By Leonard Eiger We should all be very clear that our nation and the whole world are at or near an existential tipping point. The question is, Which way will it go – to the light or towards the extreme darkness that those in power (and who exert force to their own, selfish ends) foolishly push humanity. At a time when we honor the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a quote that could have come from Dr. King, yet is from another prophet (and poet), comes to mind: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, […]
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the World’s Future
By Lawrence S. Wittner [Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner (https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/ ) is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press).] Late January of this year will mark the first anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This momentous international agreement, the result of a lengthy struggle by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and by many non-nuclear nations, bans developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, and threatening to use nuclear weapons. Adopted by an overwhelming vote of the official representatives of […]
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A Buddhist Peace Pagoda Rises in Washington To Quell the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Northwest Dharma News, Winter 2022, Volume 35, #1. Written by: Glen Milner A new incarnation of the Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda is rising on the shores of Washington state’s Hood Canal, just a few hundred feet from the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in North America. Construction of the pagoda, supported by Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhists monks, has steadily progressed over the past two years. Peace Pagoda image by Senji Kanaeda, August 2019. The Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa that seeks to unite all sentient beings, regardless of race, creed or […]
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Archbishop Hunthausen: A Lesson on Faith & Disarmament
By Leonard Eiger Originally published by the National Catholic Reporter on Aug 23, 2021 “I am grateful for having been invited to speak to you on disarmament because it forces me to a kind of personal disarmament. This is a subject I have thought about and prayed over for many years. I can recall vividly hearing the news of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. I was deeply shocked. I could not then put into words the shock I felt from the news that a city of hundreds of thousands of people had been devastated by a single bomb. Hiroshima challenged […]
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Activists around Puget Sound are Bannering for Nuclear Abolition Now!
Peace activists from grass-roots organizations in and around the Puget Sound region of Washington State will be bannering this week on and around the International Day of Peace (September 21st) and the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (September 26th). The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. The 2021 theme for the International Day of Peace is “Recovering better for an equitable and sustainable world.” The UN General […]
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