Nuclear Abolition and Climate Justice: Lessons from the Pandemic Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson

 

Please join us online ICUJP Friday Forum August 14, 7:30-9:30 am PDT   Nuclear Abolition and Climate Justice: Lessons from the Pandemic Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson, NuclearBan.US Join videoconference: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84688503371 Call in by phone: +1 (669) 900-6833 Meeting ID: 846 8850 3371 Passing the Virtual Bucket We can't pass the green donation bucket in person, but ICUJP still needs your support. Please give as generously as you can: • On our donation page • Or use the Give+ app for iPhone or Android • Or text a gift amount to 323-701-1467 Thank you! We've all learned during the Covid pandemic about “flattening the curve.” How do we flatten the curve on climate change before it's too late? And what about flattening the curve on that other existential threat to the planet, nuclear war? We don't often talk about inequality as an existential threat, but that curve needs flattening, too. We have the tools to flatten all these curves, if we just set our minds to it. And, as it turns out, flattening one curve is the best way to flatten the others. Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.US will talk about their involvement with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Adopted at the UN by 122 countries, the treaty won ICAN that year’s Nobel Peace Prize. NuclearBan.US’s  report Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal, launched in Congress last year, suggests ways to unify and address the issues of nuclear weapons, climate change and inequality all at once. Timmon, the Executive Director of NuclearBan.US, holds a PhD in peace studies from Bradford University. He previously was executive director of Nonviolent Peaceforce and has directed peace-building projects in Colombia, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Myanmar, Chechnya, the Philippines, South Sudan, and other countries. His new book, Disarming the Nuclear Argument: The Truth About Nuclear Weapons, is a “handbook for those seeking a safer, saner world” that analyzes nuclear weapons’ cost, risk, and legality and the fallacy of “deterrence.” Vicki, co-founder and Creative Director of NuclearBan.US, is also Executive Director of TreatyAwareness.US. A chapter leader of Represent.US, which fights Big Money in politics (of which nuclear weapons are the most egregious example), she has been a childbirth educator, filmmaker, and labor support “doula” for 35 years. Witnessing the 2017 U.N. negotiations for the nuclear weapons prohibition treaty changed her life, as she watched the roomful of ambassadors break their own rules (no clapping or hugging) when they reached agreement. ----- Start your morning with us! 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