"CWers COME TO KC AND HELP US PROTEST THE NEW NUKE-PARTS PLANT Sept 7-8 and Oct 6-7"- a special message from Jane Stoever
Frank Cordaro
over two years. They did all the right things. They petitioned their
city leaders, held rallies, went to community meetings, attended City
Council session, made their views know to their elected official at
all levels and did the home work on the facts. They have helped to
unearth the ugly 'death dealing' history of the old N-Weapons plant.
Which explains the reason why the Nuke Bomb industry needs a new plant
in KC -- because the old one is too 'hot and toxic' to be used! They
have great local support and strong African American leadership within
thier ranks , mostly because the rich and the powerful are shamefully
stealing "in broad day light" limited public monies to make the
building of the plant more profitable - a real scandal to the poor and
needy of KC! Why CWers? "CW'ers see people hungry; we feed them. We
see violence perpetrated by governments; we resist. It's just that
simple... We live and work daily with the poor who suffer directly
from the miss use of our national resources, directed towards making
nuclear bombs, keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. We know first
hand, that even if these god awful bombs are never used, they kill the
poor daily by denying them the resources needed to meet their most
basic needs." Frank Cordaro - an excerpt from "The Fire of
Resistance VS Nuclear Weapons. Think long and hard about coming to KC
and doing civil resistance. There is a local peace community who needs
us and would welcome us. FC)
Previous posting: 14 arrested - 9 of them CWers Follow Up: 2 Flickr
slide shows, short video clips and links to news coverage of Aug 16th
Protest at the New KC N-Plant
http://groups.google.com/group/National-CW-E-mail-List/browse_thread/thread/22cacc8a69ec91dc
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jane Stoever <janeps...@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010
Dear CW'ers. friends and supporters:
Come to KC and protest our new nuke-parts plant on Sept 7-8 and Oct 6-7
Catholics Workers and their widespread communities are toughing it out
as the backbone of civil resistance to Kansas City’s 61-year-old
nuke-parts plant and its replacement. On June 18, the first four to
commit CD included two current CW from IA and MO and one longtime CW
supporter. That’s 3 of 4. On Aug. 16, among the 14 to commit
wholehearted CD were 9 were from current CW communities, 2 former
CWer’s, and 2 who “swim with the CW tribe,” to use Frank Cordaro’s
phrase. That’s 13 of 14. Lucky lottery numbers!
New chances for Catholic Workers from near and far to engage in KC
activism as full-fledged resisters or support folk:
• Sept. 7-8, with Sept. 7 being an all-day planning-and-preparing
extravaganza before the Sept. 8 groundbreaking for the new plant. Come
to KC Sept. 6, Labor Day, and jump into the strategy and artwork
starting at 10 a.m. Sept. 7 at All Souls Unitarian Universalist
Church, 4501 Walnut, KC, Mo. For free lodging (bring sleeping bag or
say you need a real live bed) or bed-and-breakfast (you pay) for Sept.
6-8, contact Jane Stoever at 913-206-4088, janeps...@yahoo.com.
• Oct. 6-7, with Oct. 6 being a prep day for activities related to the
Oct. 7 municipal court hearing at 11 a.m. for the 14 people arrested
Aug. 16. Contact Jane re lodging.
A swarm of CWers and their friends beefed up both the June 18 and the
Aug. 16 resistances as supporters. After the 14 CD-ers blocked a
Caterpillar Aug. 16, some stragglers wandered in front of another big
Cat, sitting still at the time, and soon, the other 20 earth-movers
came to a standstill. Gina Cook, staff member at KC’s Holy Family CW
House, was holding her ground before the first Cat, as was Rachael
Hoffman, also a Holy Family staffer. “I saw you!” Gina told one of the
stragglers later. “You stopped all the other vehicles!” The group as a
whole shut down the earth-stripping for two hours and kicked off a Web
frenzy of news stories and pics, including those from Joshua McElwee
in National Catholic Reporter Online,
http://ncronline.org/news/peace/catholic-activists-arrested-kansas-city-nuclear-weapons-facility.
Dorothy Day would say: Come on over to KC and help us tell the world
we want green jobs, not mean jobs! At the field that last year
sprouted soybeans, we want beans, not bombs!
Love
Jane Stoever
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For more info contact:
Jane Stoever
913 206-4088
janeps...@yahoo.com
Ann Suellentrop
913 271-7925
annsu...@gmail.com
Holy Family CW - KC MO
816 753-2677
holyfa...@gmail.com
Cherith Brook CW - KC MO
816 241-8047
cherithb...@yahoo.com,