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President Biden’s decision to raise the job of science adviser to a cabinet-level position could make Eric Lander one of the most influential scientists in American history.Credit.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
To the Editor:
“Is an Adviser Necessary to Help Elevate Science?” (Science Times, May 4) reported concerns that elevating the science adviser to the cabinet level could be “more symbolic than substantive.” For the sake of the country’s response to societal challenges, and its economic future and national security, let’s make sure that it’s substantive.
To get there, we need to support the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which the science adviser leads, beyond its pre-cabinet budget of $5.5 million a year. By comparison, other cabinet officials control billions.
Puebla group asks Biden to close Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Puebla group asks Biden to close Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Buenos Aires, May 6 (Prensa Latina) Puebla Group on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to shut down the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, located in the illegally-occupied Cuban territory.
In a statement, Puebla Group´s prominent political figures from 16 countries said that closing Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and lifting the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba would mean an all-important gesture of progress in inter-American relations, respect for human rights and integration. This decision would also be interpreted as a positive sign on the way to normalize bilateral relations carried out under Barack Obama, of which today s President Biden served as vice president, the text reads.
The Kings Bay Plowshares 7. From left to right: Elizabeth McAlister, Stephen Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady and Patrick O’Neill. Photo courtesy of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
(RNS) The seventh and final Catholic peace activist, who three years ago broke into the King’s Bay Naval Base in Georgia to symbolically disarm its stockpile of nuclear weapons, was sentenced Friday (April 9) to 21 months in prison.
Mark Colville, who runs Amistad Catholic Worker in New Haven, Connecticut, was part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who cut a padlock, and later a security fence, at the naval base on April 4, 2018. The group prayed, spilled blood on a Navy wall insignia, spray-painted anti-war slogans on a walkway and banged on a monument to nuclear warfare all in protest of nuclear weapons, which the group says are illegal by international law.
Seventh and final Plowshares member sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
Mark Colville was part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who broke into a naval base on April 4, 2018. DePaul University in Chicago announced last month it would recognize the group with a Christian nonviolence award. The Kings Bay Plowshares 7. From left to right: Elizabeth McAlister, Stephen Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady and Patrick O’Neill. Photo courtesy of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
April 9, 2021
(RNS) The seventh and final Catholic peace activist, who three years ago broke into the King’s Bay Naval Base in Georgia to symbolically disarm its stockpile of nuclear weapons, was sentenced Friday (April 9) to 21 months in prison.