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George was always there. Even before any of us oldtimers. Frederick Douglas said nothing happens without struggle. George would say nothing happens without organization, which is the implementation of struggle. He went about it calmly, methodically, dependably.  History teacher that he was, he made sure the struggle was based on truth, a weapon more powerful than even the atom bomb.

It is doubtful that nearly four million declarations of public conscience could have been collected without him and Jean for the ICJ nuclear weapons case.  They not only helped to collect them for the movement. They were the public conscience of the movement. Continue reading “Words for George Farebrother”

The world as we now know and inhabit it is imperiled by both nuclear weapons and global warming. No country better illustrates the twin existential threats than the Marshall Islands. LCNP is on the legal team representing the Marshall Islands in its Nuclear Zero cases in the International Court of Justice. And with Foreign Minister Tony deBrum we examined the two threats and what to do about them at a September 20 Climate Convergence workshop held in connection with the Peoples Climate March and the UN Climate Summit. See this eNews for more about these and other LCNP activities.

eNews of Lawyer’s Committee on Nuclear Disarmament, Nov 2014

On Sep 26, we asked people around the world: How many nuclear weapons do you think are in the world? And how many should there be?

Check the videos here:

http://www.unfoldzero.org/sep26?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mail&utm_campaign=141126&utm_content=sep26

Check here a compliation video of actions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGKyf4U5CM

CALL TO ACTION: SPRING 2015 MOBILIZATION for a nuclear free, fair, democratic, ecologically sustainable and peaceful future

PRESS RELEASE, Sept 26 2014: International NGO Network Launches Plans for 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference – Demands Fulfillment of NPT through Commencement of Negotiations for Complete Abolition of Nuclear Weapons – Highlights Links to Climate Change and “Move the Money” Organizing Campaigns

United Nations commemoration event for the first International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Find here an article by Reiner Braun, Kristine Karch and Lucas Wirl

Find pictures of the actions here

Workshop, September 20 2014

Nuclear weapons and climate change are the two existential threats that face humanity, and the military is one of the largest contributors to climate change. Part one of this workshop will consider the ways that climate change will intensify conflicts and war risks generated by a system based on competition among immense organizations and endless growth. It also will explore the role in the global economy of state-dependent high-tech enclaves, including the nuclear energy sector and the military-industrial complex. The second part of the workshop will provide perspectives from people working on a variety of initiatives from the local to the global aimed at finding ways to make progress when the politics in national capitals is locked up.

For more information click here