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
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Gerry Condon, Francesco
Da Vinci, Daniel Ellsberg,
Friends Committee on
National Legislation, Abby Martin, National Network Opposing the Militarization
of Youth, and Jill Stein.
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will be the only data considered by the Foundation’s Board of Directors when
making the selection.
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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
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Dear Founding
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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
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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,
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