The path to a nuclear free United States could begin with a practical reordering of the nuclear budget as proposed by Global Zero in the report summarized below: The U.S. can reduce its nuclear force by over two-thirds, saving billions while maintaining an effective deterrent and setting the stage for all nuclear-armed states to work together on…
Category: Peace and Social Concerns
Plowshare 7
The program featured talks from Jeannine Hill-Fletcher, a professor of religion at Fordham University who testified at the Religious Freedom Restoration Act hearing and Paul Magno, a fellow plowsharesactivist with Patrick in the Pershing Plowshares in 1984. Some of the other KBP7 are expected to speak.Music will be provided by Luci Murphy, guitarist Scott Ainslie…
Constitutional Convention Resolutions
December 10, 2020Constitutional Convention Resolutions: Why You Should CareResolutions to amend the U. S. Constitution through a “Balanced Budget Article V Convention” resolution or a “Convention of States” resolution made significant progress in the South Carolina General Assembly and have already been passed in legislatures in many states. These resolutions represent a substantial danger to…
Allyship and Environmental Justice
This is the December meeting of theMidlands Group of the South Carolina Sierra Club Monday, December 28, 20207:00 – 8:30 PM via Zoom The Past Calendar Year has challenged our communities, our work, and our ideas in several ways. Elections, pandemics, climate change, and movements for racial liberation, have stretched us to organize creatively, and see…
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
THE ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY TOP TEN LIST PRIORITIES FOR THE BIDEN/HARRIS ADMINISTRATION FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMMUNITIES. Nuclear weapons will demand the immediate attention of the next Administration and Congress. The last remaining effectivearms control treaty between the United States and Russia, the New START Treaty, expires on February 5, 2021. The two trillion dollar…
Climate X Covid
We are living in rapidly changing times, facing challenges of monumental proportion: a global pandemic, climate change and related ecological disasters, and institutional racism and violence.These challenges are connected and we cannot address any one of them without addressing all of them. What can we learn from our experience with Covid19, and how does that…
Friends at City Council
Lori and Tayyaba’s presentation begins at about 3:16. Mayor Benjamin’s comments start about 3:23. Good afternoon, my name is Lori Donath and I represent the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Committee of Columbia Friends Meeting. Thank you for your work–it is heartening to hear about the work that the City and community organizations are taking up,especially the Richland County Black Collective.…
Hiroshima August 8th Event
Standing in solidarity for peace and social concerns at the Hiroshima vigil on August 8th. Maintaining social distancing and wearing mask Quakers wanted to speak up and be heard in the community. Quakers not wanting history to repeat itself fighting the good fight for our environmental safety and the future of our children. If you…
New Bombs Headed to old bomb plant?
By Suzanne Rhodes, special to Statehouse Report | An arm of the U.S. Department ofEnergy (DOE) is proposing to build plutonium pits for bombs at its Aiken Savannah RiverSite (SRS). The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), whose mission is in part, “toreduce the global danger from weapons of mass destruction” claims an urgent need forboth…