Bill Winston's blog

We’ve had a big year here at the Fellowship of Reconciliation. And with your help, we can be even more successful in working for peace, justice and nonviolence in the new year.

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Thanks to your hard work, I’m pleased to report that the Senate has just approved the New START treaty, reducing the number of allowable nuclear warheads in the United States and Russia by thous

Twelve members of the US Senate held a news conference yesterday to say that the New START treaty was in trouble and its ratification should be held up.

More than six months ago, on April 8, 2010, the United States and Russia agreed to further reduce their nuclear arsenals with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). The U.S. Senate has so far failed to ratify this treaty negotiated by President Obama. Opponents believe the treaty gives away U.S. nuclear power and want to stonewall until the new Congress.

Such objections are meaningless. START is only an incremental step; it still leaves both the United States and other nuclear powers each with enough of a nuclear arsenal to blow up our planet many times over. Further it provides ”” wrongly we believe ”” first-strike options for the United States against certain nations (North Korea and Iran) while foreclosing such “rights” against other Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty partners.

The original START agreement expired last year. ACT NOW to get the U.S. Senate to ratify this treaty before their winter recess. The time is NOW.

Virginia will kill Teresa Lewis tonight, in less than an hour, at 9:00 p.m. It will be a moment of sadness and tragedy. It will be a stumble in our attempt at a moral society.

On September 27th, a Monday, Senator Bob Melendez is inviting his fellows New Jerseyans to a virtual Town-Hall meeting (actually phone conference) on the health care reform. It is amazing that a time when most politicians are running from the topic — thinking they passed a bill, so the crisis is past — that Senator Melendez is calling attention to the issue once again.

Note: Jason Wyman, a second year seminarian at Union Seminary in New York City, joins FOR this academic year as an intern.

Dear Friends, On behalf of Mark Johnson, our executive director, and staff and National Council of FOR, I am happy to welcome you to our new website.

Our address (URL) on the internet hasn’t changed but our appearance has. We hope you will enjoy the new site, which will allow you to research information from FOR’s online archives as well as read about our current work, campaigns, services and plans.

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