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For Peace and Human Needs
Disarm Now!
AN INTERFAITH CONVOCATION
for the abolition of nuclear weapons

Sunday May 2, 2010

Church Center to the United Nations
777 UN Plaza
(First Avenue at 44th Street)
12:00 Noon – 1:00 p.m.

Spoken Word
Prayers
Music/Performance
Ribbons of Peace and Peace Doves
Refreshments
Walk to the Rally at Times Square Together
Following the convocation

Involving representatives from the Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Hindu, Humanist, Indigenous, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Shinto, Sikh, Taoist, Unitarian Universalist, Wiccan, and Zoroastrian communities. ALL are welcome. For more information on the events of the weekend, visit www.peaceandjusticenow.org.

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The text on the leaflet  is as follows:

THE TIME IS NOW TO ORGANIZE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT:

Join us at the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference in May

With the announcement of the finalizing of the START 1 Follow On Treaty with Russia and its signing in April, public support for nuclear disarmament will be an important ingredient in the struggle for Senate ratification of the START treaty. With the opening of the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference in May, the times also call for more action by the Administration.

The nuclear disarmament movement needs to point the way out of the Bush era disarmament logjam. One way is organizing popular support for nuclear disarmament, with voices in the streets and petitions that lend support for nuclear abolition, “in our lifetime” as we mark the first anniversary of President Obama’s Prague speech.

The 2010 NPT Review International Planning Committee (hundreds of US and international peace and disarmament groups www.peaceandjusticenow.org) has organized an international peace conference, as well as a rally, march and festival April 30 – May 2 in New York City bringing together thousands of nuclear disarmament activists from around the world to demand that the NPT Review Conference conclude with a commitment to the negotiations for a nuclear weapons abolition treaty.

In addition to the thousands of U.S. people who will participate, 2,000 Japanese activists, including more than 60 Hibakusha (A- and H- Bomb survivors), as well as delegations from around the world will be there, too.

Millions of petition signatures from Japan and around the world will be turned into the UN and the White House during the first week of the NPT Review Conference.

April 30 – May 1, an international strategy conference of over 800 participants, half internationals, will be held at Riverside Church.

May 2, an international rally, march and peace festival which will begin in Times Square at 1:30 PM and march to Dag Hamershold Plaza at the UN for a cultural festival and informational tabling.

Join us in organizing for the first peace and nuclear disarmament action in years!  For more information: Call 646- 723-1749 or email nptorganizing@gmail.com

What your organization can do:

1. Join the participating organizations by endorsing the events at www.peaceandjusticenow.org

2. Spread the word! Add a button for www.peaceandjusticenow.org to your website.

3. Organize and encourage others to fill buses, trains and car caravans to NYC to march for nuclear disarmament on May 2.

4. Circulate online www.peaceandjusticenow.org and/or encourage your members to download the paper petition calling on President Obama to initiate good faith multilateral negotiations on an international agreement to abolish nuclear weapons, within our lifetimes!

5. Register for a table to distribute or sell materials at the May 2 peace festival at www.peaceandjusticenow.org

With a space for local contact.

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You can either print the Spanish version of the flier on the reverse side or use the below PDF that outlines how people can be involved.