Fwd: [paaffiliates] Endorse Peace & Planet Mobilization

[Pat Salomon]

 I want people in the Berkshires to be aware of and to participate inthe International Peace and the Planet Mobilization. The impact of relentless militarization of our foreign policy on our planet is devastating. We are now 40 years past the original signing of the UN's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but little has been done to enforce it, and nuclear stockpiles continue to grow, here in the US and elsewhere.

Please let me know how you would like to participate. Does a group want to respond here in the Berkshires? Do some people want to join the conference 4/24-25,  and/or march to the UN sunday, 4/26 in NYC. There is also limited space to register through Peace as an NGO delegate to the UN session on the NPT on Monday 4/27. Our Sunday actions are timed to form a Global Wave across each time zone, because really the planet needs to be mobilized to stop this threat. Read the message below and see how and where you want to fit in, and let me know.

Pat Salomon, MD

413-644-8833

Please share widely!!!

We are fast approaching the Peace & Planet Mobilization, which will open with an International Conference April 24-25, and culminate in the streets of New York for a mass Rally, March, and Festival on April 26. While the largest numbers will be turning out in NYC, we hope your organization - large or small, near or far - will support this Mobilization, helping us to garner and demonstrate broad and deep international support as we use the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to demand:

• The abolition of nuclear weapons
• Economic justice, including Moving the Money from the Pentagon to meet human needs
• Racial equity and the demilitarization of policing
• Environmental justice and urgent responses to climate crises
• A just and peaceful approach to global wars and confrontations

Our International Planning Group represents over 65 organizations, and the Mobilization is endorsed by an additional 150 organizations and counting. Our goals are two-fold: to demand immediate negotiations for total nuclear disarmament, and to use this Mobilization to strengthen and connect our movements. Your endorsement will help us do just that.

Expectations of endorsers will of course vary depending on your group's capacity. If your organization is based locally, we hope first and foremost that you'll mobilize your members to participate in our events in NYC. If you're farther away, you can plug in by coordinating a local action for the Global Wave, which will start in NYC on April 26 and make its way around the globe (going west), with actions at 1pm in each time zone, or by organizing a viewing session of the Interntaional Conference's plenary sessions (April 24-25), which will be livestreamed. We also ask that you engage with us on social media to help us spread the word about this Mobilization, and help as we do email blasts so more and more people are aware of the work being done to connect between peace, justice, and environmental struggles and to abolish nuclear weapons.

The work of the Peace & Planet Mobilization is built on and largely inspired by the breadth of organizing done by supporting organizations. Once you've endorsed, it would be helpful if you would email us some photos or videos (along with a caption - what, where, and when) that demonstrate the work you're doing so that we can lift them up in our online outreach. 

Recognizing the interconnected human and moral imperatives of abolishing nuclear weapons, ending and preventing wars, ensuring economic and social justice, achieving racial equity and the demilitarization of police, and addressing climate change and environmental degradation, we are committed to exploring the linkages in order to build broader, more issue-integrated movements for the long term. Thank you so much for considering endorsing this effort! On behalf of the International Planning Group, and in solidarity and peace,

 

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[Catherine McCabe]

Pat,

Thank you for sending this out.  I would like to participate in some way, though not sure at this point.  Can you keep me posted as things firm up for here and NYC?

Thanks.

Catherine

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[Pat Salomon]

It's so simple. Take a moment and sign the petition below to support long awaited action at the UN to end nuclear proliferation. If you want to do more, let me know.

Pat Salomon 413-644-8833

This April, just before most of the world’s governments meet at the United Nations for the month-long Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, thousands of people from around the world will mobilize to demand the total elimination of nuclear weapons, and to connect and strengthen the movements for peace and environmental, economic, and racial justice.

Please sign our petition for nuclear weapons abolition!

On April 26, the Peace & Planet Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just, & Sustainable World will culminate with a Peace Festival in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza across the street from the United Nations. There we will deliver your signature - along with millions of others from Japan and around the world - to NPT and UN officials, calling on all governments to enter immediate negotiations to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.

Survivors of nuclear blasts - from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Marshall Islands, Korea, and the Southwest United States - tell us that nuclear weapons inflict scenes of "hell on Earth," and that "humanity cannot live alongside nuclear weapons." And while most nations support the abolition of nuclear weapons, the nuclear-armed States Parties to the NPT (the U.S., Russia, UK, France and China) have utterly failed to implement the NPT’s Article VI obligation to negotiate in good faith for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Counting the nuclear-armed States outside the NPT (India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea), the nine nuclear-armed States are spending $300 million every day on their nuclear arsenals, and the dangers of nuclear war are growing.

Thank you for adding your name to the Peace & Planet petition as together we work for a world free from nuclear weapons.