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Bishop of the poor, bishop of peace, and a convinced antinuclear activist Mgr Jacques Gaillot has left us | |
Born on 11 September 1935 in St Dizier (Haute-Marne), he died of cancer in Paris on 12 April 2023. Mgr Jacques Gaillot is well-known for his actions in support of undocumented people, homeless people, migrants and marginals, and for the very liberal positions he took within the Catholic Church, for example on the marriage of priests and “marriage for all”, contraception and abortion. He is less well-known for his opposition to both civil and military nuclear technologies.
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1 April 2023: Emmanuel Macron gives the French People a superb present | |
ACDN Press release
Published in French on April 1
The following message was received this morning from the Elysée Palace, addressed to ACDN (Action des Citoyens pour le Désarmement), and signed by the President of the Republic:
« Touched by your message of 27 March which proposed that Parliament should initiate a double consultation of the French people, concerning the pensions reform and also France’s participation in the abolition of nuclear and radioactive weapons, I have decided, on my (...)
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Macron, Putin: two dangerous men, two nuclear dictatorships The atom bombs have gone to their heads | |
Published in French on 27 March 2023
PHOTO French President Macron and Russian President Putin in Moscow on 7 February 2022 — Thibault Camus/AP/SIPA
Nuclear Dictatorships
There are many differences between them, yet they share one key feature: they think they are all-powerful. In truth they can at any moment annihilate millions of people. With no authorisation. And once the crime has been committed, they would not have to answer to anyone. They flout international law, the UN Charter, (...)
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|  |  | 24 February 2023 Take the High Road out of War
11 February 2023 French Extreme Right-wing Party wants to "inscribe Nuclear Deterrence into the Marble of the Constitution"
25 January 2023 Humankind is only 90 seconds away from Doomsday!
10 January 2023 Wishes for 2023, from ACDN
26 September 2022 Seven out of ten French citizens want to abolish nuclear and radioactive weapons and wish a referendum on the subject
24 September 2022 How can we neutralise the danger of nuclear arms and nuclear power-plants?
22 September 2022 26 September: The UN’s World Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
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|  | Last news |  |  |  | Monday 24 January 2022 |  |  |  | Dominique Lalanne Has Died |  | We have learnt with sadness and emotion of the cruel death of Dominique Lalanne, which occurred on Sunday morning, so we have heard, through a vascular accident in the brain.
Formerly a nuclear researcher at the CNRS (a national science centre) he had become more than twenty years ago an (...) |  |  |  | Sunday 19 December 2021 |  |  |  | Taiwan rejects a nuclear power plant by a referendum |  | In a referendum in Taiwan yesterday a proposal to reactivate the Lungmen nuclear power plant was defeated by 53 percent vs 47.
This is a victory for the government which plans to phase out nuclear by 2025. When Tsai Ing-wen was elected in 2016, Taiwan had 6 operating reactors and 2 under (...) |  |  |  | Saturday 25 September 2021 |  |  |  | The Death of Paul Quilès, former Minister of Defense, who later worked to abolish nuclear weapons |  | Media Release from ACDN, Saturday 25 September 2021
Paul Quilès passed away in a Paris hospice on Friday 24 September 2021.
After being the campaign director for François Mitterrand in 1981, he was appointed to several ministerial posts between 1983 and 1993 (Housing, Tourism, Transport, (...) |  |  |  | Sunday 8 November 2020 |  |  |  | Now is the time for a peaceful world without nuclear weapons |  | Communiqué ACDN, 2020-11-08
The Action des Citoyens pour le Désarmement Nucléaire (ACDN) congratulates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for their election at the head of the USA and expresses the wish that it will open an age of peace, cooperation and disarmament all around the world.
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