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Mayors For Peace Emergency Campaign To Ban Nuclear Weapons

December 4, 2021 by Sophia Kennedy·Comments Off

Mayors For Peace Emergency Campaign To Ban Nuclear Weapons – The Mayors for Peace Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons, led by the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aims to enroll mayors across the globe to come to the 2005 NPT Review Conference. www.creeksidelandsinn.com

The Mayors for Peace Campaign has proposed a reasonable timetable for achieving a nuclear weapon free world by 2020, with negotiations to begin in 2005 and to conclude by 2010, with global nuclear disarmament implemented no later than 2020. slot gacor

Abolition Now! seeks your active participation in enrolling your Mayor and other civic leaders in this unprecedented Campaign. For more information on how to get your Mayor involved in the Campaign to ban nuclear weapons, please refer to the resources listed below.judi bola

Using The NWC To Engage The Nuclear Weapon States

December 4, 2021 by Sophia Kennedy·Comments Off

Using The NWC To Engage The Nuclear Weapon States – The NWC provides a useful tool to engage the nuclear weapon states (NWS) in ways to overcome their resistance to nuclear disarmament. It re-frames the debate from a context of “Why don’t the nuclear weapon states move towards nuclear disarmament?”

to one of “How can nuclear disarmament be achieved?” Rather than calling for disarmament steps and attempting to persuade the NWS to drop their resistance to these, the NWC invites NWS to join in designing and creating the conditions for nuclear disarmament. slot online

Verification, one of the key elements identified in the Model NWC, for example, has become the subject of increasing dialogue and cooperation between NWS and nuclear disarmament advocates. https://www.creeksidelandsinn.com/

Recent initiatives include the US Sandia Cooperative Monitoring Center – which assists in the development of verification and monitoring regimes for arms control and disarmament treaties and the Aldermaston Weapons Establishment study on verification of the elimination of nuclear weapons (see references). judi online

NWC And The Step-By-Step Approach To Disarmament

December 4, 2021 by Sophia Kennedy·Comments Off

NWC And The Step-By-Step Approach To Disarmament – Some nuclear weapon states have criticised the call for a nuclear weapons convention on the basis that nuclear disarmament requires a step-by-step approach rather than a comprehensive approach. The next steps identified by the NWS include entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, further reductions in nuclear stockpiles and negotiation of a ban on production of fissile material.

However, many other states, including New Zealand and Malaysia have argued that focusing on a NWC is compatible with a step-by-step process and in fact would aid it. Malaysia, which introduces the annual. slot

UN resolution, notes “the resolution specifically mentions negotiations “leading to” a nuclear weapons convention and not “on” a nuclear weapons convention, thereby allowing for the kind of steps that the nuclear weapons states themselves are committed to support. hari88

In fact the NWC identifies elements of disarmament which are important in the step-by-step approach. In addition, by combining a step-by-step approach with a comprehensive approach, the NWC could help break the deadlock in international disarmament negotiations. States are often unwilling to adhere to a single disarmament step because their nuclear forces are atypical and a step could put them at a disadvantage. Such States would be more willing to agree to a step which placed them at a temporary disadvantage if they were confident that the process was moving quickly to a non-discriminatory treaty on complete prohibition and elimination. An example of this is India, which supports a NWC and initially proposed a CTBT but refused to support the treaty unless it included a commitment to negotiate for complete nuclear disarmament. sbobet88

End Game: No More Nuclear Excuses For War

December 4, 2021 by Sophia Kennedy·Comments Off

End Game: No More Nuclear Excuses For War – MARCH AND RALLY TO DEMAND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT NOW!

On May 1st people from all over the world will gather in New York City for a massive march and rally to demand total and immediate nuclear disarmament. slot88

The May 1st demonstration will precede a month-long meeting of world governments at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City to discuss the fate of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/legal/npt/nptindex1.html ), a treaty in which nuclear weapons states, United States ,United Kingdom , Russia , China , and France agreed to eliminate their nuclear weapons arsenals.

The Bush administration continues to manipulate the treaty by vehemently demanding disarmament from other countries, while expanding US production and development of nuclear weapons. US used nuclear weapons as an excuse for war in Iraq . Will North Korea and Iran be next? sbobet365

United in our opposition to the growing threat of nuclear war, and the use of nuclear weapons as a pretext for war, we must mobilize now and demand the full and rapid implementation of the promise for nuclear disarmament. https://hari88.net/

We’ll be joined by a delegation of mayors from around the world, as they deliver the call for nuclear disarmament, on behalf of millions of people, to the United Nations. Mayors will lead marches to the rally site on May 1st . Join a mayor from your region in a march on May 1st . https://pafikabasen.org

May 1st rally site will be determined shortly. Permits will be filed for the Great Lawn in Central Park . For more information on May 1st and to join the planning efforts, please sign up for the MayDay2005 listserve, send e-mail to MayDay2005-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .

GLOBAL DISARMAMENT STARTS AT HOME – IT’S TIME TO DISARM AMERICA

The continued possession of thousands of nuclear weapons by the existing nuclear weapons states, together with the US policy of preventive war and its push to modernize its nuclear arsenal, provide arguments for other countries to develop nuclear weapons of their own.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS THREATEN EVERYONE’S SECURITY

Nuclear weapons remain the most dangerous of all weapons, the only ones that can destroy civilization in a day. We need to redefine security in human and ecological terms, rather than military ones: food, shelter, clean air and water, jobs, healthcare and education. This kind of security is universal.

Sustainable Energy Working Group

March 27, 2021 by Sophia Kennedy·Comments Off

Sustainable Energy Working Group – Nuclear Power Powers the Bomb

The Abolition 2000 statement recognizes the “inextricable link” between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Nuclear reactors produce radioactive materials that not only wreak havoc on our health and the environment, spreading lethal radiation for hundreds of thousands of years to come, but also are used for building nuclear bombs. slot99

Sustainable energy provides the only solution to our planet’s energy needs , and energy self-sufficiency is more compelling now than ever. With 401 reactors worldwide, nuclear power plants represent one of the most vulnerable threats to global security and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. slot77

The working group has produced a model statute for an International Sustainable Energy Fund, as an alternative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. We worked with the NGO Caucus on Energy and Climate Change to obtain government sponsorship to enact the statute during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Although our effects were blocked by powerful corporate and national interests, the group intends to work for the creation of an International Sustainable Energy Agency by promoting this initiative at every available opportunity. We have held workshops on the initiative at various NPT PrepCom and Review Conference events and at the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre Brazil fs. hari88

News & Events

Working for a Green Hydrogen Future

“Black” vs. “Green” Hydrogen

The Green Hydrogen Coalition supports the development of hydrogen fuel for the world because the only byproduct from hydrogen fuel is pure water. The Coalition is “green” because it proposes that hydrogen be produced with clean, safe renewable energy–from the sun, the wind, the tides, geothermal sources. We are challenging the U.S. attempt to hijack the promise of hydrogen fuel with the recent government launch of an International Partnership for a Hydrogen Economy which would rely on “black” hydrogen, calling for massive subsidies to the fossil fuel and nuclear industries to produce hydrogen http://nahjbayarea.com/.

To learn more about the Green Hydrogen Coalition and to join the growing network of groups and individuals that support the its mission, visit www.greenhydrogencoalition.org. pafikebasen.org

Contact Information

Leslie Seff

Global Resource Action Center for the Environment

215 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1001

New York, NY 10016, USA

Tel: 212-726-9161

Fax: 212-726-9160

lseff@gracelinks.org

Mayors for Peace Working Group

March 27, 2021 by Sophia Kennedy·Comments Off

Mayors for Peace Working Group – Working to enroll mayors around the world to work for a nuclear weapons convention by 2005. Increasingly, cities have been reaching out to each other across national boundaries to address global threats to their citizens. One such organization is the World Conference of mayors for Peace, which will provide the initial leadership for this campaign. We seek to encourage other mayors’ groups to become engaged, and will coordinate closely with them.

News & Events

2nd Nagasaki Global Citizens’ Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, November 24, 2003

Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, received a report that the Bush administration submitted a 2004 Defense Authorization Bill to Congress, that requests funds for the development of small nuclear weapons. Mayor Akiba responded by demanding that President Bush immediately begin demonstrating a willingness to implement the “unequivocal undertaking” to eliminate the U.S. nuclear arsenal, promised at the previous NPT Review Conference nahjbayarea.com.

On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. https://www.mrchensjackson.com/

This proposal offered cities a way to transcend national borders and work together to press for nuclear abolition. Subsequently, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on mayors around the world to support this program. premium303

Reports & Resources

Mayoral statement in support for the commencement of negotiations on the elimination of nuclear weapons https://hari88.com/

Contact Information

Steve Leeper

Transnet – Transitional Resource Network

1046 Vance Avenue NE

Atlanta, GA 30306 Tel: 404-898-0586

Fax: 404-607-0673

Email: leeps@mindspring.com

Aaron Tovish

1-2, Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku,

Hiroshima City, 730-0811

Japan Tel: 41-22-340-3853

aaron.tovish@bluewin.ch