Recently I noticed that the trifold brochure for the Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (OCANW) still says the Doomsday Clock (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) is at 100 seconds before midnight. I updated that to 90 seconds, which is the current frightening number. I’m attaching the updated trifold brochure in both Word and .pdf formats. TRIFOLD for OCANW TRIFOLD for OCANW
National Priorities Project site than it used to find out how much your city is spending on nuclear weapons and associated costs. : https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/trade-offs/?state=53&program=15&place=5374060 .
I read the actual Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). It is bold and necessary. But — like any treaty — it includes some bureaucratic wording that some people find it hard to wade through. Someone SUMMARIZED it into this EASY-TO-READ document: TPNW — Easy-to-read summary I hope you will share this widely.
President Biden has — for decades — been an EXTREME WAR HAWK — a fierce COLD WARRIOR. He is continuing that now that he is President. He has filled his administration with officials who strongly want wars against both Russia and China. Congress keeps appropriating more and more and more money for the Pentagon — and for provoking and escalating a new nuclear arms race. This was posted on October 14, 2023. Biden keeps escalating the crisis: https://popularresistance.org/a-strategic-nightmare-sneaks-into-washingtons-political-agenda/
This long article has fascinating – and frightening – information. Almost no Americans know how horribly reckless, dangerous, crazy the U.S. policies for nuclear weapons have been for many decades. This article was posted March 27, 2024: America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is. We rarely consider the dangers these days, but our existence depends on it. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/nuclear-war-scenario-book-siop-weapons-annie-jacobsen/
Military “solutions” do not work! They only make problems worse. Each side’s violence against the other side provides an excuse for retaliation. We must stop the cycle of violence. We must understand the root causes and use honest diplomacy (not bullying and threats) to solve the underlying problems. During the Cold War – and again now – each side’s fear of the other has led to an escalation of nuclear weapons that are more technologically sophisticated – and DESIGNED to make it easier to start a nuclear war. I have written about practical steps toward reversing that. We […]
Many people assume there is a spectrum of organizing methods ranging from 100% nonviolence (nice, but not strong enough) to violence (powerful and effective.) ACTUALLY, THAT ASSUMPTION IS FALSE!!! Actually, RESEARCH HAS PROVEN that adding any violence to an effort REDUCES the likelihood of winning. I highly recommend the easy-to-read book by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan – Why Civil Resistance Works – in which they researched a century of major campaigns for change. They found that those that were scrupulously 100% nonviolent were much more likely to win than those that included some violence. I mention this […]
This article was posted on March 7, 2024: Who Could Have Predicted the U.S. War in Somalia Would Fail? The Pentagon. A 2007 Defense Department study found glaring problems with America’s Horn of Africa campaign plan. The U.S. military plunged ahead anyway. https://theintercept.com/2024/03/07/pentagon-somalia-africa-terrorism-failure/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
You can WATCH this through the blog link below and/or READ what we said during the interview at a different link below. The February 2024 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series provides information, insights, and enthusiasm for supporting social and economic justice through the Poor People’s Campaign. You might know that the Campaign had existed in the late 1960s. Well, it is back and organizing vigorously for the original purposes – and for making progress on related issues. Glen said today he is interviewing one of the tri-chairs for Washington State’s Poor People’s Campaign. Anyone anywhere can watch […]
Many Americans seem to accept Israel’s current cruelty to Palestinians. Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu TOTALLY REJECTED a “two-state” solution. He wants Israelis to dominate, with NO rights for Palestinians. Just now I wrote the attached analogy, which seems compelling. I encourage people to read and share it. Native Americans — Palestinians
Here are MANY examinations of mainstream media bias for Israel and against Palestinian people. Posted Jan. 13, 2024: Media Cover Up Israeli Calls To Drive Palestinians Into Permanent Exile https://popularresistance.org/mainstream-media-covers-up-israeli-calls-to-drive-palestinians-into-permanent-exile/ Posted Jan. 12, 2024: Israel is targeting journalists in Gaza. Sign the petition to demand an investigation into the targeted killings of journalists in Gaza NOW! https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/investigate-the-killing-of-journalists-in-gaza-now?akid=373438.57552298.swbYLv&rd=1&source=mo&t=1 Posted Jan. 9, 2024: Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows: A quantitative analysis shows major newspapers skewed their coverage toward Israeli narratives in the first six weeks of […]
King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a “radical redistribution of economic and political power.” https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/25/martin-luther-king-was-radical-not-moderate?vgo_ee=k2jIECcPP24SvUHOjogvWM%2Fa8rzVrD8A28fuZdXegaA%3D
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home It is a radical concept of love that demands we embrace those we know and those we don’t, to acknowledge, as King said, “that all life is interrelated, that somehow we’re caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny.” https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/01/13/how-the-vietnam-war-pushed-mlk-to-embrace-global-justice-not-only-civil-rights-at-home/
Ever since the Civil Rights Movement’s era, I have appreciated King’s strong, bold, radical message. I have read his books and studied him extensively. I know a number of people who had worked very closely with him during the Movement, including the older white man sitting next to him on the first integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1956. For too many years people want to water him down to the “Dream” speech, because a “dream” is something not real – something possibly for the future – something that does not compel radical change now. That is why the […]
In case you have not read this for a while, here it is again. It is always relevant and powerful. Martin Luther King .Jr., delivered this speech on Dec. 11, 1964, when receiving Nobel Peace Prize The quest for peace and justice It is impossible to begin this lecture without again expressing my deep appreciation to the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament for bestowing upon me and the civil rights movement in the United States such a great honor. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols […]
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