On Friday, October 11, Representative Pramila Jayapal became the eighth current member of the United States Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary/Legislative Pledge, committing herself to forwarding the work of the UN’s groundbreaking Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted in July of 2017. Jayapal is the representative for Washington’s 7th District…
September 23, 2019: A NuclearBan.US poll, conducted on its behalf this week[1] by YouGov, reveals that 49% of Americans think that the US should work with the other nuclear armed countries to eliminate all nuclear weapons from all countries, in line with the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (“Nuclear Ban Treaty”). Only 32% think that the US should continue…
On December 21st, 2018 Congresswoman Barbara Lee became the fifth current member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge. Congresswoman Lee represents CA’s 13th district and has served in Congress since 1998. By signing, Congresswoman Lee joins nearly 1,000 parliamentarians from 30 countries who have pledged to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Ban Treaty) in…
In particular, SBTB is working to get PNC bank, the seventh largest bank in the US, to divest from the companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons. PNC has over 600,000,000 dollars invested in six of the companies contracted to make and maintain the US nuclear triad. Their task is clear – divest all…