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SUMMARY:January Virtual LTE Writing Party
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE to join the Zoom Meeting using the link.\nMeeting ID: 860 7520 2296 • Password: 342586 \nPlease click links below for A “How to” guide on how to write letters to the editor (English & Spanish). \nRemember\, Your Voice is Power. \nCLICK HERE “How to” in English \nCLIC AQUÍ “How to” en Español \nCLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL POSTS >
URL:https://trivalleycares.org/events/january-virtual-lte-writing-party
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SUMMARY:MLK Day January 17\, 2022: Remembering King’s Opposition to Nuclear Weapons
DESCRIPTION:By Ralph Hutchison\, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance\,\nand Marylia Kelley\, Tri-Valley CAREs \nMore than fifty years after his death\, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. is remembered as a civil rights icon\, recalled for his stirring words at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 when he declared “I have a dream!” \nBeyond that\, for lots of people\, things get blurry. When an MLK parade is led by the local high school ROTC honor guard\, equipped with guns\, in full military regalia\, one wonders what the apostle of nonviolence who decried war in all forms\, might have said about that. \nNo need to guess\, though\, about what King would have said about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons\, and we might suspect he would not have been displeased that the anniversary of the Treaty’s entry into force falls just a week after his January 15th birthday\, on January 22. \nHere are just a few of the things King said about nuclear weapons back in the day. \nIn the last Sunday sermon he preached\, days before his assassination\, King said: \n“It is no longer a choice\, my friends\, between violence or nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence\, and the alternative to disarmament\, the alternative to a greater suspension of nuclear tests\, the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation\, and our earthly habitat would be transformed into an inferno that even the mind of Dante could not imagine.” \nKing was not a latecomer to the discussion about nuclear weapons. In the early days of his public ministry\, in 1957\, he said: \n“The development and use of nuclear weapons should be banned. It cannot be disputed that a full-scale nuclear war would be utterly catastrophic. Hundreds and millions of people would be killed outright by the blast and heat\, and by the ionizing radiation produced at the instant of the explosion . . . Even countries not directly hit by bombs would suffer through global fall-outs. All of this leads me to say that the principal objective of all nations must be the total abolition of war. War must be finally eliminated or the whole of mankind will be plunged into the abyss of annihilation.” \nIt is worth noting that King’s objections to nuclear weapons were not superficial; he understood the devastating effects of the bombs and the reality that the effects of nuclear war would not be limited to the combatants; they would be global. In that sense\, he was decades ahead of his time—scientists now know that even a limited nuclear exchange would trigger a nuclear winter that would cause a global famine. \nKing also called for his religious colleagues to join him in his denunciation of nuclear weapons. “I am convinced that the church cannot remain silent while mankind (sic) faces the threat of being plunged into the abyss of nuclear annihilation\,” he wrote in 1963 in the Christian Century. “If the church is true to its mission\, it must call for an end to the arms race.” \nUnfortunately\, King’s statements about nuclear weapons could be delivered today with equal cogency and even more urgency. Now\, nine nations possess nuclear weapons\, and they are deployed on hair-trigger alert around the globe. Military experts like former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry and analysts at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists agree that the threat of nuclear devastation is greater now than at any time in our history. \nIf you want an MLK sound-bite on nuclear weapons\, here’s what he said about nuclear war in an article in Liberation magazine\, 1959: “I have unequivocally declared my hatred for this most colossal of all evils.” \n \nCLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL POSTS >
URL:https://trivalleycares.org/events/1692
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SUMMARY:Tri-Valley CAREs’ January Virtual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tri-Valley CAREs’ would like to remind you of our monthly virtual meeting that will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday January 20\, 2022. Our monthly meetings are open to all interested members of the public. You will get up-to-the-minute reports on nuclear issues\, and become part of a peace and justice community that is creating positive change locally\, nationally and globally! Join us virtually! \nAnd\, if Spanish is your first language\, I’d love to provide translation on request. Contact me at raiza@trivalleycares.org. I hope to see you! \nCLICK HERE to join the Zoom Meeting using the link.\nMeeting ID: 865 9716 9610 • Password: 204636 \nCLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL POSTS >
URL:https://trivalleycares.org/events/tri-valley-cares-january-virtual-meeting
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SUMMARY:Join us on Friday\, Jan. 21\, 2022 at 9 AM
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URL:https://trivalleycares.org/events/join-us-on-friday-jan-21-2022-at-9-am
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SUMMARY:Join Us to Celebrate the TPNW!
DESCRIPTION:January 22 marks the first anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Fifty-nine states parties have ratified the TPNW to date\, with Peru becoming the most recent country to do so in December. \nIn Livermore\, we will celebrate the TPNW one day in advance of its anniversary\, on Friday\, January 21 from 9 AM to 10 AM at the Livermore Lab West Gate. \nHere is where you come in: We have lots of 8-foot banners to hold in the lawn area in front of the nuclear weapons lab where workers and others can read the positive messages. Can you help hold one of them to support the treaty? \nPlease see our flyer below with TPNW event details\, including safety protocols. \nThen scroll to see the banners. Which would you like to hold? Email your first and second choice to marylia@earthlink.net and we will have your banner ready for you! Or\, come at 9 am to hold any one of them. \nTHE BANNERS \nNuclear weapons are illegal (TPNW) 3 feet by 8 feet: \n \nDr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. on nuclear weapons 3 feet by 8 feet: \n \nU.S. – Join the TPNW 3 feet by 8 feet: \n \nText of the TPNW 5 feet by 3 feet: \n \nBTW\, if you are reading this e-newsletter from afar and cannot come to Livermore\, check the ICAN calendar/map tool to find an event near you. Many groups across the country (and beyond) are celebrating the TPNW’s first anniversary with banner holdings at nuclear facilities and other sites\, bell ringing\, vigils\, flyer postings around campuses and other locations\, zoom events and more. Additional events are being added daily. Click here for a calendar of events. \nCLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL POSTS >
URL:https://trivalleycares.org/events/join-us-to-celebrate-the-tpnw
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