Archive for May, 2010
The Cost of War – Krista Brewer
Dear Friends, Our friends at the National Priorities Project have alerted us to a sad but important milestone that is approaching. On this coming Sunday, May 30, at 10:06am, the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter – designed to count the total money spent for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars – will reach the [...]
Mother’s Day for Peace = Success!
Mother’s Day for Peace The Georgia WAND community had a wonderful Mother’s Day for Peace event this past Sunday afternoon. We were inspired and recharged by our speaker Dr. Mildred McClain and our honorees, Dianne Valentin, Jeannie Honniker and Annie Laura Stevens. Thanks to all who volunteered, financially supported, and attended and make this event [...]
Our Beloved, Ruth Schmidt
// Dear Georgia WAND Community, Our dear friend and wonderful WAND member, Ruth Schmidt, died yesterday afternoon (Monday, May 24, 2010) at Piedmont Hospital. Her dear friends Barbara Gifford and Jean Wright and her niece, Lorene Brown, were with her. Ruth, the peacemaker, lived a life of activism: an educator, Agnes Scott college president, board [...]
NPT at the UN in NYC – Bobbie Reports
Greetings, Georgia WAND! I had an amazing trip to New York City from April 30-May 10. I met up with Elizabeth Baldwin and Steve Leeper, Director of the Hiroshima Peace Culture foundation in Hiroshima, Japan and along with thousands of anti-nuclear advocates participated in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. Prior to the beginning of [...]
May 2010
Georgia WAND Events in MAY Monday, May 3 • 12:30pm • WAND Nuclear Committee Meeting • Carter Library Museum Cafeteria • Savannah River Site monitoring, nuclear reactor design flaws, and new START actions. ——————————————— Friday, May 7, 14, 21, & 28 • 12pm • Stand for Peace Corner of Peachtree St. and 14th St. Stand [...]
Reprint: Environmental Racism
Siting Nukes in a Poor Black Town ~ If A Black President Does It, Is It Still Environmental Racism? by Bruce Dixon BLACK AGENDA REPORT (5/4/10) In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of nukes in mostly black Burke County, [...]
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