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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Following The Golden Rule
By Leonard Eiger For most of humanity’s recorded time on Earth people have tried to follow the Golden Rule, which is essentially the principle of treating others as we would like to be treated. And yet today it seems that in far too many ways and situations this fundamental axiom has been turned on its head, especially when it comes to relations among nations. Racism, xenophobia, militarism, and their ultimate manifestation – nuclear weapons – rule the day as a symbol and tool of power in many nations. As for the United States, we have twisted the Golden Rule, expecting […]
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U.S. Nuclear Posture: Time To STOP Posturing!
By Leonard Eiger February 8, 2022 A new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is issued every four years and, although officially a “legislatively-mandated review that establishes U.S. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture,” it essentially paves the way for our nation’s continuing reliance on nuclear weapons. Presidents have used the NPR to implement their individual nuclear weapons agendas, and in the previous administration, it went a bit off the rails, and much attention was paid to the Trident nuclear weapons system. MINI-NUKES ON TRIDENT? The 2018 NPR dropped quite the bombshell when it called for essentially changing up the mission […]
READ MOREAbolish Nuclear Weapons? Follow the Golden Rule
By Leonard Eiger On July 16, 1945 the United States government detonated the first atomic device in the test named Trinity. Less than one month after the Trinity test, the United States dropped two atomic bombs – on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – that killed over 100,000 people in less time than it took to type a few of these words. As many as 220,000 were dead from the effects of radiation by the end of 1945. Even today, 64 years later, survivors and subsequent generations suffer the effects of radiation. On August 24, 1949, the Soviet Union […]
READ MOREPeace flotilla and nonviolent direct action at Trident nuclear submarine base mark anniversary of atomic bombings (Press Release)
Contact: Leonard Eiger (425) 445-2190 or Glen Milner (206) 365-7865 Silverdale, Washington: Local peace activists staged a water-based nonviolent protest and witness for peace in Hood Canal at the Trident nuclear submarine base on August 9th marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The activists travelled along the Bangor waterfront where nuclear warheads and Trident missiles are loaded onto submarines and where submarines are resupplied for ballistic missile patrols in the Pacific Ocean. On August 8th activists staged a vigil and nonviolent direct action in which some activists blocked the entrance gate to the same Naval base. The August 9th peace flotilla, named “Boats by Bangor,” […]
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