[Peace-discuss] 7:30pm Mon 9/18 - RSVP for UFPJ National Briefing Call on Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

Fri Sep 15 22:01:26 UTC 2017

FYI: United for Peace and Justice is having a conf. call on Monday, Sep.
18th, 7:30pm Central time, about prospects for a nuclear weapons ban.

You have to respond to get contact information for the call... in case
anyone's interested.

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Subject: 	Still Time to RSVP for UFPJ National Briefing Call on Nuclear
Weapons Ban Treaty
Date: 	Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:26:46 +0000 (UTC)
From: 	Christopher Vinales <info at unitedforpeace.org>
Reply-To: 	info at unitedforpeace.org
To: 	stuartnlevy at gmail.com

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UFPJ National Briefing Call on the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
Monday, September 18, 2017
8:30 pm EDT/5:30 pm PDT
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Presenters:

*Dr. John Burroughs* is Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee on
Nuclear
Policy in New York City, the UN Office of the International Association
of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. He represents LCNP in Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty review proceedings, the United Nations, and
other international forums,including the 2017 UN negotiations on a
nuclear ban treaty. His publications include contributor, “Unspeakable
suffering - the humanitarian impact of nuclearweapons” (2013), and
author, “The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to
the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice” (1998). He
has additionally published articles and op-eds in journals and
newspapers including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the World
Policy Journal, and Newsday. 	*Jackie Cabasso* is Executive Director of
Western States Legal Foundation in
Oakland, California. A leading voice for nuclear abolition, she has been
involved in nuclear disarmament, peace and environmental advocacy
locally, nationally andinternationally for more than 35 years. She was a
“founding mother” of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate
Nuclear Weapons in 1995. Since2007, she has served as North American
Coordinator for Mayors for Peace. She currently serves as National Co
convener for United for Peace and Justice. Jackie received the
International Peace Bureau’s 2008 Sean MacBride Peace Award, and Agape
Foundation’s 2009 Enduring Visionary Prize.

/*On December 22, 2016, President-elect Trump tweeted: “The United
States must
greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as
the world
comes to its senses regarding nukes”.*/

On July 7, 2017, at the United Nations, the majority of the world’s
countries
adopted a historic treaty to prohibit the possession, development,
testing, use and
*threat of use* of nuclear weapons. The vote, by 122 to 1, unambiguously
demonstrates that most of the world has indeed come to its senses regarding
nuclear weapons. The treaty opens for signature on September 20 at United
Nations headquarters in New York, during the High-Level Segment of the 72 nd
Session of the UN General Assembly, where heads of state, foreign
ministers and
other representatives of governments are expected to publicly sign the
treaty. Fifty
countries must sign and ratify the treaty for it to enter into force.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
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represents the total repudiation of nuclear deterrence by most of the
states that don’t possess or rely on nuclear weapons. But
the US and the eight other nuclear-armed states boycotted the
negotiations, along
with Japan, Australia, South Korea and all but one of the 28 NATO member
states
(The Netherlands) – all countries under the US nuclear umbrella. In a joint
statement following the vote, the US, France and the United Kingdom
declared:
“We do not intend to sign, ratify or ever become party to [the Treaty].”
Meanwhile, nuclear tensions have risen to levels not seen for decades.

While the Ban Treaty negotiations were taking place in the United
Nations, two
floors up in the same building, in an emergency meeting of the UN Security
Council, the United States was threatening military action against North
Korea, in
response to its July 4 missile test.

We must keep both realities – the promise of the Ban Treaty *and*
growing dangers
of nuclear war – fully in mind as we develop strategies to accomplish
the urgent
goal of a world without nuclear weapons.

/*What does the Ban Treaty mean in our sharply divided world? How can we
best
utilize it in the United States to stigmatize nuclear weapons and
delegitimize the
doctrine of nuclear deterrence? How can we move from prohibition to
disarmament?*/

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