Wednesday, August 16, 2023

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #139

 

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #139, AUGUST 16, 2023.

PeaceMakers
US Peace Memorial
Film Oppenheimer and Nuclear Abolition
Nukewatch and Nukewatch Quarterly

Abel Tomlinson Letter on UA Nuclear Weapons Program Resolution

   

US PEACE PRIZE  2023 NOMINEES

There are seven final nominees for the 2023 US Peace Prize:

Gerry Condon, Francesco Da Vinci, Daniel Ellsberg,

Friends Committee on National Legislation, Abby Martin, National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth, and Jill Stein.

You can read about their antiwar/peace work in the US Peace Registry. The information published there will be the only data considered by the Foundation’s Board of Directors when making the selection.

 The Foundation honors Americans who stand for peace by publishing the US Peace Registry, awarding the US Peace Prize, and working to promote and raise funds to build the US Peace Memorial in Washington, DC. We celebrate these role models to inspire other Americans to speak out against war and work for peace.

The US Peace Memorial Foundation is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3)

CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO OUR FOUNDING MEMBERS ARE.

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Michael Knox.  Ending U.S. Wars by Honoring Americans Who Work for Peace.  Washington, D.C., Pax, 2021 Edition.  A powerful consolidation of peacemakers. 

Chap. 1 “A Culture of War.”  Chap. 2 “A Culture of Peace.” Chaps. 6-8: Individuals and Organizations Honored.  This is the organization raising money to build a peace monument in D.C., city of war memorials.  From Chap. 1 by Knox: “Despite the horrors of deaths and suffering, brutality and destruction, and financial costs, our military-industrial-congressional-education-religious complex supports war as a cultural imperative.”  “U.S. militarism is an existential threat to the entire planet.  We must put the world first.  We must put peace first.”

  

         4.5 Million Dead!

 

 

Dear Founding Members and Friends,

US Peace Prize recipient Costs of War reports that deaths related to our post-9/11 wars have risen to about 4.5-4.6 million and counting. As U.S. aggression continues, we must demand peace and reinforce those working to end war and militarism. Please support the 
US Peace Memorial.

Fundraising has unexpectedly stalled. More than half the year has passed; as of today, we have only received $4137 in 2023 donations. Because we rely on volunteers, our annual operating expenses are less than $18,000. Unfortunately, only 68 gifts have been received.

Please help us to get back on track so we can focus on our priorities:

· Honoring more Americans who are working to end war.

· Publishing the US Peace Registry, which documents hundreds of role models for peace. 

· Awarding the annual US Peace Prize.

· Raising funds to build the US Peace Memorial in Washington, DC, dedicated to those who have publicly opposed war and/or promoted peaceful alternatives to war. The Memorial will serve as a shared public symbol to remind everyone that many Americans value peace and that opposing war is socially acceptable.

Michael D. Knox, Chair US Peace Memorial Foundation

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Nuclear Weapons and Oppenheimer

The Movie & the Moment to Stop Nuclear Rearmament.” Consortium News (7-26-23).  Oppenheimer should be required viewing by all those in Washington who are bent on spending $1.7 trillion over the next decades to build new nuclear weapons to kill us all, writes Marcy Winograd.  Read more

Nukewatch announces U.S. Activists to join international nuclear weapons protests in the Netherlands and Germany in August.​​​  Plus...
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From: Abel Tomlinson <abeltomlinson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 7:39 AM

Resolution on UA Nuclear Weapons Program

Dear Teresa Turk,

First, I want to thank you for all your great work on the Fayetteville City Council, especially on environmental issues.  On behalf of the OMNI Center and the Arkansas Antiwar Alliance, I am writing to you in regard to the issue of the University of Arkansas nuclear weapons program.  The program involves UA Engineering College professors and students researching and designing nuclear weapons components for the corporation Honeywell International.  The work is done here in Fayetteville and at Honeywell's Kansas City National Security Campus, where 80% of all U.S. nuclear weapon components are manufactured. 

Our peace group was very pleased that you signed our petition at the Farmer’s Market recently.  We currently have a total of 419 signatures calling for a Stop to the UA nuclear program.  I am writing to inquire if you would be willing to sponsor a city council resolution to call for a stop to the UA program?  Matt Petty had previously agreed to sponsor this, but unfortunately he resigned before it was introduced.

This program is really an embarrassment for our city.  The Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization ICAN, which spearheaded the internationally ratified Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, filed a report called Schools of Mass Destruction, listing the U of A and about 50 other universities involved in nuclear weapons research and development.

Fayetteville has a long history of opposition to nuclear weapons, including Mayoral Proclamations for the past 20 years by Mayor Lioneld Jordan and Dan Coody, so it would seem to follow that our city should say no to this program.  At least 53 cities have already passed resolutions to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that is now international law, and we hope that Fayetteville will as well, and also call on a stop to the U of A program.  I have written a draft resolution modeled on the cities that have already passed these resolutions, and updated it to include the U of A program.  Please let us know if you would be willing to sponsor such a resolution.

 Abel Tomlinson

OMNI Peace Action Committee, Chair

Arkansas Antiwar Alliance, Founder

 

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