(Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz shows his executive order divesting Northampton city funds from nuclear weapons companies to Northampton activist Frances Crowe, who died in August 2019.) PHOTO: LYDIA WOOD Boycotting and divesting from nuclear weapons By TIMMON WALLIS and VICKI ELSON Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass, August 3, 2020, pp B1-B2. We are…
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DetailsThe Nuclear Ban Treaty and the Green New Deal Wednesday, April 29 – 7:00 p.m featuring Timmon Wallis, PhD of NuclearBan.US and US Representative Jim McGovern Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PwFdPYogQrWKQgjS2UlNMw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Climate crisis, expanding nuclear arsenals, extreme inequality, and now a pandemic…
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Happy Earth Day 2020! Read this blog on Vote to Survive and sign up to receive more blogs like this… – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – A Review of Planet of the Humans, directed by…
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by Vicki Elson and Timmon Wallis Everything looks different through the lens of Covid-19. If we can suddenly mobilize trillions of dollars to prop up the economy, why can’t we mobilize trillions to provide better food, shelter, and health care for our children? If we can stop polluting China’s air and Venice’s canals during a…
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One of many panels testifying before the New York City Council (left to right): Rev. T.K. Nakagaki, Heiwa Foundation; Michael Gorbachev, relative of Mikhail; Anthony Donovan, author/ documentarian; Sally Jones, Peace Action NY; Rosemarie Pace, Pax Christi NY; Mitchie Takeuchi, Hibakusha Stories. …
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Nuclear Ban’s Timmon Wallis shows US Representative Ro Khanna his new report, “Warheads to Windmills,” during Khanna’s visit to Northampton, Massachusetts in October. Photo by Vicki Elson. On October 24th, Representative Ro Khanna became the ninth current member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary/Legislative Pledge. Khanna was invited by Massachusetts Representative Jim…
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Andrew Larkin of NCFF presents certificate to River Valley Market General Manager Rochelle Prunty/ Photo by River Valley Market At the annual meeting of Northampton, Massachusetts food cooperative River Valley Market on December 6th, over 100 member-owners were present to hear management’s decision to align with the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear…
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On Friday, October 11, Representative Pramila Jayapal became the eighth current member of the United States Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary/Legislative Pledge, committing herself to forwarding the work of the UN’s groundbreaking Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted in July of 2017. Jayapal is the representative for Washington’s 7th District…
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On Wednesday, September 18th, 2019, the City Council of Easthampton voted unanimously to pass a resolution “Calling for the US to Join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” The passage of this resolution follows efforts by residents and activists to petition their local government to take a stand on an issue of global…
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