President Obama signed the new nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia - the so-called START 1 Follow-On Treaty. As soon as the agreement was announced, the GOP geared up to oppose the treaty.
The ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on strategic forces, Representative Michael R. Turner of Ohio, released a letter he solicited from the directors of the nuclear weapons laboratories in January, questioning a federal report which said that the modernization of existing stockpiles was not necessary.
As President Obama tries to take one small step towards nuclear disarmament, the GOP begins efforts to confuse, distort, and delay efforts to reduce the stockpiles.
President Obama needs to take a bigger step towards a nuclear weapons free world that won't be mired in a tug-of-war in the Senate.
President Obama should initiate good faith multilateral negotiations on an international agreement to abolish nuclear weapons in our lifetime!
Peace Action launched a petition campaign calling on the President to do just that!
Working with our international partners in Japan and around the world, millions of signatures will be turned into the White House and United Nations during the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May.
Without the support of public opinion and a grassroots movement for peace and disarmament, no steps big or small, will be taken! We have learned the lesson of the healthcare fight! The GOP may try to confuse, distort, and delay. Therefore, it is up to the peace and disarmament movement to push back!
Please sign the petition, and once you do, download a paper petition and circulate it because a grassroots movement must be organized the old fashioned way -- people talking to people!
Take one more step to make sure we START and do not get stopped!
On Sunday, May 2, march with Peace Action, the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 80 Hibakusha (survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings) and thousands of peace and disarmament activists from around the world in New York City.
Join Peace Action NYS, for the first demonstration for a world free of nuclear weapons in years.
Now is the moment for nuclear disarmament, but it can't happen without your involvement! Sign and circulate the petition, march on May 2 in NYC and forward this message far and wide!
START is just the beginning, and we won't be stopped in our quest for wiping the scourge of nuclear weapons from the Earth!
Thank you!
Judith Le Blanc
NPT Coordinator
Peace Action Fund of NYS
Office 646.723.1749
Upper Hudson Peace Action, 33 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12210 463-5907, info@peaceact.net