19 activists board guided missile destroyer USS Sterett and hold banners: Disarm the Sterett: Love your Enemies
Japanese Buddhist Nun, Sr. Ichi Kawa, joins the "Faith and Resistance Retreat" for the commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
At the Pentagon, on August 6, Sr. Ichi led the procession into the Pentagon and drummed and chanted throughout the vigil and then led the recession.
At the Sterett, she and others walked down Key Highway to the fence surrounding the pier at whcih the Sterett is moored and drummed and chanted, with others from the community, throughout the 2 hour witness.
Clare Grady, Liz McAlister, Eve Tetaz, Peter DeMott, Bill Streit arrested at the Pentagon August 6, 2008 while others sat in sackcloth and ashes
in repentance for the bombing of Hiroshima and 63 years of continued nuclear threats.
FAITH AND RESISTANCE RETREAT
August 5 - 9, 2008
- to remember and repent of
the crime of NUCLEAR WEAPONS
- to commit to their elimination
from the earth.
at St. Stephen and the Incarnation
16th and Newton Streets, N.W.
Washington D.C.
News Concerning Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte who are giving talks around the country
Disarmament and the New Creation
Article written by Sisters Carol, Ardeth and Jackie for the Dominican Alliance Newsletter
in preparation for a corporate stance for the disarmament of nuclear weapons
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