At the Center of the Arms Race

At the Center of the Arms Race

Nov 6, 2025

The Trump administration has announced it will end a moratorium on nuclear testing that has been in place since the early 1990s, putting a direct target on the backs of communities still dealing with the ramifications of the Cold War testing regime.The announcement is...
Rally seeks removal of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.

Rally seeks removal of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.

Nov 5, 2025

By Ann Suellentrop, MSRN After attending the 11/2-5 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, DC, I and about 1,000 health care workers and supporters held a 2-hour “Rally for America’s Health” on the National Mall. We marched to the...
Vets for Peace at APHA targets public health costs of war, militarism

Vets for Peace at APHA targets public health costs of war, militarism

Nov 5, 2025

By Jane Stoever Ann Suellentrop, MS RN, vice chair of PeaceWorks KC, is learning how much public health depends on peace and justice. She’s in Washington, DC, at the first American Public Health Association annual meeting she’s ever attended. She’s sending us pictures...

Observe Armistice Day 11/11, at 11am

Nov 4, 2025

Join the Kansas City Chapter of Veterans for Peace on 11/11 at 11. Well, they actually gather at Liberty Memorial, formerly called the National World War I Monument and Memorial, at 8 am at the entry to the monument. They put up a tent and gather as peace witnesses...

3 steps to take re Trump’s threat to test nukes

Nov 4, 2025

By Kristin Scheer In an Oct. 31 e-mail, the group Back from the Brink addresses concerns about President Donald Trump’s vague social media post Oct. 29 threatening to resume nuclear weapon testing. By Nov. 2, Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News,...
Ann Suellentrop shares public health fight to save our country

Ann Suellentrop shares public health fight to save our country

Nov 3, 2025

“Welcome to the fight. Welcome to the movement. Your mission begins now.” That was the opening message to 6,000 public health advocates at the annual meeting in DC of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The 6,000 were painfully aware of fired public health...