Sultan Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, who is currently presiding over the COP28 climate talks in Dubai (as well as presiding over the UAE’s state oil company, Adnoc) was quoted last week as saying “there is no science out there… that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.” His remarks…
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Photo by Darren Ornitz | ICAN. Youth Movement It was an honor to join the hundreds of civil society activists in New York for the Second Meeting of States Parties (2MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that took place during Nuclear Ban Week–the last week of November. The movement and campaign…
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Elected representatives from 14 countries met on the sidelines of the second meeting of the Nuclear Ban Treaty (2MSP) at the UN in New York last week to discuss how to build support for the TPNW in their respective countries. They included parliamentarians from Canada, Japan, Germany, Scotland, Belgium, France, Italy, Australia, and Norway. These…
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MA State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa of the 1st Hampshire District of Massachusetts, pictured above with Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts meeting the Mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, during the UN meeting for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Representative Sabadosa visited Hiroshima this past summer. Mayor Kazumi Matsui is the president of…
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On Dec 1, 2023, the last day of the Nuclear Ban Treaty meeting in New York, the Ambassador of Malta to the UN, Vanessa Frazier, hosted a side event inside the UN building to share findings from Timmon’s new book about joining forces, facing facts, and taking effective action on the “twin threats” to our…
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Thursday, November 30th 2023 12:30-2pm ET (9:30-11pm UAE) Click below to join the conversation! As activists gather in New York for the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and in Dubai for the 28th UN Climate Change Conference, we will be connecting the movements against these two…
DetailsOn October 14th from 12-2 pm the Warheads to Windmills Coalition hosted a successful online forum through Massachusetts Peace Action, with many great speakers on climate solutions, nuclear solutions, and how we can bring these two powerful movements together. We had 150 people participating from around the globe, eager to build a mass movement around…
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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons and Fossil Fuels: What will it take? Following a webinar on May 7th which brought together leading organizations and activists working on the two crucially important issues of climate change and nuclear war, this forum will allow for more in depth discussion on how the climate and nuclear weapons movements can work…
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Photo: Oppenheimer author Kai Bird, creative commons New York (August 16, 2023) – Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on which Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie is based, issued the following statement endorsing a bill by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the Nuclear Abolition…
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We can safely abolish all nuclear weapons Been hearing about the Oppenheimer movie? Oscar buzz! Barbenheimer! Cillian Murphy’s alarmingly blue eyeballs! In all the hoo-hah, two crucial things are missing. 1. We have to fully grasp the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons: The movie offers only the tiniest hint about what happened to hundreds…
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