Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 6:00 PM business meeting, 7:00 PM Public Meeting. At 7:00 our guest speaker, Steve Farber will talk about the International Movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the Anti-BDS movement in the U.S.  Steve is a Jewish member of Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio.  Location:  Northwood Building, 2231 N. High St., Room 100.  Parking available behind the building in “R” spaces. 

Thank you for inviting me to speak here. I’m grateful and honored, but it is not an easy task. I’ve spoken on television and to large crowds and to important big shots, but here you are asking me to speak to hundreds of thousands of ghosts and billions of ghosts in waiting. To think about this subject wisely we must keep all of them in mind, as well as those who tried to prevent Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those who survived, those who reported, those who forced themselves to remember over and over in order to educate others.

Perhaps even more difficult is thinking about those who rushed to make all those deaths and injuries happen or who went along unquestioning, and those who do the same today. Nice people. Decent people. People superficially similar to you. People who do not abuse their children or their pets. People perhaps like the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet who was asked last week if he would launch a nuclear attack on China if President Trump ordered him to. His response was a very principled and reasonable yes, he would obey orders.

This is about a clean, environmentally benign, cost effective way to capture energy which is otherwise lost.

Cisterns are normally considered to be rainwater storage devices either underground, or at ground level. Also, cisterns are not involved with the production of electricity.

The 12 continental U.S. places with the most annual rainfall are all on the west coast. Their average figures range from 105.6” at Grays River Hatchery, Washington state, to 130.6” at Aberdeen Reservoir, also in Washington.

What if a rather large cistern were placed at the top of a 200’ tower, just offshore in Washington state, where the rainfall was 108” (9 feet) per year? What if this device collected rainfall, and periodically allowed the accumulated water to escape by way of turbines just above the water’s surface? The turbines would be connected to the nearest power transmission lines

How much electricity could such a cistern/turbine combination generate in one year? Let’s talk about one acre in size, nine feet in depth. One acre is 43,560 square feet. This is not much larger than the average putting green at a golf course.

A concert to commemorate the 72nd year after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A concert dedicated to the ending of global nuclear weapons and for the liberation of all oppressed by militarism, racism, and classism

August 6, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (Sunday)
Columbus State Community College, Center for Technology and Learning, 290 Cleveland Ave., Columbus (corner of Cleveland and Mount Vernon Avenues).
Free parking for the first 40 participants in the employee lot on the north side of the building (parking vouchers available at the venue)

Central Ohio residents will gather to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings. The concert will feature Rocco Di Pietro’s original pieces along with Korean, Japanese, and American works that focus on the broken world in a quest for wholeness.

Contact for details: Mark D. Stansbery, 614-517-7237, walk@igc.org
Sponsors include:
Community Organizing Center, Columbus Campaign for Arms Control, Central Ohioans for Peace, Puffin West Foundation.

I was asked to speak about prosecuting weapons dealers and war makers with a focus on Saudi Arabia. There are, I think, many ways that one could go about that. I say this as a non-lawyer, with certain perverse preferences that lawyers generally don’t share.