Stop the Doomsday Clock: Work for Peace, Justice, and the Planet
Humanity and the planet is now just three minutes from midnight when it comes to nuclear disaster and climate disruption. We must act. (Image: thebulletin.org)
“The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has just announced its latest nuclear Doomsday Clock moving ahead the minute hand to three minutes till midnight. The clock represents the count down to zero in minutes to nuclear apocalypse – midnight. This significant move of TWO minutes is the 22nd time since its inception in 1947 that the time has been changed.
“In moving the hand to 3 minutes to midnight, Kennette Benedict the Executive Director of the Bulletin identified in his comments: “the probability of global catastrophe is very high”… “the choice is ours and the clock is ticking”…”we feel the need to warn the world” …”the decision was based on a very strong feeling of urgency”. He spoke to the dangers of both nuclear weapons and climate change saying, “they are both very difficult and we are ignoring them” and emphasized “this is about doomsday, this is about the end of civilization as we know it”… The decision to move the minute hand is made by the Bulletin’s Board of Directors in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 18 Nobel Laureates…
“The time to act is now. There is so much that can and must be done. Congress will soon begin budget debates that include proposals to increase nuclear weapons spending for stockpile modernization by $355 billion over the next decade and up to a trillion in the next 30 years. Expenditures for weapons that can never be used and at a time when the economic needs for our country and world are so great…
“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly…” See the full article here: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/22/3-minutes-midnight
Obama’s FY2016 Budget Proposal
A Department of Defense base budget of $534 billion, the highest in history, plus an additional $51 billion war funding. http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/04/top-four-things-you-need-know-about-obamas-fy2016-budget-proposal
When you add the Pentagon expenses to all the other money spent on National Security –CIA, NSA, money for veteran’s affairs, and the share of interest on our national debt attributed to military spending, the true cost of the National Security State budget is over $1 Trillion (1,000,000,000,000) http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/02/b-billion-what-military-cuts
Stop the Doomsday Clock! Work for Peace, Justice and the Planet!
1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email:ja@malu-aina.org http://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Feb. 6, 2015 – 698th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
