Activists at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, the COP 28 in Dubai, and the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the 2MSP in New York met via zoom on November 30 to share experiences from the two big overlapping international meetings. The conversation included activists from the Warheads…
New paperback edition of Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War comes out this Friday! This is the essential manual for all climate and disarmament activists! The book is officially on sale as a paperback and an ebook this Friday, December 15th! It is already available for preorder on sites like bookshop.org— which sends proceeds to…
Sultan Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, who is currently presiding over the COP28 climate talks in Dubai (as well as presiding over the UAE’s state oil company, Adnoc) was quoted last week as saying “there is no science out there… that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.” His remarks…
Photo by Darren Ornitz | ICAN. Youth Movement It was an honor to join the hundreds of civil society activists in New York for the Second Meeting of States Parties (2MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that took place during Nuclear Ban Week–the last week of November. The movement and campaign…
Elected representatives from 14 countries met on the sidelines of the second meeting of the Nuclear Ban Treaty (2MSP) at the UN in New York last week to discuss how to build support for the TPNW in their respective countries. They included parliamentarians from Canada, Japan, Germany, Scotland, Belgium, France, Italy, Australia, and Norway. These…
MA State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa of the 1st Hampshire District of Massachusetts, pictured above with Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts meeting the Mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, during the UN meeting for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Representative Sabadosa visited Hiroshima this past summer. Mayor Kazumi Matsui is the president of…
On Dec 1, 2023, the last day of the Nuclear Ban Treaty meeting in New York, the Ambassador of Malta to the UN, Vanessa Frazier, hosted a side event inside the UN building to share findings from Timmon’s new book about joining forces, facing facts, and taking effective action on the “twin threats” to our…