What’s on this page:

• May 2nd Footage - Video & photo footage from 5/2 Day of Action in NYC.
• Events from around the Country – NYC was not the only place of action.  See how others from around the country answered the call.
• Media Shout-Out – See what people are saying about the day.

For transcripts to speeches from the rally, please visit the Speeches from the Rally page.  Materials from 4/30-5/1 Conference can be found here.

May 2nd Footage

“March Against Nuclear Weapons” by People’s World (6:52)

Video of Rally, March, and Festival (2:22)

PBS News Hour in segueing into U.N. NPT RevCon Coverage

Images from the NPT rally

Pictures from the Rally/March/Festival.  Thanks to Peter Levesque for the awesome photos.

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Footage of Events from Around the Country

New York City was not the only place of action…  See what others around the country have done!

Pictures by Helen Jaccard

Here are pictures from a march and rally in Seattle, hosted by Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action.  We thank Leonard Eiger for sending us these pictures!

Gensuikyo visit Seattle (and beyond) May 2010

Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action hosted a 38 person delegation (including one Hibakusha) representing Gensuikyo on their way home from New York. GZCNA put together events in both Seattle and Tacoma, and then brought them to the Center to learn about our work resisting Trident.

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Media Shout-Out

A hearty exchange in the opinion column of the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel:

• May 8, 2010  - NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Can’t expect luck to last
  Recently, I was among 20,000 people from around the world who marched in New York’s Times Square to the United Nations to demand the dismantling of all nuclear weapons. Many attended from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some sickly survivors of the bomb. And, yes, we just missed being blown up in Times Square. Americans can’t expect that luck to last.

  Similarly, we live in a non-Cold War world with thousands of nuclear weapons, some of which can fall into the hands of unstable groups, some of which are currently disintegrating in sunken submarines, all of which, if ever detonated, could cause nuclear winter and inhabit the lungs of all on the planet. We can’t expect this luck to last, either.Since America has the most weapons by far, we must lead the way toward incremental dismantling, encouraging other nations to do the same immediately. There must be more sense of urgency and more calls to Congress. We can all do our part to give our children a world free of the biggest nightmare they will ever face.

  Debbie Metke
  Milwaukee

• May 12, 2010 – BOMBS: A futile quest
  This is in reference to Debbie Metke’s letter published May 9. I applaud you and the 20,000 people for marching from New York’s Time Square to the United Nations to demand the dismantling of all nuclear weapons. I am sure Iran, North Korea and any other rogue countries who are striving to develop nuclear weapons applaud you also.

  Perhaps to underscore your quest, how about doing away with all bombs? I am sure all of the roadside bombers all over the world will comply with your plea. You can see what an impact President Barack Obama’s sanctions have had on Iran and North Korea concerning nuclear bombs.

  Dolores Navarro Fabian
  Oak Creek

• May 16, 2010 – NUCLEAR WEAPONS: A reasonable goal
  Dolores Navarro Fabian’s letter of May 12 disparaging a previous letter that called for dismantling of all nuclear weapons left out a key point: The 20,000 who marched against nuclear weapons to the United Nations recently were calling for incremental and verifiable dismantling of all the world’s nuclear bombs – not a naïve United States only disbanding their own and hoping others will follow. This is an obtainable goal.If reassurance is needed, we still have enough conventional weapons to annihilate any country on this planet many times over.

  Are humans so weak and lacking in skill that we must live with these instruments of mass death until we totally destroy our race?

  Kristin Krienbring
  Milwaukee

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