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Peace

• March of Dimes 2005
  Supporting the WalkAmerica fundraiser as a celebration of grassroots good deeds and a true reflection of the American culture of life. April 2005

• Intersecting Circles
  This article – written by Mario and a F/friend of ours, George Crispin, for a Quaker audience – speaks to the need to honor the truth of others, even if we do not share their perspective. January 2004

• Perspectives from September 11th
  As it has for many other people, the aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington DC has led Mario to examine the roots of his pacifism. October 2001

• Chiapas
  The Christmas-time massacre of 45 Mayan Indians was intended as an act of terrorism. World reaction can overturn that terror with love and support. January 1998

• Iraq
  Warfare and sanctions have not changed Saddam Hussein's position, but have brought harm and death to innocents. Is it not time to try, with equal fervor and strength, the ways of peaceful persuasion? March 1998

Nuclear Weapons

• Unilateral Disarmament
  Mickleton Monthly Meeting has adopted a minute calling on the United States government to undertake unilateral nuclear disarmament. October 1998

• Nuclear Weapons Taboo
  Mickleton Monthly Meeting calls upon everyone to examine their conscience, to prepare for the day when the world will abhor nuclear weapons. October 1998

• Hiroshima
  If the world is to achieve nuclear disarmament, Americans must exhibit the moral leadership to account for our responsibility in creating and using the A-bomb. January 1998

• New Agenda Coalition
  Ireland and other countries, frustrated by "the complacency of the nuclear weapons states," have united to bring about the political will to achieve nuclear disarmament. This is a way in which nations and their citizens can build a global conscience that cannot tolerate nuclear weapons. July 1998

• Nuclear Responsibilities
  On April 20, 1998, a Quaker meeting in Mickleton, New Jersey, hosted a discussion about nuclear weapons, featuring a physicist who has been both a weapons designer and an advocate of nonproliferation. The full transcript of Ted Taylor's presentation is available online. August 1998