Sept 26: UN Day for Total Elimination

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 The world wants nothing short of total elimination of these dangerous, outdated weapons of mass…

TPNW: More signatures and ratifications

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…

MA State Lobby Day

Boston, MA — Citizens from across the Commonwealth are visiting the State House July 14 to urge legislators to vote in favor of S.1555 (Senate)/H.3688 (House). This bill would create a Citizens’ Commission to investigate the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and to explore what should be done about it. The bill was…

Final push for MA State Bill!

BOSTON: Thursday, July 14th, 2022: 11am – 3pm H.3688/S.1555 is a bill that would establish a Citizens Commission to investigate the threat posed by nuclear weapons to the citizens of Massachusetts. It failed to make it out of committee in 2019-20, but finally made it out successfully in May of this year. The MA legislature…

New Australian Prime Minister Supports the TPNW

PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons Australians went to the polls on May 20th, and elected a new center-left government after nine years of rule by a conservative coalition. The new Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has promised sweeping changes in a wide range of policy areas, including stronger commitment to tackling the climate crisis and addressing indigenous rights.…

Congressional Press Conference on the TPNW

Washington, DC: June 22, 2022, 10:30am: Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-2) will host a live press conference from the lawn of the US Capitol Building to draw attention to the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons), taking place in Vienna from June 21-23. If you are in…