Santa Cruz City Council: elected to three terms, 1990, 1994, 2000 and two terms as mayor, 1993, 2003. “I have been challenged by Gandhi’s admoni- tion, “no principle exists without its concrete application” (my paraphrase). I rather like jumping into the fray when a situation presents itself and to test my commitment to in Depot Park groundbreaking, Santa Cruz, active engagement with day-to-day challenges. with youth soccer players and Cynthia — Scott Kennedy, on his involvement in local politics. Mathews.

Scott helped establish a Nuclear-Free ... Zone in Santa Cruz in 1991. “I have attempted to amplify the voices Scott presents a Mayor’s of those Palestinians and Israelis Proclamation to Igal Ezraty of Yesh G’vul (“There is a limit !”), that are committed to nonviolence or an Israeli peace group campaigning against the occupation by backing waging nonviolent struggle to end the soldiers who refuse duties, April, 1992. Israeli Occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East ... We help educate and mobilize people in the US to apply the same commitments they have demonstrated to peace and justice in the USA or elsewhere around the globe to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” — Scott Kennedy Scott at a demonstration against expan- sion of Israeli settlements, 1979. Nasser Abufarha, founder Left: Interfaith Peace-Builders Board of of the Palestine Fair Trade Directors and staff, Association, Scott, and Mike Washington, DC, Daly, 2009 IFPB delegation. Invictus February, 2009. Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, With Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the PLO, Tunis, Tunisia, August And yet the menace of the years 1987. Finds and shall find me unafraid. Above right: Azim Khamisa, It matters not how strait the gate, founder of the Tarik Khamisa Foundation; Mubarak Awad, How charged with punishments the scroll, founder of Nonviolence Interna- I am the master of my fate: tional and National Youth I am the captain of my soul. Advocates, and Scott. — Poem by Arthur Quiller-Couch, 1875. Nativity Square, Bethlehem, The title “Invictus” is Latin for “unconquered.” Palestine, 2007. - 6 -