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Volume 14, No. 5

A publication of the Louisville Chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation www.louisville-for.org

May 2003

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Non-proliferation treaty lauded amid today’s tensions ............. p. 2

Have a penny? Save someone from hunger ................................ p. 3

A day set aside to honor the Earth............................................... p. 4

Couple again want their taxes spent on peace ............................ p. 7

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All Mideast sides urged

to employ nonviolence

— photo by Eddie Davis

Doug Hostetter

by George Morrison

FORsooth editor

Israel should abide by U.N. resolutions

and both it and the Palestinians should

abide by nonviolence, former national FOR

director Doug Hostetter said days after

returning from a visit to the region, where

he served as a photojournalist.

Hostetter, who has helped educate and

safeguard war refugees in Vietnam, Af-

ghanistan, Bosnia and Latin America, spoke

to the Louisville FOR’s Third Thursday

Lunch April 17, telling diners about ”Chil-

dren of Abraham: Palestinian and Israeli

Peacemakers in a land of Conflict.”

Hostetter, the co-founder and

coordinator of the Chicago-based U.S.

Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation,

tailored his talk, which came the day before

Good Friday, to the season.

“The resurrection means justice is

stronger than injustice,” he said. “The truth

will overcome the lie and the forces of life

will overcome the forces of death. This is

our faith.”

In a lighter note, Hostetter said

Louisville was the first city he spoke in

since returning from the Mideast for two

reasons — FOR chapter co-founders Jean

and George Edwards.

“I am a member of the Jean and George

Edwards posse,” he said. “When you get a

call from posse saying ‘be here in

Louisville,’ you’d better be there. That’s

why you’re the first.”

Hostetter, who has devoted his life to

peace work in the middle of the worst

conflicts since he started sewing and craft

cooperatives for Vietnamese war refugees

in the 1960s and a literacy program for

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Linking two causes

Protestors in Louisville’s Central Park

oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq (right)

while others (below) march last month

for a genuine police civilian review

process instead of the one the city en-

acted this year, which they called tooth-

less. The boycott of Louisville malls,

which is slated to run until May 31, has

prompted many civil rights supporters

to shop in Indiana. Five fatal police

shootings since 2000 prompted the

boycott (see more pictures page two).

— photos by Eddie Davis

Activist Tracy McLellan injured critically, recovering

— photo courtesy of The Record

Tracy McLellan

by Jean Edwards and

George Morrison

FORsooth editors

Former Louisville resident and peace

and justice activist Tracy McLellan is in

serious condition – upgraded from

critical— in a Wisconsin hospital intensive

care unit after he was hit by a car March 18

while walking in Madison Wisc., where he

has lived for about a year.

McLellan, a regular at rallies and

marches in Louisville, particularly at the

Friday Mideast Peace vigil in downtown

Louisville, suffered a broken left leg and

right hip. Abdominal surgery was

performed for internal injuries, including a

scratched liver, his mother, Joanie

McLellan, said from her home in Lansing,

Ill., a Chicago suburb.

Her son also underwent a tracheotomy

to help with breathing, she said.

“He’s got a long hard road ahead of

him,” she said in a telephone interview.

After weeks of sleeping most of each day

under sedation while in critical condition,

McLellan, who turned 44 April 28, recently

regained limited speech and talked briefly

in a faint voice on the phone from the

University of Wisconsin hospital.

In late March, his mother read him a

letter from Louisville FOR chapter founders

Jean and George Edwards.

“He smiled about that,” Joanie McLellan

said. “Tracy thinks the world of them…. His

face lit up when I told him” of the letter.

She said her son is receiving

nourishment through a feeding tube and is

at a critical point in his recovery because of

the possibility of pneumonia and infection.

Although e-mails from friends of the

McLellan family telling of the mishap didn’t

arrive until late March, some activists in the

Louisville area became concerned about

Tracy McLellan immediately after the start

of the U.S. and British bombing of Iraq about

10 days earlier. McLellan, an avid user of e-

mail, had sent no messages about the war or

the response of Madison-area activists to it.

He had regularly sent e-mails about activ-

ism there and other places until his accident.

McLellan has written commentaries

and covered speakers for FORsooth, but

his most consistent contribution to the

newspaper is book reviews. He was writing

about one per issue until he was hit,

including books by Noam Chomsky, bell

hooks and Vandana Shiva.

He also performed efficient typesetting

for FORsooth in 2000 and 2001 until the

paper began scanning in its submitted

material using computers.

Joanie McLellan said her son

appreciates letters and cards. The address

is University Hospital, ICU South Unit,

600 Highland Ave, Madison, Wisc. 53792.

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87 Years on Peace Frontiers

Since 1915, the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the United States has led

campaigns to obtain legal rights for conscientious objectors, win civil rights for all

Americans, end the Vietnam War, oppose U.S. intervention in the Third World,

and reverse the superpowers’ arms race. An interfaith pacifist organization, the

FOR has members from many religious and ethnic traditions. It is part of the

International Fellowship of Reconciliation, with affiliates in 40 countries.

In the development of its program FOR depends upon persons who seek to

apply these principles to every area of life. If you are not already a member, we

invite you to join us in this endeavor. Membership consists of signing the Statement

of Purpose, indicating that you agree with FOR goals. To receive more information,

please call 458-8056.

Co-chairs:

Mary Horvath.......................................................... 583-4670

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Marching in memory

Rev. Louis Coleman, (right) director of

the Justice Resource Center, leads

marchers in Louisville last month

calling for a civilian review board

which, unlike the one hastily enacted

by the metro council, would include

subpoena power and its own ability to

investigate complaints against police.

The city’s board relies solely on police

internal investigations and can’t

subpoena witnesses. Rev. Tim Duncan,

below, notes recent victims who were

shot or otherwise died in police custody.

— photos by Eddie Davis

Speaker: progress possible

with nuclear disarmament

One simple point was that

Holum agrees with Albert

Einstein that the only way

to be ultimately safe from

nuclear weapons is for

no one to have them.

by Ike M. Thacker IV

and Eustace Durrett

Noting that the nuclear Non-

Proliferation Treaty has prompted at least

three emerging nations to discontinue plans

to develop bombs, former arms control

official John Holum said people should not

give up on disarmament and peace.

Holum, the director of the Arms

Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)

from 1993 to 1999 and a former State

Department planner focusing on

disarmament, told about 100 people March

25 at the University of Louisville’s Brandeis

Law School the Non-Proliferation Treaty

(NPT) is the most important nuclear arms

control measure.

It calls for limiting the possession of

nuclear weapons to the countries that

already admit to having them and legally

binds those countries to negotiate toward

the elimination of nuclear weapons. The

latter provision makes it a crucial treaty,

said Holum, a native of South Dakota and

former chief speech writer for U.S. Senator

George McGovern.

In his address, sponsored by the

Muhammad Ali Institute for Peacemaking

and Cotiflict Resolution and the

Washington-based Lawyers’ Alliance for

World Security and paid for by the Gheens

Foundation, an educational organization,

Holum said the NPT helped prompt

Argentina and Brazil to stop considering

nuclear weapons programs. South Africa

also scuttled its, which was already

operational — as evidence that arms control

can work, Holum said.

His presentation was notable for its total

lack of bombast and demagoguery, its mea-

sured, clear and concise exposition of current

and historical facts and its closely reasoned

analysis. The speech focused mostly on U.S./

USSR nuclear arms control measures.

One simple point was that Holum

agrees with Albert Einstein that the only

way to be ultimately safe from nuclear

weapons is for no one to have them.

This is especially true since the whole

concept of “deterrence” has never been

well developed or defined, he said. Defense

Secretary Robert McNamara was being

arbitrary when he said in 1969 that a

potential enemy would be deterred by one

megaton being deliverable to each of 400

targets, Holum said.

If McNamara was anywhere close to

being right, Holum maintained, “deter-

rence” has existed many times over for

both the U.S and Russia for decades — at

the height of the Cold War, each side had

some 15,000 nuclear warheads! The main

factors in providing deterrence have been

MIRVs and ICBMs (Multiple Indepen-

dently-targetable Reentry Vehicles and

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles). Yet

paradoxically, he said, it is also these types

of missiles that destabilized the world and

put it at dire risk of total destruction at the

push of a button.

Holum said the idea is that MIRV’s,

10 of which were commonly on each

missile, made so manv places into targets

and made it unlikely that an attack could be

stopped. This, he said, makes it possible

for each side to believe that there is

advantage to be gained from a first strike.

ABM’s (Anti-ballistic Missiles), he

added, are even more destructive of

deterrence, because they are designed to

shoot down incoming missiles. If either

side deployed an effective general ABM

system and the other did not, the deploying

side would be invulnerable to nuclear

retaliation for a first strike and thus severely

tempted to launch one — a chilling thought,

Holum said.

It was that very thought that led to the

1972 ABM Treaty, he explained, wherein

the U.S and the USSR agreed to be

vulnerable to each other’s arsenals, for the

sake of stability. The treaty simply banned

almost all ABM systems, Holum said,

adding that this ban came bundled with

reductions in offensive weapons. All of

this came none too soon, Holum said,

because with on-site verification out of the

question and satellite technology primitive

by today’s standards, the uncertainty level

was very high — all were on a “hair trigger.”

The years 1972 to 1978, Holum added,

were marked by the fleshing out of the

“strategic triad.” Bombers, the first deliv-

A CHICKENHAWK

A public person, generally male, who fervently advocates military solutions to

political problems, but who avoided the opportunity to serve in war, himself.

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Show, panel to be at library

Photographer David P. Young will exhibit photos in a show called “The Human face

of Iraq” May 6 to 23 at the Louisville Free Public Library Main Library’s Bernheim and

Gutenberg galleries, 301 York Street.

At 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, the second-to-last day of the exhibit, a panel discussion

will be open to the public in the Centennial Room at the Main Library. It hasn’t been named

yet but will be about “Life in Louisville for immigrants and refugees from the Middle East,”

organizers said. The panelists will be from Middle East countries.

For more information, go to the library’s home page, www.lfpl.org and look under

“Library News.” Then click on “The Human Face of Iraq.”

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Your contributions in any amount will help us save free speech in Kentucky.

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Support strong in nation, congress for African aid plan

The Hunger to Harvest resolution is not binding, but it certainly

does express the sense of Congress that the United States should

reverse its foreign policy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

by Tom Louderback

Would the people of the United States

be willing to give one penny a day to cut

world hunger in half by 2015?

That question is the essence of the

Hunger to Harvest Resolution that was

passed by the unanimous consent of the

U.S. Senate about one year ago and by a

majority vote of the U.S. House of Repre-

sentative six months earlier. This resolu-

tion, which would launch an aid effort that

would cost about one penny daily per U.S.

resident, was the capstone of a yearlong

letter-writing letter campaign organized

by a large group of church-related organi-

zations, including Catholic Relief Services,

Lutheran World Relief and United Church

of Christ Justice and Peace Ministry. Be-

fore long, 45 religious denominations had

taken part in the campaign.

“This proposal isn’t your blank-check,

prop-up-a-dictator, kind of foreign assis-

tance,” remarked The Baptist Standard, a

Texas denominational newspaper. “It rec-

ommends effective, targeted, support that

will reduce hunger in Africa.”

The Christian group Bread for the

World said the resolution “emphasizes U.S.

assistance to Africa focused on agriculture,

rural infrastructure, health, education

(especially for girls), small business

development, and debt relief.”

Today, nearly every member of

Congress is on record supporting the

Hunger to Harvest Resolution. The

resolution is not binding, but it certainly

does express the sense of Congress that the

United States should reverse its foreign

policy in Sub-Saharan Africa of the last ten

years. In that decade, aid to Africa from the

United States dropped by 20 percent as

human conditions worsened. The Hunger

to Harvest Resolution says that:

• The United States should declare “A

Decade of Concern for Africa” and

commit to increased levels of poverty-

focused assistance until significant

progress is made.

• The President should form strategic part-

nerships with other countries and orga-

nizations around the world to increase

development assistance in Africa.

• Congress should form strategic

partnerships with other donors to provide

resources to cut hunger by one-half.

• The administrator of the U.S. Agency

for International Development should

annually report to Congress on the

progress of these efforts.

The Hunger to Harvest Resolution is

now the bedrock of an ongoing citizens’

campaign, which calls attention to the issue

as an avenue of hunger reduction in Africa.

Responding to this amplified attention, the

Bush administration committed itself to

anti-poverty goals several times last year.

At a U.N. Conference in Monterrey,

Mexico last spring, the President announced

a plan to increase poverty-focused

development by 50 percent. Later in the

year, then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul

O’Neill toured Africa with rock singer

Bono; saying: “In Africa, I saw signs of

progress everywhere. Programs are

working, aid is helping and standards of

living are improving.”

However, the actual allocation of funds

is not keeping up with the plans and

commitment. The President’s current

budget calls for less spending on Africa,

not more.

Calling on Texas Baptists to support

the Hunger to Harvest Resolutionlast year,

The Baptist Standard gave these reasons

for joining the cause.

• The need is tremendous. One-third of the

people in Sub-Saharan African are

chronically undernourished.emendous.

• It makes economic sense. Our trade with

the region exceeds our trade with the

independents states of the former Soviet

Union. We can open new trade relation-

ships here that will last for generations.

• Political implications are positive. More

democratic forms of government have

replaced some repressive regimes.

• The timing is right. Public opinion in the

United States supports a recommitment

of our resources to Africa. Also, the new

regimes in the region are more

cooperative with the rest of the world.

• Jesus would help end hunger.

Clearly, there are many signs of hope

for this cause and plenty of work to be

done. For more information, see the Bread

for the World web site at www.bread.org.

The writer is a participant in the Just

Faith Program and a volunteer for social

justice organizations, including Bread For

The World. He can be reached at

tlouderback11@hotmail.com.

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“We are challenged as

mankind (sic) has never been

challenged before to prove

our maturity and our mastery,

not of nature, but of

ourselves.” – Rachel Carson.

We pause,

reflect on

Earth Day

by Sister Rose Marie Cummins

The United States celebrated Earth

Day April 22 for the 33rd year. I am re-

minded once again that Earth Day calls

each of us to remember that we are stew-

ards of this earth that we call home and that

we have a truly magnificent reason

to celebrate. Happily, I am also re-

minded that the Earth herself is a

wondrous symbol of hope in a world

hungry for hope.

Over the many years of the ex-

istence of human beings, special days

have been set aside to celebrate. Some

are fanciful and show the need of the

human spirit for laughing, enjoying

the simple pleasures of life, and cel-

ebrating all that has played a part in

the routine of our daily lives. We

have Ham Days, Sorghum and Bour-

bon Festivals, Sadie Hawkins Day,

and zillions of other days. We also

have days that invite us to go inside

ourselves just a bit and reflect. They

include Thanksgiving for the Har-

vest, New Year’s Day, and our reli-

gious holidays.

Earth Day, I believe, fits into

both of those categories. It is a day

that calls us to reflect and is a day to

celebrate. This particular occasion

for celebrating was born in 1969 out

of a concern by U.S. Senator Gaylord

Nelson that the Earth was a non-

issue in the politics of our country.

His desire was to put the environ-

ment into the political limelight.

Senator Nelson’s concern is no

less important 33 years later. Our

planet is even more in need of our

care. We fight wars over control of

the earth’s resources — land, water,

and oil — and, in the meantime,

those resources become more and

more depleted and mainly by the

most powerful countries in the world.

We continue to log and to strip mine

the earth, to see the rest of the com-

munity of life as being at the whim

and the disposal of the human spe-

cies. Until we are able to see this

Earth that we live on as vibrant,

breathing, vulnerable, wounded,

nourishing, and alive, we will need

this day to remind us that she is what

sustains us.

Rachel Carson, known by many

as the mother of the modem environ-

mental movement, wrote in 1962:

“We are challenged as mankind (sic)

has never been challenged before to

prove our maturity and our mastery,

not of nature, but of ourselves.”

It would be good for us if we

could go back to the words of the

original astronauts who first saw

Earth from he moon. They went on

their mission to explore space. What

stood out for many of them was the

beautiful fragility of the earth that

they had not recognized before.

As we recently celebrated Earth

Day in 2OO3, I am reminded, too,

that there is reason to rejoice and

reason to have hope. The new garlic

and onion plants planted last fall are

poking their green heads above the

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OF PALESTINE

Call upon the U.S. to be a friend

to both Israelis and Palestinians

AT THE VIGIL

12 Noon – 1:00 PM each Friday

Corner of 6th Street & Broadway

Louisville, Kentucky

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Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)/Louisville Chapter (502.458.8056)

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Peace as crucial to workers as wages and hours issue

Now, the airlines may not be guilty of war crimes, but methinks

there should be a category called crimes-in-war-times.

First, two corrections to last month’s

column. Peace activist Rachel Corrie was

murdered in Israeli-occupied territory on

March 16, not March 13. She was wearing a

florescent orange jacket, not a bright red one.

Shukran to Huwaida Arraf for writing in.

The fight for a world at peace is at least

as crucial to the working class as is the fight

for better wages, hours and working condi-

tions. The Middle East conflicts —Israel/

Palestine, Iraq, and more — are not just

threats to that region, but to the entire globe.

A very important event occurred about

a year ago: the founding of Brit Tzedek

v’Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice

and Peace (BTvS). BTvS calls itself “a

national organization of American Jews

deeply committed to Israel’s well-being

through… a negotiated settlement to the

Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Its founding

principles, much abridged, are:

• A complete end to the Israeli military

occupation of the territories occupied

since 1967 in the West Bank, the Gaza

Strip and East Jerusalem.

• The establishment of a viable Palestinian

state based on the pre-1967 borders

alongside Israel… with secure and

recognized boundaries free from threats

or acts of force.

• Jerusalem as the capital of both states.

• A just resolution of the Palestinian

refugee problem that takes into account

the needs and aspirations of both peoples.

• The termination of terrorism and state-

initiated violence.

• The evacuation of Israeli settlements in

the Occupied Territories.

• The recognition that as Jews and U.S.

citizens, we have a special responsibility to

urge our government to pursue policies

consistent with the requirements of a just

peace for Israel and the Palestinian people.

BTvS has grown to over 2,500

members in the short space of a year. We (I

am privileged to have been one of its

founders, and currently sit on its national

board of directors) have a website

(www.btvshalom.org ), which I urge you

to access. It contains much information,

including how to join. Please write me for

more information — my email is at the end

of this column.

The fight for a just peace is also being

waged on a Louisville battlefront. An admin-

istrative law judge of the National Labor

Relations Board has ruled that Norton

Healthcare, owner-operator of five Louis-

ville hospitals, must reinstate Patty Clark and

Ann Hurst as charge nurses at Norton-

Audubon Hospital, and offer Joanne

Sandusky, a nurse who was a lactation spe-

cialist, another job. The judge also ordered

Norton to pay a large amount of back pay.

This is a particularly sweet victory for

the Nurses Professional Organization

(NPO), which has been trying to organize

the nurses into a union since 1989. The

NPO wants to conduct a representation

election, and Audubon was also told it

must turn over its nurses’ roster, with names

and addresses, to the union, and update

same every six months.

Norton is appealing, which

means justice will be delayed a little

longer. Nurses, as a result of NPO’s

good work, are gaining the conscious-

ness that, though they are trained

professionals, they are in fact just

like all other workers who sell their

labor power for a wage.

Speaking of sick people — the

U.S. Senate recently confirmed Jef-

frey Sutton as a judge on the Sixth

Circuit Court of Appeals. Sutton was

attacked by Democrats, who accused

the Bush administration of trying to

pack the courts with conservative

ideologues, and by the disability-

rights movement, which charged that

Sutton wants to dismantle the Ameri-

cans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

“One case that has most angered

disability-rights groups involved a suit

filed by Patricia Garrett, a breast-can-

cer victim who had worked 17 years

for the University of Alabama but was

demoted after returning from medical

leave,” the website www.adawatch.org

reported. Sutton represented the uni-

versity, of course.

Senators Dianne Feinstein of

California and Ben Nelson of Ne-

braska were the only Democrats who

voted for Sutton. He will be meting

out justice from Cincinnati. Maybe

he can confer with Marge Schott, she

of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team

owning, nazi memento collecting and

racial justice standard-bearing, and

give her lessons in legerdemain.

To turn from the high and mighty,

and the high rollers — to the high

flyers. Jennifer Biddle, an IAM (Ma-

chinists) shop steward, has an excel-

lent article in the May issue of Labor

Notes, “War Spurs Big Layoffs and

Concessions for Airline Workers”:

“Just a few short days after the

United States launched its invasion of

Iraq, United Airlines announced that

(thousands of workers) would be forced

to take time off with no pay….

“It was a move that would al-

low United to close its Indianapolis

Maintenance Center, something the

company had been trying to negoti-

ate with the mechanics union for

months…. (A) Marine Corps vet-

eran of the first Gulf War, now a

United mechanic, described it as the

company’s own ‘shock and awe.’ ”

She continues: “By invoking ‘force

majeure,’ the airlines have essen-

tially tossed out (many of the provi-

sions of) their labor contracts —

again.” Now, the airlines may not be

guilty of war crimes, but methinks

there should be a category called

crimes-in-war-times.

Speaking of war crimes. A Bel-

gian lawyer is filing suit alleging

Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of

U.S. troops in Iraq, is guilty of war

crimes, particularly that coalition

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by Sam Avery

It began in a cold, driving rain on

Saturday, February 22, 2003 at Jefferson

Square in downtown Louisville. Twenty-

five peace marchers, struggling with signs

and banners against the wind and rain,

forged down third street and east on Broad-

way. Cars honked, people waved through

store windows, motorists and pedestrians

shouted and jeered, their fists raised, some

with two fingers of peace, others with the

middle finger of war. We waved back,

either way. More marchers joined along

Bardstown Road. Two hours and five miles

later we arrived at Douglass Loop, cold

and tired, having completed the first leg of

the Louisville Progressive Peace March.

The Louisville Progressive Peace March

In succeeding weeks we marched

through Cherokee Park, Saint Matthews,

Crescent Hill, Clifton, and back downtown.

We marched to the Louisville Presbyterian

Theological seminary, to Theatre Square, to

the First Unitarian Church, back to Jefferson

Square and on to Quinn Chapel in the West

End. We marched from the University of

Louisville to Bellarmine and to the Friends

Meeting House on Bon Air, beginning each

march where the previous one ended. Some

days there were 50 marchers, others 150.

Once, a man joined us from a bus along

Lexington Avenue. He saw us out the win-

dow and told the driver, "Stop! I need to be

with those people!" Other riders on the bus

cheered as he stepped to the curb and joined

the march. Another time three counter-dem-

onstrators followed us for 3 1/2 miles, shout-

ing pro-war slogans from across the street.

Twice we joined forces at 7th and Jefferson

with the Justice movement protesting police

shootings of African-Americans. One Sun-

day we marched from Crescent Hill Presby-

terian Church to Crescent Hill Baptist Church

for an inter-congregational meal, and then on

to Clifton Unitarian Church. Most recently,

we held a "Silent Thunder" meditation pro-

test at the Quaker Meeting House against the

militarism of Thunder Over Louisville.

The Louisville Progressive Peace

March began before the war, proceeded

through the war, and continues now after

the war. This reinforces my understand-

ing of the peace movement as bigger than

the war that inspired it. We know that

warfare in the 21st century is incompat-

ible with human civilization, and every-

body else knows it, too. The people who

raise two fingers know it, and the people

who raise one finger know it. Since the

first mushroom cloud appeared in human

consciousness in 1945, we all know that

conflict can no longer be resolved through

warfare and violence. As marchers, all

we have to do is help people realize what

they already know. We are the minority

of conscience. We do not have to say

what is true; we have to be what is true,

and to be that truth in a public place. By

marching on the streets of Louisville, we

manifest a truth not only to ourselves but

to those who do not yet see what they

know to be true. They will see it in time.

Justice-Walking:

A Symposium on living the mission

of justice and peace with young people

31 May 2003

9am to 4pm

at CrossRoads Ministry of

St. William Church

1226 West Oak Street

J-Walking: a one-time opportunity for all who minister and mentor young people. Come dialogue and explore the practical implications,

challenges and new directions for living justly. Network with justice-minded teachers, leaders and ministers. Be inspired by these

visionaries in justice ministry:

Jim McGinnis is the founder and program director of the Institute for Peace and Justice of St. Louis, an interfaith corporation promoting

peace, justice, and care for the earth through education, social action and prayer. (“Youth as Peacemakers and Peace Teachers in Post

911 America.”)

Jack Jezreel, former Catholic Worker and organic farmer, is author, director and national promoter of JustFaith, a formation project

sponsored by Catholic Charities that trains members of parishes/dioceses in the Catholic tradition of justice and peace. (“Formation and

Transformation: Preparing Young People to do Justice.”)

Michael Warren is professor of Catholic Ministry and Religious Education at St. John’s University, NYC. The author of several

foundation texts in Catholic youth ministry, he unites practical pastoral experience with a theology rooted in justice and liberation.

(“Youth Ministry in an Inconvenient Church.”)

Bryan Sirchio, former UCC pastor turned musician, is founder of Crosswind Ministries in Madison, Wisconsin. Through his music and

regular pilgrimages to Haiti, Bryan sings and lives the call to act justly. (leader of prayer and music)

$25 fee includes vegetarian lunch (scholarships available). To register, call CrossRoads at 638-0683 or mail check, name/address/

telephone to CrossRoads Ministry, 1226 W. Oak St., Louisville, KY 40210. Underwritten in part by a grant from the Catholic Education

Foundation of the Archdiocese of Louisville.

forces fired on an ambulance, and that Gen.

Franks did nothing to stop the looting of

hospitals in Baghdad.

Richard Boucher, U.S. State

Department spokesman, protested, saying:

“The Belgian government needs to be

diligent in taking steps to prevent abuse of

the legal system for political ends.” As in

“physician, heal thyself?”

Let’s turn from war overseas to the war

at home. On April 27 Kris Leija ran into a

burning Texas building to rescue children

trapped inside. No sooner had he brought the

children to safety — he ran in again and saved

the lives of a second group of kids. He made

a third trip and did the same.

His reward? The authorities, who saw

the amazing heroism of Kris Leija on tele-

vision, had him arrested for failing to meet

his probation officer last month, per a 2002

burglary charge. Now, I do believe in the

concepts of probation and parole, although

I do not believe prison as currently consti-

tuted does anything to rehabilitate and train.

However, would you sociologists and

penologists out there tell me why an

obviously righteous soul, which I believe a

person who risks his life for others must be,

would get caught up in burglary (assuming

he was not framed)? Could poverty have

been a factor?

And please tell me about the criminal

minds that were just-following-orders when

they busted Kris for, in effect, risking his

life that others might live. Bless you, Kris.

We have a lot to learn from you.

Contact Ira Grupper at irag@iglou.com.

Peace crucial to workers

(continued from page 5)

May 2003

Page 7

South Vietnamese children whose schools

has been destroyed by the war, said Israel’s

habit of taking land has worsened the

Mideast conflict.

He said the Israelis have greatly ex-

panded their settlements in the occupied

territories since the Oslo Accords of the

early 1990s. They also have expanded po-

licing of the Palestinian people, increasing

the number of checkpoints to more than

400, Hostetter added.

He also criticized Israel for destroying

the Palestinian Authority by shooting at

courthouses and other official buildings

from helicopters.

“There is currently no Palestinian

administration any place but Gaza,” he

said, adding that 8,000 Palestinian homes

have been destroyed since 1967.

“During the curfew, you can be shot

for walking the streets,” Hostetter said.

“Leaving your home is a capital offense.”

Hostetter said many Palestinians and

Israelis embrace nonviolence, adding that if

the Palestinian movement entirely did, a Pal-

estinian state could be achieved in months.

“The Israelis know how to handle

violence,” he said. “Military might is totally

powerless against nonviolence.”

Many Israelis have joined peace move-

ments out of concern for what the violence

is doing to both sides, Hostetter added.

“Many in the Israeli peace movement

are in it as much for what (the occupation)

is doing to Israeli society and the faith as

for what it is doing to the Palestinians.”

Noting the billions given in U.S. aid to

Israel and comparing Israel’s treatment of

Palestinians to policies of pre-Mandela South

Africa, Hostetter said: “If we knew… how

our money is being used, we would not allow

it. We don’t believe in Apartheid states.”

• • •

The May Third Thursday Lunch, which is

about the conflict in Colombia, is being

held the second Thursday, May 8, after this

issue’s deadline, because of speakers’

scheduling needs. The lunches are not held

in summer and will resume in September.

Mideast nonviolence

(continued from page 1)

erers of nuclear payloads. were slow and

vulnerable, he said, so we added to them

the other parts of the triad — land-based

ICBMs and sea-based SLBMs (Subma-

rine-Launched Ballistic Missiles), the lat-

ter of which were especially hard to attack

These were also the only years when

the Soviets had both more and bigger

“nukes” than the U S did, which Holum

said was a situation that the 1979 SALT II

Treaty attempted to address.

But when the USSR invaded Afghani-

stan in 1980. President Jimmy Carter with-

drew the treaty from consideration for Sen-

ate ratification, he recalled, and the dan-

gerous situation persisted.

This danger, Holum added, was exacer-

bated by the development and deployment of

“theater-range” missiles, first by the Soviet

Union (the SS-20) and then in response by

the U.S. and its European allies (the Pershing).

Only when the Pershing was deployed did

the USSR become interested in controlling

this type of weapon, he said, which could

reach its target in Russia or Europe in less

than 20 minutes; but what resulted then was

a treaty as important as the ABM treaty.

Holum said an entire class of weapons (also

known as intermediate-range) was elimi-

nated, and for the first time the Soviets agreed

to “obtrusive” on-site inspections. This was

to be the last important treaty the Soviet

Union concluded, he said.

In 1991, the USSR crumbled, and

bilateral negotiations between Russia and

the U.S changed from Strategic Arms

Limitation Talks (SALT) to Strategic Arms

Reduction Talks (START), Holum said.

The first came in 1993 and reduced the

number of strategic warheads on each side

from about 6,000 to 3,000-to-3,500, he

said. In 1997 came an agreement in principle

to reduce their numbers to 2,000-to-2,500

each, Holum added. But by then,

proliferation had become the major

concern, Holum said, noting that Iraq, Iran,

North Korea, Israel, South Aflica — and

later India and Pakistan — looked to

develop nuclear weapons programs, and

new evidence surfaced in 1998 that Iran

and North Korea were quite close to getting

the bomb. As a result, the U.S. began to

push for changes in the ABM Treaty to

allow limited ABM systems to handle small

attacks by “rogue states,” Holum said.

With the regime change in Washington

in early 2001 came an administration that

is highly skeptical of arms treaties, Holum

added, noting that the Bush Administration

has now totally backed out of the 1972

ABM Treaty. Although it has agreed to a

further reductions to 1,700 to 2,200 strategic

warheads on each (in none of this are

tactical warheads affected), it has also said

that this is its last formal arms limitation

treaty, and has hinted at an expanded role

for nuclear weapons, Holum said.

So much so, in fact, that in January

2002 the Bush administration specifi-

cally said it was keeping open the option

of using nuclear arms against non-nuclear

threats, and thus in effect leaving open

the option of launching a first strike!

Holum decried this trend, and said that

the U.S should pursue further agreements

with Russia (as they are legally bound to

do by the Non-Proliferation Treaty and

its 1995 extension), going even lower

than 1,700 strategic warheads on each

side. He pointed to the successes of the

ABM and theater-range treaties, and some

successes of the NPT.

But Holum’s is sort of a lone, quiet voice

in the wilderness, calling out quietly for

peace-saving acts of courage. Would that the

current U.S. regime were listening instead of

launching cowardly wars of conquest.

Ike M. Thacker IV is a cashier in a

grocery store. Eustace Durrett is an activist

for rail transit. Both live in Louisville.

Nuclear disarmament

(continued from page 2)

soil. They think there is reason to be born

and a reason to be food for others. The old

fennel plant planted last year is resurrect-

ing. Jonquils and violets, redbuds and

Bradford pears, forsythia and wild mustard

flowers are everywhere around us, renew-

ing the earth and our spirits. None of us has

trouble understanding why spring is seen

as a time for lovers.

I am grateful for the daily tasks of turn-

ing the compost, planting trees, cutting the

grass, and beginning to weed. I look out the

window and see the new calves nursing and

I am reminded that the Earth will teach us,

will feed us, will continue to give her life over

to us. I know, too, that our fields will soon be

sprouting new vegetables and fruits.

Last month, St. Catharine College and

Dominican Earth Center were hosts of a

live Earth Day concert called “Amram

Earth Jam.” David Amram, a musician

from New York, and eight other poets

(including St. Catharine College poet and

professor Ron Whitehead) joined musicians

in celebrating the earth with a program that

included a concert which was a benefit for

the new organic gardening project of

Dominican Earth Center. Many gave thanks

to and for the Earth by attending.

The writer is the director of the

Dominican Earth Center in St. Catharine,

Kentucky. Contact her at rosieop@kyol.net

or (859) 336-7778.

Earth Day

(continued from page 4)

A better use of taxes

Couple again seek to spend their income on peaceful causes

…my wife Jean and I are refusing to pay the military portion

(approximately 50 percent) of our income tax liability.

Believing as we do that God alone is lord of the conscience,

we are bound by conscience to resist.

by George R. Edwards

President Eisenhower was indeed right

on January l7, l96l to warn us of the

encroaching power of “the military

industrial complex.” Even without the cost

of the war in Iraq, increases in the Pentagon

budget have for two successive years been

larger than any other item. This is bad news

for the neediest people in our society; it

turns a deaf ear to Eisenhower’s warning.

Tax rebates voted by the congress have

created fiscal chaos in state governments

across the nation and produced grim slashes

in medicaid, education, homeless shelters,

legal aid, daycare, food subsidies, and every

other program designed to help those most

deprived. Forty-three million Americans

have no medical insurance.

But for those in higher income brackets,

those least needy, happy days are here again.

The tax break for President Bush will amount

to $44,500. That is “more… than the total

income, before taxes, of a substantial major-

ity of American families,” the New Yorker

magazine reported in January.

Vice-president Cheney’s cut will be

$327,000, more than the before tax income

of 98 percent of our total population. Only

unconcerned and uninformed voters could

acquiesce in such inequity, or pay their

taxes without pangs of guilt.

Although Congress voted a down pay-

ment of $75 billion for the Iraq war, the full

cost is not yet revealed. Many of us did not

vote for Mr. Bush and would have voted

against this war if given the opportunity.

The so called “coalition” that successfully

waged the war against a minor and ill-

equipped adversary, is another example of

U.S. expansionism and unilateralism.

In a commentary last month in the Cou-

rier-Journal, E. J. Dionne informs us that

“The U.S. is preparing to pay the salaries of

more than one million Iraqi civil servants.”

Why can’t Washington, by sharing

revenue, prevent layoffs of civil servants

in California, Kentucky, and other states?

Republican Kevin Phillips, in a commen-

tary that ran in the Courier-Journal last

year, pointed out why Wealth and Democ-

racy don’t mix. Perhaps when the Presi-

dent and Congress finish building democ-

racy in Iraq, they will try it here at home.

But the way our newly-merged city-county

government has treated Living Wage leg-

islation provides no ground for optimism.

Taxpayers should revolt over the

sexual criminality manifested at the U.S.

Air Force Academy 12 years after a

similarly repulsive expose involving the

Navy Tailhook Association. The various

academies are no small part of the

benevolence of the military-industrial-

congressional complex. These cadets face

none of the higher and higher educational

costs that exist in nonmilitary colleges and

universities. The cost for each four-year

graduate is about $225,000 — straight from

taxpayers’ pockets.

At last count, 56 women have come

forward to testify about violence at the Air

Force academy, one of them affirming that

if you don’t get raped, “you’re one of the

rare ones.” The U.S. Department of

Veterans Affairs has begun collecting

evidence that “Rape, other attacks [are]

more common than previously thought”

even among male veterans. Should

taxpayers cooperate with this?

Perhaps the acme of malfeasance in

the use of tax dollars is the unqualified

support of Israel, the largest single recipient

of U.S. aid money. The amount is

approximately $3 billion per year, plus as

much as $l0 billion in loan “guarantees”

(i.e., if Israel defaults, we pay.)

“Acme” is the correct word to use here

since Israel has been cited by the U.N.

Security Council 46 times for violation of

council resolutions. These resolutions (242

and 338) refer mainly to Israel’s refusal to

end the occupation of Palestinian territories

and rights of Palestinian refugees to return.

Nothing is so destructive to the building of

peace in the Middle East as the spiral of

violence arising from Israel’s disregard of

Palestinian rights, in addition to meeting

each suicidal reaction of the Palestinians

with massively superior military force,

financed by U.S. tax dollars.

It is total irony that in l98l when Israel

made a preemptive strike against a nuclear

reactor in Iraq engineered by the French, the

U.S. joined in a condemnation of the strike by

the U.N. Security Council. Yet we have now

adopted the policy of preemption.

Israel’s use of violence to subdue the

Palestinians has created an inferno. Time

will tell whether American might applied

in Iraq will not see the same outcome.

For all of these reasons, and many more,

my wife Jean and I are refusing to pay the

military portion (approximately 50 percent)

of our income tax liability. Believing as we

do that God alone is lord of the conscience,

we are bound by conscience to resist.

We continue to encourage our con-

gressional representatives to sponsor the

Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund legis-

lation (HR 1186) whereby conscientious

objectors to war would pay the military

portion of their federal tax into a separate

account earmarked for nonmilitary pur-

poses. If the Peace Tax Fund were passed

into law, it would be a huge step toward

educating people about our overblown

military budget. And it would provide free-

dom of conscience for those who cannot

participate financially in war.

The writer is a co-founder of the

Louisville FOR chapter and a retired

professor of theology. Contact him at

Edwardsfor@aol.com.

Calendar for peacemakers

Regular Meeting Times for

Area Organizations

AD HOC COALITION FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION –

(778-8130)

ADDICTION RECOVERY ADVOCATES OF

KENTUCKIANA – 2nd Wednesday (585-3375)

AMERICA 2000 DEMOCRATIC CLUB –

3rd Tuesday (451-2155)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL –

1st Saturday (637-8951)

BREAD FOR THE WORLD – 2nd Tuesday (239-4317)

CAPA (Citizens Against Police Abuse) –

2nd Thursday (778-8130)

C.E.A.S.E. [Citizens for Equitable Assignment to School

Environments] – 3rd Saturday (778-9427)

CLARK & FLOYD COUNTIES AIDS COALITION –

3rd Thursday (288-2706)

CLOUT [Citizens of Louisville Organized and Working

Together] -(583-1267)

COMMITTEE FOR ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN STATES –

3rd Sunday (451-5658)

COMMITTEE TO END THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ –

(456-6586)

COMMON CAUSE – 1st Tuesday, every other month

(228-1534)

COMMUNIST PARTY USA – Saturday evenings

(648-8197 or 473-2659)

CONVERSATION CAFE – Wednesday evenings

(454-4820)

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD – Books by Neale

Donald Walsch. 1st Monday (468-2305)

EARTH SAVE LOUISVILLE – 2nd Sunday (569-1876)

FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN – Quarterly community

dialogues and volunteer opportunities (893-0788)

FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION –

4th Monday (456-6586 or 583-4670)

GREATER LOUISVILLE SIERRA CLUB –

3rd Tuesday (897-3335)

GREEN PARTY – 1st Tuesday (456-9540)

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY – Wednesdays,

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays (583-6599)

HATE FREE SCHOOLS COALITION –

3rd Thursday (454-3300)

INTERFAITH PATHS TO PEACE –

1st Wednesday (584-1444)

JEFFERSON COUNTY WELFARE REFORM

COALITION – 2nd Friday (585-3556)

JUBILEE NETWORK – (583-4670)

JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER – 3rd Saturday

(774-1116)

KENTUCKIANA NATIVE AMERICAN SUPPORT

GROUP – 1st & 3rd Thursdays (635-2817)

KENTUCKY JOBS WITH JUSTICE (582-3508, ext. 124)

KFTC [KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH] –

2nd Monday, jointly with POWER (589-3188)

KY AIDS LIFE ALLIANCE (KALA) –

Every Thursday (479-7884)

KY ALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST & POLITICAL

REPRESSION – 3rd Monday (778-8130)

KY COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH

PENALTY – Last Tuesday (585-2895)

KY INTERFAITH TASKFORCE ON LATIN

AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN (KITLAC) –

2nd Wednesday (583-4670)

KY RAINBOW/PUSH COALITION – (774-4000)

LESBIAN SUPPORT GROUP – 2nd and 4th Thursdays

(587-6225)

LOUISVILLE WOMEN CHURCH –

2nd Sunday (456-5261)

LOUISVILLE YOUTH GROUP – Friday nights

(454-3300), www.louisvilleyouthgroup.org

METROPOLITAN HOUSING COALITION –

4th Wednesday (584-6858)

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of

Colored People) – 3rd Monday (634-1804)

NAGASAKI/HIROSHIMA COMMEMORATION

COMMITTEE – 1st Sunday (458-8056)

NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) –

2nd Monday (245-5287)

PARENTS, FAMILIES & FRIENDS OF LESBIANS

AND GAYS (P-FLAG) – 3rd Sunday (329-0229)

PAX CHRISTI – Last Wednesday (456-9342)

PEACE & COMPASSION BUDDHA CIRCLE/CML –

(451-2193, brozier@bellsouth.net)

POWER [PEOPLE ORGANIZED AND

WORKING FOR ENERGY REFORM] – 2nd Monday,

jointly with KFTC (778-2687)

PROGRESSIVE STUDENTS LEAGUE AT UL –

Every Tuesday (635-1292)

RCRC [Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice] –

(585-3050)

RESULTS (a hunger lobby) – 2nd Saturday (451-4907)

SHADHULIYYAH SUFI SPIRITUALITY GROUP –

Thursday nights (893-6122)

Note: If your group would like to be added to this list

or if information needs to be updated, please let us

know by calling 458-8056.

May 9/l0 (FS) CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR

TRAINING, led by a representative from AFSC

(American Friends Service Committee). Lava House,

927 Shelby Parkway, 5:00-9:00 on Friday, 9:00-5:00

on Saturday. Sponsored by C-SAW (Citizens Standing

Against War.) Lava House, 927 Shelby Parkway.

www:louisvillepeace.org Call Mateo Bernal, 636-5848

May l0 (Sat) WAGING PEACE: WHERE DO WE GO

FROM HERE? A facilitated day of reflection and

planning, called by the Commitrtee to Stop the War

Against Iraq. 9:30-4:00. Central Presbyterian Church,

4

th

& Ky., Brown Bag Lunch. Drinks provided. Special

recognition for those who bring nothing packaged in

hard plastic that cannot be recycled. We also frown on

Coca Cola. Call Pat Geier. 456-6586. http://

louisvillepeace.org

May 10 (Sat) “POLICE AND THE COMMUNITIES

THEY SERVE: Can We Bridge the Gap?” Public Fo-

rum and Annual Meeting sponsored by the American Civil

Liberties Union of Kentucky. 3:00-5:00 pm. Featured

speakers: Police Chief Robert C. White, UL Professor

Ricky Jones, State Senator Gerald Neal, General Coun-

cil Scott Greenwood, ACLU of Ohio. Reception follow-

ing. YMCA, 930 W Chestnut St. Call 58l-ll8l

May 10 (Sat) “PEACEMAKING IN A DANGEROUS

TIME,” Potluck Dinnerand First Hand Report from

UL Professor John Morrison who recently returned

from volunteering in Palestine with the International

Solidarity Movement. Also at this time there will be a

send-off for two Louisville activists who will leave on

May l4 to join ISM in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Central Presbyterian Church, Fourth & Kentucky

Streets, 6:00-8:00 pm. Special recognition to those who

bring their own table service. (Silent Auction also, to

benefit ISM) Sponsored by the Peace & Justice

Community. Call 599-026l or 54l-0758

May 11 (Sun) WITNESS FOR JUSTICE: PROTEST

AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY, every Sunday,

sponsored by the Justice Resource Center. Louisville

Police Department, 7

th

and Jefferson, 2:30 pm. Call 774-

1116 or 445-2509.

May 11 (Sun) C-SAW (Citizens Standing Against War).

Afternoon Conference to discuss structure and focus.

Noon to 5:00 pm. Lava House, 927 Shelby Parkway.

Call Mateo Bernal, 636-5848.

May 12 (Mon) PRAYER SERVICE FOR PEACE AND

NONVIOLENCE FOR THE HEALING OF OUR

HEARTS AND WORLD, every week day at l2:l5.

Twenty minute prayer service followed by vegetarian

soup, James Lees Memorial Presbyterian Church, l74l

Frankfort Ave (at William Street). Call 896-0l72.

May l2 (Mon) COMMITTEE TO STOP THE WAR

AGAINST IRAQ. Douglass Blvd Christian Church,

2005 Douglass Blvd at Bardstown , 7:30 pm. Call David

Horvath, 583-4670.

May l4 (Wed) KITLAC (Ky Interfaith Taskforce on

Latin America and the Caribbean). Presbyterian

Seminary, Nelson Hall, Room ll9. 7:30 pm. Call David

Horvath, 583-4670 or Pat Geier, 456-6586.

May l4/l5 (WT) FAITH, FAMILIES & CONGREGA-

TIONS CONFERENCE at Louisville Presbyterian

Seminary, l044 Alta Vista Road. Featured leaders in-

clude Wendy Wright, Andrew Billingsley, Dick

Hardel and many more. $95 includes four meals. Con-

tact Laura March, 895-34ll. lmarch@lpts.edu

May l5 (Thu) STAND UP FOR A LIVING WAGE!!

Metro Council is expected to vote on whether to repeal

and replace the ordinance passed by the Alders last fall.

Come to show support for a Living Wage. We will

continue to demand an end to poverty wages. Call Jobs

with Justice, 625-3724.

May l6 (Fri) NOON VIGIL FOR PEACE IN THE

MIDDLE EAST, including a news update. EVERY

FRIDAYAT SIXTH AND BROADWAY, in front of the

Federal Court House (where Senator McConnell’s office

is located). We vigil in solidarity with the “Women in

Black” who vigil every Friday at noon in Israel. The

vigil is sponsored by the Committee for Israeli/

Palestinian States, the American Arab Anti-

Discrimination Committee, and the Fellowship of

Reconciliation. Call Beverley Marmion, 45l-5658.

May l7 (Sat) SIERRACLUB SPRING PARTY. 5:30 pm

city hike led by Councilman Tom Owen, 6:30 pm

potluck supper. Cathedral of the Assumption, undercroft.

Seed exchange and information on sustainable

agriculture by Fred Hicks, Brenda Mattingly, and

Aleve Douglass. Call Virginia Ratterman, 456-6244.

May l7/l8 (SS) DISMANTLING RACISM WORK-

SHOP. Call Fairness, 893-0788.

May 20 (Tue) PRIMARY ELECTION . Call Fairness

Campaign for information about candidates. 893-0788.

May 26 (Mon) ANNUALMEMORIALDAYSERVICE,

Unity Church, 757 S. Brook St., ll:00 am. Join in prayer

for the living and the dead. Call Janet Irwin, 452-1042.

May 28 (Wed) METROPOLITAN HOUSING

COALITION, 14

th

ANNUAL MEETING, featuring

Ellen Feingold, Cochair Congressional Commission

on Affordable Housing & Health Facility Needs for

Seniors in the 2lst Century. Papa John’s Stadium, 5:30

Social Hour, 6:30 dinner, $35. Send check for tickets,

payable to MHC, to the office: 333 Guthrie Green, #409,

Louisville, KY 40202. Call 584-6858.

May 29 (Thu) JOBS withJUSTICE SALSA DANCE

PARTY! To benefit the JwJ Annual Meeting Scholar-

ship fund. Suggested donation $l0-$20. (625-3724)

May 3l (Sat) JUSTICE-WALKING: A SYMPOSIUM

ON LIVING THE MISSION OF JUSTICE AND

PEACE WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, featuring Jim

McGinnis, Jack Jezreel, Michael Warren, and Bryan

Sirchio. St. William Church, l3th & Oak Streets. 9:00-

4:00. Sponsored by CrossRoads Ministry, Call Shannon

Queenan, 638-0683. See flyer in this issue of FORsooth.

June 1 (Sun) HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI PLANNING

COMMITTEE, 7:00 pm. Presbyterian Seminary, l044

Alta Vista Road, Room l0. Call 458-8056.

June 2( Mon) F.O.R. STEERING COMMITTEE, Pres-

byterian Seminary, Nelson Hall, #l0, 7:30 pm. Visitors

welcome. Call Pat Geier, 456-6586, or Mary Horvath,

583-4670. Note change from regular meeting date.

June 4 (Wed) DEADLINE FOR THE JUNE ISSUE

OF FORsooth. Contact George Morrison, editor,

944-6460. e-mail: klm86@netzero.com For calendar

listings, contact Jean Edwards, 458-8056. e-mail:

edwardsfor@aol.com

June l0 (Tue) WITNESS FOR PEACE SPECIAL

YOUTH DELEGATION TO NICARAGUA. SAM

KAVIAR will be sponsored by the Louisville F.O.R. If

you can help with his expenses, call Sam at 893-4403,

or call Jean Edwards, 458-8056.

June ll (Tue) JOBS with JUSTICE GENERAL

MEMBERSHIP MEETING. Learn about upcoming

campaigns and how to get involved. Central

Presbyterian Church, 4

th

& Ky, 6:00 pm. Call 625-3724.

E-mail: laura@kyjwj.org

June l2 (Thu) FORsooth LABELING at Beverley

Marmion’s house. Don’t miss this historic energizing

event, 6:30 pm. Call 45l-5658.

June 20/2l (FS) FIRSTSUMMITON THE ECONOMIC

STATUS OFKENTUCKY’S WOMEN, sponsored by

the Kentucky Commission on Women. Frankfort Civic

Ctr. $65. Call 502/564-6643. http:women.state.ky.us

July 27 (Sun) BRUCE GAGNON, International Coordi-

nator of the Global Network Against Weapons and

Nuclear Power in Space, KEYNOTE AT THE AN-

NUAL HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI COMMEMO-

RATION. Central Presbyterian Church, 4

th

& Ky, 6:30

pm. Call 458-8056.

Aug 6 (Wed) 58

th

ANNIVERSARYOFTHE NUCLEAR

BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA, JAPAN. NOON

PRAYERFUL REFLECTION IN THE GARDEN

AT CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL CATHE-

DRAL, accompanied by the tolling of the bell, recall-

ing those who died and continue to die from the on-

going programs of nuclear-related weapons develop-

ment. 421 S. 2

ND

St. Call 458-8056.

Aug 9 (Sat) JAPANESE LANTERN FLOATING

CEREMONY, remembering those who perished in the

l945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Cherokee

Lake, corner of Lexington Road & Grinstead Dr. 8:00

pm. Music by Laurie Stier. Please bring a ground cover

to sit on. Call 458-8056.

Oct l2 (Sun) COMMUNITY HUNGER WALK. Call

Evelyn Vaughn, 239-43l7. EYVaughn@aol.com

Nov 8-l6 FESTIVALOFFAITHS: “Faith and Justice,”

featuring, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Michael Toms, and

Arun Gandhi. Call Terry Taylor, 583-3l00.

OUT OF TOWN EVENTS

May l7-l8 GLOBAL NETWORK AGAINST

WEAPONS AND NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE.

Annual meeting in Australia. Contact Bruce Gagnon,

352/337-9274. e-mail: globalnet@mindspring.com

www.space4peace.org

June l8-July l, WITNESS FOR PEACE HISTORIC

DELEGATION OF 100 PERSONS TO

NICARAGUA- MEXICO- CUBA-COLOMBIA,

celebrating twenty years of transforming people and

policy. To challenge the cycles of military and economic

violence in Latin America perpetuated by US policy and

corporate practices. Includes special 20

th

anniversary

celebration in DC, June 29-30. Call 202/588-l47l, or

delegations@witness for peace.org Locally, call RICK

AXTELL, 859-239-9083

June 29/30 (SM) BLOWTHE WHISTLE ON U.S. INTER-

VENTION IN LATIN AMERICA. Program sponsored

by Witness for Peace, at Univ of DC, School of Law Stu-

dent Center . Sunday, 6:30 pm. Keynotes include a Co-

lombian Human Rights Sctivist and Rev. Graylan Hagler.

Call 202/588-l47l. www.witnessforpeace.org

Aug 28 (Thu) FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF

MARTIN LUTHER KING’S “I HAVE A DREAM”

SPEECH. SPECIAL EVENT PLANNED IN DC.

Stay tuned.