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January 16, 2022January 17, 2022 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

We could save the Earth

I recall words of Martin Luther King Jr. and share selections from a book by children and quotes from a prophetic archbishop who calls for abolishing nuclear weapons arsenals around the world.

In detention on Memorial Day, recalling the deaths caused by contaminants from making parts for nukes in KC: from left, Henry Stoever, Brian Terrell, Brother Louis Rodemann, Jim Hannah, and Tom Mountenay.--Photo by Tom Fox

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

Do ‘court support’ at 1/26 and 2/18 trials of nuke protesters

Five activists opposed the US nuclear weapon build-up on Memorial Day 2021 and come to trial in KC MO on two separate dates. Come for court support!

Ann Suellentrop displays her banner, Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal, at the Royal Gorge in Colorado during a recent trip to see peace leaders in the state.—Photo by Kristin Scheer

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nonviolence, Nuclear weapons

Come to KC nuke protest on Memorial Day, leader says on national webinar

Join us in protesting and committing civil disobedience next Memorial Day at the Kansas City, Mo., nuclear bomb parts plant.

This billboard, posted at Main and 37th Street in KC MO by PeaceWorks-KC in January, was funded by ICAN.--Photo by Jim Hannah

October 22, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

Norway is first in NATO to plan to observe first meeting of ‘states parties’ to nuke-ban treaty

With a new government in Norway, it became the first NATO state to announce that it will participate in the Meeting of the States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in Vienna next year (March 22-24).

"No guns!" art by Rosie Cavila gives us hope as we work for no nukes!--Courtesy of Pace e Bene, Campaign Nonviolence

October 13, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

Lobbying for bills to cut risk of nuclear war

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!

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.