Breanna Crawford, a new member of the PeaceWorks KC Board of Directors, is an Indigenous Cherokee/Dakota (Sioux) enrolled in the Cherokee Nation. She says you cannot drink water on the reservation because of the mercury in the water; you have to get bottled water.
MO lawmakers to hold hearing on toxic nuclear waste
Missouri State Rep. Tricia Byrnes is asking those affected by toxic nuclear waste to come to a March 7 hearing in the state Capitol.
A strong, effective national defense, and 300 million three-year-olds
by Spencer Graves DISCLAIMER: PeaceWorks Kansas City is officially encouraging its supporters to follow two events March 14 and 26 discussed below. However, the PeaceWorks Board has NOT endorsed the following description of those events nor other comments in this article. Those are my own personal opinions. I'm Spencer Graves, and I claim that we, … Continue reading A strong, effective national defense, and 300 million three-year-olds
3 from KC to lobby DC
Ann Suellentrop, Kristin Scheer, and Luisa Olarte will lobby for a nuke-free world during the annual Alliance for Nuclear Accountability “DC Days” April 23-26.
Donkey-loads of dynamite
Dynamite Dan. No one dared call him that to his face, but throughout Klondike gold country he was as feared—and as rarely sighted—as Bigfoot himself.
‘No nukes!’ say pacificists
Celebrating the second anniversary of the “entry into force” of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, activists gathered at the Plaza in KC MO on Jan. 22.
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.
‘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.