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Shadows and Ashes: Direct Action for Nuclear Disarmament
April 28, 2015 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
TUESDAY, April 28, 2015
9:30 am: Isaiah Wall (First Ave. & 43 St.) vigil followed by
Nonviolent Direct Action at The U.S. Mission to the UN (First Ave. & 45 St.)
In late April 2015 representatives from around the world gather at the United Nations to talk about nuclear weapons at the United Nations. Every five years the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is reviewed during three weeks of meetings.
This is not the first time they have talked. Fifteen times since the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 — killing more than 300,000 in a flash — world leaders have met to discuss nuclear disarmament. After decades of talking about disarmament nine countries still threaten the world with more than 16,000 nuclear weapons at the ready.
In 2009 President Obama pledged that the United States would seek the peace and security of a world free of nuclear weapons. Instead his administration is budgeting $350 billion over the next 10 years to upgrade and modernize the U.S. nuclear weapons program. The abolition of nuclear weapons will never happen if we just wait for the leaders who gather at the East River to do it.
Take action with us to demand that the world powers stop talking and disarm.
Take action with us to demand that the United States — the country that began the nuclear arms race — immediately abolish its nuclear weapons for the security of humankind.
Take action with us on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, the first full day of the NPT Review. Join us at that Isaiah Wall as we cry out to the talkers to “Shut Up and Disarm.”
Join those of us who are willing to risk arrest as we take that message two blocks away directly to the U.S. Mission.
Shadows and ashes are all that remain after a nuclear explosion.
Sponsoring Organizations (list in formation): War Resisters League • Brooklyn For Peace • Codepink • Global Network against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space • Granny Peace Brigade • Jonah House • Kairos • Manhattan Green Party • Peace Action Manhattan • Roots Action • Shut Down Indian Point Now • War Is a Crime • World Can’t Wait