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Archbishop John Wester, Shailly Gupta Barnes, and Rep. Jim McGovern spoke at the conference on Nuclear War danger, January 21, 2023

Conference Exposes the Social and Economic Costs of the Nuclear Weapons Buildup

January 29, 2023 Jonathan King

by Jonathan King Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester’s cathedral sits across from a branch of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, part of a vast operation responsible for the production of nuclear warheads in the United States. The archbishop has been a consistent and leading […]

Animal victims of human wars: Be their voice

January 27, 2023 Kathie Malley-Morrison

By Kathleen Malley-Morrison Our nation, born out of a bloody genocide that gradually spread across the entire North American continent, has a long history of wars characterized by the pursuit of power and domination and cloaked in the language of freedom and democracy. Embedded in […]

Mandy Carter: Women’s Peace Walk, 1983

January 23, 2023 C.R. Spicer

By C.R. Spicer The Seneca Women’s Peace Camp was formed in 1983 to protest the scheduled deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles before their suspected shipment from the Seneca, NY Army Depot to Europe. Women organized feeder marches from Boston, and as far away […]

Cambridge Rally to Support the U.N. Nuclear Ban Treaty

January 20, 2023 Maryellen Kurkulos

(Cambridge) Today at 3:30 PM at Fresh Pond Shopping Center, Alewife Brook Parkway, residents of Greater Boston will hold a public standout to mark the second anniversary of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The protesters will call for the urgent elimination […]

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Envisioning a world without nuclear weapons

January 17, 2023 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes This article was originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Jan. 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global lifeboat supported by 70% of the world’s countries. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Energy’s […]

JFK’s Trailblazing Speech and Current Day Implications

December 15, 2022 Molly McGinty

By Molly McGinty Based on remarks at 21 November event, which can be found here. It was an honor and privilege to join Most Reverend John Wester and the Mass Peace Action team on 21 November for President Kennedy’s Trailblazing Vision of World Peace: […]

The Golden Rule Sails Again for a Nuclear-Free World!

December 15, 2022 Helen Jaccard

Watch webinar on the Golden Rule here! By Helen Jaccard In 1958 four Quaker peace activists sailed the Golden Rule toward the Marshall Islands in an attempt to halt nuclear weapons testing. The US Coast Guard boarded her in Honolulu and arrested her crew, causing […]