The Blogful of Salt
Where do we go from here?
An election reflection by Vickie Scott-Woodley, special to our Blogful of Salt November elections have slipped into yesterday’s news. My wounds are still weeping. Almost every cause and candidate I gave my energy and paltry dollars to fell in defeat.…
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Bring Our Billion$ Home: Campaign Update
By Shar Lichty Reprinted from the March-April Handful of Salt We officially launched our new Bring Our Billion$ Home campaign at the Unity March on MLK Day with signature collection. Thanks to several dedicated PJALS volunteers we were able to…
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25 years, two nonviolent revolutions?
Rusty Nelson: On Peace and War Reprinted from the March-April Handful of Salt The way people mark significant events in increments of centuries makes it hard to consider something a part of history until 25 years has passed. Many Americans…
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Kick off our week of education and action!
Friday: ground-breaking documentary “Rethink Afghanistan” Sunday: premiere of “Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune” Join us for two documentaries this weekend as we kick off our week of education and action to mark the 8th anniversary of US war and…
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Register Now: Peace and Economic Justice Action Conference
Registration is now open for our March 19 Peace and Economic Justice Action Conference. Simply click on the “Register Now” button in the box to your right. Or, copy and paste this into your browser: http://pejac2011.eventbrite.com/ You’ll see a complete…
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March-April 2011 Handful of Salt newsletter
Click here for a pdf of our Handful of Salt newsletter for March-April 2011.
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Rethink Afghanistan will keynote our Peace and Economic Justice Action Conference
Have you marked your calendar for our Peace and Economic Justice Action Conference on March 18-19? Come welcome our keynote speaker, Derrick Crowe from Rethink Afghanistan to speak on our theme: Bring Our Billions Home: The Cost of War and…
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Children Under Occupation: Friday Feb 11
Bringing Clean Water to the Children of Gaza Bring a friend as PJALS’ Palestine-Israel Human Rights Committee hosts Ziad Abbas from the The Middle East Children’s Alliance to learn about “Children Under Occupation: Human Rights, International Solidarity and Water in…
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Explore Nonviolence with PJALS
We’re looking forward to our workshop series, Exploring Nonviolence, which will begin on January 29. This series is the second we’ve offered in the last year, and these workshops will focus on structural and institutional forms of violence and successful…
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King supports war? Not so much.
As we prepare to launch our campaign to Bring Our Billion$ Home on Martin Luther King day, the Pentagon has been busy too: figuring out how to claim that King would support US war in Afghanistan. Check out Rethink Afghanistan’s…
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