Living for Peace in the Shadow of Death
“The destruction of creation and its creatures is done in the name of profit, convenience, wealth. The truth is that capitalism is poison, and we are its victims.” -- Shelley Douglass
In Dialogue
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In Dialogue is a column in which Street Spirit speaks with community leaders.
Gandhi's Vision of Nonviolence: Holding Firm to Truth
The Street Spirit Interview with Jim Douglass, Part 4: "We chose to be in the sights of the weapons of our own troops. For a few days, we were just as vulnerable as the Iraqi people. Explosions were occurring all over the city from missile attacks by our fleet in the Gulf."
The Acts of Resistance and the Works of Mercy (Part 3)
The Street Spirit interview with Jim Douglass, Part 3: Strangely enough, acts of resistance to the White Train's deadly cargo of terribly destructive nuclear weapons created a community dedicated to peace all along the route of a Holocaust train.
Street Spirit Interview with Jim Douglass (Part 2)
When Father Dave Becker came to dinner at the home of Jim and Shelley Douglass next to the Trident base, the first sentence he said after he sat down on the sofa was, “I want to understand from you what it means to be the chaplain of the Auschwitz of Puget Sound.”
Street Spirit Interview with James Douglass (Part 1)
One Trident submarine can destroy a country. A fleet of Trident submarines is capable of destroying the world. Jim Douglass explains how Ground Zero Center organized a visionary campaign of nonviolent resistance to confront "the Auschwitz of Puget Sound."
Frances Beal: A Voice for Peace, Racial Justice and the Rights of Women
Fances Beal was a founding member of the SNCC Black Women’s Liberation Committee, and did a pioneering study of “the triple oppression of race, class and gender.”
The Street Spirit Interview with David Hartsough, Part II
Governments have the power to throw us in jail and shoot at us and intimidate us, but they don’t have the power to kill our spirits. They certainly didn’t kill Brian’s spirit. Nuremberg Actions show what people can do to stop our government from fighting wars and causing misery around the world.
The Street Spirit Interview with David Hartsough, Part I
People would spit at us in the face. They put lit cigarettes down our shirts, and punched us in the stomach so hard we would fall on the floor, and then they kicked us. The American Nazi Party came, yelling white supremacist nonsense and telling us to go back to Russia.
The Street Spirit Interview with Kathy Kelly
“The people that threaten us are in the corporations and the well-appointed salons, and they really threaten us. They make alcohol, firearms and tobacco, and arms for the military. They steal from us, and they rob us. And who goes to jail? A woman who can’t get an economic stake in her community.”
The Street Spirit Interview with Peter Marin
This is what the government must do: Leave all the war stuff aside, leave the NSA stuff aside, and the billions spent on this by the government. The very first thing, beyond everything else, should be housing, damn it. It goes without question because it is so necessary for human survival.
Impossible Dream or Irresistible Revolution? The Street Spirit Interview with Urvashi Vaid
Years ago, we could not have conceived of so many non-gay people standing up and being allies in this fight. It’s a shift from seeing us as sinful, immoral and dangerous, to seeing us as the people next door, as members of families, as somebody’s relatives.
A Pastor for All the People: The Street Spirit Interview with Rev. Phil Lawson
“Love and compassion are what sustain me. Love and you can learn how to live. I told the Council of Elders this. When you are down and depressed, or hurting or grieving, the most powerful thing you can do to sustain yourself is to go do something for someone else who is hurting.”