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Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World

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Following presentations and discussions in Peace and Planet’s (August 10th) assembly at the World Social Forum in Montreal, we adopted the following Declaration. Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World As citizens of this planet inspired by the Second Thematic World Social Forum for a Nuclear-Fission‐Free World, conducted in Montreal from August 8 to August 12, 2016, we are collectively calling for a mobilization of civil society around the world to bring about the elimination of all nuclear weapons, to put … Continue reading →

Join A- & H- Bomb Survivors Launch Petition Campaign Seeking HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF SIGNATURES

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Three of Peace & Planet’s Japanese partner and other organizations here have launched an audacious campaign, a signature campaign titled “Appeal for a Total Ban on Nuclear Weapons” for which they are seeking HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of petition signatures worldwide. The goal is to add global force to the door that has opened toward nuclear weapons abolition by the United Nations Open Ended Working Group, whose draft report will be issued tomorrow, and which for the first time will lead … Continue reading →

The Climate-Nuclear Nexus

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On this, the first day of the COPS Climate change conference in Paris, I am writing to call your attention to an important new resource “The Climate-Nuclear Nexus” published by the World Future Council. Jurgen Sheffran, who spoke at our Peace & Planet conference last April is the report’s lead author. After describing the existential threats that both nuclear weapons and climate change pose to humanity and the linkages between them, section 3 points to a range of activities to … Continue reading →

Thousands Join Together, Looking Forward for Peace & Planet

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This past weekend, activists from Japan to France, Germany to the Republic of the Marshall Islands to Guam gathered in NYC, in solidarity with people around the globe to demand a nuclear-free, peaceful, just, and sustainable world. (See photos from the weekend here!) On Sunday, we were 7,500 people strong at the Union Square Rally, encouraged and moved to strengthen our work by such leaders as Reiner Braun, Leslie Cagan, Reverend Dr. Daughtry, and Daniel Ellsberg. There was standing room … Continue reading →