CODEPINK San Jose is co-sponsoring with Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom an evening with Jackie Cabasos from the “Mayors for Peace”. She will be speaking about their campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.
In August 1945, atomic bombs instantaneously reduced the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to rubble, taking hundreds of thousands of precious lives. To prevent any repetition of the A-bomb tragedy, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have continually sought to tell the world about the inhumane cruelty of nuclear weapons and have consistently urged that nuclear weapons be abolished.
On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This proposal offered cities a way to transcend national borders and work together to press for nuclear abolition. Subsequently, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on mayors around the world to support this program.
The Mayors for Peace, through close cooperation among the cities, strives to raise international public awareness regarding the need to abolish nuclear weapons and contributes to the realization of genuine and lasting world peace by working to eliminate starvation and poverty, assist refugees fleeing local conflict, support human rights, protect the environment, and solve the other problems that threaten peaceful coexistence within the human family.
Join us to discuss activities related to the Code Pink campaigns such as No $54 Billion for War, Grow Your Local Peace Economy, and others!
All peace-loving resisters — men and women — are welcome!
WHEN
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WHERE
San Jose Peace & Justice Center
48 S 7th St,
San Jose , CA 95112,
United States,
CONTACT
Charlotte Casey ·