Kristin Scheer – PeaceWorks Kansas City

A rainbow connects a burned forest in Rocky Mountain National Park to an untouched, green forest—take hope!—Photo by Julia Del Rosario

August 27, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Ecology

From the plains to the mountains, let peace reign, let freedom sing

“Peace must be the solution to the climate crisis,” Kristin Scheer suggested during her vacation with Ann Suellentrop. “We need big answers, and we need them fast.”

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

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.

Janice Witt, mayoral candidate for Kansas City, Kan., talks about injustice and activism: “Here I am with the ‘talking stick’ and no patience!”—Photo by Jane Stoever

July 8, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Economic justice

We walk in peace in 2022

On a warm evening, 15 of us gathered to share ideas about the Peace Walk being planned for spring 2022 from Wichita to the National Security Campus in south Kansas City, Mo. Note: The next Peace Walk planning will be Friday, Aug. 20, 6:30-8 p.m.

An elders’ circle strung out, cuffed, speaking volumes in silence—after crossing the nuke-plant property line May 31. From left: Henry Stoever, Brian Terrell, Brother Louis Rodemann, Jim Hannah, Tom Mountenay.—Photo by Tom Fox

June 2, 2021June 15, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nonviolence, Nuclear weapons, PeaceWorks events

Memorial Day event: ‘We spoke truth, we cried, we witnessed, we rejoiced’

This Memorial Day was the first time I was able to join PeaceWorks-KC at the National Security Campus, where non-nuclear parts are made for nuclear weapons. It was our 10th annual event there. I was moved by the experience.

This billboard, designed by Robyn Haas, is on the west side of Broadway south of 39th Street and downtown on Main south of Truman Road.

January 16, 2021January 17, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

Billboards call for world free of nuclear weapons

PeaceWorks-KC is displaying billboards around the city with the help of a grant from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. You will see these messages along your travels in Kansas City, Mo., until mid-February:

Kristin Scheer (left of center) reads a statement by Ginger Ferguson, who lost her health insurance right before the COVID crisis struck. Ferguson, 60, too ill to attend the Sept. 29 march and rally, wrote, “It shouldn't be this hard. I started paying into this system when I was 14.” At the right in the photo is Charles Carney.—Photo by Ann Suellentrop

October 12, 2020 PeaceWorks KC Economic justice

Kansas Poor People’s Campaign demands Medicaid expansion

Dennis Russell said he gave his right eye so rich people in Kansas could become a little richer. On the night of Sept. 29, when 55 persons, including four PeaceWorks-KC leaders, marched for expanded Medicaid in Kansas, the 60-year-old Russell said he could not get the glaucoma in his right eye treated for years because he did not have health insurance. Now that he has recently obtained Kansas Medicaid, his eye doctor is telling him it is too late to repair the sight in his right eye, and he will probably never see again out of that eye.

Cris Mann, a recently retired special-education teacher, urges, “We should cancel college debt and eliminate the warfare budgets.” She led a chant: “Books, not bombs!”--Photos by Jim Hannah

June 4, 2020June 16, 2020 PeaceWorks KC Death penalty, Ecology, Economic justice, Nonviolence, Nuclear weapons

‘Human Care, Not Warfare’ makes it to the media

KKFI Community Radio (90.1 FM) and NBC Action News (Channel 41) covered the May 25 “Human Care, Not Warfare” midtown rally. Among 12 speakers, Cris Mann urged, “We should cancel college debt and eliminate the warfare budgets.” She led a chant: “Books, not bombs!”