Washington, DC: June 22, 2022, 10:30am: Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-2) will host a live press conference from the lawn of the US Capitol Building to draw attention to the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons), taking place in Vienna from June 21-23. If you are in…
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PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC: On Friday, June 3, U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17) co-sponsored the Norton Bill, making him the seventeenth Congressional leader in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This bill would abolish everything to do with nuclear weapons and use the saved money to fight the climate crisis…
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PHOTO: Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ 3rd District) has added his name to the list of co-sponsors to the Norton Bill, H.R.2850. He had co-sponsored previous version of the Norton Bill, but not the current one which calls on the US to sign and ratify the Treaty on…
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Two identical bills calling for the establishment of a Citizens’ Commission to look into the threat posed by nuclear weapons to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (H.3688 and S.1555) were successfully voted out of committee on May 4th, after intense lobbying by peace campaigners across Massachusetts. The bills now sit with the House and Senate Ways…
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Soviet inspectors and their American escorts stand among several dismantled Pershing II missiles as they view the destruction of other missile components. The missiles are being destroyed in accordance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. 14 January 1989. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons / US Department of Defense / MSGT Jose Lopez Jr. How Boycott and…
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PHOTO: City Hall, Worcester, Wikimedia Commons The City Council of Worcester, MA, voted on March 8 to join the global call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Worcester is the second largest city in Massachusetts, as well as the second largest in New England. It joins Boston, the largest, whose City Council passed a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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