Board gains new chair, new treasurer

Board gains new chair, new treasurer

The new chair of the PeaceWorks KC Board is Dave Pack, and Greg Swartz is our new treasurer. These and other officers and Board members were elected March 9, during the PeaceWorks Annual Meeting in KC MO. Greg Swartz was voted the PeaceWorks Board’s treasurer at the...
Annual Meeting: fun, books, new gigs, photos

Annual Meeting: fun, books, new gigs, photos

“Let peace begin with me, Let this be the moment now,” sings Deborah Demeter, with all of us singing along. Outright fun marked the PeaceWorks KC Annual Meeting on March 9 at Simpson House. “Read this!” was said a few times. Plus “y’all come!” The meeting was so...
Cross Border Network gets Cheatum Award

Cross Border Network gets Cheatum Award

This year’s Kris and Lynn Cheatum Community Peace Award went to two recipients, including the Cross Border Network for Justice and Solidarity. This acceptance speech for the network was written by Judy Ancel, who was unable to be present, and was read by Corliss...
Ann at UN: What to do about nuclear weapons?

Ann at UN: What to do about nuclear weapons?

Ann Suellentrop sums up her trip to the UN concerning the nuclear ban treaty. I just got back from meetings at the UN Headquarters this past week on the Nuclear Ban Treaty (the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) which almost half of the world’s nations have...
Celebration of PeaceWorks KC Art Fair

Celebration of PeaceWorks KC Art Fair

Note: Photographer Jim Hannah offered these heartfelt reflections March 9 at the PeaceWorks Annual Meeting in KC MO. The slide show at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8o38JSZCI has 20 photos taken earlier, by persons other than JIm, and then 48 photos by Jim from...
Ann at UN: side sessions to treaty deliberations

Ann at UN: side sessions to treaty deliberations

During the third meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a meeting held at UN Headquarters in New York City, I was privileged to attend many side sessions peace activists coordinated. Survey results from asking youth about the...