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“We remain hopeful ... as division sunders our community and threatens our planet.”

Emergency! Save RECA

Ask House Speaker to speed extension of Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Video: Ghassan Elkhatib demands end to genocide

Ghassan Elkhatib spoke Dec. 14 at a vigil in Kansas City, Mo. "There are families that haven't had meals for 10 days," he said, mourning the war in Palestine.

Oppenheimer’s Critique

The Manhattan Project / Began as a creative challenge / Ending in a death wish of nothingness ...

Courage, conviction, & fun!

Ann Suellentrop reflects on a Catholic Worker retreat, including civil resistance: “What drew me to this weekend retreat? I did not know a whole lot about the F-35 bomber jet, but I wanted to be around people of like mind.” Ann says the participants’ “love for peace and Mother Earth, their courageous nonviolent resistance, their care for the marginalized … has long inspired me.”

Save Aug. 7 for remembering Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Please come Sunday, Aug. 7, to our PeaceWorks annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance. We’ll park at 6:30 pm on Prospect near Mo. Hwy. 150. We’ll take a shuttle to our 7 pm rally site, the entry to the nuclear-weapon parts plant, the KC National Security Campus, 14510 Botts Rd., Kansas City MO.

‘After 20 years of war, many lessons left unlearned’

The results of Biden's revenge attacks mirror perfectly the cycles of America's war against Afghanistan.

Charles Carney’s Peace Walk, Aug. 25

As a person who is wandering down the road, subject to wind, heat, rain, and semi-truck drafts, I am sure many passersby judge me as a “bum.” I am in a bit of a vulnerable position, relying on the kindness of strangers.

We remember the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On Aug. 8, PeaceWorks-KC members and others gathered in memory of the nuclear bombings, and of the lives lost and forever altered 76 years ago.

‘Muddy, bloody, and burnt’—Nagasaki bomb survivors

Keiko Baker shares—for the first time in public—her memories from living in Japan in 1945 and the impact of the Nagasaki bomb on her and her family.

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Community Organization Directory

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