Disarmament Peace Sunflower
Dear President Obama,
We must ensure the future survival and sustainability of not only our generation, but future generations to come. Everything and everyone, human and nonhuman, is intricately interconnected, and we must ensure that our environment and society is moving forward toward the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Henry David Thoreau: peace, freedom, justice, equality, and environmental sustainability. Thank you for your leadership and your wisdom. Thank you for everything you have done, are doing, and will do in the future to make the world and our country a better place, more peaceful, disarmed, and free. Peace be upon you, your family, your friends, our country, and all the world, human and nonhuman alike.
Petition to President Obama for Nuclear Abolition:
On April 5th President Obama pledged the United States to demonstrate leadership for nuclear disarmament and abolition. Now we must work to ensure that commitment is fulfilled. Help us add 100,000 signatures to an international petition for abolition to be delivered before the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations in May 2010. When you're done, download a paper petition here and collect signatures from your friends and family.
Petition Digg
Petition PDF (To Download & Distribute)
via Peace Action
Also check out Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Abolition Caucus
April 2010 Sunflower Newsletter
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Martin Luther King, Jr. - "I Have a Dream"
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From an Email:
Dear [Supporter],
In the past few months you signed our petition for a nuclear free world, thank you! Now we are at a critical junction for nuclear disarmament work. Please take another step towards a nuclear free world by forwarding the message below to as many friends as you can.
Once you've done that take a minute to download a paper petition and circulate it
because a grassroots movement must be organized the old fashioned way --people talking to people!
And if you can, we'd love for you to you join us, Sunday, May 2,
to march with the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 80 Hibakusha (survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ) and thousands of peace and disarmament activists from around the world in New York City.
Thanks again for all your support! Please take a minute to forward the message below.
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Dear Friend,
I signed Peace Action's petition for a nuclear free world, and I hope you will too. Now is a critical time for nuclear disarmament, and lending our voice to the effort can make a real difference now.
Last week, President Obama announced the new nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, the follow on to the START Treaty, to be signed April 8th. The details have not been released, but the GOP is already getting geared up to oppose the treaty.
The ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on strategic forces, Representative Michael R. Turner of Ohio, released a letter he solicited from the directors of the nuclear weapons laboratories in January, questioning a federal report which said modernization of existing stockpiles was not necessary.
As President Obama tries to take one small step towards nuclear disarmament, the GOP begins efforts to confuse, distort and delay efforts to reduce the stockpiles.
President Obama needs to take a bigger step towards a nuclear weapons free world that won't be mired in a tug-of-war in the Senate.
President Obama should initiate good faith multilateral negotiations on an international agreement to abolish nuclear weapons, in our lifetime!
Peace Action launched a petition campaign calling on the President to do just that!
Working with our international partners in Japan, and around the world, millions of signatures will be turned into the White House and United Nations during the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May.
Without the support of public opinion and a grassroots movement for peace and disarmament, no steps big or small will be taken! We have learned the lesson of the healthcare fight! The GOP may try to confuse, distort and delay. Therefore, it is up to the peace and disarmament movement to push back!
Please sign the petition,
and once you do, download a paper petition and circulate it
because a grassroots movement must be organized the old fashioned way --people talking to people!
Take one more step to make sure we START and do not get stopped! The moment is now for nuclear disarmament but it can't happen without your involvement! Sign and circulate the petition, march on May 2 in NYC and forward this message far and wide!
START is just the beginning, and we won't be stopped in our quest for wiping the scourge of nuclear weapons from the Earth!
Peace,
Judith Le Blanc
Organizing Associate
Peace Action
P.S. Make sure to share this e-mail with your friends and family by forwarding it on.
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