Curate! Don’t Proliferate! Say No to New Nukes! We Can Stop New Nuclear Weapons!
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is planning to build new nuclear weapons. These new warheads are being prepared under the so-called Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program. There is growing public and congressional opposition to this program. Your letter to Congress will help prevent a new generation of nuclear weapons.
Developing new nuclear weapons makes us less safe!
This costly ($150 billion), unnecessary, and dangerous program will further undermine US credibility with the international community and hurt US national security. Developing new nuclear weapons will hinder international non-proliferation initiatives and cripple international nuclear disarmament efforts. A new generation of nuclear weapons in the United States will make it more difficult to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Iran to halt uranium enrichment and the rest of the world to abstain from developing nuclear weapons. We should not be taking actions that encourage other countries to develop or expand their nuclear weapons capabilities. We should be dismantling our existing weapons, not developing new ones.
There is an alternative to new nuclear weapons! Curate! Don’t proliferate!
Under article VI of the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty of which the US is a signatory, the United States is obligated to dismantle its nuclear stockpile. The NNSA should adopt a curatorship program in which nuclear weapons are maintained, not augmented, while they wait dismantlement.
We can stop RRW before it starts!
DOE has requested $89 million in the 2008 budget for RRW. Skepticism around building new nuclear weapons is building rapidly in Congress. Last month’s House and Senate hearings about RRW exposed fundamental flaws with the RRW program. Write Congress and tell them you don’t want new nuclear weapons!
IPPNW News Alert Online Petition to Demand Trident Cancellation
The UK Parliament will be voting on whether to renew the UK's Trident nuclear missile program on March 14, 2007 -- less than two weeks away. If Trident is renewed, this ensures that the UK will have nuclear weapons far into the future. As members of an international community committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, we must make our collective voices heard on this issue.
US medical student Tova Fuller, in consultation with IPPNW's UK affiliate, Medact, has created an online petition demanding the cancellation of the Trident replacement. You can read and sign the petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Trident_Petition. Please forward this web address to all of your contacts. The petition deadline is March 7, to allow enough time to disseminate the text and signatures to key Members of Parliament before the debate.
More information about Trident and the blockade at the UK submarine base at Faslane can be found at the IPPNW student website -- http://www.ippnw-students.org/trident.html.
-- John Loretz Program Director International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) 727 Massachusetts Ave., 2nd floor Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 868-5050, ext. 280 (617) 868-2560 (fax)
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We undersigned strongly urge the City Council, the Mayor and Citizens
to take steady steps to join Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision and stating
that the City and Citizens support the Program to Promote the
Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/621077558 (everybody)
Hi, i updated the petition list, there are two more, one for France, one for US, notice the date December 12
Peace, health, and joy! jouni
DECLARATION OF THE INDIGENOUS WORLD URANIUM SUMMIT Window Rock, Navajo Nation, USA December 2, 2006
We, the Peoples gathered at the Indigenous World Uranium Summit, at this critical time of intensifying nuclear threats to Mother Earth and all life, demand a worldwide ban on uranium mining, processing, enrichment, fuel use, and weapons testing and deployment, and nuclear waste dumping on Native Lands.
Past, present and future generations of Indigenous Peoples have been disproportionately affected by the international nuclear weapons and power industry. The nuclear fuel chain poisons our people, land, air and waters and threatens our very existence and our future generations. Nuclear power is not a solution to global warming. Uranium mining, nuclear energy development and international agreements (e.g., the recent U.S.-India nuclear cooperation treaty) that foster the nuclear fuel chain violate our basic human rights and fundamental natural laws of Mother Earth, endangering our traditional cultures and spiritual well-being.
We reaffirm the Declaration of the World Uranium Hearing in Salzburg, Austria, in 1992, that "uranium and other radioactive minerals must remain in their natural location." Further, we stand in solidarity with the Navajo Nation for enacting the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005, which bans uranium mining and processing and is based on the Fundamental Laws of the Dine. And we dedicate ourselves to a nuclear-free future.
Indigenous Peoples are connected spiritually and culturally to our Mother, the Earth. Accordingly, we endorse and encourage development of renewable energy sources that sustain - not destroy - Indigenous lands and the Earth's ecosystems.
In tribute to our ancestors, we continue centuries of resistance against colonialism. We recognize the work, courage, dedication and sacrifice of those individuals from Indigenous Nations and from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, the United States, and Vanuatu, who participated in the Summit. We further recognize the invaluable work of those who were honored at the Nuclear-Free Future Awards ceremony on December 1, 2006. And we will continue to support activists worldwide in their nonviolent efforts to stop uranium development.
We are determined to share the knowledge we have gained at this Summit with the world. In the weeks and months ahead, we will summarize and disseminate the testimonies, traditional Indigenous knowledge, and medical and scientific evidence that justify a worldwide ban on uranium development. We will enunciate specific plans of action at the tribal, local, national and international levels to support Native resistance to the nuclear fuel chain. And we will pursue legal and political redress for all past, current and future impacts of the nuclear fuel chain on Indigenous Peoples and their resources.
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The DOE (department of energy) hearing is December 12 Contact the DOE to say NO to the massive renovation of the nuclear weapons complex via the "Complex 2030 Plan"
The National Religious Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons Danger has
made it easy to submit comments to the Department of Energy opposing
the build-up. To read more and submit your comment, please click here: http://ga3.org/ campaign/ complex2030? rk=k7MN7pS1bmoHW (US Citizens only)
Britain is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has
made 'an unequivocal undertaking' to accomplish the total elimination
of its nuclear arsenal. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/notrident/ (everybody)
The 2006 World Conference against A and H Bombs, which took place on Aug. 2-9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, further confirmed to pursue this direction, and sent out a letter to the UN and its member states that urges the forthcoming U.N. General Assembly Session to agree on a resolution with the conclusion of a treaty totally banning nuclear weapons as its sole objective, and immediately start negotiations. In order to achieve this, the world conference also called for arousing public opinion and take actions worldwide enough to push international politics.
We look forward to hearing positive responses from you. Thank you in advance for your help and cooperation.
Sincerely,
Yayoi Tsuchida International Secretary Japan Council against A and H Bombs ============ ========= ========= ========= ====== Japan Council against A & H Bombs (GENSUIKYO) 2-4-4 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8464 JAPAN phone: +81-3-5842-6034 fax: +81-3-5842-6033 Email: antiatom@topaz. plala/or. jp http://www10.plala.or.jp/antiatom/html/e/e-index.htm
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IT IS NOW 60 YEARS since the first session of the UN General Assembly adopted its first resolution in January 1946 pledging to move towards the elimination of nuclear weapons. Today, the overwhelming majority of both the people and the governments of the world are demanding the abolition of nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, a large number of nuclear weapons, enough to annihilate the whole of humanity, are still being stockpiled and deployed.
In particular, the government of the United States, the biggest nuclear power, declares that it will retain its massive nuclear arsenals into the foreseeable future. On the grounds of needing to cope with the “dangers of terrorism and nuclear proliferation, it is continuing to wage war and even developing plans to use nuclear weapons and build new nuclear warheads. These actions betray the first UN resolution, as well as the unequivocal undertaking to eliminate their nuclear arsenals, agreed upon in 2000 by the nuclear weapon states' governments at the NPT Review Conference. Further, they run counter to the purpose and the basic principle of the United Nations to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and to settle international disputes by peaceful means.
Together with the Hibakusha, the A-bomb survivors, we have worked to spread around the world their message that Hiroshima/Nagasaki should never be repeated. This has helped to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war on many occasions and build up global momentum in support of the abolition of nuclear weapons. Now people on all continents share this goal and are joining together in actions to carry forward this effort to turn the rest of the 21st century into an era where humans are liberated from the danger of nuclear war. A total ban on nuclear weapons is also the only sure way to remove the danger of nuclear proliferation.
In pursuit of a nuclear weapon-free, peaceful and just world, we herewith urge the United Nations Organization and all governments of the world, including the nuclear weapons states, to begin negotiations with no further delay to reach an international convention for a total ban on, and the elimination of, nuclear weapons.
Dear friends,
We call on you to collect signaturs in support of the swift abolition of´nuclear weapons and join a joint submission of the signatures to the UN, which is planned in the beginning of October (hopefully around Oct. 2-4) by Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo) . We also ask abolition friends to help and cooperate in holding this event in the UN. We welcome your participation in whatever forms, such as collecting signatures in your country, sending your signatures to us for the submission, and joining the action itself.
In the Abolition 2000 General Assembly held in Vancouver, we proposed the joint submission and it was agreed by consensus as a campaign of Abolition 2000. As you are aware of, this signature campaign was endorsed by a lot of prominent people and leading activists and also by Abolition 2000 Abolition Now working committee. You can make an online signing and download signature forms of English, French, Spanish, Russian, Korean, German languages from our website:
http://www10. plala.or. jp/antiatom/ html/e/e- sig_swift/ Swift-index. html
Gensuikyo will send a delegation of hopefully 30 people to the UN and USA on Oct. 1-8 & 9. The delegation will stay in New York on Oct. 1-4 when the First Committee will start, and on the 5th, we will divide the delegation into two groups; and one will go to Boston & New Hampshire, and the other will go to California to take joint action with USA groups to arouse public opinion for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons with focus on the midterm election of the Bush administration. The delegation will include Hibakusha and leading activists.
In Japan, we have so far collected about 600,000 signatures, and we also have gotten many endorsements internationally, including prominent and leading figures of various fields. Of course, we will add a lot more signatures by October, and we are conducting nationwide campaign to ask all local govenment heads (now, about 2000 heads in Japan) to endorse it. We will bring the endorsements of at least a half of all government heads to the UN. This time, we will submit the list of signers, in particular, of local government heads, with some real signatures.
Even if it is a symbolic one, we want to hold the joint submission, and we think that we should do this kind of action in the UN. When the NPT Review Conference was held, we, together with Abolition 2000 members, brought signatures to NY and submitted to the UN, it could have impact on international politics and encourage worldwide anti-nuclear and peace movements. We think that we need to keep the momentum that we had created at the time of the NPT RevConf.
Emphasizing the role of the UN to play for world peace and survival of humanity, the call for the swift abolition of nuclear weapons urges the UN and all governments of the world, including the nuclear weapons states, to begin negotiations with no further delay to reach an international convention for a total ban on and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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Thank you for signing CND’s No Trident Replacement August 08, 2006 7:37 AM
Thank you for signing CND’s No Trident Replacement petition. The petition, with over 53,000 signatures, was handed in to Downing Street on Friday 4th August. On the same day, CND released an ICM poll showing that 59% of British people oppose a replacement of Trident nuclear weapons. This is an increase of 5% opposed since the same poll was taken last autumn.You can view a selection of photos from the petition hand-in on our website: http://www.cnduk.org/pages/4aug.htm
There was widespread media coverage of the petition hand-in. Walter Wolfgang, a CND vice-president who was just elected to the Labour Party National Executive Committee, was one of six CND representatives handing in the petition to Downing Street.
If you are not already on CND’s email list, please consider joining it. All you have to do is reply to this message and your name will be added - you do not have to be a CND member. You will receive action alerts, weekly bulletins, and CND press releases to keep you up to date on all the activities against Trident replacement.
Tony Blair has said that a decision will be made on Trident replacement by the end of 2006 – with your support we can stop a new generation of nuclear weapons in Britain!
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is one of Europe's biggest single-issue peace campaigns, with over 32,000 members in the UK. CND campaigns for the abolition of all nuclear weapons everywhere.
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North Korea’s sudden flurry of missile testing has caused quite a stir.In
our market economy where new products, needed or not, are constantly
developed and marketed to keep us consuming, so it is with our culture
of fear.It seems we need to regularly be fed new and
improved fears to keep us acquiescent to our government’s foreign
policy and our unbridled military spending.
Those
of us who grew up during the cold war were raised on the concept of
“deterrence,” the ideology which assured us that the only way to keep
an enemy from attacking us with ICBM’s carrying nuclear weapons was to
develop and deploy so many ourselves that no one would attack us for
fear of annihilation.Our
ideology has changed, it seems, now that we have entered the new age of
the preemptive strike and the missile defense program.Deterrence no longer brings us security, now we must rely on aggression.But
just as to every action there is a reaction, aggression spawns
aggression and thus North Korea’s missile testing along with a host of
other new threats to our security, all of which enables our government
to market the fear that keeps the system of militarism, aggression and
violence vibrant and healthy.And our economy is now heavily dependant on that fear-driven monstrosity we call the
military/industrial complex.
The
Guadalupe Catholic Worker house is located just a few miles from the
northern boundary of Vandenberg Air Force Base where, in just this past
year alone, our government has fired eight ICBM’s across the Pacific
carrying mock warheads targeted to land 30 minutes and 4,200 miles away
in the Marshall Islands.When missiles are fired, we not only see and hear them, we feel them.They rattle the windows of our house.Vandenberg has been testing ICBM’s since 1959.Our president calls North
Korea’s testing of missiles “provocative.”We would submit that our nation has been provocative now for nearly 50 years!
We will continue to test ICBM’s (another is due to lift off later this month) with new and improved reentry vehicles.Along
with that testing which costs $50 million per launch, we will continue
to spend over $400 billion each year on our military budget which in
large part goes into research and development of the most hideously
grotesque weapons ever invented by man.The only thing
standing in the way of using that money for the nourishment of this
planet and the people on it, as opposed to its destruction, is fear.It’s
not that there are no threats in this world.But, in the end, the struggle comes down to the tension between greed and justice.If we choose the former, we will continue down this never-ending spiral of violence and fear.If we choose the latter we can break out of that cycle and begin to heal.
As Catholic Workers, we call for an end to both the culture of fear and the culture of materialism.We
challenge all who hunger for peace to give up violence and aggression
as a self-protective strategy and to curb the consumption which drives
an exorbitant economy and deprives others of a decent life.We
further encourage the abandonment of all nuclear weapons and the
missile systems that deliver them as a means for providing a just
platform from which to encourage other countries to do the same.
FORWARDED from BANg, European network for Nuclear Disarmament
Hi,
You
may have heard last week Gordon Brown, who is likely to succeed Tony
Blair as the Prime Minister in Britain, making a speach in which he
said he supports the replacement of Trident, Britain's nuclear weapons
system at a cost of £25 000 000 000 (about 37 500 000 000 euros)
The
CND petition to oppose Trident replacement closes in 3 weeks, so if you
haven't signed it (though I'm sure lots of you have) can you go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/notrident/
and sign it, and forward this link to anyone you think would sign this petition.
It's really important that we show the British government that we do not want this dangerous threat to world peace!
Re: Written Declaration on withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from European territory
Greenpeace urges you to sign the European Parliament Written Declaration 0047/2006 on the Withdrawal of US Nuclear Weapons from European Territor before the end of 2006, which open for signature on 12 June 2006 and lapses on 12 September 2006.
As you know, sixteen years after the end of the cold war, 480 US nuclear weapons remain in Europe, spread across Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK under NATO nuclear sharing arrangements. Each of these nuclear bombs has a destructive capacity of up to ten times that of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, with a combined power capable of wiping Europe off the map.
By signing Written Declaration 0047/2006 you will be representing the views of a large majority of your constituents. According to public opinion polling commissioned by Greenpeace, two thirds of citizens in NATO US nuclear weapons host countries want to live in a nuclear weapons-free Europe.
A new Greenpeace report, “Securing our Future, Ensuring our Survival, Why US NATO Nuclear Weapons in Europe Must Go,” reveals the clear and present dangers posed by US nuclear weapons in Europe. Each US nuclear weapon in Europe is a potential target of terror, poses a serious risk of an accident and turns the host country into a nuclear target. Each nuclear weapon is an impediment to further reductions in Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons and ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear intentions.
The Greenpeace report explains that use of these nuclear bombs can be decided by the President of the United States without the permission of the host country. An article in the New Yorker by Seymour M. Hersh in April revealed US scenarios that included the use of B61 bombs -- the type of US bomb stored in Europe -- in a potential strike on Iran. In this way European NATO nuclear sharing countries risk nuclear weapons being launched from their territories in a US conflict. This complicity in the foreign policy of another country means that the populations of the host countries could be unwittingly implicated in a nuclear conflict instigated by a government they did not elect.
Given the dangers posed by these weapons, and the will of the majority of citizens, we urge you to take action within your political group and work to ensure that signatures are gathered to endorse the Written Declaration on the withdrawal of NATO/US nuclear weapons from Europe.
pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of Procedure by Caroline Lucas and Angelika Beer on the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from European territory before the end of 2006
Lapse date: {12/10/2006}12.10.2006
0047/2006 Written declaration on the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from European territory before the end of 2006
The European Parliament, – having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure, A. whereas there is widespread concern among Europe's citizens about the continued presence of 480 US nuclear weapons on that country's bases on the territories of its European NATO allies, B. whereas there has been considerable public protest about this, with several European governments and parliaments, including the European Parliament, demanding the withdrawal of these weapons as soon as possible and in accordance with a well-determined timetable, C. whereas the US Government has refused to take any steps in this direction, D. whereas NATO is refusing to take up this issue at the forthcoming meeting of defence ministers on 8 and 9 June in Geneva or at the Riga summit in November, and whereas Europe's leading foreign and defence ministers have opted to remain silent on the issue in order not to hinder the 'transatlantic relationship', 1. Calls on the US Government to present a clear and precise timetable and action plan for the withdrawal of these weapons from Europe before the end of 2006; 2. Urges NATO to include this issue as a permanent item on the agendas for its ministerial meetings and summits until such time as the withdrawal has been completed; 3. Calls on all European governments to put political pressure on their US counterpart to implement this withdrawal; 4. Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Council, the Commission and the US Government.
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my country has a policy on nuclear weapons,ships,powerstations.laws were made in agreement with all its peoples majority vote, simply put ' no nukes, ' even in the event of international terrorism,my country has stood firm on its policy, upsetting Australia and its total alliance with the american governing power. This has caused a rift between us and them,quite frankly i don't give a rats @!£$ ss what President Bush says or prime minister Howie . We of Aotearoa ( New Zealand ) stand firm and are resolute, we shall stay the cause.
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I do not accept that nuclear weapons can defend me, my country, or the values I stand for.
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