Join Back from the Brink and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on Thursday, March 4th for:Ending Nuclear Weapons Before They End Us: Opportunities Under The Biden Administration To Take Action The threat of nuclear war is real and growing, but momentum for nuclear weaponsabolition is on the rise. The Treaty on the Prohibition…
Category: War and Peace
Entering into Force
Sierra Club and a coalition of national environmental, peace, and public health groups celebrate the entry into force of the TPNW. We congratulate the United Nations, our affiliate theInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and the fifty one countries who have ratified the historic TPNW. The Sierra Club has long called for the total…
Nuclear Weapons Illegal
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…
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…
Westinghouse Decision
The Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility (CFFF) owned and operated by Westinghouse is located off Bluff Road in Hopkins, Lower Richland County, South Carolina. It manufactures nuclear fuel assemblies used in power plants. Leaks at the site have been an ongoing concern.Information about leaks and other radiological accidents are sent in technical documents difficult for ordinary South Carolinians to interpret. The…
Sounds of Silence
Brad Stocker, Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee Please join Columbia Friends and Brad Stocker for a Second Hour Program on December 20th at 11:30 to become more mindful of the way silence influences our care for the Earth. Do not break the silence unless you can improve upon it.” – William Ralph Inge. We often…
Dominion Energy Request
Many of you have heard about the proposed Dominion rate increase of 7.7%. As Tom Clements said in an Op Ed for the Lexington County Chronicle, Bonus section “During night hearings the week of Nov. 9, 2020, dozens of ratepayers voiced strong objection to the proposedrate hike. Comments came not only from average customers but…
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…
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…