Monthly Archives: September 2014
Members of the TOU will be participating in the largest climate march in history this September 21st in NYC. The People’s Climate March will pressure the United Nations towards more transformative action.
We are proud that Grove Harris, our representative to the United Nations, has been invited to particpate in the Religions for the Earth conference at Union Theological Seminary.
“I often don’t understand a painting’s process until a title reveals itself to me. This was especially true with ‘Fukushima: More to Come’. The piece was created more than 2 years after the disaster. The title actually shocked me as I remembered the situation and feeling of dread and hopelessness about the after effects of the nuclear poisoning that will spread and last into the future. In the painting there are the three containment units at the edge of the sea. There is the black ink traveling through the earth and out to sea like contaminated water. There is a orange sun that seems burdened and constrained by a wire netting. Are the blue circles the sad souls of people who have lost their piece of heaven on earth? Perhaps…”
The 65th Annual DPI/NGO Conference Declaration was adopted by the conference on August 29, 2014. The TOU’s Grove Harris participated on the drafting team that worked to incorporate contributions to the document over the days of the conference and create a statement that can be used to move the work towards a transformative agenda forward.
TOU is co-sponsoring “The Things That Make for Peace” with United Methodist Women and a number of other collaborating organizations.
The TOU is proud to co-sponsor “Nuclear Power Is NOT the Answer to Climate Change” with Peace Boat US, Human Rights Now, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nuclear Information and Resources Service, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, and Abolition 2000 NY