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At a
time when the
Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists’
Doomsday Clock has
been reset at 85
seconds to midnight,
the closest ever to
annihilation; when
the viability of the
Nuclear
Nonproliferation
Treaty (NPT)is under
increasing threat
and we live in
Antonio Gramsci’s
“time of monsters,”
when the old world
is dying and the new
one struggles to be
born; an
international
coalition of nuclear
disarmament and
peace organizations
will gather on the
eve of the 11th NPT
Review Conference.
Our
call:
Stop the Wars. Halt
preparations for
nuclear war. Honor
the NPT’s , Article
VI commitment to
good faith
negotiations for the
complete elimination
of nuclear weapons
and disarmament
steps agreed to at
previous NPT Review
Conferences. Prevent
nuclear weapons
proliferation.
At 10 a.m. on Sunday
April 26, hundreds
of activists,
including Japanese
and U.S. nuclear
weapons victims
(Hibakusha) will
gather at the New
York City Public
Library and march to
the Isaiah Wall,
across from the
United Nations, to
call attention to
the rising dangers
of nuclear war and
to demand that the
NPT Review
Conference make
progress toward the
goal of a nuclear
weapons-free world.
That
afternoon delegates
from the world’s
nuclear weapons
movements will
gather for a
conference at
Scandinavia House in
Manhattan to share
analyses of the
growing nuclear
dangers amidst
catastrophic wars,
tectonic
geopolitical
changes, and great
power
confrontations. The
conference will
focus on the
humanitarian
consequences of
nuclear weapons and
will challenge the
misbegotten
illusions of
“deterrence theory”
– the preposterous
notion that nuclear
weapons
modernization and
renewed arms racing
can serve as the
foundation for peace
and national
security. Together
we will build
strategies and
campaigns to bring
humanity back from
the brink of the
nuclear abyss.
The agenda and list of
confirmed speakers
follows below.
The
conference will be
livestreamed.
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