Nuclear Abolition

Campaigns

Petition to President Obama for Nuclear Abolition
We need to hold the United States accountable to its recent promises "to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." Sign our petition and join us in our latest struggle.

Mobilizing Call of the NPT Reveiw 2010
Click here now to read the mobilizing call of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Over twenty organizations internationally have signed onto this call. Get ready to get involved with the organizing around this conference soon.

The Pacific Freeze Campaign
Peace Action is proud to endorse a new initiative to educate people about the dangerous effects of nuclear weapons. This initiative, and also the Disarmament for Development initiative of the International Peace Bureau, is novel and important as they look at military spending on a global scale.

Think Outside the Bomb Conference
Our organizing team is working with the Think Outside the Bomb team to create great workshops about nuclear weapons to students and young activists.

New Mexico this August 13th - 16th

Last Years Conference Hosted with Massachusetts Peace Action
The 2008 Think Outside the Bomb national conference in Boston was an amazing experience. So amazing that we're already hard at work planning our follow-up, slated for August 13-16, 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Be sure to check back regularly for more details, or, click here to contact conference organizer Steve Stormoen.

CAMPAIGN FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE WORLD
Sign the call for a world free from nuclear weapons.

We call upon President Obama to make a world free of nuclear weapons an urgent priority and to assure U.S. leadership to realize this goal.

SIGN NOW - Background - About the Campaign - Take Action - Download a Petition

Creating a Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free US Energy System

The science of global climate change requires that the US go to zero carbon emissions, or something close to it. It makes more economic, health and security sense to do this without nuclear power. The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research recently completed a study that shows that it is technically and economically feasible for the US to go to zero carbon emissions by 2050 without using nuclear energy, and it shows how to do it. The study, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for US Energy Policy, shows that with technology that is available now, we can go to a fossil fuel-free energy system by 2050 without nuclear energy.
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Old Campaigns

INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL
Peace Action has joined with other non-proliferation organizations to pressure Congress to stop this deal. We've created a letter outlining our positions on this deal:

1. It undermines global non-proliferation goals;
2. It is a bad deal for U.S. companies; and,
3. It will not help U.S. diplomatic relations with India and Pakistan.

Timing is important
Congress is considering a vote on this before they leave Washington in October.
Call your Congressperson and BOTH your Senators TODAY: 202.224.3121.

Read the Letter ~ Talking Points

BACKGROUND
The Bush administration bullied 45 countries into lifting a 30-year ban on nuclear trade with India — a ban put into place because of India's history of illicit nuclear weapons development. Now that an exception has been made for India, the message to the whole world is, "Nuclear rules are made to be broken."

Bush's next step is to apply the same pressure tactics to get Congress to pass a deal that could help increase India's nuclear arsenal. Peace Action Affiliates are working hard to garner resistance to this nuclear deal.

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63rd Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
We held powerful events across the country. You can check out pictures from Wisconsin, here.

Mayors for Peace
Once again this year, the Bush administration's budget request for the build-up of nuclear weapons, in the form of the reliable replacement warhead, was zeroed-out by Congress. When lives are at stake, one dollar for the build-up of new nuclear weapons is too much. Instead, we need to change course and lead our nation toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

Headed by Tadatoshi Akiba, the mayor of Hiroshima, Mayors for Peace is pressing for a nuclear-free world, and more than 2,300 cities have joined its campaign. This past June, Mayors for Peace was endorsed by the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Here is the resolution adopted by that gathering of top U.S. municipal officials.

Bringing this resolution to the attention of your local mayors might be just the thing to get them to join -- and to move the nuclear abolition agenda forward.

Study Materials

DOE COMMENT CAMPAIGN AGIANST NEW NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Read about the Campaign

Comments received on the draft SPEIS:
1. "Campaign" email comments - 90,000
2. Individual (unique) emails - 977
3. "Campaign" postcards/letters - 8,326
4. "Petition" signatures/comments - 15,000 - 20,000
5. Oral testimony at hearings - 625
6. Written comments handed in at hearings - 98
7. Mailed in (unique) comment letters - 214

TOTAL = between 115,240 and 120,240 !!!
Comment to the Dept. of Energy.
DOE Website for Public Hearings Schedule

Online ActioN

Against U.S. Weapons Deals: to the Middle East. When the Washington Post first broke the story that the Bush Administration was planning to send over a billion dollars in arms aid to the Middle East we took immediate action. If you have not signed this petition yet, please do. If you have you can spread the word by passing the petition to your network.

Resources

Non-Aligned Nations Statement on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty & U.S.

U.S. Congress Health & Safety Bill for Nuclear Testing
There is no way to be safe testing nuclear weapons