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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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons – No Utopian Dream
By Leonard Eiger & Glen Milner January 28, 2024 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history. The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. It specifically prohibits countries from producing, testing, acquiring, possessing or stockpiling nuclear weapons. It also outlaws the transfer of the weapons and forbids signatories from allowing any nuclear explosive device to be stationed, installed or deployed […]
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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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Hear the Hibakusha… Before it’s Too Late!
Introduction by Leonard Eiger, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Testimony by Ms. Tokie MIZUNO, Hibakusha of Hiroshima, as recorded on May 5, 2010 at First United Methodist Church, Seattle, Washington Seventy eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, a United States (US) warplane dropped an atomic bomb, which detonated over the city of Hiroshima, Japan early in the morning. The blast, radiation and firestorm caused by just a single bomb left approximately 80,000 people dead and 70,000 injured. Of the injured, tens of thousands more died in the subsequent days, weeks, months and years due to radiation-related effects.The multigenerational […]
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