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| | | published Monday, November 14, 2011 | 1055 Views :: 2 Comments |
November 14, 2011 Contact: Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D., Petition Coordinator (816)753-2057 or Ann Suellentrop(913)271-7925 Having once again collected in the range of 5,000 signatures from Kansas City Missouri residents, this time on two separate initiative petitions, KC Peace Planters turn in both sets of petitions to the City Clerk at 10 am on Monday, November 14, 2011.
Below is a short summary of each initiative, and below that is the precise legal language. We listened carefully to objections raised by councilmembers in our previous effort, and we believe these are strengthened and will more clearly stand up in litigation if necessary.
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| | | published Monday, September 05, 2011 | 421 Views :: 0 Comments |
By Lawrence S. Wittner From the History News Network
Dr. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany. His latest book is Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford University Press).
Should the U.S. government be building more nuclear weapons? Residents of Kansas City, Missouri don't appear to think so, for they are engaged in a bitter fight against the construction of a new nuclear weapons plant in their community.
The massive plant, 1.5 million square feet in size, is designed to replace an earlier version, also located in the city and run by the same contractor: Honeywell. The cost of building the new plant-which, like its predecessor, will provide 85 percent of the components of America's nuclear weapons-is estimated to run $673 million.
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| | | published Monday, August 29, 2011 | 1997 Views :: 1 Comments |
August 26, 2011 (after 4:30 PM)
Press Release Kansas City Peace Planters Contact: Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D. (Plaintiff in the lawsuit), Phone: (816)753-2057 Ann Suellentrop, (913)271-7925 On the petition for “Production of Nuclear Weapons Components Prohibited,” Judge Edith Messina has granted us an order to put our measure on the ballot -- a “Preliminary Writ of Mandamus.” Being preliminary means that the hearing already scheduled for next Monday will determine whether it will become permanent, but it also means that the City Council has to defend its actions because the default position is with the petitioners. It is not simply a two-sided matter where each side presents its case and gets equal consideration.
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Press Release Kansas City Peace Planters August 26, 2011
Contact: Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D. (Plaintiff in the lawsuit), Phone: (816)753-2057 Ann Suellentrop, (913)271-7925 At its regular legislative session August 25, the City Council voted (with only one dissenter) to keep the initiative petition entitled "Production of Nuclear Weapons Components Prohibited" off the ballot. Accordingly, we are filing today with the court for a Writ of Mandamus to safeguard our rights as citizens according to the City Charter to have it put on the November 8 ballot. All legal requirements were met:
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| | | published Friday, August 26, 2011 | 688 Views :: 0 Comments |
Aug. 25, 2011
By Lynn Horsley
From The Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Council declined today to place on the November ballot a measure challenging a new weapons plant in Kansas City.
The Council’s 12-1 vote against the ballot measure sets the stage for a lawsuit by a citizens group seeking the November vote.
The group calling itself KC Peace Planters gathered enough petition signatures for a ballot measure that would prohibit the production of nuclear weapons components at a billion-dollar plant under construction at 14500 Botts Road.
They recommended that the plant be converted into a “green technology” facility.
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August 4, 2011
By Lynn Horsley
The Kansas City StarA
majority of Kansas City council members sponsored a resolution today to
derail a citizens’ initiative against a new weapons plant in south
Kansas City. The resolution responds to an initiative
petition by the KC Peace Planters, who gathered enough signatures to put
a measure on the November ballot in Kansas City. The proposed ballot measure asks voters to
prevent the manufacturing of non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons
at a plant being built at 14500 Botts Road. The group would like to
turn the plant into a “green manufacturing” facility, possibly for wind
energy. But council members John Sharp and Scott
Taylor introduced a resolution today that declines to put the measure on
the November ballot. The resolution is co-sponsored by Mayor Sly James,
Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Circo and council members Jan Marcason, Dick Davis
and Scott Wagner.
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Jun. 08, 2011
By Lynn Horsley From The Kansas City Star
In the first step toward a possible November election, a Kansas City Council committee today rejected a proposal to convert a new weapons plant into a facility for green technology.
The council’s Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee voted 4-1 against a citizens’ proposal to prevent nuclear weapons components production at a plant under construction at 14500 Botts Road in South Kansas City.
A group calling itself KC Peace Planters gathered thousands of petition signatures on an initiative that seeks to convert the weapons plant into a manufacturing facility for environmentally progressive jobs.
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By Donald Bradley and Lynn Horsley
From The Kansas City Star
Too late to stand in front of bulldozers, an anti-nuke group has
presented a petition to try to defuse a bomb component plant going up in
south Kansas City.
Voters could see a proposed initiative on the ballot in November.
The petition does not seek to halt construction at the billion-dollar
Honeywell campus at Botts Road and Missouri 150. Instead, it would
divert the plant from its intended use to “green energy” manufacturing.
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| | | published Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | 2547 Views :: 1 Comments |
For immediate release: May 11, 2011
Contacts: Rachel MacNair, rachel_macnair@yahoo.com; Ann Suellentrop, annsuellen@gmail.com
Some 4,959 KC voters have signed a petition to prohibit the city’s involvement in supporting production of parts for nuclear weapons and instead to recommend support for green-energy jobs. Putting the petitionon the Nov. 8 ballot requires 3,572 verified signatures.
The KC Peace Planters* will sponsor a news conference about the petitiontomorrow, May 12, in Ilus Davis Park at 9th and Locust at 12:30 p.m. The petition focuses on the new nuclear weapons plant being constructed on Mo. Hwy. 150 between Botts Road and Prospect Avenue, close to Grandview. The new plant is designed to replace the current Kansas City Plant at Bannister Federal Complex. After the news conference, the KC Peace Planters will march to City Hall to deliver the signed copies of the petition (see below).
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April 15, 2011
From KSHB Action News
KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Sen. Claire McCaskill
(D-Mo.) directed the General Services Administration to create
contingency plans, including potentially relocating, should the EPA
place the Bannister Federal Complex on the National Priorities List of
Superfund Sites.
In McCaskill’s letter to GSA Commissioner Robert Peck, she gave a 90 day deadline for the agency to prepare a plan.
“Furthermore, while placement on the NPL will not necessarily mean the
facility is unsafe for employees, it is possible that the best course of
action could include an expedited relocation of employees,” McCaskill
wrote.
The EPA launched its inquiry after an NBC Action News Investigation
identified a list of toxins that has now reached 899, and a list of sick
and dead workers that exceeds 400.
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