“Resistance or…. ” – a poem

Editor’s Note:The following poem was written by Larry Kerschner, a member of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and Veterans for Peace Rachel Corrie Chapter 109. You can read his work at larrywrites. His books are available at peacepoetpoetry. The banner photo is of Larry reading his poetry at the Vietnam Full Disclosure Teach-in: An Honest Commemoration of the American War in Vietnam on November 5, 2015. Larry’s poetry is also featured in the April 2024 Ground Zero Newsletter. **************** Resistance or… “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time […]

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EINSTEIN’S POSTWAR CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION

The scientist’s efforts helped create the movement for arms control and disarmament. By Lawrence S. Wittner Although the popular new Netflix film, Einstein and the Bomb, purports to tell the story of the great physicist’s relationship to nuclear weapons, it ignores his vital role in rallying the world against nuclear catastrophe. Aghast at the use of nuclear weapons in August 1945 to obliterate the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein threw himself into efforts to prevent worldwide nuclear annihilation. In September, responding to a letter from Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, about nuclear weapons, Einstein contended that, […]

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Nuclear Colonialism: Hearing Indigenous Voices

Seventy years ago, on March 1, 1954, the United States tested the first deliverable hydrogen bomb, code named “Bravo”, at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, home to the Marshallese people. Bravo was the largest U.S. nuclear test ever exploded, with a yield of 15 megatons, 1000 times larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (and way beyond the predicted yield of 6 megatons). It blasted a crater 1.2 miles in diameter into the atoll. The nearby islands’ inhabitants as well as U.S. military personnel stationed there for the test were exposed to the radioactive fallout, and subsequently evacuated. All […]

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Protect Freedom of Expression: Free Julian Assange Now!

Editor’s Note: The following statement was issued as a news release on February 26, 2024. For press inquiries, please contact Leonard Eiger at outreach@gzcenter.org or at 360-375-3207. Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action supports Julian Assange for exposing war crimes committed by the United States (US) government, and calls on the government of the United Kingdom (UK) release him immediately and facilitate his safe return to Australia. Last week in London, lawyers for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked the British High Court of Justice to grant him a new appeal, which would likely be his last chance to avoid […]

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Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda Update

The current status and progress of the construction of the Ground Zero-Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda, February 21, 2024 By Senji Kanaeda In February 2024, we started building the niche in front of the pagoda that houses the Buddha statue. It is the figure of the Buddha who first preaches after attaining enlightenment. When visitors come in from Clear Creek road to Ground Zero Center, it faces southeast so that it heads straight to the front and is at its sunniest. The conductor of all the construction is Jim Lyman, a local builder who met Fujii Guruji, the founder monk of […]

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