by Sean ReynoldsSeptember 30, 2020 September 26th was the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. In Chicago, where Voices for Creative Nonviolence is based, activists held the third of three COVID-era “CarContinue reading
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
Car Caravan Sat 9/26 – Int’l Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – Chicago
Please plan to join Voices Saturday 9/26 for a Car Caravan and Rally to End Nuclear Weapons. It will be the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. We’ll be gathering at 11amContinue reading
Reversal – Kathy Kelly
August 6, 2020 With survival at stake, can weapon makers change course? Today, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer morning followingContinue reading
Beating Swords to Plowshares
by Kathy Kelly Inscribed on a wall across from the United Nations in New York City are ancient words of incalculable yearning: “They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.Continue reading
Memorial Day Car-a-Van for Peace and Disarmament
Starting at noon on Memorial Day 2020 (Monday May 25), Voices hosted a Chicago Car-a-Van for Peace and Disarmament traveling from Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood near the Voices office down to Henry Moore’s ominous “Nuclear Energy”Continue reading
COVID-19 and the Wasting Disease of Normalcy
By Brian Terrell “But what of the price of peace?” asked Jesuit priest and war resister Daniel Berrigan, writing from federal prison in 1969, doing time for his part in the destruction of draft records.Continue reading
National Security or Human Security?
By Leonard Eiger Crazy times! As we move through this time of health and economic crisis I find myself reflecting on the importance and power of language. Trump recently said of the fight to dealContinue reading
A Tale of Two Stockpiles
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Anniversary of his Murder in a Pandemic Year April 4, 2020 By Brian Terrell The United States Strategic National Stockpile of essential medical supplies maintained by the U.S.Continue reading
Afghanistan, Drones, Guantanamo, Iraq, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Nuclear Disarmament, Syria, Yemen
Let Us End Our Complicity in War – Bishop Gumbleton
We’re grateful for Bishop Thomas Gumbleton’s call to end complicity with war: although addressed to members of his own faith, his words challenge all who long to abolish war and weapons. Bishop Gumbleton traveled withContinue reading
Being History With Iran – Sean Reynolds
We went to Iran because you have to see these places before the U.S. blows them up, and it’s very good to see you here today in downtown Chicago, that’s also precious, for a similarContinue reading