CORVALLIS, OR: On Monday, November 7, 2022, the Corvallis City Council unanimously passed a resolution to prohibit the city from investing in companies which produce weapons of war. The resolution passed following years of advocacy work by the Corvallis Divest from War coalition, including an initial hearing in February 2020 that did not lead to a…
1:30pm, Sunday, January 22, 2023 Lafayette statue, White House, Washington, DC 2nd anniversary of the Nuclear Ban Treaty entry into force Join us! Letter to President Biden is here: Press release here: Op-Ed/short version of the Biden letter here:
On January 9, 2023, the small island country of Djibouti became the 92nd country to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Djibouti voted in favor of the treaty at the treaty negotiations in 2017 and is the latest country to finally sign it. Another 30 countries voted for the treaty and…
On December 21, 2022, an Ordinance in the city of Spokane, Washington, went into effect that makes Spokane nuclear-free and prevents the city from doing business with the nuclear weapons industry. Spokane City Council voted in favor of the ordinance on November 7th, 2022, after a three year effort by local Veterans for Peace and…
This is what the Cuban Missile Crisis was really about: And this is how it was resolved: And this is why most people don’t know that: Read the short article here: Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Ubrjqr
October 5, 2022: US Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois has today become the 15th Member of Congress to co-sponsor the Norton Bill, H.R. 2850, calling on the US to sign and ratify the Nuclear Ban Treaty (TPNW) and eliminate its nuclear arsenal, along with the nuclear arsenals of the other 8 nuclear-armed nations. Three additional…
The United Nations General Assembly decided in 2013 to step up the global demand for nuclear disarmament by designating Sept 26th every year to be the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. No mincing of words there! The world wants nothing short of total elimination of these dangerous, outdated weapons of mass…
September 22, 2022: Five more countries signed the TPNW and two more ratifications were deposited at a special high-level side event during the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York. This is traditionally a time each year when presidents, prime ministers and other high-level dignitaries come to the UN In NY to deliver…
US Representative Chellie Pingree, of Maine’s First Congressional District, has again added her name to H.Res. 1185, calling for the US to “embrace the goals and provisions” of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). H.Res. 1185 was introduced by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) in June of this…
PHOTO: Molly Hamill Despite enormous efforts by nuclear campaigners from Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA), the State House session for 2021-22 ended on July 31st without a vote on H.3688/S.1555, a bill that would have set up a Citizens Commission to investigate the impact of nuclear weapons on Massachusetts and what the state could do about…