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Where do we go from here: Cooperation or Catastrophe

December 15, 2022 Rodney Petersen

Watch webinar on the Golden Rule here! By Rev. Rodney Petersen As the good ship Golden Rule sets forth on a new voyage on behalf of nuclear disarmament, let’s acknowledge three nautical realities: 1) life in a boat requires knowing who else is in the […]

Chip, chip, chip. Against all odds.

December 15, 2022 John Bach

Watch webinar on the Golden Rule here! By John Bach The new voyage of the Golden Rule around the Great Loop [insert link] to hundreds of American towns and cities on behalf of nuclear disarmament reawakes in me an image from Vietnam, an image that […]

No, I can’t help! Psychic numbing and how to confront it

December 15, 2022 Kathie Malley-Morrison

by Kathie Malley-Morrison Recognition of the growing threat of nuclear disaster is being voiced increasingly as nuclear armed countries hurtle into a renewal of the Cold War. On October 22, 2022, on the major network (BBC News) ofhe US’s strongest ally (the UK), Dr. Cooney […]

Save The Baby. Save all of us.

November 13, 2022 Louise Coleman

By Louise Coleman When I was eleven, my little sister, Leslie, almost died. We had just moved into a creaky old house without any central heating. In Western New York, the frigid January air would seep through every crack and settle down into our bones. […]

Protest against war with Russia, Topsham, ME, February 2022. Photo: Bob Klotz/ Maine Beacon

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

November 11, 2022 Martin Halpern

by Martin Halpern originally published in Common Dreams Sixty years ago, the world was on the doorstep of a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The resort to nuclear weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis would have led to a nuclear holocaust from […]

Activists rallied to Defuse Nuclear War at six Massachusetts Congressional offices Oct 14. MAPA photos

Massachusetts Activists Say: Defuse Nuclear War!

November 8, 2022 Cole Harrison

About 100 Massachusetts residents rallied at six Congressional offices October 14 to call attention to the rising danger of nuclear war and demand Congressional action to keep us safe. The actions were part of a wave of 50 demonstrations nationwide on that day. At each […]

60 Years After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Activists Rally at Congressional Offices to “Defuse Nuclear War”

October 14, 2022 Maryellen Kurkulos

From 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., local constituents will hold protests outside the district offices of Congressional Representatives Auchincloss, Clark, Lynch, McGovern, Moulton, and Trahan. The activists will call on their Congressmembers to step up and urgently work to reduce the mounting dangers of nuclear war. The Massachusetts […]