A note from Joseph Gerson of the American Friends Service Committee: “AFSC has played a lead role in organizing a conference this weekend that will bring together many of the world’s leading disarmament and nuclear abolition experts and activists and will feature a keynote address by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. “I am excited [...]

A dispatch from Henry Lowendorf, of the Greater New Haven Peace Council: During May, hundreds of representatives from all the nations will be reviewing the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty at the United Nations. Last year President Obama called for nuclear abolition, but maybe “not in my lifetime.” We say: “Nuclear Abolition In Our Lifetime!” We realize [...]

Barack Obama is undoubtedly the U.S. president most committed to nuclear disarmament since Kennedy. People all over the world have cheered President Obama’s commitment to move toward nuclear disarmament, Judith Le Blanc & Kevin Martin write in an article published in People’s World. Yet the stark reality is U.S. and Russia maintain over 20,000 nuclear [...]

I’m going to bum you out. Every day, as you go about your daily business — heading to work, hanging out with family and friends, tending to chores, Twittering away — there are thousands of nuclear weapons pointed right at you. In minutes, they could wipe out everything — all people, all history, everything that [...]

Weeks after the signing of the cautious US-Russia START Treaty, the antinuclear movement has ratcheted up efforts to push for more rigorous steps toward a nuclear-free world. On the eve of next week’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, 1,000 leading peace, justice and environmental activists and scholars from communities across the United States and [...]

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, 2004 Gandhi Peace Award recipient, demonstrates the vision and courage needed to restore peace policies consistent with international law and the US Constitution. His opposition to targeted drone assassinations by the CIA points to the policies needed to establish peaceful and just systems in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. There has been almost [...]

By Jonathan Schell What is the purpose, if any, of the nuclear bomb, that brooding presence that has shadowed all human life for sixty-five years? The question has haunted the nuclear age. It may be that no satisfactory answer has ever been given. Nuclear strategic thinking, in particular, has disappointed. Many of its pioneers have [...]

By Amy Goodman, Edited by Denis Moynihan, Foreword by Bill Moyers Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate media’s lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the “experts” who, in Goodman’s words, “know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it [...]

With this publication, taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent each 2009 income tax dollar: from 26.5 cents for military-related spending to 13.6 cents for military and non-military interest on the debt to 2 cents for education. The publication also shows, in addition to individual income taxes, where the money came from [...]

Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice will again be marking the cost of the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by placing the March stone on the Memorial Cairn at the intersection of Broadway, Elm and Park streets in New Haven on Monday evening, 6 p.m., April 5. This stone will be inscribed with the March death [...]