Things You Can Do For Peace

At Kate Hawkins’ May Day fest Thursday in Cedar Rapids (see Ramblin’ in The Gazette on Friday, May 2), dozens upon dozens of folks showed up to enjoy gorgeous and great tasting homemade cookies and to leave behind cans/boxes of food as well as money for the Linn County Food Bank.
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Ban the Bomb - What Next?

The Peace Symbol recently celebrated its 50th birthday and brought with it memories of the late 1950s through the ’60s. Among them are the Russian’s launch of the first satellite, Sputnik, Fidel Castro’s takeover of Cuba, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the invasion of the Beatles, the escalation of the Vietnam War, protesters who [...]