By Alice Slater, World BEYOND War https://worldbeyondwar.org/watch-out-world-peace-may-be-breaking-out/ Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the NATO summit in mid-July, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its first birthday on July 7 when 122 nations voted a year…
JUNE 20: The Presbyterian Church (USA) has issued a call to all its members “to take all actions such as might be effective in requiring full US compliance with the obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…” The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest…
MONDAY, 11 June: At a press conference in Singapore this morning, ahead of the historic meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), unveiled a 5-Step ‘Roadmap’ for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. “Our roadmap answers the question at the heart of…
Berkeley has become the second city in the US to proclaim itself ‘in compliance’ with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, following Takoma Park, Maryland, who made a similar declaration last month. Takoma Park received their ‘certificate of treaty compliance’ at a small ceremony in the United Nations building on May 14th. The…
More than 100 countries have been meeting in Geneva over the past two weeks to prepare for the next Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This annual ritual is one of the rare occasions when the nuclear-armed nations sit down with the rest of the world to discuss progress towards achieving the goals of…
More than 100 countries have been meeting in Geneva over the past two weeks to prepare for the next Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This annual ritual is one of the rare occasions when the nuclear-armed nations sit down with the rest of the world to discuss progress towards achieving the goals of…
Legislators in the most populous state in the union passed a Bill that “urges our federal leaders and our nation to embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…” The bill was introduced on February 20t, 2018 by California Assembly Member, Monique Limón of Santa Barbara. it was adopted by a vote of 25…
Millions of young people took to the streets yesterday in over 800 towns and cities across the US to demand national action to address gun violence and to challenge the power of the NRA. Since the killing of 15 students at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, there have been more than 190 school…
The annual Peace Walk for the People and for the Earth set off from Leverett, MA, last Friday, March 16th, to take a message of peace and hope to towns and cities across Massachusetts and all the way to Washington, DC. The monks and nuns of the New England Peace Pagoda were joined on the…
TAKOMA PARK, MD, March 15, 2018 — The City Council of Takoma Park, Maryland, last night (March 14th) voted unanimously on a resolution that reaffirms the city’s support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or ‘Nuclear Ban Treaty.’ The Nuclear Ban Treaty was adopted last year at the UN by 122 countries.…
