All In! Preventing Nuclear War Means Defending Democracy
Online EventAmerican democracy is under siege. The November 2022 elections will be a harbinger of our democracy’s future and with it our country’s ability to make meaningful progress on so many important issues, including preventing nuclear war and abolishing nuclear weapons. Please join Back from the Brink for All [...]
Global Peace and Health Concert
Online EventDONATE (Giving any amount makes you a SPONSOR) REGISTER (FREE) View Repertoire and Musicians Greater Boston PSR (GBPSR) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) are pleased to host a very special fifth annual peace and health concert to address the twin existential [...]
Defuse Nuclear War: Livestream
Online EventOctober 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis — when the Soviet Union and U.S. engaged in a tense standoff over the installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba. It is widely considered the closest the two superpowers ever came to nuclear war… [...]
Ukraine War – Russia, China & the United States
Online EventThe Ukraine War has become increasingly dangerous with nuclear threats and the commitments being made for a long war. It has also deepened and accelerated the Russian-Chinese military and economic “partnership” with enormous consequences for the world, not least the increasingly confrontational U.S.-Chinese competition for [...]
Nuclear Weapons in the New Cold War: Daniel Ellsberg
Online EventOur speaker, Daniel Ellsberg, will address the danger of nuclear weapons and opportunities for nuclear disarmament in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the New Cold War between the US, Russia, and China. He was one of the authors of the top-secret study," U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68," which [...]
Defuse Nuclear War: Rally at Congressional Offices
Malden, Quincy, Newton, Lowell and moreOctober 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis — when the Soviet Union and U.S. engaged in a tense standoff over the installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba. It is widely considered the closest the two superpowers ever came to nuclear war… [...]
Scott Ritter on Ukraine, Russia, NATO, and Disarmament
Community Church of Boston 565 Boylston St, BostonOn Saturday, November 19, former UN weapons inspector and US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter will be joining us at 6pm Eastern Time at the Community Church of Boston, for a discussion about the conflict in Ukraine and his most recent book Disarmament in the [...]
President Kennedy’s Trailblazing Vision of World Peace: How It Can Help Us
Online EventNovember 21, 2022 7:30PM -- 9PM Eastern time. "... And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation -- the right to breathe air as nature provided it [...]
From the Freeze to Back to the Brink
The Drake 44 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MAIn the early 1980’s at the height of the Cold War, Western Massachusetts helped birth the Nuclear Weapons Freeze movement, a powerful grassroots campaign that played a major role in advancing the cause of nuclear arms control and disarmament — and preventing nuclear war. Today, [...]
Converging Crises & Collaborations to Fix Them!
Community Church of Boston 565 Boylston St, BostonJoin members of Extinction Rebellion Boston, XR Solidarity, Boston May Day Coalition, the Green-Rainbow Party, the Revolutionary Blackout Network, Boston Area Assange Defense, the Party for Socialism and Liberation Boston, Community Church of Boston and more for an afternoon of power-building, analysis and solidarity! The [...]
Rally to support the Nuclear Ban Treaty (TPNW)
Fresh Pond Parkway at the Fresh Pond Mall 545 Concord Ave, Cambridge, MAJoin the Raytheon/Nuclear Weapons Campaign to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the TPNW’s signing into law. Rally at Fresh Pond Shopping Center, Cambridge. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with [...]
Peace Vigil to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Old Northampton Courthouse Gothic St & Main St, Northampton, MATwo years ago, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force, giving nukes the same international status as chemical and biological weapons: ILLEGAL and unacceptable. The USA should sign the treaty and start working with the other eight nuclear nations to disarm. [...]
Vigil: It’s Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Greenfield Town Common Court Square, Greenfield, MAJoin members of Franklin County for Peace /Traprock with warm clothes and signs at the 11 am – noon Saturday standouts: January 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global lifeboat supported by 70% of the world’s [...]
Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War: Social and Economic Costs of the Current Nuclear Weapons Buildup
Online EventThe 2023 “Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War” Conference will be held virtually on Saturday January 21, 1-6 pm (Eastern). This annual gathering is one of the major national conferences addressing this acute problem. Given the tragic events in Ukraine, tensions with China over [...]
2023 Doomsday Clock Announcement
Online EventThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will host a live virtual news conference at 10:00 a.m. EST/1500 GMT on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, to announce whether the time on the iconic Doomsday Clock will change. Watch the announcement live on the Bulletin's website or on its Facebook page. [...]