STANISLAUS CONNECTIONS

Working For Peace, Justice, and A Sustainable Environment

Online Edition: July 2004     Vol. XV, No. XI

A Modesto Peace/Life Center Publication

ACTIONS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
sponsored by Peace Life Center Middle East Committee. Public invited

Modesto Peace/Life Center Vigil for Peace: Third Fridays--June 18, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at Tenth Street Plaza, across from Brenden Theaters. Bring signs that relate to this central theme: cut funding for wars and weapons; create jobs, make health care available to all, improve education, restore our environment, help the homeless. Main message: Nuclear weapons threaten all lives and endanger the hard work parents do to nurture life. None of us wants to see them used.  For more info about vigils, call 484-0226, or 765-3813, or the Peace Life Center, 529-5750
 

CONTENTS

Peace & Justice

Around the Center: 

Now `the time has come' here too: to recognize our neighbors as equals and to end the conflict with them, in the realization that there is no military way of doing this."
    — Daniel Barenboim, conductor and pianist

Living Lightly

Link:  SectionZ: Making our Ecomony Safe for People and Nature

Recipes from Connections

Out and About

COMMUNITY CALENDAR --CURRENT & COMING EVENTS

Masthead and Back Issues

Letters to Connections

Monster Pancakes!

By STACIE BRADFORD

Delicious pancakes of unbelievable size were enjoyed by all June 6th, at the 30th Annual Peace/Life Center Pancake Breakfast. The PLC Board thanks The Brighter Side, Clayton Coffee and Tea, Two Can Do, and the many individual supporters who donated food, supplies and their precious time to make the breakfast a tasty and enjoyable event.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Nancy, Phoebe, Chyril & Doug, Kathy & Kesa, Pat, Holly, Hurley, Ann, Sandy, Lana & Emily, Nancy & Lily, Kathryn, Solange, Steve, Tati, Nick, Manon & the Garnish Girls, Jim, Anita, Julie aka Lucy, Ken, Marianne, Yolanda, Serra, Shawn, Elizabeth, Nancy & David, Stacie, Lee & Beth, Ruben, Karen, Lorie, Andra & Rigel, Tim, Noel & Jim, John, Dorothy, Rachel, Mike, and, last but not least, David R. for cleaning the grill!

We are especially grateful to Deborah Roberts for her hard work and leadership with the able kitchen crew. This year1s Deborah1s Delight was a Savory Zucchini with Feta, and folks were clamoring for the recipe – copyright laws and Roberts1s family secrets prevent us from publishing it, but check out The Moosewood Cookbook and try your own version at home! Or, visit Mollie Katzen1s web site, www.molliekatzen.com; Click on 3Archives2 for recipes – try the Carrot-Zucchini Pancakes!

Muchas gracias to Ricardo Cordova and Ron Gowans, and next generation, Moni and Josh, for flipping dozens – actually hundreds - of dinner-plate size cakes. And, for the second year running, they didn1t blow any fuses! As always, our special thanks to Indira Clark who has led the Breakfast Committee forever and attends to the zillions of details that make the breakfast something we all look forward to.

The crowd was a bit smaller this year, perhaps because the breakfast was held earlier than usual. But, the planning for June 2005 has already started and there are lots of simple ways Center supporters can PLEASE volunteer to:

Thank you, Anita!

By INDIRA CLARK

For the past 12 years Anita Young has been the layout editor for Stanislaus Connections. This commitment has meant that eleven times a year Anita has spent a week of evenings setting up the paper - after coming home from her day job . All too often, long after the deadline to hand over the copy to her has passed, the editing committee has still been "getting to Anita" article revisions, calendar items, additions, corrections, clarifications, photos, and graphics, right up to the last issue she's working on.

When she started the job it was a one of literally cutting and pasting columns onto a mockup board (and a waxing machine was involved that I never ventured to make an acquaintance with). Now it's done electronically. This was a time commitment not only for Anita, but her whole family: Jim, Jessica, and Chelsea. When she started as layout editor Anita's family was young, and she was the head of the children's department at The Bookstore. After the closure of that beloved, independent, local treasure she returned to purveying books in the public sector as a branch librarian.

And the girls are all grown up now.

Anita only missed one issue that I can remember, when she was traveling in Italy in celebration her 50th birthday. Leading a Peace Camp workshop, judging Peace Essay Contest entries, serving up fruit salad at the Pancake Breakfast, making jewelry for the Connection fundraising auction, and using her computer skills to design flyers, brochures, certificates, etc. are ways in which Anita has contributed her time and talents to the local peace community.

Hopefully now she'll have the time again to write an occasional article.

ACTION: Join the Modesto Peace/Life Center Board and the Stanislaus Connections committee in honoring Anita at a picnic on July 31 at the home of Dan and Alice Onorato. Please phone the Center, 529-5750, for time and directions.

Reagan's passing -- By JUAN COLE, Professor of History at the University of Michigan

‘NO MORE DEATHS’: help illegal immigrants facing death NOW!

From No More Deaths

Since the Operation Hold the Line began in 1995, 2,600 people have died in their journey across the border. Last year in Arizona alone more than 200 men, women, and children died excruciating deaths crossing the desert.

We address this crisis as people of faith and conscience. We provide movable desert camps, support of migrant aid centers, maintenance of water stations, Samaritan patrols that search the desert, and on migrant-issues advocacy.

Time is of the essence; the season of death is here. Make a difference in the lives of our brothers and sisters.

ACTION: Feeding migrants, staffing desert camps and getting Samaritans into the desert to provide aid takes money, volunteers and supplies. Make checks payable to St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, 3809 E. Third St., Tucson, AZ 85716-4699. Write "No More Deaths" in the memo line. Call us at 520-578-9318 or email action@nomoredeaths.org. Visit www.nomoredeaths.org/Index.html

BORDER ISSUES WEBSITES

Arizona Interfaith Network: www.arizonainterfaith.org

Border Action Network: www.borderaction.org

Border Angels [California]: http://communities.signonsandiego.com/borderangels

Humane Borders: www.humaneborders.org

La Resistencia: www.laresistencia.org

No More Deaths: www.nomoredeaths.org

Write Kathy Kelly, others, in prison

Kathy Kelley, head of Voices in the Wilderness is one of 27 people in prison for participating in non-violent direct action to close the School of the Americas. Send letters to her at:

Kathleen Frances Kelly
#04971-045
FPC Pekin
PO Box 5000 p
Pekin, IL 61555-5000
Release Date: August 6, 2004

Visit www.soaw.org/new/ for a list of others.

Your Elected Officials

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT ARTICLES TO CONNECTIONS.

Tenth of each month. Submit peace, justice and environmentally friendly event notices to P.O. Box 134, Modesto, CA, 95353, or call 522-4967 or 575-4299, or email to Jim Costello. Free listings subject to space, availability and editing.

07/06/04