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Nisha Anand practices rappelling at a Ruckus Society training camp. Photo: Celia Alario.

t is with sadness at our loss and happiness for her opportunity that we at 339 Lafayette Street bid farewell to Nisha Anand, WRL’s field organizer. It was just about one year ago that Nisha joined us as a temporary staff person to do an assessment of our locals. She became a permanent employee after her six-month review, and as NVA readers know, continued on the road to meet and greet many of you during her travels. Her road trips took her virtually across the United States, to and through a lot of unexplored WRL territory, making new friends, keeping the old, reaching out and drawing others in as she spread the good news of nonviolent resistance.

Nisha will be on the road yet one more time as she moves to Oakland, CA, to accept a position as Director of Development and Communications for the Ruckus Society. We will all miss her very much, but wish her only the best as she continues on the path of radical social and political change.

With enthusiasm, energy and skill, Nisha has laid excellent groundwork for keeping in touch with our local groups, affiliates and contacts. Thanks to Nisha’s well-organized files, you will be hearing from us, and we always welcome hearing from you, whether you are part of a local group, contact or an individual member!

NVA Editor Pens Activist-Friendly NY Guidebook

udith Mahoney Pasternak’s newest book, A Parent’s Guide to New York City (Mars Publishing, 2001), isn’t listed in the “Activist’s Bookshelf” (p. 21) because it isn’t activist literature. It is, however, the only New York City guide in print (to our knowledge) that omits the U.S.S. Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum (the one aboard an aircraft carrier) from its listings of things to do with children in New York City, on the grounds that the author declines “to put children together with real or simulated weapons of mass destruction.” You should be able to find it in your local bookstore by late July or early August.

THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL PEACE AWARD
of the War Resisters League
to Kate Donnelly and Clay Colt

rmies come, led by flags the color of death, with tanks, missiles, jets and the noise of terror and pain.

On Friday June 1 Grace Paley (above) presented Kate Donnelly (left) and Clay Colt (right) with WRL’s Peace Award at its annual dinner at Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City. WRL staffer asif ullah is in back. An exhibit of Donnelly/Colt’s bumperstickers and other designs was on display. Photos by Ed Hedemann

Over the years Kate and Clay have followed a different flag, with rainbow colors, accompanied by songs of protest and joy. They have erected tents in the midst of thousands and helped send us into peaceful battle with banners, bumper stickers, and buttons.

They have challenged authority with ideas, aimed swift leaflets at government lies. They have taken as their statement, a play on our pledge,

“Believing bad graphics are a crime against the movement, Donnelly/Colt...advocates pithy slogans and good graphics as a method of exposing the public to the ideal of a society free of war, racism, sexism, human exploitation, and boring culture.”

Because of Kate and Clay women are freer, children are more respected, ideas are more widely spread, war toys no longer shine so bright, and all of us are a little stronger.

Awarded at its annual dinner at Park Avenue Christian Church, New York, June 1, 2001.