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“The moral force of the Ban Treaty is being felt,” Ann Suellentrop says at the rally for the first anniversary of the “entry into force” of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.—Photos by Jim Hannah

January 24, 2022January 25, 2022 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

PeaceWorks-KC celebrates first anniversary of nuclear ban treaty

On Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, peace-loving activists gathered to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the Ban Treaty) with a rally and caravan.

A year ago, on Jan. 22, Cris Mann (left) and Henry Stoever held this sign at our rally for the "entry into force" of the international Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.--Photos by Jim Hannah

January 15, 2022 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

On 1/22, celebrate Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

A short rally, a long caravan—what better way, in the time of coronavirus, to celebrate the first anniversary of the “entry into force” of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons? We'll park behind businesses at 46th and Main at 12:45 pm on Sat., Jan. 22, quickly decorate our cars and have a rally, and then caravan.

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).

Charles Carney, in 2020, pauses during a reflection near the National Security Campus, operated by Honeywell. Carney was one of about 15 persons there demanding a change in federal budget priorities, namely, "Human Care, not Warfare!"--Photo by Tom Fox

August 10, 2021September 14, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Ecology

Charles Carney begins 273-mile walk in Kansas for peace, justice, ecology

Trumpeting a loud wake-up call about the catastrophic dangers of nuclear weapons and climate chaos, Charles Carney is walking 273 miles from McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita to the nuclear weapons plant operated by Honeywell in Kansas City, MO—the National Security Campus. The flier he is sharing with persons as he walks across Kansas, beginning … Continue reading Charles Carney begins 273-mile walk in Kansas for peace, justice, ecology

March 7, 2021July 12, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons, PeaceWorks events

WE have to ‘make the Treaty work’–on banning nukes

We must speak up for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons because there are over 13,400 nuclear weapons in current arsenals, many on hair-trigger alert.

Ron Faust, a retired Disciples of Christ minister, holds out the promise of the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons--that it comes just in time to "create life and forestall death / To breathe in hope and breathe out a future / For our grandchildren and for all human races."

January 26, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Ecology, Economic justice, Nonviolence, Nuclear weapons, PeaceWorks events, Racism

A Call to Live Nuclear Free

Ron Faust sees the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as coming just in time "to create life and forestall death / To breathe in hope and breathe out a future / For our grandchildren and for all human races."

January 21, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

Letter in KC Star: NO-NUKE FUTURE

“PeaceWorks Kansas City celebrates the Jan. 22 enactment of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,“ begins Dave Pack in his letter to The Kansas City Star published Jan. 22.

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:

This billboard, designed by Robyn Haas, is at 71 Highway, south of 125th St. in KC, MO.

January 14, 2021January 20, 2021 PeaceWorks KC Nuclear weapons

Jan. 22 rally in KC & billboards mark ban of nuclear weapons

Billboards in Kansas City, Mo., and a 2 pm rally Jan. 22 will mark the “entry into force” of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. At the rally at 47th and Main, wave the flags of 51 countries that have ratified the treaty, learn about the treaty, and sing "Imagine"--Imagine no nuclear weapons!