Referendum on the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Open Letter to Martine, Eva, Jean-Luc and Pascal: the time for commitment has come
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Saintes, 5 May 2013
Eva, Martine,
I believe that you are marching today, along with Jean-Luc, to call for the French Republic to be re-founded on new more democratic bases, and for the writing of a new constitution giving more power to the people and respecting a certain number of fundamental values, including presumably human rights, citizens’ rights and international law. Both of you have already signed an Open Letter to the current President of the (5th) Republic asking him to organize a (...)
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France as an Obstacle to Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
Peter Low (Christchurch, New Zealand)
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I wonder if France has ever been a champion of disarmament, except in 1925 in the campaign against poison gas in warfare... But here the subject is nuclear weapons since 1960.
I’m a New Zealander, I live far away from France, in the Pacific. Yet this region is well aware of France’s nuclear policies, since so many atmospheric and underground tests were conducted in Polynesia. My country is one of the many anti-nuclear countries - indeed we consciously rejected the so-called “nuclear (...)
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NPT PrepCom, Geneva, 26 April 2013
A Time for Boldness
About a 42 Days Hunger-strike for Nuclear Abolition
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This is the transcript of a talk given at a side event hosted on April 26, 2013, by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Soka Gakkai International entitled "Nuclear Abolition: A Time for Boldness and Hope" at the 2013 Non-Proliferation Treaty PrepCom in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dear Friends,
First, I thank you for being here today, in this 27th anniversary of the beginning of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Together we honour the memory of its victims, as well as of the victims of Hiroshima, (...)
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