“Cities Are Not Targets!”
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 the scourge of war is Mayors for Peace, a dynamic international network of cities founded in 1982 to promote local-government solidarity against war and the nuclear threat. Our primary focus since November 2003 is the 2020 Vision Campaign, a determined effort to outlaw nuclear weapons and eliminate every one of them by 2020. Today, momentum is building. Cities can make it happen!
At its annual meeting in June 2009, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the national association of mayors of cities with populations of 30,000 or more, unanimously adopted a resolution in support of Mayors for Peace. The resolution, Affirming the Role of Cities in Achievement of a Peaceful World Free of Nuclear Weapons by 2020, “welcomes enthusiastically the new leadership and multilateralism that the United States is demonstrating toward achievement of a nuclear-weapon-free world, and calls on President Obama to announce at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference the initiation of good faith multilateral negotiations on an international agreement to abolish nuclear weapons by the year 2020.”
Cities can make themselves heard at the international level only through unity and cooperation. One way Mayors for Peace is demonstrating that unity is through its rapid growth. In 2003, membership stood at 550 cities. In 2009, it reached 3400. Now, we are embarked on the most ambitious city recruitment drive in history! In four months, from January through April 2010, we intend to bring 1500 new cities into the Mayors for Peace network. When our membership tops the 5000 mark, our mayors will directly represent over one billion people who cannot be ignored.
Please help us protect you!
