This month marks 81 years since the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan. That decision continues to have repercussions today. Long time UU and Peace Activist David Delk will share with us the present status of nuclear weapons as we move closer each year to Midnight on the Doomsday clock. He will explore how our shared UU values call us to raise awareness about how nuclear weapons modernization makes us more insecure and how the costs associated with that modernization moves resources from funding real human needs. David will also share a little about what our government is working on related to our vast nuclear arsenal and how we might take action to encourage appropriate action.
David Delk is a native Portlander. Currently he is a member of the First UU Church in Portland as well as here at Wyeast. He is on the board of the UUs for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC) as well as the leader of the Economic Justice Action Group at First UU, while also working with the Peace Action Group. He spends his time advocating for democracy reforms, promoting limits on campaign contributions, the formation of public banks and other causes to reduce the power of the corporate sector as well as efforts to TAX The Rich with efforts to
reform the “progressive” state income tax and instituting a CEO Tax on corporations which pay their CEOs excessively compared to their average worker.
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