Tuesday, May 3, 2022: A new statewide poll, conducted on behalf of NuclearBan.US by the polling company, YouGov [1], reveals that 63% of Massachusetts adults – including 80% of those who identify as Democrats – support the establishment of a Citizens’ Commission to investigate and report on what measures may be necessary and appropriate to…
April 11, 2022: The new report, Nuclear Weapons and Massachusetts: The Case for Creating a Citizens Commission, is out today. The report highlights the existential threat posed by the existence of nuclear weapons to the citizens of Massachusetts. Massachusetts is identified as a major target in the event of a nuclear war between the US and…
PHOTO: Franmarie Metzler; U.S. House Office of Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC: U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY14) has joined a list of co-sponsors of a bill that would abolish all nuclear weapons and use the money to address climate change and other pressing social needs. The Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and…
PHOTO: Bhfhuser, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons State Senator Adam Hinds has added his name to the list of co-sponsors of the bill, H.3688/S.1555 that would establish a Citizens Commission to investigate and report on “what measures may be necessary and appropriate to protect the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the existential…
Lobby Day for MA Nuclear Weapons Commission Bill Wed April 13 @ 11:30 am – 3:00 pm EDT Join us at the MA State House to support a bill to address the threat of nuclear weapons in Massachusetts. This bill would establish a citizen’s commission to research and recommend to the state legislature ways to better protect the…
PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons March 24, 2022: The West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire today became the 60th nation to deposit its instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) with the United Nations. Cote d’Ivoire voted for adoption of the TPNW with 121 other countries in July 2017. The then…
PHOTO: Joe Mabel Washington, DC: U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-7) has added her name to the list of co-sponsors of a bill that would abolish all nuclear weapons and use the money to address climate change and other pressing social needs. Jayapal is the current chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has been a…
PHOTO: Susan Lantz, Timmon Wallis and Andy Larkin of Northampton in Boston to lobby for State Bill in Jan 2020 A bill in the MA State House that would establish a Citizens Commission to research and recommend to the state legislature ways to better protect the citizens of Massachusetts from the existential threat of nuclear…
PHOTO: Welsh Senedd Cardiff, Wales: The Welsh Assembly, recently renamed the “Senedd,” voted on March 9, 2022 to pass an amendment calling on all countries to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The amendment was added at the last moment by Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, to a resolution…
Register here to join zoom event in support of State Bill H.3688/S.1555 Speakers: State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, Dr. Ira Helfand, Dr. Elaine Scarry, Prof. Jonathan King, Emma Pike, Joseph Gerson, a representative from the Mass Nurses Association H.3688/S.1555 is a bill in the MA State House that would establish a Citizens’ Commission to research and recommend to the state…