Ann Suellentrop shares public health fight to save our country
“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...
Sign up by 10/31 for PSR course on nuclear radiation
By Jane Stoever PSR, Physicians for Social Responsibility, is offering an 11-week online course on the dangers of radiation from nuclear weapon production, testing, and storing. Ann Suellentrop, vice chair of PeaceWorks-KC and a Board member of PSR, wants to catch KC...
Endorse Nuclear Abolition Day 9/26
PeaceWorks KC has already endorsed Nuclear Abolition Day, Sept. 26, a day celebrated around the world. Now YOU can endorse the day individually. At https://www.nuclearabolitionday.org/, click on the button “Endorse the Appeal” to add your name to the appeal the UN...
‘Beginner’s Guide to Nuclear Weapons’
The extraordinarily devastating force and deadly toxicity of nuclear weapons sets them apart from all other weapons. The detonation of a single nuclear bomb can kill hundreds of thousands and cause injury and illness for many more. A limited nuclear war can kill up to...
Beyond the bomb: learning the truth, honoring legacy
By Kimmy Igla Eighty years ago this August, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, changing the course of history and revealing a critical truth: the harm caused by nuclear weapons begins long before they are used—starting in the communities...
By Jane Stoever “We remember Ron’s trademark beret,” says Charles Carney. “He wore it in defiance of pastors who wanted him to remove ...
A new book details the tragedies of and the connections between the devastating assassinations of America’s foremost 1960s leaders. On December 8, 1999, ...
[U.S. Navy photo] Dr. Michael E. Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, has authored “Palomares: ...