NuclearBan.US Campaign Coordinator, Lydia Wood delivered the following statement at The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice event “The World We Want: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Never Again” and The Grafton Peace Pagoda’s Hiroshima Nagasaki Day – 73rd Commemoration Ceremony. My name is Lydia and I am the Campaign Coordinator for NuclearBan.US, an organization committed to…
A few people were probably overexposed, but they couldn’t prove it and we couldn’t prove it so we just assumed we got away with it. ~ Dr. Louis Hempelmann (Manhattan Project Medical Director) Last week marked the seventy-third anniversary of the day the United States unleashed nuclear hell upon the world. On July 16th, 1945,…
SUNDAY, JUNE 17: Northampton Friends Meeting (Quakers) today became the first faith community in the country to declare their compliance with the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (or Nuclear Ban Treaty). The Nuclear Ban Treaty, adopted by 122 nations at the United Nations last year, comprehensively prohibits, under international law, the development,…
The issue of nuclear weapons is deeply connected to issues of imperialism, racial and gender inequality, and environmental justice. Part of what makes the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons a game changer is its emphasis on the humanitarian consequences of these weapons. This humanitarian focus has helped elucidate the connections between nuclear…
MAY 14 – Fifty campaigners from across the US joined together yesterday in Brooklyn to launch a national campaign in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This Treaty, which prohibits the development, testing, production, deployment, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons, and requires environmental remediation and assistance to victims…
Last week, I had the privilege of attending, on behalf of NuclearBan.US, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) campaigners’ meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting brought together over 130 ICAN campaigners from around the world to discuss campaign progress and strategy for making the United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty successful. Since 122 nations…
For this week’s blog, we’ve decided to focus on one of the key strategies behind the campaign to get the US to sign on to the Nuclear Ban Treaty – divestment. Divestment, simply put, means the opposite of investment, and occurs when individuals, institutions, businesses, and governments get rid of all their financial ties to…
