Written by Ben Purden On April 10th, 2019, residents of the town of Montague, Massachusetts, weighed in on a matter of great national and international significance: the abolition of nuclear weapons. At the annual town meeting, a tradition of direct democracy called “the true Congress” by Henry David Thoreau, Article 38 was passed, creating…
(NORTHAMPTON, MA) Last Wednesday September 26, at a ceremony on the steps of Northampton city hall, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz issued an executive policy order establishing a city policy barring, to the extent practical and permitted by law, Northampton from investing and contracting with nuclear weapons companies. Under the executive policy order Mayor Narkewicz…
Agenda Item #11 – Future of Life Institute Professor Max Tegmark and Lucas Perry represented the Future of Life Institute. Tegmark reminded the Board that the Cambridge City Council had voted to encourage the Board to divest from firms involved in producing or upgrading nuclear weapons. He stated that he hoped to assist the Board…
TEXT OF ORDERS – Cambridge City Council Order-1 Mar 21, 2016 MAYOR SIMMONS WHEREAS: Nations across the globe still maintain over 15,000 nuclear weapons, some of which are hundreds of times more powerful than those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and detonation of even a small fraction of these weapons could create a decade-long nuclear…
In the City Council, November 16th, in the Year Two Thousand and Seventeen Upon the recommendation of Councilor William H. Dwight and Councilor Alisa F. Klein R- A RESOLUTION Calling for the United States to “Pull Back from the Brink” and Prevent Nuclear War WHEREAS, since the height of the Cold War, the United States…
