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Ground broken for Honeywell plant in South KC
By KEVIN COLLISON
The Kansas City Star
A
billion-dollar replacement for the Honeywell nuclear weapon parts plant
had its ceremonial start today, with officials touting its local
economic and national strategic importance to 500 guests.
The audience of contractors, politicians, federal workers and others
gathered under a big tent pitched on what was recently a 185-acre farm
field near Missouri 150 and Botts Road. Big yellow graders rumbled in
the background, leveling the site for what will be a 1.5
million-square-foot campus.
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* By: Cynthia Newsome
KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A protest Wednesday
at the groundbreaking ceremony for a non-nuclear parts manufacturing
facility in south Kansas City, ended with seven people arrested.
The seven protestors were arrested and booked on a complaint of disorderly conduct.
Kansas
City Police officials say the protestors were in the street trying to
prevent guests from getting to the groundbreaking ceremony.
An
estimated 40 members of Kansas City Peace Planters, and their
supporters, gathered near the construction site at 150 Highway and Botts
Road.
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By Joshua J. McElwee - NCR staff writer jmcelwee@ncronline.org
http://ncronline.org/news/peace/catholic-activists-arrested-kansas-city-nuclear-weapons-facility
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Singing choruses of “we shall not be moved” while
scattering sunflower seeds, 14 activists were arrested here Aug. 16
after blocking an earth moving vehicle on the site of a proposed
nuclear weapons manufacturing facility.
The acts of civil disobedience came at the end of a three-day
conference which drew peace activists here from around the nation. The
efforts were aimed at building awareness of and resistance to the
construction of the weapons plant, which will replace an existing
plant here.
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability a national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup
http://www.ananuclear.org
for further information, contact:
Nickolas Roth 914-673-6666
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
or local contacts listed at end of advisory
for immediate release Wednesday, January 27, 2010
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY FY 2011
NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUDGET REQUEST
The FY 2011 budget request will be released on Monday, February 1,
2010. The Obama administration has laid out an aggressive
nonproliferation agenda that includes deep reductions in nuclear
stockpiles, ratification of a nuclear test ban, and decreased
prominence for nuclear weapons in US defense policy. Despite this
agenda, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) budget request will ask
Congress to significantly increase nuclear weapons activities,
including funding for construction of new facilities that will expand
U.S. warhead production capacity. The DOE request will not reflect
recent independent scientific conclusions that existing nuclear weapons
can be reliably maintained for decades under current, well-established
programs.
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a
national network representing communities downwind and downstream from
U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, is concerned that increased funding
for nuclear energy and weapons research and production will rob
precious resources for needed environmental cleanup and clean,
sustainable energy solutions.
Items of interest:
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Published on National Catholic Reporter
by Joshua J. McElwee
The
Obama administration is moving ahead with the development of new
nuclear weapons components at three key weapons facilities at the same
time it is conducting a sweeping review of U.S. nuclear weapons
policies that could lead to further slashing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
For
the moment, U.S. nuclear weapons policies appear to be running in
contrary directions, and while some critics of U.S. nuclear policy are
cautiously optimistic, they are also worried President Obama’s nuclear
disarmament vision is not yet being supported by concrete policy
actions.
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KC breaks silence about environment
http://www.unews.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=9b342a90-2271-4cac-bdaf-484d476624e6
By: Alexia Lang
Posted: 1/11/10
Consider the silence broken in Kansas City.
Several
hundred Kansas Citians gathered Jan. 8-9 at the Reardon Convention
Center in Kansas City, Kan. for the third annual Breaking the Silence
Environmental Conference.
Organized by Building a Sustainable
Earth Community, the theme for the conference this year was how health
and the environment connect.
Richard Mabion, founder of the
conference and popular voice on KKFI, said the conference is about
making connections with other people who are passionate and
knowledgeable.
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By Arley Hoskin, KC Nursing News
Originally appeared here
December 7, 2009
Most nurses strive to avoid death, but on Wednesday evenings, Ann Suellentrop, RN, dresses as death.
Suellentrop works for Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention of nuclear weapons production and use.
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The Path to Zero
by Jill Ragar Esfeld
SHAWNEE — Good Shepherd parishioner Ann Suellentrop loves the number
zero. To her, it is the most important number in the world. And she
truly believes, with God’s grace, the world can reach the number zero
in her lifetime – global zero, that is; total nuclear disarmament.
Suellentrop’s dreams may be global, but her focus is local. She is a
member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and a board member of
PeaceWorks Kansas City, the metro area’s leading voice against the
nuclear arms race.
Originally published at www.theleaven.com.
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Originally published at
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090910_a_hundred_holocausts_an_insiders_window_into_us_nuclear_policy/
Posted on Sep 10, 2009
By Daniel Ellsberg
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of Daniel Ellsberg’s
personal memoir of the nuclear era, “The American Doomsday Machine.”
The online book will recount highlights of his six years of research
and consulting for
the Departments of Defense and State and the White House on issues of
nuclear command and control, nuclear war planning and nuclear crises.
It further draws on 34 subsequent years of research and activism largely on nuclear policy , which followed the intervening 11 years of his preoccupation with the Vietnam War . Subsequent installments also will appear on Truthdig. The author is a senior fellow of theNuclear Age Peace Foundation .
American Planning for a Hundred Holocausts
One
day in the spring of 1961, soon after my 30th birthday, I was shown how
our world would end. Not the Earth, not—so far as I knew then—all
humanity or life, but the destruction of most cities and people in the
Northern Hemisphere.
What I was handed, in a White House office,
was a single sheet of paper with some numbers and lines on it. It was
headed “Top Secret—Sensitive”; under that, “For the President’s Eyes
Only.”
The “Eyes Only” designation meant that, in principle,
it was to be seen and read only by the person to whom it was explicitly
addressed, in this case the president. In practice this usually meant
that it would be seen by one or more secretaries and assistants as
well: a handful of people, sometimes somewhat more, instead of the
scores to hundreds who would normally see copies of a “Top
Secret—Sensitive” document.
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Posted on Thu, Jul. 23, 2009
Speakers take dim view of storing toxic mercury in KC
By CHAD DAY
The Kansas City Star
Take Kansas City off the list of potential storage sites for the nation’s
elemental mercury, residents and others urged federal officials tonight.
The opposition came during at a meeting held by U.S. Department of Energy,
which is preparing an environmental impact statement on storing the toxic
metal at the Kansas City Plant on Bannister Road.
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