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It hardly matters whether one sees the current fuss over corrupt government, violations of civil liberties and international law as something new and frightening or as the latest glimpse of a venerable iceberg. The important thing is to expose the crimes and stop the processes that have pushed America’s hopes for representative democracy so close to the brink of extinction.
Regardless of our levels of exposure to COINTELPRO, Watergate, Mena, Arkansas, or other anti-democratic deviousness, it is up to the people to rescue our constitutional legacy.
The outrage is not so much that a president and others entrusted with our security have trashed our rights and squandered our assets to institutionalize their own greed, but crimes are portrayed as elements of national security or democracy building, and they continue, barely diminished by an almost-awakened news media and loyal opposition in Congress.
Our assignment, should we choose to accept it, is to challenge every threat to our pursuit of life, liberty and happiness and present alternatives to violence for each counter-offensive we propose. Revolution is obviously called for, but even a hint of violence will render any movement ineffective. Also to be rejected is any tolerance for abandoning or attacking those who have been labeled our enemies, here or abroad.
Nonviolence holds up under the assault against what is just and good, but is of no use if it sits upon a pillow or a pedestal. Just like our liberty, use it or lose it. Without action, nonviolence is only a philosophy. Active nonviolence, on the other hand, is to be feared by tyrants, especially when it replaces fear as the currency of a people.
A year ago, Cheney might have boasted of his affinity for torture and been universally embraced by his admirers. Bush might have bragged about spying on Americans and been applauded as a defender of the country. Rove and Libby could practice their outrageous spins on the looting of our country with impunity. Michael Brown could fiddle his bootlicking tunes while levees deteriorated. Tom Delay could lie, cheat and steal and call it leadership. But the scene has changed for 2006. Even Rep. Cathy McMorris voted in favor of the McCain Bill, leaving only Doc Hastings among the Washington delegation to say, “Cruel and degrading treatment? Hey. It’s the American way.” They’ll have to come up with something better, and we cannot retreat from the gains that have fallen into our laps.
We who struggle for justice are not shocked to find our leaders sweating and stalling and justifying their misdeeds, so let’s not drop any pressure but use our default leverage to influence policy and elections and planning at every level. Local officials must be held accountable for supporting justice or not. Corporations, granted personhood, must also be held to standards by anyone interested in labor, economic justice and fair play.
PJALS must also live up to your trust and respond to your needs for information and solidarity. You must be able to participate and make suggestions for us to have the nerve to ask for a portion of the money you set aside to help heal the world. And, in spite of the experience, education, and commitment of the staff, PJALS is unlikely to make a meaningful contribution without ideas and active support, even nagging, from our membership.
What we have to offer to the community is empowerment for nonviolent social change, and that means we can take on injustice, from local to global. That might seem a heady assertion, except that we are already doing that in increasing rhythm with hundreds of other groups around the country.
Last year in this space, I expressed a great deal of optimism. This January, I feel vindicated and excited. There is room for our influence to grow because influential frauds and hypocrites are being exposed, from city hall to the White House. Let’s be sure we have a strong and relentless voice for justice and peace.
I hope you’ll want to help specifically with Spokane Citizens for a Living Wage, Inland NW Equality, or PeaceWorks, but there’s other work to be done, too. Ramp up your involvement whether it’s political, fiscal, faith-based, street-wise, writing, planning, educational or bringing more people to the table. - RN
What’s PJALS doing on MLK Day? And why? Why do we gather in a local temple to materialism and listen to platitudes that rarely measure up to a man whose life informs and inspires almost everything PJALS does? Why walk from the Opera House to RiverPark Square in January?
Yes. We’ll be back for the 24th Annual MLK Remembrance Day March. We’ll be there with people of like mind and with people who have no clue. PJALS folks turn out for this gathering because Martin Luther King, Jr. did so much to bring us together with diverse elements of our country and our neighborhoods, and because we want solidarity with all who honor Dr. King and share the dream that has inspired millions. We want everyone to know that we care about their dreams, and we want to protect the dream from those who would distort and exploit it.
It’s important for PJALS to share our understanding of King, the visionary, the leader, the peace activist. Look for our banner and pick up signs with King quotes that are important to our country today. PJALS wants to support MLK Day, and it’s a good time to let others in Spokane know that PJALS is here and working in the spirit and in the steps of Dr. King.
Four of us who attended the SOAW demonstrations at Ft. Benning last November, visited the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta and were inspired to see that Dr. King’s message had not been watered down at that 25-year-old venue, as it has for national consumption around MLK Day. “Nonviolence or nonexistence” holds a prominent place, and visitors are reminded often that King would not be comfortable with the hollow praise of corporate barons or apologists for militarism.
PJALS rejects every assumption that Martin Luther King would approve today the frightful excesses of militarism and materialism that he so profoundly opposed years ago. Subscribing, or not, to the Gospel preached by King, anyone passionate about peace and justice must feel a mandate to heed and circulate the example, the wisdom, and the other contributions of Dr. King to the most important human rights campaign in our nation’s history.
It’s not for PJALS to belittle any part of the Spokane celebration and remembrance. It is, however, ours to ensure peace and justice is never deleted from King’s legacy. Find one of our little signs to carry during the march. A small symbol can be used for a great witness.
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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate...Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you have complaints about our government killing civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan, torturing prisoners not charged with crimes, ignoring international treaties, or spying upon you or anyone else who has expressed some lack of contentment, rack it up to the War Against Terrorism.
Just as ‘national security’ was the magic term for President Reagan, ‘the war on terrorism’ is used by the Bush administration to justify immoral, unconstitutional and depraved acts, plans, and wishes. No holds barred? No crimes, Faustian bargains, or blasphemy barred!
You and I can discuss this openly with some impunity only because of a lull in the repression bought by President Bush’s reluctant admission that he has signed an order he expects to grant him powers to ignore constitutional restraints. Strangely, some observers find it breathtaking that the president would do such a thing, and others are amazed that the New York Times would sit on the story for a year to make sure Bush was unimpeded in his power grab.
Had this trashing of the Constitution gone unreported, the USA Patriot Act might have well been approved with all its hideous provisions intact. As it is, we get an extension of heavy-handed arrogance while we let Congress raise timid fingers to the wind. And the quandary is not limited to our federal government. Spokane was willing to overlook moral deficiencies in a mayor as long as he was viewed as strong on security. So a former paratrooper and deputy sheriff was elected, even with a reputation for being a mean state legislator. Now, who’s more secure?
The
action element
We need PJALS people to contribute to the action element of our local and global peacemaking. It is no secret that we need contributions of money, but it may be easy to forget that we need more participation in our ongoing projects that are unknown to many in the Spokane area.
Don’t downplay the fiscal contributions, please. As we begin a new year, we are very grateful for many wonderful gifts from our membership and several from heroic foundations like the Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Social Justice Fund (formerly A Territory Resource). Our benefactors have pushed us to do more and do it better, and we need new members and donors to help us with our most ambitious budget, ever. If you have not responded to our funding request from year’s end, please consider an early contribution beyond your membership dues this year.
Action is what we’re about. Without action, we don’t interest foundations, we don’t get new members, and we don’t kindle the imagination of the public. Not stopping a war or winning a just wage is not failure for PJALS. Not demonstrating that peace and justice are possible, not educating the public about active nonviolence, not empowering individuals and groups that want to make a difference would be failure. That would also be unacceptable.
We need you to weigh in on our core campaigns. Try to attend an issue meeting, a low-impact opportunity to help us set an effective course of action for equal rights, for economic justice, or for bringing alternatives to violence out of obscurity. If you can’t do meetings, write, email or call the staff to give some input, gain some insight or find out where we stand and what you can do.
Ongoing campaigns include Living Wage,
INWE, SOA Watch, and PeaceWorks.
Contact Wil Elder about Spokane Citizens for a Living Wage. We are anxious to present a pilot wage proposal to the city council, and we want to be inclusive in that presentation and in preparing for a possible initiative or for overtures to Spokane Valley and Spokane County.
Krista Benson is staff for Inland NorthWest Equality and is ready to wanted and needed bring you up to date on all our efforts on behalf of the GLBT community or put you in the vanguard of the movement for marriage equality.
The movement to terminate the School of Assassins is always in season, and there are many ways to help end U.S. support for terrorism in Latin America. Talk to Rusty or Nancy about SOAW or PeaceWorks, which functions as the advisory group for our vigils, peace campaigns and demonstrations. PeaceWorks is now specifically involved in creative peacemaking and military counter recruitment.
See the calendar for these and other opportunities, spread the word among your acquaintances who are tired of waiting for someone else to change the world, and/or call PJALS.
By Marianne Torres
It's been a tough year in many ways. Empire is still in place. American troops still kill and torture in Iraq and Afghanistan; a spineless Congress continues to roll over on nearly every command from the White House, begging only that Bushworld not call them "unpatriotic"; the American media, after a short-lived show of integrity and guts, has reverted to a long-held role as corporate scribe; and the U.S. remains the only nation in the industrialized world with only two (well, sort of) political parties. And of course the domestic scene grows steadily more dire. All of which obtained two years ago when Michael committed his acts of conscience.
The end of 2005 brings the end of a most difficult odyssey for my husband Michael Poulin and me, and we celebrate it with friends who provided the love, support and emotional sustenance that carried us through two years of struggle during Michael's imprisonment.
While many in our anti-war/peace/social change community here and across the nation supported his actions after they learned of them, others did not. Many recognized it for what it was, others felt it was too close to the edge of non-violence for them to embrace. We heard from many who were conflicted about their reaction. Good, I say! Good that people are looking at different ways to address this malignant empire, different ways to effect change. Good that people are talking about it, for I remember how shocked I was when I learned about German extermination camps - not just what went on in the camps, but equally that the people in those towns of Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and others KNEW at that time what was happening, and were terrified into silence. They smelled the crematoria every day, lived with the appalling knowledge of what was being done in their names, and most of them did nothing.
So what is this about? Here is what I share with people across the globe about the genesis of our painful journey: In November, 2003, Poulin traveled through four western states loosening bolts of electrical towers, not to bring the towers down (his actions could not have done that - as attested to by the electrical companies' own engineers, in court documents - in spite of the frenzied media coverage), but to bring attention to our need to live very differently in the world and to rise up and stop our government's obscene quest for Empire. He did it not to bring the towers down, but rather, to make Americans understand the consequences of our actions.
In April, 2004, this courageous man went into Federal prison, serving 27 months for doing something he hoped would get the attention of the "silent majority" - Americans who don't care much about what we in the US do to others, but ARE concerned about what others might do to us. He loosened bolts on electrical towers to say, "people who live in glass houses shouldn't drop bombs - if you can't stop this government from killing people because it's wrong, then you'd better stop them killing people because our victims can hurt you back, and if an old, overweight, half-blind diabetic can do THIS, think what could be done by our victims - wake up!" He wanted to make his point in a way that did not harm anyone. And he wanted his acts known, so people might begin to realize WE MUST exert our OWN power as "the governed", in order to prevent perpetual, tit-for-tat violence.
As the US rampages across the globe, seeking one conquest after another, and as many Americans despair of restraining the horrors, we find individuals making courageous choices and committing courageous and dangerous acts, from health care work in Iraq to standing in front of Israeli bulldozers. Many of us work desperately in our home towns to organize and help our neighbors understand what American empire-building has cost our brothers and sisters across the globe, and even here. This was Michael's piece of that work, an act of solitary, non-violent desperation. Was it effective? Was it useful? Who knows? But he felt his years of letter writing, organizing, demonstrating and civil disobedience counted for naught as America swaggers through the world killing and torturing. He felt it was one thing he COULD do, and he paid the price for it, as he always knew he would.
I understand his frustration and desperation, but I DO believe the writing, organizing, demonstrating and resisting by him and thousands more, make a TREMENDOUS difference. I believe in the power of non-violence, for I've seen many positive changes as a result, though that's grist for another article.
Nearly at the end of our very difficult journey, we look at our support network that ultimately became international (also another article!), and our hearts are full to overflowing. I can barely talk about this without weeping, for without these wonderful people - most of them connected with PJALS - I could not have gotten through this time intact, and their support made Michael's time in prison far more bearable.
PJALS stands as a beacon for me, lighting the way to a more peaceful world through its mission of non-violence and fierce determination to change conditions that lead to war and poverty. Rusty and Nancy Nelson, particularly, as directors of PJALS, have been unswerving in their embrace of Michael and me, even in the earliest days when many, including myself, were puzzled about what he had done. Even while wondering whether his actions were the "right thing to do", they always understood why and they always understood what was in his heart.
I suspect this year will bring many intense sessions of thinking and planning about how to be most effective, about goals and hopes. This administration has brought such horror upon the world that it will take all our courage to "put our bodies upon the gears" to make it stop, and yet we must. And I look to PJALS to continue to provide structure, leadership and mutual support, to move forward. Happy Holidays, all.
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"There is a time when the
operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart,
that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and
you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon
the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And
you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own
it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working
at all!" -Mario Savio, free speech leader at U of California Berkeley (Dec. 3, 1964)
Bernie
Sanders is unique in the U.S. House of Representatives as an
Independent and a Socialist. Running now for the U.S. Senate from
Vermont, Sanders was interviewed in the December Progressive and gave
the following response to questions about what Americans are learning
from Hurricane Katrina:
“What they were seeing on television was people
dying because they’re poor. And they’re dying because they don’t
have a car they can get into and go to a hotel. But what you
don’t see on television is people dying today because they can’t get to
a doctor, and they can’t afford prescription drugs. That’s why
they are slso dying. They are dying in Iraq because they are poor
and they have gone into the military because they can’t afford to go to
college. They’re dying because they’re living in communities
where asthmas rates are extremely high because the air is filthy.
The suffereing of the poor and working class people is a virtual
nonissue for the media. But that is the reality.Obviously, you were seeing it incredibly starkly in New Orleans. You’re poor, you can’t get out of town, you die."
PJALS is sometimes reluctant to announce openings for good jobs in the nonprofit sector. Good prospects are usually important volunteers. The opportunities listed here are from organizations whose prosperity seems linked to our own.
Development Director; Social Justice Fund.
...will direct a comprehensive
resource development program that includes the annual membership
campaign, expanding major donors, and enhancing public relations
outreach to increase the visibility of Social Justice Fund and its
grantees. The Development Director would work closely with the
Executive Director who is very comfortable with fundraising.
Visit website to find a
synthesized job description outlining major duties. http://www.socialjusticefund.org/about/job_openings.htm
Acting Executive Director, Human Rights Education Institute, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Having survived the pressure to buy more through one more holiday spending frenzy, we might reflect upon how we are doing with our money and our values. Jim Wallis has been pointing out that the Christmas scandal is not about losing the handle on politically correct names, but the trashing of the values that should be linked to Christmas, and not just for Christians.
The most obvious solution is to buy less, perhaps only as much as we need, to be really radical. From there, we want to avoid patronizing the worst offenders of labor and human rights, and Wal-Mart has clawed its way to the top of that list. In general, if we look at clothing labels, most of us know what was likely made in a sweatshop by abused workers.
Coca Cola has fallen behind Pepsi Cola. It’s not that the soft drink is number two, but that Pepsico has done a better job of diversification, becoming a bigger corporation. Perhaps this is an opportunity for human rights activists to get past Coke’s denial that it has no culpability for the routine murder of organizers in Latin America. Let Killer Coke know you won’t buy the best-known brand in the world until the company is accountable to its most vulnerable employees.
On the positive side, we are finding more ways to buy fairly traded goods, like those offered at Global Folk Art. We have also suggested that our petroleum dollars are better spent on Citgo products than those from Exxon Mobile or other corporations with long histories of crime against humanity and the environment. Citgo, a subsidiary of the Venezuela national oil company, besides offering support for the progressive efforts of Hugo Chavez, sells petroleum that does not come from the Middle East, the focus of U.S. oil dependency.
Now, we learn of another reason to go Citgo. The company bought advertising to announce the assignment of millions of gallons of heating oil, at deep discounts, for low-income families and schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other institutions that serve low income people who have to deal with high energy prices and reduced fuel assistance. The program might not reach the Northwest, but is a refreshing change from the justification of obscene profits from big oil.
We still stand to be hammered by big corporations, even those that seem to offer good value, even bargains. If enough of us are accountable consumers, we can affect the way business impacts poverty and violence. Locally, this calls establishing a living wage. Globally, it means we do what we can to curb globalization and the economic and environmental damage that always come with pandering to giant corporations.
A citizen’s job isn’t over after Election Day. We elect legislators to represent us in Olympia, and they can do it effectively only if we communicate with them. Equal Rights Washington works with state representatives and senators every year to promote legislation that advances LGBT equality and to block legislation that harms our community. This year, that job is particularly important. During the 2006 session, which begins in January and ends March 9, the state legislature will consider the anti-discrimination bill again, and react to the state supreme court’s marriage decision. Key to our success in Olympia will be the relationships that state legislators have with their LGBT and allied constituents.
Politics is all about relationships. When legislators vote, they bring their own beliefs and biases to the table. But they also think about the constituents they’ve talked with, people they know. When you meet with your legislators and respectfully discuss issues important to you, your face is one of those that they see as they consider those issues.
The first step in building a relationship with the people who represent you is to find out who they are. To see which legislative district you live in and find the contact information for your representatives and senator, visit www1.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/ and enter your home address. Next, meet your legislators. Most will happily meet with you for coffee when not in session. Just call and ask for a meeting. Talk with them about LGBT issues, such as the anti-discrimination bill and marriage equality. It’s important that they also recognize your investment in other issues, such as transportation, education, or whatever you’re passionate about. During casual meetings between sessions, you get to know your representatives and senator and let them get to know you.
Remember, you’re building a relationship. Be friendly, open, and willing to talk about what issues mean to you personally. When the legislature votes on an issue, you want your representatives and senator to think of you and how the issue affects your family.
Encourage friends and family to meet with their legislators, as well, especially if they’re straight and supportive of LGBT issues. All our representatives and senators need to understand that a wide range of Washingtonians support equality for LGBT people.
Most important, join thousands of others January 23, 2006, as we make our voices heard in Olympia. At Equality Day, we’ll rally on the Capitol steps, and then lobby our legislators personally. Sign up for Equality day at www.equalrightswashington.org or www.religiouscoalition-wa.org. -KB
In case you haven’t noticed, the Pentagon is looking for more than a few good translators, especially in Arabic. One who was recruited had a nice interpretation and authorized use of his fluent reply:
Dear Mr. Irfan:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the Arabic Linguist With Secret Clearance For Iraq job. Your offer of $ 150,000.00 - $ 158,000.00 is obviously tempting, but unfortunately I must decline. For one thing, I do not enjoy participating in the torture of other human beings. I also believe that the Army was established to defend the US, not to attack other countries. We are supposed to have a Defense Department, not an Offense Department. So taking part in wars of aggression that are not declared by the Congress of the United States is worse than illegal: it is wrong.
Judging from the kind of salary you are offering, I must conclude that it is desperation time now for the war mongers at the Pentagon. Did the Pentagon suddenly realize that it needs some basic mode of communication with the Iraqis other than the bullets and the bombs? For most tax payers in the US, taxes are not meant to be squandered on useless wars.
I would like to offer you now a job that is enormously rewarding on the personal level, but does not pay any money. The title is "Peace Advocate." If you are interested, please let me know. Also, please feel free to forward my information to any friends and colleagues at Calnet Inc. Here are the particulars:
Job Description: Provide operational peace advocacy for the global peace movement. Work to bring the US into the world court in order to make it more difficult for our leaders to commit war crimes.
Required skills:
1. Must have the ability to speak truth to power.
2. Must keep an open mind and an open heart.
3. Must have the strength not to resort to violence.
4. Must have the ability to question his/her superiors.
5. Must not have security clearance.
6. IQ must be substantially higher than Iraq war recruits.
How about joining the peace movement and those of us who seek law, order and sanity?
I am eager for your reply.
When we received the rejection of the petition for clemency from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, we were in shock. There was enough electricity and anger at the ACLU to cause an explosion. The words on the document were not a careful consideration of the appeal by the attorneys for Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams. It was a frontal attack on Tookie, gangs, historical leadership of people of color, and a clear denial of all the good Tookie had done and the difference he could make in the lives of youth in the future.
It was clear that there was no consideration of the facts of the case. It was a most calculated and cruel, politically motivated attack by the governor. (To see the governor's statement, contact PJALS.)
As we continued to read, we were soon urged out of the room to go to a conference room there at the ACLU in San Francisco to join another call-in press conference with Tookie’s Lawyers. Within moments we were giving our thoughts, anger and dismay to the media. At the press conference, I was representing Amnesty International. It was difficult to not scream obscenities at the Governor and his political party.
I was one of those who had kept hope within my heart that the Governor might do the moral thing, given that there is a moratorium bill in the legislature that will be debated in January. In the next months there are two other pending executions which also should be stayed while the bill for moratorium is debated.
Many important groups and individuals had spoken against this execution in the months, weeks and days prior to the execution, and the case became a public cause for Human Rights.
Sister Helen Prejean was there the Sunday before the execution at the ACLU event, and both she and Sean Penn spoke out strongly against the death penalty . Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Angela Davis, Nane Alejandrez, Mike Farrell, myself, and many others spoke from the stage outside the prison. We heard from the families of murder victims, exonerated death row inmates, religious leaders, native singers, Muslim ministers, and from many youth. More than 3,000 individuals participated in the long and tearful protest.
Many were there from 6 pm to past 2 am. Last to speak were friends of Tookie who had witnessed his death and had raised their fists and voices in protest inside of the viewing room.
Many groups worked on this case beyond the ACLU, Death Penalty Focus and Amnesty International, and that is good. We need more voices, marchers, singers, poets, rappers, educators, dreamers and activists.
Tookie's lawyers, up to the last hour, made appeals to the Governor, bringing to him new witnesses that would negate the testimony of jail house snitches. But the governor continued to reject this new information.
It was hard to be outside the prison hearing the many speakers, many of them youth reading from Tookie,s books, knowing that in minutes Tookie might be killed. I listened to Tookies words and could easily see that this man had changed and could change others.
...after all the tearful and angry faces, I am left with the haunting image of an old friend whom I encountered after the execution. His empty eyes were red with tears, and his face showed the pain we were all suffering. He could barely speak. Pain and outrage had taken his tongue. We held hands and sought shelter in each others eyes. He, a white man losing a black brother, and asking “Why?”
This
is from Magdaleno Rose-Avila’s report to email correspondents. A
tireless foe of capital punishment and friend of peace and justice,
Leno works for immigrant rights from Seattle. California, with the
largest death row in the nation, plans to execute a 75-year old Native
American in January.
Interfaith Council invites you to the
Eastern Washington
Legislative Conference
January 21, 2006, 9 am to 3 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane
4340 W. Ft. Wright Drive
Keynote: Right Rev. James Waggoner, Jr.Conference Fee: $20 or $15 per person for groups of 5 or more (includes lunch)
The conference will include motivational stories from local people of faith; policy briefings on state and federal legislation impacting low-income and vulnerable communities; workshops on issues including hunger, health care, mental health, local water resources, WorkFirst,
human trafficking, and Darfur, Sudan.
A project of the Interfaith Council. Co-sponsored by: Catholic Charities, Washington Association of Churches, Lutheran Public Policy Office, Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, Community-Minded Enterprises, Council on Aging and Long-term Care of Eastern Washington, The SAFeT Response Center of Lutheran Community Services Northwest, VOICES, Bread for the World, Children's Alliance,
Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane
For more info, contact Diana at 509.329.1410
At 2 p.m., Jan. 20, in Council Chambers, City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls, the Center for Justice is hosting a presentation by Jonathan Todd on ecologic engineering and design.
Todd is Senior Partner of John Todd Research and Design, Inc., a leading firm in development of ecological technologies for food production, waste purification and conversion, environmental restoration and systems integration for architecture and eco-industrial parks and provides cost-effective, sustainable alternatives to wastewater and storm water treatment and bio-solids conversion.
For more information see
Nancy
Nelson of the PJALS staff has been honored with a plaque and
certificate by Community Colleges of Spokane as a nominee for the Deccio Excellence in Equity Award. An adjunct instructor in Women’s Studies at Spokane Community College, she was commended for commitment and leadership in promoting equity and diversity among staff and students.
Some of you have been asking for your newsletter online for a long time. Providing you with paperless correspondence is something we want to do, but has been more difficult than we anticipated. Now, with much improved computer capacity and a XXX rated volume, we think we are ready to offer you a choice within a month or two.
To get the Handful of Salt online, please send an email with your eddress and your name as it appears on your current mailing label. Bear in mind, if you have not been receiving email from PJALS, we most likely do not have a correct email address for you. You may, in this correspondence, ask to be added or removed from our email group notices or alerts.
Email at PJALS is about to become clearer and more specific, too, but for now, use our old eddress: pjals@icehouse.net.
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