Thanks to an invitation from Colonel(Ret.)Ann Wright, a tireless advocate for peace, a small group of us were able to take a guided tour of Peace Boat when it docked in Honolulu recently. Our gracious and very knowledgeable guide, Sumiko…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Peace Boat Voyages for Peace
Tagged with: Ann Wright, Hibakusha, hiroshima, ICAN, nagasaki, Nihon Hidankyo, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Peace Boat
Posted in I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Peace, Peace with Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Peace, Peace with Justice, Uncategorized
Refocus attention on growing threat of nuclear weapons
First published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser Oct 23, 2025. Re-published here with permission. Being pro-life has to mean doing much more to advance complete nuclear disarmament. Archbishop of Santa Fe, John Charles Wester, challenged those who attended this year’s…
Guest Post: Kings Bay Plowshares on “Democracy Now” April 5, 2019
Democracy Now will devote a segment of their broadcast coverage tomorrow (4/5/2019) morning to the Kings Bay Plowshares defendants. They have video interviews in their studio of the four bonded out defendants from last month and tape from the Fordham…
Tagged with: Catholic Workers, Democracy Now, King's Bay Plowshares, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessey
Posted in I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Politics and Religion
Posted in I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Politics and Religion
Honolulu monthly anti-nuclear vigil freighted with history of bombings in the Pacific
March 1, 1954: the U.S. tested “Castle Bravo,” the 15-megaton bomb—a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan–on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Bravo was just one of 67 nuclear tests done at Bikini…
Tagged with: Nuclear disarmament, UN Nuclear Ban
Posted in I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Uncategorized
Guest Post: After U.S. INF Withdrawal, Plowshares Activists, Facing Years in Prison, Warn of Nuclear Peril
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 released the following statement on Monday: “On Friday, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the landmark Intermediate Range Nuclear Missile Treaty (INF). ‘There is a real and present danger that this action will provoke a…
Tagged with: INF, King's Bay Plowshares, Martha Hennessy, Nuclear disarmament
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Politics and Religion
Posted in Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Politics and Religion
Kings Bay Plowshares defend their resistance to nuclear weapons
Professor Jeannine Hill Fletcher of Fordham University reads a statement she prepared about the King’s Bay Plowshares action being fully in accord with centuries-old, fundamental Catholic social teaching. In court this morning Prof. Fletcher provided deeply moving testimony about the…
Dawn Morais 