A recent op-ed in the New York Times suggests the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 message is entering public discourse. The defendants have clarified that the U.S. nuclear weapon arsenal robs resources desperately needed for food, shelter, health care and education. The New York Times notes if we could reach a total nuclear weapons ban, we could save roughly $43 billion each year on weapons, delivery systems and upgrades. "That's roughly the same amount we've allocated in federal hurricane aid for Puerto Rico."
Marianne laments the madness which considers nuclear weapons a modern idol deserving of great sacrifice. She is rightfully wary of social and cultural developments that consider such madness normal.
She and I commiserate about recovering from hip fractures, (I've been on the mend for the past month), but we both know that Steve Kelly's invitation deserves our greatest attention.
Tiny postcards are the only means of correspondence allowed to or from the Glynn County jail. On one of these, Steve wrote a message to a large gathering in New York celebrating the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 action. "I am encouraged by your presence," he wrote, "to ask that this small effort of ours not be the last word in nuclear abolition."
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