OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #137,
AUGUST 2, 2023.
Hiroshima Nagasaki Day
returns
Sunday August 6 - 7:00
pm Omni Center
Omni and our
predecessors have held Hiroshima Nagasaki commemorations since 1971, to honor
the deaths of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and remind ourselves of the terrible consequences
of using weapons of mass destruction. It's especially relevant as nuclear
nations are facing off over the Ukraine war and multiple other hotspots around
the globe.
The Remembrance will
include talks by Marshallese leader, activist and international speaker
Benetick Maddison, and Physicist and writer on both nuclear and
climate issues Dr. Art Hobson.
Climate change has
caused a near-certain increase in August temperatures that make our
long-standing tradition of meeting at the Fulbright Peace Fountain
difficult. This year the commemoration
will feature a dinner from the MayDay Community Kitchen, which
is also a fundraiser to benefit the Omni project that feeds homeless people.
Very soon we'll put out an invitation with requests for RSVP's and more
information. The suggested donation for the dinner will be only $20, but there
is room for just 20-25 people. So please make reservations early.
US PEACEMAKERS v. NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND MILITARISM
Opposition to the Ukraine War
ICAN, US Financial Institutions Reflect Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Staughton Lynd. Nonviolence.
Mike Gravel. Pentagon Papers.
“Russia, Donbass, and the reality of the conflict in Ukraine.”
Editor. mronline.org (7-30-23).
The
people of the West need to come to grips that the government of Ukraine has
done great violence against its own people in the Donbass and that the people
of the Donbass had every right to choose to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
Money talks: 109 global
institutions restrict investments in nuclear weapons.
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Bill
Griffin. “Staughton Lynd 1929-2022.” The Catholic Worker (June-July,
2023). The legacy of Staughton Lynd’s
devotion to “a more just and equitable
world” is found particularly in Nonviolence
in America: A Documentary History, edited by him and his wife Alice.
“Tribute to Mike Gravel, American
Hero.” Consortium News (7-19-23).
Sen. Mike Gravel’s ashes were buried in Arlington
National Cemetery last month. Gravel was a hero for his courage in opposing
U.S. militarism and reading Dan Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers into the
Congressional Record. Read here...