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“Robby and Friends” Santa Cruz 2019/06/04 A one hour performance of upbeat heartfelt folk music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTzM0RAluqc

“Robby and Friends” Santa Cruz 2018/03/22    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeaQ7hUk7o

Francisco sang at the September 1, 1990 Anniversary Rally at the CNWS. https://www.keepandshare.com/doc29/110326/btl-1990-08-pdf-554k

Francisco Herrera – Pueblo Pueblo   by Francisco Herrera at Summer of Live, August 9, 2017   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2oRKKXvwQ0

Francisco Herrera CD Project Spanish  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsJ8qzNbmZ8

Caminando (Live) – Francisco Herrera (at the 2008 Ignatian Family Teach-In)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYh23G0oRvo

2019-01-10 Inner Peace at Peace House by Elizabeth Hallett  http://blogs.esouthernoregon.com/ashland-inner-peace/2019/01/10/inner-peace-at-peace-house-by-elizabeth-hallett/

Elizabeth Hallett Executive Director  https://peacehouse.net/personnel/

Peace House Board of Directors  https://peacehouse.net/board-of-directors/

2019-01-04 Inner Peace: Road to inner peace led to Peace House  https://ashlandtidings.com/topics/inner-peace/inner-peace-road-to-inner-peace-led-to-peace-house

2013-11-08 On the Value of Our Social Movements  https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/08/on-the-value-of-our-social-movements/

2012-09-06 Arms shipment protest, 25 years later •           Brian Willson comment:  September 9, 2012 at 2:26 There have been several attempts by writers to chronicle this rich history at Concord Naval Weapons Station, including blockades as early as the 1960s. The most recent effort, beginning in the early 1990s, was undertaken by Elizabeth Hallett who lives in Ashland, Oregon. But the book never materialized, at least partially for lack of funds.

It seems an appropriate time to locate a writer who has both the competence, passion, and capacity to take this project on. The 1987-1991 time period was an incredible example of 24 hour, 30 month Occupation encampment of a public site (road right of way) to raise a serious question of public policy, in that case of systematic murder being carried out in Central America. The order to move and operate those trains was a direct and indispensable component of the crimes being committed in our names as US citizens.

To resurrect this history now would seem likely to excite some writer somewhere to thoroughly examine and illustrate this significant memory.  https://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/09/arms-shipment-protest-25-years-later/

“Post-Vietnam: Non-Violence at Bangor” Part 2: The Peace Blockade and the Rise of Non-Violent Civil Disobedience  Greenpeace activists helped instill water safety practices. “They did not think that we were disciplined,” remembered Wahl . “They were in a lot of ways dismayed at the dangers we were facing by being out in the open water.” … Ed Turtle, and Sunshine Appleby circled the colossal beast while outrunning multiple Coast Guard boats and a …  http://depts.washington.edu/antiwar/nukes_dundas2.shtml

The Rise of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience: The Peace Blockade, Part 2  Posted on 31 July 2015 under History, Strategy & Tactics.  http://www.satyagrahafoundation.org/the-rise-of-nonviolent-civil-disobedience-the-peace-blockade-part-2/

2018-12-03 Inside the Sunrise Movement (it didn’t happen by accident)  https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060108439

2015-08-31 History of Nonviolent Resistance to Trident in the Pacific Northwest Ground Zero is a small intentional community of anti-nuclear activists living on the Kitsap Peninsula, committed to nonviolence in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. … was only one which succeeded in advancing all the way to the Ohio. A speedboat carrying Renee Krisco, Ed Turtle, and Sunshine Appleby circled the colossal http://www.nukeresister.org/2015/08/31/history-of-nonviolent-resistance-to-trident-in-the-pacific-northwest/

 In the company of rebels : a generational memoir of bohemians, deep heads, and history makers – Book  Sunshine Appleby: disobedience in a wet suit (1944-) — https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-company-of-rebels-a-generational-memoir-of-bohemians-deep-heads-and-history-makers/oclc/1076511901

Ilana Schatz – Author Ilana Schatz is the founding director of Fair Trade Judaica, a nonprofit building a fair trade movement in the Jewish community. She has been active in Jewish social justice for over 30 years, focusing on community economic development, affordable housing, homelessness and community investing. Ilana was a lay spiritual leader at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland, California, for 15 years before starting FTJ.  https://jewishfoodexperience.com/author/ischatz/

Northern California Community Loan Fund – 2011 Annual Report

Board Director – Ilana Schatz  https://communityvisionca.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2011-Annual-Report.pdf  

2005-08-26 New East Bay federation president: Theres a lot to do  https://www.jweekly.com/2005/08/26/new-east-bay-federation-president-there-s-a-lot-to-do/

1998-08-21 Jewish activists seek mayors help on Presidio housing  At the Prop. L victory party held at the Unity Church two days after the June 2 election, Ilana Schatz, director of the American Jewish Congress’s Poverty Action Alliance, had one main comment about saving the 466 units from demolition: “Dayenu.” “Two ministers started singing `Dayenu,’ and I started laughing,” Schatz recalled. https://www.jweekly.com/1998/08/21/jewish-activists-seek-mayor-s-help-on-presidio-housing/

NiShima Let Us Hear  https://www.just-works.com/img/shma201202_dl1.pdf

2014-04-10 Fair Trade Chocolate Charoset   Ilana Schatz is the founding director of Fair Trade Judaica. She lives in El Cerrito, CA and loves to hike, restore their backyard to its original oak tree habitat, and make wine and liqueur from the eight plum trees in their garden.  https://forward.com/food/196254/fair-trade-chocolate-charoset/

+*2014-09-04 U.S. Government Unexpectedly Dismisses All Charges Against Beale Anti-Drone Protesters  Beale officers promptly detained the 11, who included internationally recognized peace activist Kathy Kelly; The Reverend Dr. Gerald O. (Jerry) Pedersen, retired Lutheran pastor and member of Veterans for Peace, from Sacramento; The Reverend Elizabeth Griswold, pastor of Parkside Community Church, United Church of Christ in Sacramento; The Reverend John Auer, retired United Methodist Pastor from Fresno, California; The Reverend Sharon Delgado, retired United Methodist pastor and Executive Director of Earth Justice Ministries from Nevada City; Michael Kerr, a Veteran for Peace from Bay Point/Pittsburg; Rodger Stall from San Rafael; Arthur (Buff) Whitman-Bradley from the Bay Area; Nancy Reiner from the Bay Area; Bob Russell from Pleasant Hill and Pamela Osgood from Grass Valley. Participants carried white crosses with artistic renderings of children killed by US drones.   https://knco.com/u-s-government-unexpectedly-dismisses-all-charges-against-beale-anti-drone-protesters/

2017-03-03 Drone Protesters Arrested on Tuesday  Today’s Arrestees:  Flora Rogers, Mike Rufo, Pamela Osgood, and Toby Blomé Yesterday’s Arrestees:  Sharon Delgado and Shirley Osgood   Over 40 copies of this letter was distributed to base personnel, including Commander.  https://freepress.org/article/drone-protesters-arrested-tuesday

2014-09-30   11 Arrested During Beale AFB Drone Protests  On Tuesday, September 30, at 7 a.m., several demonstrators gathered in a circle and began singing and dancing in front of Beale’s Main Gate. They explained that the dances were “Dances of Universal Peace,” taken from many different faith traditions, and that their purpose in dancing was to “demonstrate peace.”

Nine people were arrested while dancing, including Barry Binks, a veteran from Sacramento; Shirley Osgood from Grass Valley; Pamela Osgood from Grass Valley; Andrew Hayes, a veteran from Grass Valley; Flora Rodgers from Marysville; Lorraine Reich from Nevada City; MacGregor Eddy from Monterey; Toby Blome from the Bay Area, and Sharon Delgado, a United Methodist minister from Nevada City.

Anti-drone demonstrators have kept up a regular presence at Beale Air Force Base over the past three years. Over fifty arrests for civil disobedience have been made; eight people have been convicted in U.S. Federal Court. Thirty-one arrests were made in March and April of 2014 alone. Sixteen of the demonstrators were summoned to be arraigned on September 9, but at the last minute all charges were dismissed.  https://knco.com/11-arrested-during-beale-afb-drone-protests/ 

2015-12-16 Nevada County peace activists arrested at Beale  Those arrested included people from Grass Valley, Nevada City and Camptonville, including Pamela Osgood, Shirley Osgood, Sharon Delgado, Susan Pelican and Jane Kesselman.  https://www.theunion.com/news/news-briefs/nevada-county-peace-activists-arrested-at-beale/

+*2014-04-20 Anti-Drone Protesters Arrested Outside US Air Force Base  Meanwhile, in California, the names of those arrested for protesting outside Beale Air Force Base were released as follows: Rev. Gerald Pedersen, 88; Rev. Elizabeth Griswold, 35; Rev. John Auer, 70; Rev. Sharon Delgado, 65; Kathy Kelly, 61; Michael Kerr, 65; Rodger Stall; Arthur Whitman-Bradley, 70; Nancy Reiner; Bob Russell; and Pamela Osgood, 68.  https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/04/20/anti-drone-protesters-arrested-outside-us-air-force-base

John Lindsay Poland Website  http://www.johnlindsaypoland.com/

Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (American Encounters/Global Interactions)  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EZARUTA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

John Lindsay Poland Videos  https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=John+Lindsay+poland&qpvt=John+Lindsay+poland&FORM=VDRE

John Lindsay-Poland coordinates the Stop U.S. Arms to Mexico Project of Global Exchange  https://responsiblestatecraft.org/author/jlindsaypoland/

Why I Fight To End Gun Violence: John Lindsay-Poland  https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/general/news/2020/02/26/480854/fight-end-gun-violence-john-lindsay-poland/

John Lindsay-Poland Wage Peace Coordinator  https://www.afsc.org/media-kit/bios/john-lindsay-poland

Forums on the Arms Trade  https://www.forumarmstrade.org/john-lindsay-poland.html

John Lindsay-Poland FB https://www.facebook.com/john.lindsaypoland

2016-02-03 Letter to the Tattler: John Lindsay-Poland  https://emeryvilletattler.blogspot.com/2016/02/letter-to-tattler-john-lindsay-poland.html

2016-11-03 Opposition to Urban Shield Grows   https://www.afsc.org/story/opposition-to-urban-shield-grows

HuffPost CONTRIBUTOR John Lindsay-Poland  https://www.huffpost.com/author/john-lindsaypoland

TOWARD FREEDOM  The U.S. Is Flooding the World With Guns. Congress Can Stop That   https://towardfreedom.org/author/john-lindsay-poland/

NACLA John Lindsay Poland https://nacla.org/author/John%20Lindsay-Poland

The Intercept John Lindsay-Poland   https://theintercept.com/staff/john-lindsay-poland/

  Institute for Policy Studies John Lindsay-Poland  https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/john-lindsay-poland/

Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism   Book https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/plan-colombia-john-lindsay-poland/1127630742

2016-04-26 HOW U.S. GUNS SOLD TO MEXICO END UP WITH SECURITY FORCES ACCUSED OF CRIME AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES  https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/mexico-arms-trade-us-gun-sales/

Foreign Policy In Focus John Lindsay-Poland  https://fpif.org/authors/john-lindsay-poland/

2019-02-00 A Note from Dorothy Granada  https://womensempowermentnet.org/skills-to-save-lives-fundrasing-campaign/

Dorothy Granada Nicaragua Photos https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dorothy+granada+nicaragua&qpvt=dorothy+granada+nicaragua&form=IGRE&first=1&scenario=ImageBasicHover

2001-01-01 Missionary Nurse Hiding in Nicaragua  While Nicaraguan government agents and police search desperately for her throughout the country, a 70-year-old nurse from the United States is spending her days “just being quiet and praying.”

Dorothy Granada went into hiding in the early hours of December 8, shortly before 15 soldiers armed with machine guns surrounded her house in Mulukuku, a remote jungle village about 100 miles north-east of Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. Since then she has remained in hiding, provoking the anger of the government while receiving support from church groups and human rights organizations around the world.

Granada arrived in war-torn Mulukuku in 1990 and opened a clinic to serve the area’s 30, 000 residents. An Episcopalian, she and her clinic are supported by a network of Protestant churches in the United States.

On November 14, Nicaragua’s President Arnoldo Aleman announced that the government would investigate the clinic, which is part of a women’s co-operative. Aleman sent ministry of health investigators to Mulukuku, where they seized patients’ records and ordered the partial closure of the clinic. He claimed that Granada performed abortions, which are illegal in this country, and provided political support to the opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front, which, after a revolution in 1979, held power in Nicaragua until 1990.

Four days after troops failed to arrest her on December 8 (Granada had been warned of the troops’ arrival in the village), interior minister Jose Marenco ordered her deportation. The clinic was closed down, and several government agencies began charging Granada with crimes ranging from providing assistance to armed rebels to using illegally-cut wood in the co-operative’s carpentry workshop.

Granada is receiving … https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/januaryweb-only/57.0.html

Maria Ortiz Women’s Clinic Older Website- Abarazos!  Which is hosted by Daniel Zwickle.  The newer website is no longer working http://www.peacehost.net/Dorothy/

2007-06-26 Dorothy Granada receives ‘Best Practices in Global Health Award’  https://episcopalchurch.org/library/article/dorothy-granada-receives-best-practices-global-health-award

2013-02-25 A conversation with nurse Dorothy Granada: 2/25/13-3/1/13   https://www.ghdonline.org/nursing/discussion/a-conversation-with-nurse-dorothy-granada-22513-31/

2020-08-00 Works in Progress  https://olywip.org/author/dorothy-granada/

International Fast For Life (IFFL) was a prolonged fast in favor of nuclear disarmament that spawned the Fast For Life movement. The context of this event took place during an era of escalation of the U.S./Russian Cold War. Its purpose was to promote a redirection of international government efforts away from nuclear arms and toward feeding the poor.  For eight of the core participants, the fast ended after 40 days. Their decision to end there was made two days after Californian faster, Dorothy Granada had lost forty pounds and partial eyesight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_for_Life

2005-04-05 DOROTHY GRANADA, TIRELESS WORKER FOR WOMEN IN NICARAGUA, AT SSU ON APRIL 5    http://web.sonoma.edu/pubs/newsrelease/archives/2005/04/dorothy_granada_tireless_worker_for_women_in_nicaragua_at_ssu_on_april_5.html

Charles Gray’s Biography   His next major project was an extraordinary effort against the nuclear arms race called the Fast for Life. Along with a new partner, Dorothy Granada, he spent three years organizing a fast which he hoped would involve thousands around the world. (Dorothy, a nurse and a devout Episcopalian, had been director of nursing at the teaching hospital of the University of Chicago.) Ultimately only twelve, including Japanese and French volunteers, committed to an open-ended fast in 1983, but thousands did sympathy fasts. These included six members of Parliament in Britain. Charles fasted for forty days, Dorothy for thirty-nine. They only ended the Fast for Life when – after the Soviet Union shot down a South Korean passenger airliner, causing fierce indignation around the world–it became clear there was no chance it would succeed in changing American policy.

Charles and Dorothy with the European fasters. Solange Fernex, seated at the left in the front row, went on to become a minister in the French government and later served as a member of the European Parliament. Charles and Dorothy are seated in that row at the right.

After recovering from the fast, they studied Spanish so they could join the Witness for Peace long-term team in Nicaragua, where a brutal civil war was raging. There they documented Contra atrocities and hosted delegations seeking to learn the true situation on the ground. Later they toured the United States with an exhibit of photos and poetry from Nicaragua about the war. In 1989 Charles and Dorothy spent six months in Managua with the Friends (Quaker) Center, mostly distributing material aid. For three years thereafter, they lived in a Nicaraguan refugee community where Dorothy established a women’s health center. Charles trained local women in carpentry and worked on water purification projects. When the two decided to separate, he returned to Eugene.   http://www.charlesgrayactivist.com/bio.html

1992-04-02 Discussing Nicaragua with authors and activists Charles Gray and Dorothy Granada  https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/discussing-nicaragua-authors-and-activists-charles-gray-and-dorothy-granada

Dorothy Granada  Overview

Dorothy Granada born Los Angeles, CA December 8, 1930. Nonviolent Filipina/Chicana nurse; 40-day international fast for life against nuclear weapons, 1983; part of group to protest disappeared Guatemalans, 1985; “lived on the tracks” of Concord weapons depot in Nuremberg protest, 1987; awarded FOR Peace prize, 1997; decade-plus efforts for Nicaraguan women.

Quotations

“Blessed are the poor and their friends, who together are building the beloved community where there will be no hunger, no violence, where the earth and all God’s creatures will live in peace and joy!” (Summit, NJ, Nov. 1, 2001; photo episcopalchurch.org)   https://www.womeninpeace.org/g-names/2017/6/28/dorothy-granada

Dorothy Granada  FB   https://www.facebook.com/dorothy.granada.9

1983-09-04 NINE PROTEST ARMS RACE IN A LIMITLESS FAST   https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/04/us/nine-protest-arms-race-in-a-limitless-fast.html

Mark was a member of the 24/7 activists at the Tracks.  When Mark became Nuremberg Actions Media Person, he turned down an offer for $1000 salary, asked for only $300 and gave most of it to Michael Kerr, the new volunteer Peace House manager, to help with house and food costs. Mark would use the small basement room at the Peace House as his photography darkroom. The Nuremberg Actions Spokes Group had only allocated $600 toward the Peace House costs ($300 for food and $300 for House), so Mark’s extra money was most appreciated. MEK Comment

Starting in late March 1988, Diane, Mark Coplan and Michael Kerr created a three-person intentional community at the tracks to guarantee food and a 24/7 presence at the Tracks.  It was a rotating system where one-person prepared breakfast at the Peace House & delivered it to the Track community.  They then took the dirty dishes back to Peace House to clean.  That person would then made sure the Peace House was occupied & cleaned.  Later they would prepare dinner, often comprising of bread, juice and a large pot of hot vegetarian soup.  After they delivered dinner to the tracks which often fed 10-20 people.  That person would then guarantee that they would occupy the vigil site at the tracks over night and until dinner time the next day.   Meanwhile another person took dinner dishes back to Peace House to clean.  They would spend the night at Peace House and prepare breakfast for the next morning.  Don’t dare forgot coffee!  With this rotation system, each of us had a free day of responsibility every 3 days.  It was hard  to get anyone else to take on this responsibility.   The system started to breakdown when Mark moved to Nicaragua, then Diane went to jail and eventually Michael went on the Caravan to El Salvador in late March 1989.  MEK Comment

Mark Coplan‘s This is Nicaragua 1989  “This is Nicaragua” is one of my “Lost Videos”; a few of the 32 documentaries I produced in my three years living in Nicaragua, copies of the originals recently discovered in a box of old tapes. I produced this video for Carol A. Katonik (the only producer I ever had) to use in the states to do fundraising for my work. I had the good fortune to work in virtually every corner of Nicaragua; a few projects took me into the surrounding countries, and in my last year I did a lot of work with the Salvadorian refugee community.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RCXlqKCQOc

Honoring Berkeley School District Spokesman  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_4Jd2rSduM

 Videos – Mark Coplan   https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Mark+Coplan&qpvt=Mark+Coplan&FORM=VDRE     

Paying for Peace:war Tax Resistance in the United States  carol katonik coney (Director, Producer)  https://www.amazon.com/Paying-Peace-Resistance-United-States/dp/B000MO56M6

Mark Coplan’s This is Nicaragua 1989  “This is Nicaragua” is one of my “Lost Videos”; a few of the 32 documentaries I produced in my three years living in Nicaragua, copies of the originals recently discovered in a box of old tapes. I produced this video for Carol A. Katonik (the only producer I ever had) to use in the states to do fundraising for my work. I had the good fortune to work in virtually every corner of Nicaragua; a few projects took me into the surrounding countries, and in my last year I did a lot of work with the Salvadorian refugee community.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RCXlqKCQOc