Sunday, August 11th 7pm to 8:30pm Nashawannuck Pond, Easthampton, MA (downtown, at the intersection of Lake St. and Williston Ave.) Since 1980 we have commemorated the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Western Massachusetts. We will be holding the event again this coming Sunday. The remembrance event brings people together not just to remember the past,…
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Film and discussion Forbes Library, Northampton, MA Wed, AUGUST 14 6:30 – 8:30 pm “THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS” tells the story of how the United Nations came to approve the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on July 7th, 2017, with a 122 nations vote. The film charts the…
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By Alice Slater, author and nuclear disarmament advocate. Alice Slater is a member of the Board of World Beyond War, UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and a longtime member of CODEPINK. August 6 and 9 mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear…
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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. President Trump…
DetailsAn open letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren: Dear Elizabeth, At the Presidential Candidates Debate last night (July 30, 2019), you looked shocked and incredulous when Governor Steve Bullock said he wasn’t willing to take America’s option to start a nuclear war “off the table.” But when he went on to describe “all those crazy…
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Left to right: Danny Hall of Soka Gokkai International, Paki Wieland of CodePink, Rep. Jim McGovern, Timmon Wallis, NuclearBan.US, Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.US, Rep. Barbara Lee, Anthony Donovan, Sister Carol Gilbert, Medea Benjamin of CodePink, Sister Ardeth Platte. Photo: Diala Jadalla Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal was officially launched in Congress…
DetailsLeft 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. A Green New Deal will…
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