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Rolla Peace News February 26, 2019 |
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Dear Friends: http://tomsager.org/Peaceletters/peaceletter022619.html In this newsletter is: 1. NOON VIGIL FOR PEACE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019 2. UPCOMING CLIMATE EVENTS a) Saturday, March 2, 9am to Noon: Citizens Climate Lobby b) Friday, March 15: Global school strike for the climate c) Monday, March 18: Great Rivers Environmental Law Center in Rolla 3. THE MISFIT MATHEMATICIAN (Tom's column, http://tomsager.org) a) Unbounded Arrogance b) Deadly Weather c) North Korea: Pray for Peace and Friendship d) Venezuela: Resisting the Coup 1. NOON VIGIL FOR PEACE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019 We vigil for peace in front of the Rolla Post Office, THIS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 FROM NOON TO 1:00 PM (and most subsequent Thursdays until peace is established). Please try to join us. The temperature is predicted to be in the 30s. If you do not feel comfortable standing with us in front of the Post Office, please consider driving by and showing your support for our message by honking your horn and flashing a peace sign. 2. UPCOMING CLIMATE EVENTS a) Saturday, March 2, 9am to Noon: Citizens Climate Lobby b) Friday, March 15: Global school strike for the climate c) Monday, March 18, 1:00pm: Great Rivers Environmental Law Center in Rolla Saturday, March 2, 9am to Noon: Citizens Climate Lobby will hold a chapter organizational meeting and workshop in the meeting room in the children's section of the Rolla Public Library. Come and help the Climate Lobby make a difference. For more information contact Susan Wrasmann, swras@fidmail.com Friday, March 15: Global school strike for the climate. Here's a map of the world with all the climate strikes planned for the 15th. Rolla is not on the map yet; but you could put it there. Monday, March 18, 1:00pm: Kathleen Henry, president of Great Rivers Environmental Law Center and Sarah Willey, Director of Outreach and Development, will be visiting Rolla. They will hold an informal Coffee Conversation with Great Rivers at Panera. Everyone is invited, no fixed agenda. Great Rivers has been fighting for our environment since 2002. 3. THE MISFIT MATHEMATICIAN (Tom's column, http://tomsager.org) a) Unbounded Arrogance b) Deadly Weather c) North Korea: Pray for Peace and Friendship d) Venezuela: Resisting the Coup UNBOUNDED ARROGANCE If you haven't watched this clip of Senator Dianne Feinstein talking down to a group of children, one as young as 7, you must see it to believe it. In response to a request to vote for the Green New Deal, Feinstein refuses, bragging that, “I’ve been doing this for thirty years. I know what I’m doing. ... I’ve gotten elected, I just ran, I was elected by almost a million-vote plurality. And I know what I’m doing. So, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.” Ok. So what has the good senator been doing for 30 years? On her watch: CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by 57 parts per million. Global temperatures have increased by almost 0.5° C. Feinstein's own State of California has seen record-breaking heat, droughts and wildfires. Internationally, we have gone from a relatively stable bipolar world with the United States by far the stronger of the two super-powers to a chaotic multipolar world embarking on a new nuclear arms race. Internally, we have gone from a relatively cohesive nation, to one plagued by internal strife. Economically, the wealth of the United States is now more unevenly distributed than any other industrialized nation. Student debt has ballooned to $1.5 trillion, a considerable portion of it for worthless “education.” Not much to brag about, senator. With a record like that, maybe you and the rest of us old-timers ought to retire and let the kids that you talked down to have a try at creating a better world. DEADLY WEATHER Here's an article from the Guardian that will take you through the extreme weather events of 2018. (There's quite a few of them) The article is worth spending some time thinking about. We can pray that 2019 will not be quite so bad, although we seem to be off to a bad start. NORTH KOREA: PRAY FOR PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP The second North Korea — US summit opens tomorrow in Hanoi. Pray for peace and friendship. However, as Christine Ahn and Gloiria Steinem note: “much of the U.S. leadership is singularly focused on forcing North Korea to unilaterally denuclearize as a precondition for peace talks. This approach is backward. To convince somebody to put down a gun, you first have to convince them they will not be harmed. We need to establish peace first to create the necessary conditions for denuclearization.” VENEZUELA: RESISTING THE COUP The US attempt to deliver “humanitarian aid at the point of a gun” to Venezuela fizzled last weekend. Opposition supporters impersonated red cross personal while the red cross and other respected humanitarian agencies refused to get involved with this scam. Apparently, in a false-flag operation, opposition supporters burned two aid vehicles on the Colombia side of the border and tried to blame the Maduro government. Meanwhile, Senator Marc Rubio reminds us all of what happened to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Panama''s Manuel Noriega as a result of “US humanitarian aid,” while Trump, Pence and Pompeo threaten invasion. Rolla Peace News is distributed by email once a week on Tuesday evenings (except on rare occasions) and is posted on the web at http://tomsager.org (click on Grassroots Rolla: at the top of rightmost column). If you don't wish to get notices of peace events in the Rolla area, let me know and I'll take you off this list. If you want to be added to this list, let me know. Wage peace, Helen helenm (at) fidnet.com |