How to: commemorate the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6 is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. August 9 is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. One year in South Bend we held a Nagasaki commemoration and our signs were...
View ArticleHiroshima Day 2009, Worcester, Massachusetts
11 people gathered at Worcester City Hall today to repent, as Americans, for the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for nuclear disarmament. A recent poll found that 61% of...
View ArticleRadical priest Carl Kabat profiled in NYT
Nice profile in today’s New York Times of Fr Carl Kabat, OMI, a Catholic priest with longstanding ties to both the Plowshares and Catholic Worker movements: At 75 he continues his crusade against...
View ArticleHiroshima Day 2010, Worcester, Massachusetts
17 people gathered at Worcester City Hall today to repent, as Americans, for the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for nuclear disarmament. Dave Griffith posted his great...
View ArticleHiroshima Day 2012, Worcester
20 people gathered at Worcester City Hall today to repent, as Americans, for the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for nuclear disarmament. Related: How to: commemorate the...
View ArticleHiroshima Day 2013, Worcester
13 people gathered in Worcester’s Lincoln Square today to repent, as Americans, for the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for nuclear disarmament. Vatican Radio: The President...
View ArticleTransform Now Plowshares activists sentenced; and, the Worcester connection
Reuters, yesterday: A U.S. judge sentenced an 84-year-old nun, Sister Megan Rice, on Tuesday to 35 months in prison for breaking into a Tennessee military facility used to store enriched uranium for...
View ArticleClowns, nukes, and other items
Plowshares: Boing Boing mentions a Plowshares action by Greg Boertje-Obed, Carl Kabat, and Michael Walli. They hammered on a silo and spread their blood about while dressed as clowns. If I could Update...
View ArticleRemembering Nagasaki in South Bend
About twenty people gathered at the Federal Building last night in South Bend, Indiana, to repent and pray on the 61st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Another, more secular, vigil...
View ArticlePop Culture Peacemaker Shoutout
On last night’s Jeopardy!, the $1600 answer in the category “Rage Against the Machine” (all about people raging against machines, not about the band) was: In a 1980 antiwar protest, these priest...
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