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This April, in
the days 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.
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 goverments 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 (US, Russia, UK, France and China) have utterly failed to
implement the NPT’s Article VI obligation to negotiate in good faith 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.
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