Minute from 10 December: 2017-97 Northampton Friends Meeting strongly reaffirms its October 2017 minute in support of the 2017 United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and asserts its intention to examine the ways in which it is complicit in the nuclear weapons industry, including the funding of those activities through our investments,…
Northampton Friends, 7 October: 2017-78 Consistent with Friends long-standing peace testimony, Northampton Friends Meeting calls on Friends to support the treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons just signed by many and supported by a majority of nations at the United Nations to take action to prevent nuclear war – not just now but for…
Agenda Item #11 – Future of Life Institute Professor Max Tegmark and Lucas Perry represented the Future of Life Institute. Tegmark reminded the Board that the Cambridge City Council had voted to encourage the Board to divest from firms involved in producing or upgrading nuclear weapons. He stated that he hoped to assist the Board…
TEXT OF ORDERS – Cambridge City Council Order-1 Mar 21, 2016 MAYOR SIMMONS WHEREAS: Nations across the globe still maintain over 15,000 nuclear weapons, some of which are hundreds of times more powerful than those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and detonation of even a small fraction of these weapons could create a decade-long nuclear…
In the City Council, November 16th, in the Year Two Thousand and Seventeen Upon the recommendation of Councilor William H. Dwight and Councilor Alisa F. Klein R- A RESOLUTION Calling for the United States to “Pull Back from the Brink” and Prevent Nuclear War WHEREAS, since the height of the Cold War, the United States…
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 In case you are wondering what a ‘low yield’ nuclear weapon looks like, these are the effects of a single 15 KT bomb landing on the city of Hiroshima in 1945: 70,000 dead instantly, including 90% of the doctors and 93% of the nurses All hospitals destroyed or badly damaged…
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 In case you are wondering what a ‘low yield’ nuclear weapon looks like, these are the effects of a single 15 KT bomb landing on the city of Hiroshima in 1945: 70,000 dead instantly, including 90% of the doctors and 93% of the nurses All hospitals destroyed or badly damaged…
The largest Dutch pension fund, the civil servants fund ABP, has decided to end its investments in producers of nuclear weapons. ABP has “finally made the right decision”, says PAX campaigner Krista van Velzen. “After years of campaigning by PAX against the unacceptable investments by the ABP in nuclear weapon producers, the pension fund has…
If you live in or near Northampton, Massachusetts, come and find out how to make the city of Northampton, as well as Northampton businesses, schools and faith communities, ‘treaty compliant’! The hands-on, participatory workshop on Treaty Compliance will take place in Northampton from 2-4.30pm on January 15th, 2018, as part of a series of events…
On December 19th, one of the 20 companies involved in the US nuclear weapons business, CH2M Hill, was taken over by another company, Jacobs Engineering. Jacobs is a large US-based company with numerous, large-scale military contracts. In September of this year, Jacobs (together with Honeywell) took over the contract previously held by CH2M Hill (together with AECOM,…
