Left to right: Anthony Donovan, William Hartung, Professor Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Martha Hennessey, Father Timothy Graff, Maura Keaney and Brendan Fay Delegates to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) meetings taking place last month at the UN in New York were given a unique opportunity to hear some voices rarely heard inside those hallowed walls. The Pax…
At their annual town meeting on April 27, 2019, the residents of Leverett, Massachusetts, voted unanimously to adopt article 43 of the town warrant, “A Resolution Calling for the US to Join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” The resolution calls on the federal government to sign the Treaty and to encourage the…
ICAN Director Beatrice Fihn, with the Nobel Peace Prize, and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, with H.R. 2419, are flanked by Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson, of NuclearBan.US. Photo: Jack Miller April 30, 2019: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act…
Nuclear weapons cost billions of dollars, just to be maintained. The US plans to spend billions more upgrading and ‘modernizing’ them. Over the next 30 years, the total cost of US nuclear weapons will be more than $3 trillion. Unless we decide to use that money instead to address climate change. A Green New Deal will…
This felt great and it only took a minute to write to the Boeing CEO. Feel free to copy and paste and make it your own. Click here for more details about what, exactly, Boeing is doing to destroy the world (hint: it’s even worse than those terrible 737 Max planes). To: [email protected] Dear Mr.…
Monday, April 15th, 6:30pm Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Smith College Northampton, MA The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, DIVEST Smith, Jandon Center for Community Engagement and the Resistance Center for Peace & Justice invite you to join us for a circle of learning and Quaker style conversation about freeing up the resources needed for…
Tuesday, April 16th: 3-5pm ISB, UMass, Amherst, MA The Resistance Studies Department and the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice Mobilizing for a nuclear-weapons free, just and sustainable world with Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.US
Why isn’t anyone challenging the withdrawal? US Presidents cannot just go around creating their own ‘emergencies’ to get what they want. President Trump’s attempt to use emergency funding to build his wall will certainly be challenged in the US courts. But what about his withdrawal two weeks ago from one of the most important treaties…
A Personal Account I spent most of the 1980s campaigning against an American nuclear missile base in England. I watched this base being built from the ground up. I watched them finally bring in the nuclear missiles and lock them up in underground bunkers covered with several feet of concrete and sealed behind huge steel…
No one country wants to give up all their existing nuclear weapons without knowing that the others will also give up theirs. This is what has held back the process of getting rid of these weapons for the last 73 years! We have to move beyond that kind of thinking. Someone has to take the…
