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…
Co-founders of NuclearBan.US, Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson, were in New York City visiting UN embassies on behalf of ICAN when they got the news. “It is an enormous privilege to now be officially representing ICAN in these meetings with officials from other countries,” said Timmon. “ICAN has not only won a Nobel Peace Prize, but over the course…
This coming Sunday, February 25th, at 8pm South Korean time, athletes and fans from across the globe will gather at the Pyeongchang Stadium for the final closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. The theme for this closing ceremony is ‘the human spirit of perseverance’. Songs will be sung and tears will be shed as…
Have you ever wondered who’s behind all the saber-rattling and fear-mongering that goes on, for instance in relation to North Korea? Here’s a clue. An article with the title It’s Time to Bomb North Korea: Destroying Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal is still in America’s national interest appeared in ForeignPolicy.com on January 8, 2018. Its author is Edward Luttwak, a…
On Thursday, January 25th, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the ‘doomsday clock’ forward by 30 seconds, to two minutes to midnight. The last time – and only time – the clock has been this close to midnight was in 1953. That was at a time when both the US and the Soviet Union had exploded…
On Thursday, January 25th, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the ‘doomsday clock’ forward by 30 seconds, to two minutes to midnight. The last time – and only time – the clock has been this close to midnight was in 1953. That was at a time when both the US and the Soviet Union had exploded…
Northampton Friends Meeting 43 Center Street Northampton MA 01060 www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/northampton-friends-meeting January 28, 2018 Darius Adamczyk, CE0 Honeywell International 101 Columbia Road Morristown, NJ 07960 Dear Darius Adamczyk: We write to you as Honeywell consumers and owners of Honeywell thermostats. The Northampton Friends Meeting is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), one of…
Minute from 10 December: 2017-97 Northampton Friends Meeting strongly reaffirms its October 2017 minute in support of the 2017 United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and asserts its intention to examine the ways in which it is complicit in the nuclear weapons industry, including the funding of those activities through our investments,…
Northampton Friends, 7 October: 2017-78 Consistent with Friends long-standing peace testimony, Northampton Friends Meeting calls on Friends to support the treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons just signed by many and supported by a majority of nations at the United Nations to take action to prevent nuclear war – not just now but for…
