APRIL 30 – MAY 2: THREE DAYS OF POWERFUL ACTION!
800 people from 30 nations attended the International Conference for a Nuclear-free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World keynoted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the historic Riverside Church. Videos of plenary sessions available here.
Sunday, May 2, nearly 15,000 people filled Times Square for a rally of speeches and music and international greetings; a march across town to the UN; and a vibrant, informative, fun International Peace & Music Festival. 100 Hibakusha – survivors of the atomic bombings – stalwartly braved the heat joined by residents of the Kittay House Senior Home in Bronx, NY. 2000 Japanese and over a 1000 Europe and from around the globe joined peace trains and buses from Delaware, Michigan, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania thousands of others from around the US to say all together: No Nukes, No Wars, Fund Human Needs, Protect the Planet!
International Conference at Riverside Church
Friday April 30 5-8 PM
Saturday May 1 10-8 PM
490 Riverside Drive,
New York, NY 10027-5788
About the Workshop
Title: Looking up at the Apocalypse: Disarmament, Climate Change, and Justice
Track: Economic Justice/Human Needs
Co-sponsored by: Western States Legal Foundation and Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace. Panelists: M. V. Ramana, Jennifer Nordstrom, and Andrew Lichterman
(See the entire conference schedule)
Transcripts
by Andrew Lichterman (view bio): ”Superficial politics, fundamental causes: some reflections on the relationship between the movements to abolish nuclear weapons and to stop global warming” — Download PDF
About the Workshop
Title: Youth Lobbying and Messaging
Track: Abolition
Co-sponsored by: Ban All Nukes Generation USA (BANg USA), Ban All Nukes Generation Europe (BANg Europe), and the Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project (a project of IPPNW).
(See the entire conference schedule)
Workshop Material
Download the presentation — PowerPoint (4.4 MB)
Download the presentation in PDF (1.4 MB, slides only)
Below is an edited transcript of Zia Mian’s speech delivered at the April 30th plenary session. (Download PDF)
Confronting the Challenges of Nuclear Weapons and Capitalism
by Zia Mian
April 30, 2010
As we all know—both the people in this room and the people who run the world—we are in a moment of profound crisis in so many ways. We face a political, economic and ecological challenge of unprecedented proportion.
There are a very small number of countries—and a small number of people who make real decisions that shape the policies of those countries—that are trying …
About the Workshop
Title: Missile Defense Deployments Impact Hopes for Nuclear Disarmament
Track: Abolition
Co-sponsored by: Co-sponsored by the Campaign to Nuclear Disarmament UK and Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Panelists: David Webb, Bruce Gagnon, Niu Qiang and J. Narayana Rao.
(See the entire conference schedule)
Transcripts
by J. Narayana Rao (view bio): ”INDIA AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION & SPACE EXPLORATION” — download PDF
About the Workshop
Title: Why and How to Build a Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy System
Track: Environment/Health
Co-sponsored by: IEER, PSR, IPPL. Panelists include Jennifer Nordstrom, Natalia Mironova, Cathey E. Falvo, and Alice Slater.
(See the entire conference schedule)
Transcripts
by Alice Slater — Shifting the Paradigm: Time to Replace Article IV of the Non-Proliferation Treaty with Universal Membership in the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) (download in PDF)
While the world applauds the growing recognition that the abolition of nuclear weapons seems to be an idea whose time has finally come—from the calls by rusty cold …
