You can be forgiven for not knowing very much about this modest boat from Cyprus.  Much of the world has chosen to ignore its humanitarian cargo and the passengers from Ireland, the U.K., the U.S. and the Middle East, who were willing to put themselves at risk to sail into Gaza.

    Actually, you might have seen a picture in the newspaper or heard something on the radio about the boat being intercepted by the Israeli Navy.  Interesting.  The Israeli Defense Forces, bankrolled by U.S. taxpayers, are unable to deal with ragtag pirates in the eastern Mediterranean, or to restrain their forces bombing and shelling civilian Palestinians, (Over 2,400 homes, along with 30 mosques, 29 educational institutions, 29 medical centers, 10 charitable organizations, and 5 cement factories were destroyed in Gaza during the December-January Israeli massacre.)  but they can go into international waters and impound three tons of medical supplies and other aid.  They can kidnap 21 human rights activists and the boat's crew, and impound the boat.

     Now, after the human rights workers have been gradually released, it appears Israel can do this with impunity, especially with concern to the U.S.  Never mind that a former member of Congress was on board.  Who cares about Cynthia McKinney?  She's been ignored as a presidential candidate for the Green Party after being dumped by the Democrats of Georgia for refusing to be conservative.  Even the Congressional Black Caucus wants to wash its hands of her.

    Our own Dr. Bill Dienst fared better than that when he was stranded in Gaza after sailing on a more successful Free Gaza voyage.

    It's different in Ireland where Mairead Maguire and six others returned home as heroes.  Okay, Maguire is a Nobel Peace laureate, but that doesn't cut it in the U.S.  Back in May, she was detained at the Houston airport, on her way home from Guatemala after hosting a human rights
conference with three other Nobel winners.  Homeland Security released her after making sure she had missed her flight.

    That the heroic advocates for the oppressed people of Gaza have been released does not mean there has been any justice.  The supplies and the boat remain in impound, just as millions of dollars in other aid have never reached the suffering Gazans for whom it was intended.

    McKinney has called upon President Obama to honor the commitments to Gazans that he spoke of after the scope of the massacre became widely understood.  It seems to many of us observers that the appropriate short-term response is still to suspend all aid to Israel until some progress is seen in the plight of Palestinian families.

    The picture of 'The Spirit of Humanity' on the front page was taken in Cyprus.  Footage and photos taken of the seizure of the boat and the kidnapping of the passengers was all confiscated by Israeli sailors.  The story was circulated widely by Free Gaza, but found little traction in mainstream media, at least in the United States.

    PJALS wants more light upon Israel's use of U.S. support and more attention to the reasonable but unheard demands of the peace movement in Israel.

    At the very least, each of us can demand more accountability from our congressional delegation.  Unfortunately, we still bear the burden of trying to prove that we don't condone suicide bombings and don't want to drive Israel into the sea.  How sad it is that our elected representatives are more concerned about having the approval of AIPAC than about the establishment of a sustainable and just Israeli state.  One shudders to think of the violence still to come in the Middle East if the U.S. insists on continuing its subsidy of a xenophobic and unaccountable Israeli military machine.        - RN

    We've been together for just over three months now. Thank you so much for welcoming me and my family into the PJALS community. I've seen and experienced that PJALS has some great strengths:

      Members like you are committed to supporting the organization financially! This year, amidst the worst recession in 75 years, we had our best auction ever, bringing in almost $9000.

      Members like you are willing to give time and elbow grease!  It's been wonderful to work with you to make the auction happen, to put on the retirement benefit concert, hold successful rallies, put out mailings, make sure our database is up to date, make signs, and much more.

      New volunteers jump in alongside long-time seasoned pros! I've seen folks who've just moved to Spokane plunge right in, and I've seen other folks continue their decades-long volunteer work with our very extraordinary group.

      A smart, passionate, and dedicated Steering Committee! These wonderful people give their time, their brains, their voices, and their energy to continue to build PJALS and the foundations for a world of justice and nonviolence.

    And of course I've gotten to know more about PJALS' challenges. Even though we're in a much preferable political climate with Obama in the White House, we still have lots of work to do! To succeed, we need to build capacity, and that means we need to raise money, steady our cash flow, and hire more staff. We're a lean, efficient organization. We need to keep the efficiency but build more muscle.

      Thank you to all of you who've made a membership donation for 2009 and to all of you who've donated beyond your membership.

      If you haven't donated for your 2009 membership, would you do it today? You can go to pjals.net and click on "support PJALS" or you can use the form on the back of the printed Handful.

      Can you donate $20 a month, $10 a month, $5 a month, or $50 a month as a sustaining member? Many find a monthly recurring donation allows them to give more support than they're otherwise able to do. And, it's great for us to know what donations we can count on each month. To make this happen automatically, go to pjals.net and click on "support PJALS."

      If you've gotten a Social Security stimulus check, would you consider donating all or part to PJALS? Each month we efficiently spend less than $6000, and we'll put your donation to use right away.

    When I look at the PJALS landscape, the biggest hills I see are opportunities.

      Efficient staffing to magnify your donations and our budget. We can host two AmeriCorps VISTA positions, 40 hrs/wk for 12 months, and it only costs us $4200 each, total! It's our own piece of the stimulus bread, we just have to raise the yeast money & Obama supplies the flour, so to speak. (If you or someone you know is interested in applying, please contact the PJALS office by July 20.)

      If you're not on our email list yet, would you sign up on our website? We're moving more communications to the web to better offer timely analysis and opportunities for action and to reduce expenses and environmental impact. That means emails that are not too often, not too rare, that invite understanding and action. It means moving to a quarterly publishing schedule for the Handful of Salt. And it means that a revamped website is on the way! Your thoughts are welcome as we move in this direction.

      Imagine 800 members reaching out! PJALS has one of the largest memberships of any social justice group in the Inland Northwest. We can increase our impact by activating members to connect with their friends and neighbors.


      Volunteer: call 838-7870 or email pjals@pjals.net and we'll match your skills and interests with the right tasks.

      Donate: click on "support PJALS" or use the form on the back of the Handful.

      Hold a house party: invite your friends, co-workers, and acquaintances to your home (or co-host with a buddy), and introduce them to PJALS. This is a great way to counter isolation, educate on the issues, recruit volunteers, and raise money. And, it's a party! Call 838-7870 or email pjals@pjals.net for more information.

     Again, I want to thank you all for your phone calls, your emails, your donations, and everything you've done to make PJALS the organization it is today. I'm happy to be working with you and I look forward to climbing those hills together.        - LM



This edition doesn't look much like the edition I set out to send, not that that's unusual.

    I guess I keep thinking I'll get around to cataloging the solutions for all the world's problems, so we can get this overwhelming dependence upon violence out of the way and start building the society everybody really wants.

    There were several interruptions, like the piracy of the state of Israel and a surprising coup in Honduras, to go along with the daily depressants about the way we think concerning Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, bailing out huge corporations, and health care reform.

    I'm glad that Michael Poulin (Iran: Physician, Heal Thyself!, below) wanted to weigh in on the Iranian elections mess.  Personally, I don't agree with some of his conclusions, but it's important to realize that we don't get to make choices that are clearly right or wrong, any more than voters in Iran do.  Even in local elections, we're often left with a couple of quite unsavory choices.  For that matter, what do we know about Zelaya in, or should I say out of, Honduras (page 4).  We do know he shouldn't be condemned for being a friend of Hugo Chavez, and it's easier to distrust a general who twice graduated from the School of Assassins.

    People continue to demonize President Obama in a way that makes me want to defend him instead of set him straight.  He hasn't embarrassed me, yet, but he's way too shy about pursuing peace and justice.  And I do wish he had consulted our economic justice experts before rewarding self-destructive corporations for shedding jobs.  At PJALS, we understand that wealth is created by labor, even if it has been lost by stockholders and executives who are horrified by decent wages.

    An odd thing about Obama's world tour, is that he needed to negotiate with Russia on levels nuclear arsenal levels.  A quarter of a century ago, even in Spokane, we felt we had reason to hope that Mutally Assured Destruction would be a totally disgraced concept in the 21st Century.  What are these guys thinking?  If we don't have more nukes than anyone else, another country will destroy the planet before we get around to it?

    Look for this newsletter to become quarterly, as we depend more upon email for routine communications.  Get online.  Write an article.  At least stay in touch.            - RN




June 25th; the Spokesman Review describes it:

    "More than 100 people gathered in front of Spokane City Hall on Thursday evening to rally for police accountability and changes to an oversight process they see as flawed.

    Carrying signs that read 'Stop police abuse' and 'End police brutality,' the group circled the Post Street entrance to City Hall chanting, 'Josh Levy, Otto Zehm, Shonto Pete, not again!' "

    The rally followed the federal indictment of Spokane police Officer Karl Thompson for his role in the death of mentally ill janitor Otto Zehm and comes days before the Spokane City Council is set to vote on hiring a police ombudsman.
Police Accountability cont. from back    "We wanted to offer people the opportunity to speak out . to create change in order to have a relationship of trust with city leaders and Police Department," said Liz Moore, director of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, who along with Shonto Pete and his family organized the rally. About 10 other community-based groups joined in.

    On June 29, the City Council confirmed the Mayor's selection of Tim Burns as the first Ombudsman. During the meeting I was thinking about the impact of that rally. Though Burns was confirmed without the authority to compel police officers to answer to an independent investigation, the members of PJALS and the other organizations we're working with did make an important difference. Our message about not settling for less than independent investigative authority was echoed by all the City Council members, and that would not have happened without all the public mobilization.

    On June 19, representatives of PJALS and other groups met with Mayor Verner, Assistant Chief Nicks, and City Administrator Ted Danek. At that meeting, the Mayor said she thinks it's better for the Ombudsman to observe police investigations of complaints than to conduct his own, citing logistics and budget reasons. We disagree, and so do all the City Council members.

    What will happen next? Here's what I can see in the crystal ball: Let's continue to urge current city council members to push for authority at this year's bargaining table with the police guild. Let's ask all Spokane city council candidates if they will commit to pushing for independent investigative authority, and let's tell each other what they say. Let's write letters to the Spokesman and the Inlander to express our determination to win the kind of police accountability our community deserves. As the Center for Justice continues to track police-related complaints, let's encourage community members with complaints to talk with the Center as well as the Ombudsman.

    Let's continue to work with the SHAWL (Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water, Land) Society; Inland Northwest Business Alliance; Progressive Democrats of America, Spokane Chapter; Coalition of Responsible Disabled, NAACP of Spokane; Voices for Opportunity, Income, Childcare, Education, and Support (VOICES); M.E.Ch.A. of EWU; M.E.Ch.A. of WSU; and Odyssey Youth Center to advocate for real police accountability.

    There is so much community outrage on this issue. We have a genuine opportunity to make change. It will take perseverance and creativity, but PJALS has never lacked for that! - LM



By Michael Poulin
 
   Lost in the clamor to democraticize Iran is the fact that the last democratically elected government of Iran was forcibly overthown by our own in 1954, and that the present government is a direct reaction to that era of American intervention, oppression and brutality carried out by the American-installed Shah.

    Also down the memory hole are the tens of thousands of Iranians murdered by the Shah in the course of their 1978-79 revolution. Then came the U.S.-instigated attack on Iran by it's American-armed and encouraged friend and ally, Saddam Hussein, resulting in a prolonged war that cost over a million lives. Remember those "weapons of mass destruction" alleged to be in Iraq? Anything remotely resembling that definition was supplied by the U.S. for use against Iran during that bloody war.

    Bringing us up to date on the latest American efforts are these excerpts from Isam Al-Amin's June 30  article in Counterpunch magazine: "Between 2005-2009, the U.S. Congress appropriated more than $400 million for State Department programs designed to 'promote democracy,' among other means of employing soft power in Iran. This was implemented, in part, by funding the activities of Iranian dissident groups. By 2008, Congress included money in the budget that would specifically 'go to software programmers to develop programs that thwart internet firewalls erected by the government of Iran,' and for a program to 'provide anti-censorship tools and services for the advancement of information freedom in closed societies.'

    On May 24, 2007, Brian Ross, ABC 's Chief Investigative Correspondent broke a story about the elements of soft power utilized by the CIA and authorized by Bush. "Current and former intelligence officials told ABC News that the CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount . covert operations to destabilize the Iranian regime, and it is underway," he reported. He then added, "Those officials describe the Iranian plan as non-lethal, involving a campaign of coordinated propaganda broadcasts, placement of negative newspaper articles, the manipulation of Iran's currency and international banking transactions." The ABC correspondent stated, "Propaganda was one of the most important tools utilized by the CIA."

    Three days later, the British Daily Telegraph, detailed CIA plans for "a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilize, and eventually topple" the regime. The report said that the presidential finding gave the U.S. spy agency, for the first time, "the right to collect intelligence domestically .  from the many Iranian exiles and émigrés within the US." In the report, an intelligence official was quoted as saying, "Iranians in America have links with their families at home, and they are a good two-way source of information." Part of the CIA program, as reported by ABC News and the Daily Telegraph, was "supplying money and weapons, to the militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan." Since 2007, Iranian officials have announced the capture of dozens of members of violent groups, allegedly tied to the CIA, including one that killed 20 people only two weeks prior to the elections on May 30. The following day, another bombing took place at a campaign office of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."

    Finally, Alexander Cockburn writes in the Nation magazine June 24, 2009: "Meanwhile the Twitterers hail as an apostle of liberal reform none other than Moussavi, who was Iran's prime minister from 1981 to '89 and one of the foulest of that foul gang in the Council of the Cultural Revolution, charged with the Islamization of Iranian society. It was Moussavi who sent murdering squads of thugs into every university, purging secularism and Iran religious minorities. This was in the early '80s, when batches of hundreds of accused "leftists, many of them scarcely in their teens, were hanged from cranes in Tehran in a single day. And behind Moussavi is the billionaire Rafsanjani. Compared with this vicious duo, Ahmadinejad is relatively wholesome and, I'd reckon on the analyses and numbers I've read so far (see, for example, Esam Al-Amin's recent piece on the CounterPunch site), the actual winner in the election"

    None of this is to suggest that there is anything free or fair about Iranian elections today, but they are Iranian elections with Iranian results, not American-imposed elections with American results. And we are further reminded by none other than former President Jimmy Carter that American elections fail to meet minimal standards for democratic elections. 

"Physician, heal thyself."





    Answering a call from Honduran relatives of the disappeared, seven U.S. citizens managed Tuesday to enter Honduras where tensions have been high since the military toppled the country's president.   Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, meanwhile, agreed to try to resolve the political crisis sparked by the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya, ousted at gunpoint June 28.

    Central America's first coup since 1993  was led by Gen. Romeo Orlando Vásquez Velásquez, a two-time grad of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas, which also trained two other generals who seized power in Honduras.

    The U.S. delegation answered a call from Bertha Oliva, founder of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras, who asked for international volunteers to be observers of the military crackdown, said Hendrik Voss, Communications Coordinator for SOA Watch.

    The military opened fire Sunday on peaceful crowds, killing one and injuring several others after about 10,000 demonstrators showed their support for Zelaya in Tegucigalpa.  SOA Watch sent seven volunteers, Voss said, including its Latin America Coordinator Lisa Sullivan, and founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois.  The group tried to fly in Sunday, but flights were cancelled after the military shut down the airport to prevent Zelaya's return.

    It is not surprising that Oliva's Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared is fearful of the military's resurgence and has turned to human rights organizations like SOA Watch.    Not only has the group lost family members in the past, but new death threats have come this year, threats Amnesty International believes are connected to the organization's campaign for reparations for the relatives of the disappeared.

    Oliva's group, known by its Spanish acronym COFADEH, has also campaigned for Honduras to follow the lead of other Latin American countries that have severed ties to SOA, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2000.

    The school has trained more than 4,000 Honduran officers. It's not clear how many are currently enrolled since the Defense Department has refused since 2005 to release much information about the school. Last month, however, the House passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would force the release of the names of graduates, including rank, country of origin and the courses they've taken. The measure still has to survive a House and Senate conference committee later this summer.

    International pressure to reinstate Zelaya continues since the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for his return and the Organization of America States suspended Honduras, an action taken only once before.  The Obama administration, however, is sending mixed messages about Honduras. While Obama has called for Zelaya's reinstatement, Secretary of State Clinton failed to re-state that position when announcing Arias would mediate.

    Both Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, the head of Honduras' de facto government, have agreed to Arias' mediation, but Zelaya has says his reinstatement is "non-negotiable."  Zelaya - a conservative rancher who moved to the left, befriending Venezuela's Chavez - unnerved the powers that be in Honduras by calling for a referendum on whether to amend the constitution and permit more than a single presidential term. While Zelaya said he has no plans to run again, his attempt to revise the constitution set the coup in motion.

    The non-binding referendum would also have given the people some voice in how the country is governed,   something COFADEH believes was the real reason for the coup.

    It is not clear where the Catholic Church stands in the fray, but after the coup, Honduran state television repeatedly broadcast a statement from Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, telling Zelaya not to return because he feared a "bloodbath." In 1991, Rodriguez spoke at SOA - two years after six Jesuits were massacred in El Salvador and one year after Congressman Joe Moakley revealed that they had been killed by SOA graduates.

Linda Cooper and James Hodge are the authors of Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of the Americas.



    Parts of Peltier's story have appeared in many issues of the Handful of Salt.  As he has a parole hearing this month under yet another administration, PJALS members need to be aware of this appeal for your action from A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee.

    Leonard Peltier, Native American leader, Ojibwa-Sioux of Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, has been unjustly imprisoned for 34 years in federal prison, a victim of FBI political persecution. His parole hearing is July 28. We urge you to write in support of Leonard's parole to the Bureau of Prisons.  Letters should be received by the BOP before July 14.

    FBI persecution of Peltier dates to a 1975 armed raid on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, in which two agents were killed.  The raid was the culmination of a murderous war on residents of Pine Ridge. Over 60 traditional members and American Indian Movement activists were murdered. Peltier was among young AIM members who answered a call to protect elder residents.

    On June 26, 1975, FBI agents raided a reservation ranch, racing onto the land in an unmarked car. A shoot-out ensued. One Native man, Joe Stuntz, and two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, were killed.

    As dozens of FBI encircled the ranch, Peltier was among several AIM members who escaped. Two were arrested and tried in Iowa for the killing of the FBI agents. They were acquitted by an all-white jury, which agreed their actions were in self-defense.

    The FBI fabricated a claim to extradite Peltier from Canada. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.  During Leonard's trial, numerous irregularities were committed by the prosecution and FBI, including falsification of evidence, forced testimony later recanted by witnesses, deliberate withholding of tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents, and more.

    Since his conviction in 1977, numerous appeals for a new trial for Peltier have been denied on technical grounds, despite overwhelming evidence of massive FBI misconduct in the prosecution. Peltier has supporters around the world, including parliamentarians, Nelson Mandela, Rigoberta Menchú, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Jesse Jackson, and the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights.

    Write the Bureau of Prisons at Federal Bureau of Prisons    320 First St., NW, Washington, DC 20534 to ask for parole for Leonard, or go to answer.org to send an email before July 14.



    Troy Davis, a man who may well be innocent, faces execution following a trial with no physical evidence. Further, 7 out of 9 state witnesses have since recanted or altered their testimony.  The Supreme Court's ruling on Davis' petition has been postponed until late September. That doesn't mean we should cease action!

    Troy was convicted of killing a Georgia police officer nearly two decades ago. No one has bothered to answer the critical questions behind the case that could leave a brutal murder of a police officer unpunished and take the life of a man whose conviction was based upon testimony that has been largely disavowed.

    As Georgia keeps trying to execute  Davis, two large states seem poised to press southern states for lethal leadership.  Pennsylvania has scheduled three executions before September 3, and Ohio has at least one per month until next Spring.

    Washington, too, seems anxious to resume legal killings.  With these circumstances in mind, we will have a death penalty organizing meeting in Spokane on Thursday, July 23 AND July 30, at 5:30 pm at PJALS.

    Meanwhile, the federal government must declare by October if it will seek the death penalty for a former Guantanamo prisoner, a Tanzanian national, who has been moved and held, and who knows what, without charges for years.

    The illustration and information for this article come from www.amnestyusa.org and Amnesty International.




   Congressman Adam Smith (D-9th District) has signed on as a co-sponsor of the Fair Elections Now Act (FENA), HR 1826.  He understands that "play-to-pay" lawmaking in Congress must end.  There are now 56 co-sponsors in the House.

    Info to contact your federal lawmaker:
www.washclean.org/contactcongress.htm 

HR 1827 details here:

    Is there any doubt?  Public financing of campaigns is needed for progress on ANY issue in Congress.  WE know it's true.  We have to rally friends and neighbors who are upset at a Congress seemingly for sale - and raise a ruckus so loud that they can't ignore us.

    Need a reminder?  Bailouts for A.I.G. and the huge banks.  Buying off Monsanto and the coal industry, to get a weak bill to slow down carbon emissions.  Worker rights legislation, nearly D.O.A.  It goes on and on.

    And now, health care reform is being watered down at the insistence of the health insurance industry and pharmaceutical companies.  "You work for us!" thunder the corporate giants on Wall Street, to a compliant Congress.

    In coming weeks, we might see the largest robbery of the U.S. Treasury in history - health care "reform" legislation that buys off the health care industry with guaranteed profits for decades, in order to get a miniscule increase in coverage and benefits for the very needy.

    Here's the truth:  The health care industry uses OUR dollars to exert THEIR influence over lawmakers.  To achieve REAL health care reform, we have to cut the power of health care industry profiteers.  That requires public financing of campaigns for Congress.  And of course, lawmakers with the backbone to stare down the special interests - once they no longer need campaign cash that comes with strings.

    Let's redouble our efforts to get more members of Congress - and two senators - as co-sponsors of the Fair Elections Now Act, public funding of campaigns for the Senate and House.

    Members of Congress are home more in the summer.  Many are raising campaign cash, or stumping for local candidates!  (And some are sounding out local constituents on preferences about health care reform!).  Demand accountability to Main Street voters.  It's time for REAL reform in Washington, D.C., and that means: public financing of campaigns - so the lawmakers can tell the lobbyists to take a hike.

    Here's the message when talking to elected lawmakers:  "Listen to Main Street voters! - NOT the special interests."

    For suggestions on health care reform, read "Health Care Reform - Necessary Features".

Craig Salins, Executive Director
Washington Public Campaigns



    I am disappointed in your vote against the American Clean Energy and Security Act. You must know this is the first time the House has ever voted on a climate bill, and we cannot delay action on climate change any longer. I certainly hope that when the House votes on the final bill in the fall, you will vote in favor.

    H.R. 2454 combines a cap on global warming emissions with cost-saving energy efficiency and clean energy measures. While aspects of the bill could be strengthened, it is a critical first step to slow pollution and set us on a path to a clean energy economy.

    A new peer-reviewed study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, "Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy," shows that combining energy and transportation policies with a strong cap on emissions--at 56 percent below 2005 levels by 2030--would save the average U.S. household $900 on electricity, heating, and transportation costs in 2030. Businesses would net collective energy savings of $130 billion in that same year. Every region of the nation would see significant savings under such a comprehensive approach.

    When the bill comes back for final vote, I hope you remember the hopes and needs of people like me and my family and vote for the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

I made some changes in the UCS model, and I hope you'll make your letter your own. -ed.

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