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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Peace activists join at Trident submarine base in honor of Dr. King
35 peace activists join at the Trigger Ave. entrance to the Trident submarine base in Bangor, WA, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Members of the Resist US-Led War Movement and Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action were present, on January 13, at the demonstration against Trident nuclear weapons at the Bangor submarine base. Due to severe cold weather, which caused mechanical difficulties with equipment, the Main Gate at Bangor was closed. About 35 demonstrators braved the 20 degree weather and voiced their desire for a nuclear weapons-free world to drivers and passengers in backed-up traffic entering the […]
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(Way) Beyond Vietnam: Time for us ALL to Break Silence!
At a time when the United States continues to sew and water the seeds of war around the world, it is timely to consider the speech delivered by the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. nearly 56 years ago when our nation was immersed in one of a litany of foreign misadventures. Dr. King delivered his Beyond Vietnam speech at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967. It was an extraordinary speech in which he questioned not only the role of the United States in the world, but also the very nature of our economic system. It resonates as […]
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Hell Is Not Predestined
TMS PEACE JOURNALISM, 16 Oct 2023 Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service 11 Oct 2023 – Humanity’s cancer shows up in Israel and Palestine. Missiles fly, hell makes global headlines, thousands of people die, many of them (oh God, of course) children. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declares: “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly. . . . We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything will be closed.” That’ll show ’em! Revenge rules. Kill the human animals, even if they’re […]
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Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan…
By Leonard Eiger April 4th is a day of remembrance – the day this nation lost a great prophet and truth teller, and a leader in the ways of nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on that day in 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered an extraordinary and prophetic speech titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” at Riverside Church in New York City. Dr. King is known for many powerful speeches and sermons, and yet Beyond Vietnam […]
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