PeaceWorks Kansas City Annual Meeting Join Us in Person All are invited. Sunday, March 5, 2023 2:00-4:00 pm Simpson House 4509 Walnut Kansas City, MO 64111 We’ll hold elections, hear reports, honor our awardee(s), and share our hopes and dreams. For more information, contact Henry Stoever <henrystoever@sbcglobal.net>, (913) 375-0045.
What if we got rid of nukes?
On Jan. 20, PeaceWorks members shared an evening meal and ideas about what a nuclear-free world could look like. It was a night for the imagination and dreams, for if we don't know where we are going, how are we going to get there? If we can imagine it, we can create it.
Nuke-Free ZIP Code
We need a cease–fire everywhere for our madness. I am a nuclear-weapon-free zone.
Biden welcomes new Israeli government
“Are we fighting despotism or funding it?” asks Christopher Overfelt.
‘Halt imminence of nuclear war’
Henry Stoever, in an open letter, urges President Biden to immediately stop the manufacturing, deployment and targeting of US nuclear weapons. “Use your better angels,” pleads Stoever.
What could a nuke-free world look like?
Come to a light meal and round-table talk on Friday, Jan. 20, 6-8 pm. Bring your vision of a nuclear-weapon-free world—perhaps a world with free college, with food for all, with health care as it’s needed. Instead of spending billions on nuclear weapons, we could channel funds to sustain our Earth and all of us.
Chaos
... We need a cease–fire everywhere for our madness / For destruction, for nuclear weapons, for inequality / Only then, we stand on a thresh-hold of a new dawn.
Good cheer: trespass case dismissed
The prosecutor asked me to plead guilty. I refused. … All of us are already being trespassed upon by the years of construction, deployment and threats to use nuclear weapons, on hair-trigger alert at all times.
Bye-Bye War
Ron Faust, in a poem, asks: What if we took part in provoking the Ukraine war / By continuing the Cold war / By hate rhetoric for an enemy ... ?
1998 Embassy Bombings, 9-11, Ukraine
If US President Bill Clinton had treated the 1998 United States embassy bombings as a law enforcement issue, the September 11 attacks would like NOT have happened, and the Ukraine war may even not have occurred.