Millions of young people took to the streets yesterday in over 800 towns and cities across the US to demand national action to address gun violence and to challenge the power of the NRA. Since the killing of 15 students at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, there have been more than 190 school…
The annual Peace Walk for the People and for the Earth set off from Leverett, MA, last Friday, March 16th, to take a message of peace and hope to towns and cities across Massachusetts and all the way to Washington, DC. The monks and nuns of the New England Peace Pagoda were joined on the…
TAKOMA PARK, MD, March 15, 2018 — The City Council of Takoma Park, Maryland, last night (March 14th) voted unanimously on a resolution that reaffirms the city’s support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or ‘Nuclear Ban Treaty.’ The Nuclear Ban Treaty was adopted last year at the UN by 122 countries.…
A Boston-based company, Green Century Capital Management, Inc., was today named as the only financial institution based in the United States to be included in Don’t Bank on the Bomb’s ‘Hall of Fame’. Green Century is an environmentally-friendly investment company which specializes in fossil-free investments. Their comprehensive ethical investment policy also excludes investing in companies…
Kazakhstan became the 57th country to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on Friday, 2nd March. In a statement to the UN Security Council, President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan called on the nuclear powers to ‘lead by example’ and get rid of their nuclear weapons. “Nuclear bombs and rockets do not possess real…
