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Tri-Valley CAREs photo of Karen Topakian

from Tri-Valley CAREs

Activists Solemnly Gather for “Back to the Brink” Event Commemorating the Bombing of Hiroshima

by Scott Yundt 

Around 100 people gathered at the Westgate entrance to Livermore Lab on the morning of Tuesday, August 6, 2024 to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The theme of the event was Back from the Brink: the imperative of nuclear abolition. A wonderful slate of speakers provided compelling insights and actions for the engaged audience. These speakers included Maylene Hughes – Back from the Brink Campaign and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Scott Yundt – Tri-Valley CAREs, Norman Solomon – journalist and author, Patricia Ellsberg – social activist and wife of Daniel Ellsberg, Hideaki Ito – director of the documentary film Silent Fallout, and Reverend Monica Cross – CA Poor Peoples Campaign. Participants were then led in a Japanese Tradition of Bon, performing symbolic dance steps in the road to remember the nearly quarter million dead of 79 years ago. Lastly 23 people took part in nonviolent civil disobedience by blocking the gate to the Lab after the Police issued the call to disperse. These protestors were cited and released.

Photo by John LaForge of Jane Stoever & Scot Bohl placing crime scene tape on earth moving machines at H-bomb factory expansion site.

from PeaceWorks Kansas City

50 resist nuclear bomb production in KC; 10 arrested

by Jane Stoever

With workers streaming into the Kansas City Nuclear Security Campus (NSC)—not a campus but a giant factory making parts for nuclear weapons—50 Catholic Workers and friends took action to try to stop production of nuclear weapon parts at the NSC. And—oh, yes—we protested the building of new structures to make the so-called campus twice its size.

Three persons put “crime scene—do not enter” tape on a huge dump truck on the field the NSC needs flattened for the new building to make new nukes. Workmen told us, “We’re just moving dirt,” an amazing disconnect between their labor and the factory to come that will do mechanical/electronic work for US nuclear bombs.