Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-192-august-28.html
PEACE HEROES
Kathy Kelly
Daniel Ellsberg
Veterans for Peace
KATHY KELLY
Kathy Kelly. “Museum of Unnatural History.” The Catholic Worker (August-September 2012). A distinctive meditation on Kabul, Afghanistan’s Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation Museum (OMAR) and Dr. Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book. The Museum contains ordnance and land mines used in Afghanistan over four decades of warfare and photographs of maimed people. The Butter Battle Book is a parable of the Cold War and its fragile, dangerous nuclear stalemate, with only MAD “holding off attempts by either side to exterminate the other” in WWIII. “…in many ways World War III is starting, is already under way. Kelly’s indefatigable, frontline work for peace around the world combined with her thoughtful writings on war and peace like this essay will surely eventuate in her being named a saint by the Catholic Church. –Dick https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=CW20120801-01.1.4&
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Roots Action: “Organizing Against ICBMs.”
Aug 19, 2024 09:51 pm
Dear friends: This year, we learned that the U.S. effort to replace its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program was an astonishing 81% over budget and years behind schedule. In an April 2023 interview, Daniel Ellsberg described the profound danger of keeping the ICBM force: “For over half a century, the existence on both sides of vulnerable land-based ICBMs […]
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VETERANS FOR PEACE BOOK CLUB: CONFRONTING ANOTHER CAUSE OF WARS
NEW BOOK DISCUSSION BEGINS SUNDAY, SEPT. 1
Be the Change Book Club
Be the Change Book Club is a VFP working group that meets virtually once or twice a month on Sunday afternoons at 4:30 ET, 3:30 CT, 2:30 MT, 1:30 PT. Members explore, through chosen book readings, the ways in which colonization, racism, gender bias, and other biases show up in our lives and in our activism. We learn more about ourselves and others through discussions geared toward personal and organizational growth, in a mutually supportive atmosphere reflective of the VFP mission of “building a culture of peace.” In September we begin a new discussion focusing on class, with the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson. The assignment for September 1 is to read the first 35 pages. Scan the QR code at right, or go HERE, to sign up.