time. I saw people who were taking care of plans after graduation, but she is considering their families, and if they missed a day of graduate school and joining the Peace Corps. work, they wouldn't be able to afford something for their kids, so no matter how sick they were, they were at work. It was a heard they were there but had never seen huge issue." them, now I have learned and now I notice and "My favorite thing about being at see things that were always there. Another big PJALS," says Teresa, "is hearing from so issue I've learned about has been with people many people and learning about so many who were incarcerated, that had never things I didn't know were issues before. occurred to me ever." Anytime I see something where people are Teresa says she'll be different after actually doing something and actually making this internship. "I feel like I'm not afraid to a difference -- I haven't been around people talk about issues anymore. I'll have more skills before who are even trying. I've learned about and knowledge about how to run groups and things like race inequalities -- I had always organize anything in general." 10 Trying to Support the Troops, continued Routh should have been hospitalized upon from page 3 discharge from the Marines in 2010. From my made, at least once, but I would point out that perspective, the state risks confirming our his buddy, the retired sergeant major, credited fears that the U.S. military routinely recruits with his safety when he wasn't almost shot mentally ill persons and trains them to kill, or down, didn't bother to correct his memory trains fine young people to kill before placing when they had a high-profile reunion at a them into a crucible which will ensure moral hockey game and/or physical wounds which will limit their Speaking of the hero mold, Chris Kyle capacities for constructive citizenship. seems to have broken the mold and been If you miss the irony in the movie or elevated, posthumously, to an exclusive book, I doubt you can avoid it in the pedestal. It wasn't sufficient that his memoir courtroom. Littlefield, not a veteran, had tried captivated war fans around the country before to help a number of PTSD victims and was he was shot to death while trying to help a something of a Kyle groupie. Although the marine veteran deal with his PTSD. Self good Samaritans realized their charity case promotion could not achieve what Hollywood was seriously delusional, it didn't occur to has for the former sniper, and his film story is them that handing him a loaded gun was a bad now in the record books for legendary money- idea. And, regardless of the outcome of the making. Kyle will be, if he is not already, the trial, it appears Kyle will be remembered as a most famous enlisted person in U.S. military great patriot and hero who lived and died history and will probably surpass John trying to help his fellow Americans. Many of McCain as the most recognizable figure to us who learned too much, too soon, about war, have been in the U.S. Navy and not been will never be able to think of a prolific sniper subsequently elected president. Have your in a far-away country as someone who is kids ever heard of John Paul Jones or David saving lives, and it's torturous to contemplate Farragut? Not that I think they should. navy recruiters telling teenagers that if they're While American Sniper, the film, good enough for the SEALS, they could be continues to bust blocks, the Kyle saga like Chris Kyle. continues in a Texas courtroom. Perhaps I don't recommend that you disparage there's a verdict as you read this, but I'm Kyle publicly, unless you are prepared for betting there's no closure. Not for the families ostracism, at best. But if someone wants my of the victims or the 27-year old defendant or opinion about snipers, I'll recommend they the millions to whom the deadliest sniper, read a significant part of my favorite ever, is an object of adoration and patriotic American novel, The Brothers K, by David pride. Certainly not for the military which James Duncan. relies upon the uncritical loyalty of each pillar When I went to Vietnam, in 1967, I of American values. was a true believer and a good shot. There Eddie Ray Routh is on trial for the were times I wished to be enlisted instead of murder of Kyle and Chad Littlefield, two commissioned, but I never wished I'd been a years ago. His plea is: not guilty due to sniper. Today, I wish someone had told me, insanity, and early testimony makes one “Don't kill for me. I feel safer with no wonder why the prosecution would take the enemies.” case to trial and make it painfully obvious that 11 PJALS at EWU—An Activist in Welcome Social Work Residence update Practicum Student Victoria! By Liz Moore by Jamie McDaniel Young people are curious, interested, Victoria Huckabee is a full time social have developed their own opinions already, work student and single mother of two boys, draw on their own meaningful experience, and Luke and Logan. ask great questions. This is what I’ve observed Her speaking in classes and holding workshops at academic journey EWU last year and this year as the first ever began pursuing a EWU Activist in Residence. certification in In January I spoke in 19 classes over American Sign two days, ranging from Philosophy to Chicano Language which History to Feminist Methodology to Criminal led her to the Justice to African American Family. I jogged Bachelors of from building to building and spoke to over Social Work 300 students about PJALS, about whether the program at Eastern elite hold power or whether it’s in the hands of Washington the people, and the what & why of Smart University. She Justice Spokane’s campaign for criminal will graduate this justice reform. spring. After In graduation, every class Victoria plans to enter the advanced standing and at every program to pursue her Masters degree. Activist in Victoria is committed to working for Residence social justice on a large scale and push for workshop, I reforms and improvements in the system. She share the is especially passionate about criminal justice Power Elite reform and peace. Model and A fun fact about Victoria is that she the People has a pet sheep named Scout who thinks he is Power Model a dog! from Bill Moyer’s book assert these two realities on a daily basis as Doing young people, people of color, low-income Democracy. Heads nod as I described the folks, and other facets of identity. power-holders at the top acting upon us You’re invited to the final Activist in through laws, myths, norms, and institutions. Residence workshop on Thursday March 5, When I asserted that we individually and 3:30 to 5:30 in Monroe 205: “Approaches to collectively have the autonomy and authority Activism: Making the Road by Walking,” a to decide to withdraw our consent and to panel discussion with Jude McNeil, Sandy challenge those in power, students smile and Williams, Blaine Stum, Reb. Deb Conklin, nod again. EWU students experience and and me. Come join the conversation! 12 Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane Non-Profit Org. 35 W Main, Suite 120M U.S. Postage Spokane, WA 99201 PAID (509) 838-7870 Spokane, WA Permit No. 263

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