Sunday, January 22, 2023, Washington, DC: A letter* delivered today to President Biden and signed by over 100 national, state and local organizations calls on the President to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW or “Nuclear Ban Treaty”). The Nuclear Ban Treaty prohibits everything to do with nuclear weapons. It entered…
A bill to establish a citizen-led Nuclear Weapons and Climate Commission has been introduced in the Massachusetts state legislature by State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa and State Senator Jo Comerford. Similar bills have been introduced in the last two sessions of the MA state legislature, each time getting closer to the finish line. Campaigners are confident…
CORVALLIS, OR: On Monday, November 7, 2022, the Corvallis City Council unanimously passed a resolution to prohibit the city from investing in companies which produce weapons of war. The resolution passed following years of advocacy work by the Corvallis Divest from War coalition, including an initial hearing in February 2020 that did not lead to a…
1:30pm, Sunday, January 22, 2023 Lafayette statue, White House, Washington, DC 2nd anniversary of the Nuclear Ban Treaty entry into force Join us! Letter to President Biden is here: Press release here: Op-Ed/short version of the Biden letter here:
On January 9, 2023, the small island country of Djibouti became the 92nd country to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Djibouti voted in favor of the treaty at the treaty negotiations in 2017 and is the latest country to finally sign it. Another 30 countries voted for the treaty and…
On December 21, 2022, an Ordinance in the city of Spokane, Washington, went into effect that makes Spokane nuclear-free and prevents the city from doing business with the nuclear weapons industry. Spokane City Council voted in favor of the ordinance on November 7th, 2022, after a three year effort by local Veterans for Peace and…
This is what the Cuban Missile Crisis was really about: And this is how it was resolved: And this is why most people don’t know that: Read the short article here: Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Ubrjqr
October 5, 2022: US Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois has today become the 15th Member of Congress to co-sponsor the Norton Bill, H.R. 2850, calling on the US to sign and ratify the Nuclear Ban Treaty (TPNW) and eliminate its nuclear arsenal, along with the nuclear arsenals of the other 8 nuclear-armed nations. Three additional…
The United Nations General Assembly decided in 2013 to step up the global demand for nuclear disarmament by designating Sept 26th every year to be the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. No mincing of words there! The world wants nothing short of total elimination of these dangerous, outdated weapons of mass…
September 22, 2022: Five more countries signed the TPNW and two more ratifications were deposited at a special high-level side event during the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York. This is traditionally a time each year when presidents, prime ministers and other high-level dignitaries come to the UN In NY to deliver…