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September 21st, 2017 
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BAN THE BOMB TWITTER STORMS START TONIGHT!
This Wednesday, September 20, is the first day that the Nuclear Ban Treaty will be open for signatures at the UN.
WILPF US has a petition where we are collecting signatures to show the congress & president the public support for the treaty.
We are inviting you to be a part of our first collective action this Wednesday kicking off Twitter Action Wednesdays!
Register to be a part of our action here which starts at 7pm EST:
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/DTPM7KUELKO01I4R
“The treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons will enter into force 90 days after 50 countries have ratified it. …
“‘There remain some fifteen thousand nuclear weapons in existence. We cannot allow these doomsday weapons to endanger our world and our children’s future,’ U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as he opened the treaty for signing.
“Earlier this month North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear weapons test. U.S. President Donald Trump told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that if threatened, the United States would ‘totally destroy’ the country of 26 million people and mocked its leader, Kim Jong Un, as a ‘rocket man.’
“The treaty was adopted in July by two-thirds of the 193 U.N. member states after months of talks, which the United States, Britain, France and others skipped.”
The following analysts can discuss the above news items and nuclear policy generally. They are among the speakers at the No War 2017 conference in Washington, D.C. which begins Friday and will be live streamed.
SUSI SNYDER is nuclear disarmament program manager at the group Pax in the Netherlands and just wrote the piece “42 countries sign the nuclear ban treaty.” She said today: “Forty-two states signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the first hour after it opened for signature. This demonstrates the overwhelming urge of the international community to outlaw and eliminate all nuclear weapons without delay.”
ALICE SLATER is the New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War. In July, she wrote the piece “Democracy Breaks Out at the UN as 122 Nations Vote to Ban the Bomb” for The Nation.
Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/more-than-40-nations-sign-nuclear-ban-treaty-in-first-hour/
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