On 4/4, see ‘Silent Fallout’ at Shawnee Mission UU Church

On 4/4, see ‘Silent Fallout’ at Shawnee Mission UU Church

See the documentary Silent Fallout, a 2023 film with Japanese director Hideaki Ito and narrator Alec Baldwin. This English-language award-winning film contends our entire continent has been contaminated by radiation from 101 atmospheric nuclear tests, primarily in...
On 4/13, see ‘Silent Fallout’ at All Souls in KC

On 4/13, see ‘Silent Fallout’ at All Souls in KC

See the documentary Silent Fallout, a 2023 film with Japanese director Hideaki Ito and narrator Alec Baldwin. This English-language award-winning film contends our entire continent has been contaminated by radiation from 101 atmospheric nuclear tests, primarily in...
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...
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...

Ann at UN: progress toward nuke-free world

Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, a leader in PeaceWorks KC and the national Physicians for Social Responsibility, is telling us what she’s seeing/hearing/suffering/loving at the third meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. From this “ban...
Parties to nuclear ban treaty meet at UN

Parties to nuclear ban treaty meet at UN

“Mankind and Hope” wooden sculpture at the UN.–Photo by Ann Suellentrop “Together, we are putting the plan to finally eliminate nuclear weapons into action,” Melissa Parke e-mailed today, March 3, 2025. She was writing to the states that are party to the Treaty on the...