Mining and Peace, Including Peace with Earth

by Barbara Sinacore
Albany Meeting

Mining at the present time is done in neither a peaceful nor an earth friendly manner. This is especially problematic as the mining of minerals, particularly rare earth minerals, are needed for electronic devices such as cell phones, and for green energy such as wind and solar.

Thoughts on the Peace Testimony

by Cary Andrews
Scarsdale Meeting

My Thoughts About Conscientious Objection

by Anne Barschall
Scarsdale Meeting

I was first inspired to pacifism when my father’s laboratory was bombed by student radicals opposed to the Vietnam War. A student was killed. Another student was seriously injured. The records of 25 years of my father’s research were destroyed. Moreover, bombers essentially missed their target — an Army Math Research Center that was situated above my father’s laboratory.