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Final climate warning

PeaceWorks KC April 12, 2023

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, “Our world needs climate action on all fronts–everything, everywhere, all at once.”

Vindicated

PeaceWorks KC October 27, 2020

The 50th ratification of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on Oct. 24 gives witness that nuclear arms are weapons of mass destruction and global genocide.

Speakers from International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons to speak in KC area April 28

PeaceWorks KC April 5, 2018

Two speakers from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons will accent the humanitarian aspects of the threat that nuclear weapons pose and will give the inside story of how ICAN won the Nobel Prize this year.

Marion Küpker from Germany to speak Oct. 18: ‘Ousting US Nuclear Weapons from Germany’

PeaceWorks KC October 5, 2017

Marion Küpker, who has worked for more than 20 years against the stationing of US nuclear weapons in Germany, is sharing her progress with US audiences. Hear her Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 7 pm at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, KC MO.

Worming our way toward a nuclear-weapons-free world

Jim Hannah August 12, 2017

Did you feel that tremor a few weeks ago? It didn’t get nearly the press it deserved; sweeping social movements seldom do—at first. But on July 7, when the United Nations adopted the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the pendulum of global public opinion registered a major shift toward the eventual tipping point of a nuclear-weapons-free world.

Hopeful News

PeaceWorks KC August 7, 2017

Describing the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Mary Hladky explained at the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance that the treaty prohibits the possession, development, testing, use, and threat of use of nuclear weapons. “The countries supporting this treaty … know that a crisis like the one now growing in North Korea could leap from a spark to an uncontrollable inferno in unanticipated ways.”

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Vindicated

Speakers from International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons to speak in KC area April 28

Marion Küpker from Germany to speak Oct. 18: ‘Ousting US Nuclear Weapons from Germany’

Worming our way toward a nuclear-weapons-free world

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