nuclear – PeaceWorks Kansas City

In a virtual meeting with a US legislator's aide, Charles Carney spoke of HR 2227, Investing in Cures Before Missiles Act. Henry Stoever addressed HR 669, Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act. If you want to lobby on these acts, we'll help!

Bennette Dibben displays a PeaceWorks-KC banner of hope at the Jan. 22, 2021, celebration of the “entry into force” of the international Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.—Photos by Jim Hannah

October 6, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

See videos showing 1945-2015 nuclear explosions

An Open Culture cache of videos of nuclear explosions from 1945 to 2015 includes test explosions and the Hiroshima/Nagasaki attacks.

"Ultimately, we will not reach a nuclear-free world alone, we will do it as an ever-expanding community of love," Charles Carney said. "Will we let greed destroy our children's future? NO!"--Photos by Kriss Avery

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Ecology, Nonviolence, Nuclear weapons

Charles Carney speaks at Peace Walk Finale Rally

While on the Flint Hills Nature Trail, I realized how deeply our radical interconnectedness with plants, trees, animals, bugs, deer and wolves, and with other humans, renders any act of violence toward each other or the Earth utterly ludicrous. We will not go quietly into the deep dark destruction of nuclear madness!

Artwork by Rosie Davila—Courtesy of Pace e Bene (paceebene.org)

September 19, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

‘We have to lead our leaders,” says Ann Suellentrop

We are in the middle of a second nuclear arms race, and the evidence for it is right here in Kansas City. … Just imagine if soldiers were deployed to fight climate catastrophe, to plant trees and clean up military waste all over the world!

Charles Carney, left, laughs at Henry Stoever, who’s asking whether Charles might put on roller skates and ride tied to the back of a car for his last 60 Peace Walk miles. They were joshing outside El Mezcal restaurant in Ottawa, KS, Sept. 9, before walking 3 miles toward Pleasant Grove.—Photo by Jane Stoever

September 10, 2021September 10, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nonviolence

Charles Carney, on Peace Walk 9/9, plans to arrive in KC MO 9/17

On Aug. 10, Charles began walking 5-6 miles a day. Now he has only 60 miles left to make it to his destination: the National Security Campus (NSC), where nuclear weapon parts are made, at 14510 Botts Rd., KC MO. All are invited to join the last days of his trek or meet us at 3 pm at NSC.

Charles Carney hits the trail, the Flint Hills Nature Trail, Sept. 1, in the (relative) cool of the evening.--Photos by Ann Suellentrop unless otherwise noted

September 2, 2021September 7, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nonviolence

Charles Carney’s Peace Walk, Sept. 1

As Charles Carney began the 96-mile Flint Hills Nature Trail east of Council Grove, KS, Sept. 1, he saw with pleasure the flat, sandy-gravel path sheltered by trees on either side.