ACTION ALERT: A Petition to the Nine Nuclear Nations

September 1st, 2020 - by Action Network

Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments

Action Network

Target: The presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States

(August 30, 2020) — This is an appeal from the people of the world to nine nuclear governments to each commit to a nuclear policy of no first strike, not ever, not for any reason; and to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to collectively agree to immediately begin disarming on a schedule to completely eliminate all nuclear weapons from the earth no later than August 6, 2045. 

This is the greatest moral crisis of our time: governments are prepared to unleash a nuclear war which would end civilization as we know it and could kill over seven billion people.” — Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, and endorser of this appeal.

This petition has the support of the Russian analytical agency “Strategic Stability”;

The German organizations Friedensspirale, Coop Anti-War Cafe Berlin, Aktion Freiheit statt Angst;

The Australian organization Refugee Action Collective Gold Coast;

The Canadian organizations Canadian Council on Food Safety and Health, Les Artistes pour la Paix;

The UK organizations Uniting for Peace, Movement for the Abolition of War; the Italian organizations Comitato No Guerra No NATO, Rifondazione Comunista;

The US organizations Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, RootsAction.org, Peaceworkers, Code Pink: Women for Peace, Grassroots Coalition for Environmental and Economic Justice, Pax Christ Illinois, On Earth Peace, Peace Justice Sustainability Now, Minnesota Peace Project, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, US Peace Council, Chicago Veterans For Peace, Monterey Peace and Justice Center, Environmentalists Against War, World BEYOND War-Central Florida Chapter, Veterans for Peace-The Villages # 136, Choose Life Abort War Podcast For Peace, World BEYOND War- California Chapter, No More Bombs, Peace Boat US, Peace Fresno, National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund, Veterans For Peace, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Voices for Creative Nonviolence; and the global organizations WILPF – Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Pressenza, Global Campaign for Peace Education, World BEYOND War.

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This is an appeal from the people of the world to nine nuclear governments to each commit to a nuclear policy of no first strike, not ever, not for any reason; and to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to collectively agree to immediately begin disarming.

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