Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland is involved the planning
and coordinating activities to take place on January 22, 2021 for the
Nuclear Ban Treaty Entry into Force Action Day. Activities will take place in
different parts of the world. The January 22 action in Baltimore will
take place at Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. More information
will be forthcoming. At this time we are urging people to contact Ron
Daniels, the president of the university, to urge him to renounce nuclear
weapons contracts. If you do, please let me know. The leaflet below can
be set up as a PDF file if you want to make copies. Kagiso, Max
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PLEA TO CONVINCE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY TO OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW
The
world will reach a historic milestone on January 22, 2021: The Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW] will enter into force and become binding
international law -- https://www.icanw.org/the_treaty.
Prevent Nuclear
War/Maryland has called attention to the growing danger of nuclear war and
the outrageous $1.7 trillion dollars we are spending to modernize our nuclear
arsenal. We helped the Baltimore City Council and the Montgomery County Council
pass Back from the Brink [BFTB] resolutions and join 53 other
municipalities, state legislative bodies and two states to demonstrate broad
support for the five fundamental changes in US nuclear weapons policy.
The ultimate goal is abolition; BFTB will reduce the risk but TPNW is
the blueprint for abolishing nuclear weapons.
On July 18, 2017, Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Navy - affiliated
research center received a seven-year, $92 million contract to continue
its systems engineering and research-and-development services for the Air
Force Nuclear Weapons Center. Help convince JHU to renounce nuclear weapons
contracts. Contact the president, Ron Daniels, to urge him to reject all
nuclear weapons contracts: Office of the President, 242 Garland Hall, The Johns
Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218. Call
his office at (410) 516-8068 or email president@jhu.edu.
“As Hibakusha (atom bomb survivor),
Setsuko Thurlow, said: ‘this is the beginning of the end of nuclear
weapons.’ The Treaty on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons, which is
grounded in humanitarian concerns, proclaims that what has caused so much
suffering and threatens to end life on this planet as we know it will be
recognized as illegal at last.” — Gwen DuBois, MD, MPH, Physicians for
Social Responsibility Board member, Chesapeake PSR President
Contact
Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland at preventnuclearwarmd@gmail.com or by visiting https://www.preventnuclearwarmd.org/.
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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to Enter
Into Force in January 2021
Key Takeaways
• Adopted in 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons comes into force in January 2021. Work on the Treaty earned the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons the Nobel Peace Prize.
• The treaty goes one step further than the more
broadly accepted Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in that it
seeks to ban the weapons altogether, rather than simply halt their spread.
• From an investor perspective, the new treaty does
not explicitly ban the financing of nuclear weapons, although it has similar
clauses to those that have been interpreted by some states as banning the
finance of controversial weapons.
Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore
Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.
Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/
"The master class has always declared the wars; the
subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to
gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and
everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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