Brother Louis, at his trial Feb. 18, called for following the vow of nonviolence, including this passage, “by working nonviolently to abolish war, the weapons of war, and the causes of war from my own heart and from the face of the Earth.”
Olympic Snowflakes
The flame rose as a center piece of a snowflake / In the extravaganza of China's spectacular show
How can we know?
How can we know the truth? How can anyone? We can't ...
KC rally seeks “No War with Russia over Ukraine”
A combo—Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and PeaceWorks—rallied with two days’ notice, with temperatures in the 30s, with snow underfoot. We insisted: No War with Russia over Ukraine. We won honks from drivers on the Plaza, plus coverage by KCTV5.
Pictures, video show peace activists at rally vs. war with Russia
Pictures in our slide show, plus a video, reflect peace activists’ demand at our Feb. 5 rally in KC MO, No War with Russia over Ukraine.
KCTV5 covers 2/5 rally, No War with Russia over Ukraine
KCTV5 spliced quotes from speakers at our Feb. 5 rally, No War with Russia over Ukraine, into a report that Russia sent “long-range nuclear-capable bombers on patrol over its ally Belarus.”
NYT only has the guts to shoot the wounded
by Spencer Graves The New York Times discussed "The human toll of America's air wars" on December 19.1 This is wonderful as far as it goes. However, to paraphrase Greg Palast from a vaguely related context, The New York Times "only has the courage to shoot the wounded."2 This comes months after the President of … Continue reading NYT only has the guts to shoot the wounded
A Eulogy of 22 January 2022
Thich Nhat Hanh has died.
Breathe in the beauty of life;
Breathe out and stop.
Coo-Coup
Frozen in time / Ugly cold pictures / of the Insurrection ...
Democracy is jeopardized / Unless we build back better
Work on common ground / See a vision for racial justice
Turn our violence into peace / Try to save our only planet
PeaceWorks members help thwart attempt to shutter homeless shelter
Several members of PeaceWorks-KC joined an ad hoc coalition to stop the abrupt closure of a cold-weather shelter for unhoused persons in the Kansas City, KS, area recently.