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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Nobel Peace Prize: No time to rest on our laurels
Greetings Friends of a Better World, This is a time of grave danger (to all of humanity). Never has it been more evident how few people have so much control over the fate of humanity. We quite literally live in (as author Elaine Scarry calls it) a “Thermonuclear Monarchy.” I have felt for many years that the story of the nuclear abolition movement has been something akin to the fable of the Little Dutch Boy who holds his finger in the dike to keep it from flooding the city. However, in our version of the story, the boy (or girl) […]
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