By Alice Slater, author and nuclear disarmament advocate. Alice Slater is a member of the Board of World Beyond War, UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and a longtime member of CODEPINK. August 6 and 9 mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear…
Hundreds of people marched down the main street of Northampton, Mass., on Saturday, March 16, to mark the 100th birthday of legendary peace and anti-nuclear activist, Frances Crowe. She asked people to make homemade signs and banners about all the different issues they care about, and these are now on display as a…
On December 21st, 2018 Congresswoman Barbara Lee became the fifth current member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge. Congresswoman Lee represents CA’s 13th district and has served in Congress since 1998. By signing, Congresswoman Lee joins nearly 1,000 parliamentarians from 30 countries who have pledged to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Ban Treaty) in…
In particular, SBTB is working to get PNC bank, the seventh largest bank in the US, to divest from the companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons. PNC has over 600,000,000 dollars invested in six of the companies contracted to make and maintain the US nuclear triad. Their task is clear – divest all…
BERKELEY, DECEMBER 11: Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin was presented yesterday with a certificate from NuclearBan.US, officially recognizing Berkeley’s “Alignment” with the 2017 U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Berkeley City Council passed a resolution on May 15, 2018, declaring itself ‘strongly supportive’ of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and proclaiming…
This is part three of the NuclearBan.US blog series profiling the major nuclear weapons companies contracted by governments to build and maintain nuclear weapons. Many of these private companies you’ve probably never heard of, but they are all making huge profits producing and managing nuclear weapons for the US, UK, and French nuclear weapons modernization…
This is part two of the NuclearBan.US blog series profiling the major nuclear weapons companies contracted by governments to build and maintain nuclear weapons. Up next – AECOM. AECOM is one of those massive multinational corporations that you’ve probably never heard of – yet is touted as the largest design companyin the US.…
(NORTHAMPTON, MA) Last Wednesday September 26, at a ceremony on the steps of Northampton city hall, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz issued an executive policy order establishing a city policy barring, to the extent practical and permitted by law, Northampton from investing and contracting with nuclear weapons companies. Under the executive policy order Mayor Narkewicz…
Over the next few months NuclearBan.US will be writing a series of blog posts profiling each of the major nuclear weapons producers contracted by governments to build and maintain nuclear weapons. Many of these private companies you’ve probably never heard of, but they are all making huge profits producing and managing nuclear weapons for…
Please join us September 26, 2018 for a demonstration as part of the global day of action against BNP Paribas, a French bank that profits from the production of nuclear weapons. BNP Paribas is a global bank, operating in 74 countries with almost 200,000 employees and over €2 trillion in assets. Since January 2014, BNP Paribas has…