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Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....

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The collapsing US military & economic empire is making Washington & NATO even more dangerous. US could not beat the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran...a sign of psychopathology for sure. We must all do more to help stop this western corporate arrogance that puts the future generations lives in despair. @BruceKGagnon

Friday, February 12, 2016

To War or Not to War - That is the Question


Maine Veterans for Peace members John Morris (top) and Peter Morgan (bottom photo) joined us in Bath on ash Wednesday for the start of the Lenten season vigils at the Navy shipyard.  We carry on again this coming Saturday at 11:30 am and each Saturday in February through to the end of March. Thanks to the Smilin' Trees Disarmament Farm for their Lenten vigil coordination. (Photos by Roger Leisner)



To war
or not
to war
that is the question

Any answer
other than
a resounding 
NO
is too
frightening
and insane
to ponder

Why though
does
the
American
war machine
push on
seemingly
determined
to bomb
and slaughter?

The Massacre of the Innocents
in a technological
rerun
of King Herod
on steroids

Where does this
war cancer come from?
How does one lance
this ugly boil 
of endless 
death mongering?

Shall we 
ignore 
this rush
to war?

Lent is
40-days
of penitence

Where are
the church voices
calling for peace
and for turning
the local
sword making factory
into plowshares? 

Why
is the
silence
so deafening? 

Are we
on our knees
because we 
are in prayer
or in an act
of submission? 


This Day in History:  On February 12, 1997 in "Prince of Peace Plowshares," six activists poured blood and symbolically disarmed U.S.S. The Sullivans, a nuclear-capable Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. All were eventually convicted of destruction of government property and conspiracy. 

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