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CSUN Monthly Presentation - Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008 - 6:15pm
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REFRESHMENTS
“Non-Proliferation Treaty review and other UN nuclear weapon efforts ”
Speaker & discussion
with John Loretz, Program Director, International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
The next Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference will be in 2010.
John will discuss preparations for that important effort.
The 2005 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference—which convened during the 60th anniversary year of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—had the potential to be a turning point in our effort to achieve nuclear disarmament.
Making the NPT work was crucial to saving the painstakingly negotiated framework and the global democratic processes that make progress toward nuclear disarmament possible.
IPPNW participated in each of the NPT PrepComs leading up to the 2005 Review, and was an active partner in a series of NGO-based campaigns to ensure that non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament were recognized as two sides of the same essential coin.
IPPNW
has launched an
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
(ICAN)
to mobilize a groundswell of global support for the elimination of
nuclear weapons.
“As
long as any state has nuclear weapons, others will want them.... As long
as any such weapons remain, there is a risk that they will one day be
used, by design or accident... And any such use would be catastrophic.”
—Weapons
of Mass Destruction Commission June 1, 2006
John
Loretz
John's career working on behalf of peace,
disarmament, and environment organizations spans more than two decades.
As IPPNW's Program Director he is responsible for shaping and coordinating
the federation's nuclear weapons abolition campaigns, providing issue
analysis, policy guidance, and advocacy support to affiliate groups and
activists.
He has joined physician delegations in London, Paris, and Moscow as an
adviser on nuclear weapons and disarmament, and has written and spoken
extensively on the
issues.
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Next Month we meet again on the 2nd Thursday (save Dec. 11)
CSUN Meetings
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Thanks to the generous hospitality of one of our member organizations, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee,
our board meetings are held
on the second Thursday evening each month at:
UUSC
689 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd floor
Central Square
Cambridge, Mass.
6:15 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
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The Coalition for a Strong United Nations (CSUN) is a grassroots organization formed in 1993 to engage a wide range of active citizens in understanding the United Nations (UN) as it now functions and in considering ways it could be made to function more effectively and democratically. Hundreds of individuals and many civic groups have participated in the dozen conferences which the coalition has offered, dealing with peacebuilding, universal human rights, building a civil society, and the preservation and protection of the environment. We recognize that the United States (US) has not been enthusiastic about paying its full dues and has not yet ratified many important treaties and conventions. Given the need for the United States' commitment and its important role in creating a humane and just world, our challenge is to continue to build an active constituency for a stronger UN.
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