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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…
DetailsAt 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…
DetailsICAN 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…
DetailsNuclear 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. The Green New Deal…
DetailsThis 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: Dennis.A.Muilenburg@boeing.com Dear Mr.…
DetailsMonday, 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…
DetailsTuesday, 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
DetailsHundreds of people marched down the main street of Northampton, Mass., on Saturday, March 16, to mark the 100th birthday of legendary peace and anti-nuclear activist, Frances Crowe. She asked people to make homemade signs and banners about all the different issues they care about, and these are now on display as a…
DetailsWhy 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…
DetailsA 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…
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