HELP REBUILD THE ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT as it was in 1982.

HELP REBUILD THE ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT as it was in 1982.

  The Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration Committee will engage in its 39th annual remembrance of the 1945 atomic bombing on August 6 of Hiroshima and on August 9 of Nagasaki.  The groups involved in the Commemoration Committee are the Baltimore club of CPUSA, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, First & St Stephen's United Church of Christ, Homewood Friends Meeting, Maryland Peace Action and Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland. 

  To help build up people power, the Committee is hosting two Town Halls. On August 6, there will be a 7th Congressional District Nuclear War Awareness Town Hall at Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 N. Charles Street, Baltimore 21218. This town hall is in Kweisi Mfume’s legislative district.  It will start at 6 PM with a commemoration vigil outside the meetinghouse. Once inside around 7 PM participants will be informed of Baltimore’s long history of antinuclear weapons endeavors.  Organizations will be encouraged to make a statement about the threat created by these weapons of mass destruction.

  On August 9, there will be a 2nd Congressional District Nuclear War Awareness Town Hall at First & St. Stephen’s United Church of Christ, 6915 York Road, Baltimore 21212.  This town hall which will be in Dutch Ruppersberger’s legislative district will start at 6 PM with a commemoration vigil outside the church. Once inside, around 7 PM participants will be informed about all of the activities taking place to confront the threat of a nuclear war

Take Action:

Get involved with Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland. Call 410-323-1607 or email Max at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net for more details. Visit www.preventnuclearwarmd.org. 

CONVINCE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY to renounce nuclear weapons contracts. 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 research-and-development services for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. Contact the president, Ron Daniels, at (410) 516-8068 or president@jhu.edu.

Contact CEO Kathy Warden of Northrop Grumman at Kathy.warden@NGC.com.  Ask the CEO to cancel its $13 billion nuclear weapons contract to build an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system. 

Call your member of Congress and ask for cosponsor-ship of H. Res. 77 at (202) 224-3121. This resolution embraces the goals of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.