For this week’s blog, we’ve decided to focus on one of the key strategies behind the campaign to get the US to sign on to the Nuclear Ban Treaty – divestment. Divestment, simply put, means the opposite of investment, and occurs when individuals, institutions, businesses, and governments get rid of all their financial ties to…
DetailsMillions of young people took to the streets yesterday in over 800 towns and cities across the US to demand national action to address gun violence and to challenge the power of the NRA. Since the killing of 15 students at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, there have been more than 190 school…
DetailsThe annual Peace Walk for the People and for the Earth set off from Leverett, MA, last Friday, March 16th, to take a message of peace and hope to towns and cities across Massachusetts and all the way to Washington, DC. The monks and nuns of the New England Peace Pagoda were joined on the…
DetailsTAKOMA PARK, MD, March 15, 2018 — The City Council of Takoma Park, Maryland, last night (March 14th) voted unanimously on a resolution that reaffirms the city’s support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or ‘Nuclear Ban Treaty.’ The Nuclear Ban Treaty was adopted last year at the UN by 122 countries.…
DetailsA Boston-based company, Green Century Capital Management, Inc., was today named as the only financial institution based in the United States to be included in Don’t Bank on the Bomb’s ‘Hall of Fame’. Green Century is an environmentally-friendly investment company which specializes in fossil-free investments. Their comprehensive ethical investment policy also excludes investing in companies…
DetailsKazakhstan became the 57th country to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on Friday, 2nd March. In a statement to the UN Security Council, President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan called on the nuclear powers to ‘lead by example’ and get rid of their nuclear weapons. “Nuclear bombs and rockets do not possess real…
DetailsCo-founders of NuclearBan.US, Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson, were in New York City visiting UN embassies on behalf of ICAN when they got the news. “It is an enormous privilege to now be officially representing ICAN in these meetings with officials from other countries,” said Timmon. “ICAN has not only won a Nobel Peace Prize, but over the course…
DetailsThis coming Sunday, February 25th, at 8pm South Korean time, athletes and fans from across the globe will gather at the Pyeongchang Stadium for the final closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. The theme for this closing ceremony is ‘the human spirit of perseverance’. Songs will be sung and tears will be shed as…
DetailsHave you ever wondered who’s behind all the saber-rattling and fear-mongering that goes on, for instance in relation to North Korea? Here’s a clue. An article with the title It’s Time to Bomb North Korea: Destroying Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal is still in America’s national interest appeared in ForeignPolicy.com on January 8, 2018. Its author is Edward Luttwak, a…
DetailsOn Thursday, January 25th, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the ‘doomsday clock’ forward by 30 seconds, to two minutes to midnight. The last time – and only time – the clock has been this close to midnight was in 1953. That was at a time when both the US and the Soviet Union had exploded…
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