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Peace Boat Voyages for Peace

Posted on November 25, 2025 by freecatholic808 — 1 Comment

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…

Refocus attention on growing threat of nuclear weapons

Posted on October 23, 2025 by freecatholic808 — 1 Comment

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…

Honolulu monthly anti-nuclear vigil freighted with history of bombings in the Pacific

Posted on March 2, 2019 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

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
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Guest Post: After U.S. INF Withdrawal, Plowshares Activists, Facing Years in Prison, Warn of Nuclear Peril

Posted on February 5, 2019 by freecatholic808 — 2 Comments

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…