FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 15, 2010
Contact:
U.S.: Joseph Gerson , AFSC, 617-661-6130 Germany: Reiner Braun
JGerson@afsc.org 49-(O)172-2317475
Hr.Braun@gmx.net
Judith LeBlanc, Peace Action, 917 806 8775
judithleblanc1@gmail.com Japan: Hiroshi Taka,
Jackie Cabasso, WSLF, (510) 839-5877 81-3-5842-6034
wslf@earthlink.net
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Please note that workshops are being organized within a structure of four tracks: Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Peace Issues, Economic Justice and Human Needs, and Environmental Sustainability and Health. Each workshop must make the connections with the need or campaigns for nuclear weapons abolition. Within this context, we are also committed to there being workshops organized by and for young activists.
Please also note that all workshops must be proposed internationally. That means that yours must be proposed by organizations from more than one country.
Your application will be directed to the …

A history-making membership drive needs you to join us in saying:
“Cities Are Not Targets!”
Cities around the world are saying: “NO!  We reject absolutely the right of any nation for any reason whatsoever to threaten us with incineration and our planet with nuclear winter.  We are home to women, children, the elderly and other noncombatants traditionally protected under international law.  We are no longer willing to be held hostage to inhumane and indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction.  We demand liberation from the nuclear threat.”
Leading the movement to protect municipal populations from …

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