FW: Reminder: Abolition 2000 NY Metro Meeting: Wed., 3/23, 12 -2PM
Alice Slater
Subject: Reminder: Abolition 2000 NY Metro Meeting: Wed., 3/23, 12 -2PM
Dear Friends,
Below is a message that was mailed out to you previously about our Abolition 2000 NY meeting this Wednesday, May 23. In addition to hearing from our international guest, Alyn Ware, about the Parliamentary Network and how we can participate, we will also be discussing how we can get NYC to join Mayors for Peace and their 2020 Vision Campaign for a treaty to ban the bomb, as well as organizing around the shocking news that Indian Point’s nuclear reactor complex is number one on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s at risk list for earthquake damage!! As a born and bred New Yorker, I was as surprised as you probably are that according to Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Indian Point was built on an earthquake fault that is ready for an incident.
Please RSVP to asl...@rcn.com if you can attend. We hope to set up some committees and working groups to cover some of this new ground and would like to also hear from you on what you think our next steps should be, moving forward. It’s time to get organized!!
Subject: Abolition 2000 NY Metro Meeting: Wed., 3/23, 12 -2PM
Dear Friends,
On Wednesday, March 23, from 12 to 2 PM, our Abolition 2000 NY Metro Network will meet at the Bahai Conference Room at 866 UN Plaza, entrance on 48th St, just east of First Avenue for a brown bag lunch.
Please join us to meet with New Zealander, Alyn Ware, the Coordinator of the Parliamentary Network for Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament, to learn how we can support efforts to expand this critical network of global parliamentarians to work for nuclear abolition. Alyn is a founder of the Abolition 2000 Network and serves on its International Coordinating Committee. He is a former Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy and the person who spearheaded the successful global World Court campaign to have the International Court of Justice favorably address the issue of the legality of nuclear weapons that resulted in the famous decision of 1996 that “there exists an international obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations on nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control.”
I have attached some documents about PNND and you can also check out their website at www.pnnd.org It’s a very worthy effort, working to promote nuclear abolition and other interim nuclear disarmament measures in nations across the world. Membership in the Network would be a great way to get our own members of the US Congress up to speed on the latest developments and legal requirements for nuclear abolition and non-proliferation as they network with legislators around the world on this critical issue.
In the US, the following members of Congress have joined PNND:
John Conyers,
Michael Honda
Dennis Kucinich
Barbara Lee
John Lewis
Carolyn Maloney
Edward Markey
George Miller
Nan Grogan Orrock
Lynn Woolsey
As you can see, in New York and in the US, we certainly have our work cut out for us in helping to expand PNND, which has great international representation around the world.
We will also have an opportunity to discuss plans for this year’s Abolition 2000 Annual Meeting, and to see what initiatives we can support to kill the unconscionable $184 billion deal Obama made to win the ratification of the modest START treaty, as well as other opportunities to move our nuclear disarmament agenda forward.
RSVP to asl...@rcn.com
Best regards,
Alice
Alice Slater
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, NY
446 East 86 St.
New York, NY 10028
646-238-9000(cell)
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