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SUMMARY:PHILADELPHIA Area Celebration & Uplift 1 Year Anniversary of U.N. Nuclear Ban Treaty Entry Into Force Phila. Federal Courthouse/Liberty Bell
DESCRIPTION:\n\nOn Jan. 22\, 2021\, the United Nations Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [UN Nuclear Ban Treaty] Entered Into Force and  the UN declared “NUCLEAR WEAPONS ILLEGAL”\n\n\n\nWe\, with groups and people across the country and around the world\,  in celebration of this landmark treaty gathered in front of the Federal Courthouse across from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia\, PA. \nOne year later\, on Saturday\, January 22\, 2022\, the first anniversary of the historic treaty entering into force\, people will again gather in celebration of the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty. We demand that the U.S. government listen to the world and Join the UN Treaty to abolish nuclear weapons.\nSat.\, Jan. 22\, Noon\nPhila. Federal Courthouse\, 6th & Market Sts. with walk-around (one block to\, one block from) Liberty Bell\, 526 Market Streets\, to Chestnut & Market)\n\n\nLift your voice writ large in colorful banners and posters.\nReach-Out to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.\nPublic Reading of the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty and the Phila. City Council Resolution of Support.\nBell of Peace Tolling\nShort walk around nearby LIBERTY BELL\, with message to President Joe Biden STOP THE MADNESS..THE WORLD TO US: SIGN THE UN NUCLEAR BAN TREATY  \n  \nCity of Philadelphia\nRESOLUTION NO. 190841 \nCity Council\nChief Clerk’s Office 402 City Hall\nPhiladelphia\, PA 19107 \nIntroduced October 24\, 2019 \nCouncilmembers Gym\, Squilla\, Bass and Green \nRESOLUTION \nUrging the United States of America’s federal government to enter the Treaty on the\nProhibition of Nuclear Weapons\, which calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons among all United Nations member states\, to prevent the threat of nuclear war and\ndevastating humanitarian consequences to Philadelphia and our international neighbors.\nWHEREAS\, Resolution No. 180322 adopted by this body on April 19\, 2018\, cautioned against the danger and potential harms of nuclear war and called on the\nUnited States Congress to prevent the President’s unilateral power to launch\na nuclear first strike without receiving congressional or judicial approval; and\nWHEREAS\, Nuclear warheads are the most powerful weapons of mass destruction in our country’s military inventory with immense radioactivity consequences in the aftermath; and\nWHEREAS\, The United States\, one of the global nuclear power states\, has the\nsecond highest nuclear missile count and is not a signatory to or a member of the\nTreaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that requires nuclear disarmament and the prohibition of nuclear activities; and\nWHEREAS\, More than ninety percent of the world’s nuclear arms belong to the United States and Russia. Other countries known to hold the remainder of nuclear weapons are China\, France\, India\, Israel\, North Korea\, Pakistan and the United Kingdom; and\nWHEREAS\, Although the United States’ reduced its active nuclear weapons by\nmore than 25\,000 since the height of the Cold War\, the United States still has almost 4\,000 warheads in its arsenal\, nearly half of which are programmed for short notice detonation; and\nWHEREAS\, Launching even one nuclear warhead could prompt a large-scale nuclear war\, immediately kill millions of people\, and cause irredeemable destruction to the world with potential casualties extending to worldwide climate disruption\, global famine\, species extinction\, and immeasurable environmental damage from a ‘nuclear winter’; and\nWHEREAS\, Projections on the detonation of a 300-pound nuclear warhead\nwith powers analogous to U.S. warheads over the City of Philadelphia would kill 280\,000 and injure 450\,000 people. The most massive U.S. warhead weighs over twenty times more at 6\,200 pounds\, threatening widespread obliteration of humanity and the earth; and\nWHEREAS\, The residents of Philadelphia\, the birthplace of political freedom and independence in the United States\, like all communities across the world\, deserve to live a life free from the threat of nuclear weapons and nuclear war; and\nWHEREAS\, Assurances by the United States government that nuclear arsenals will never be used are unreliable as under current law\, the President has sole authority to unilaterally initiate the use of nuclear weapons\, global tensions escalate and nuclear-armed countries boldly taunt their nuclear power; and \nWHEREAS\, The taking U.S. nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert\, canceling the plan to replace the United States’ entire nuclear arsenal with enhanced weapons\, and actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to\neliminate their nuclear arsenals will contribute to a more peaceful\, secure\, and stable global community; and\nWHEREAS\, The planned expenditure of about $500 billion over the next decade to\nmaintain and enhance our nuclear arsenal\, including developing and deploying new\nnuclear weapons and broadening the conditions for use\, will not only increase the\nrisk of nuclear disaster\, but fuel a global arms race and divert crucial resources\nneeded to fulfill domestic needs such as public education\, healthcare\, public\ntransportation\, and many more public institutions and common resources; and\nWHEREAS\, An alternative exists\, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons\nadopted by the United Nations in July of 2017 has been signed by 79\ncountries\, and prohibits the development\, testing\, production\, stockpiling\, transfer\,\nuse\, and threat of use of nuclear weapons\, and sets out procedures for nuclear-armed signatories to destroy their existing nuclear stockpile; and\nWHEREAS\, The United States signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons would spearhead a global effort to prevent nuclear war by renouncing the\noption of using nuclear weapons first and end the President’s sole authority to launch a nuclear attack; and \nWHEREAS\, Philadelphia hereby joins the U.S. Conference of Mayors\, the\ncities of Baltimore\, Los Angeles\, Salt Lake City\, and Washington D.C. and the states\nof California\, Maine\, and New Jersey who all resolved that the United States\nsign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; now\, therefore\, be it\nRESOLVED\, THAT THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA\, urges the United States of America’s federal government to enter the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons\, which calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons\namong all United Nations member states\, to prevent the threat of nuclear war and\ndevastating humanitarian consequences to Philadelphia and our international neighbors.\nFURTHER RESOLVED\, That the Philadelphia City Council will transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States\, the United States Senators from Pennsylvania\, each Congressional Representative from Philadelphia\, and to the Governor of Pennsylvania\, asking them to support the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. \nEndorsed by\nAsian Americans United Brandywine Peace Community\nCatholic Peace Fellowship Philadelphia\nGermantown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Granny Peace Brigade Greater Philadelphia Branch of WILPF\, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom\nPennsylvania Nuclear Ban Alliance\nPhiladelphia Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Physicians for Social Responsibility\, Philadelphia\, PA\nThe Shalom Center\nUnited Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia Veterans for Peace\, Philadelphia\, Chapter 3 \n\n\n\nCELEBRATE…DEMONSTRATE…UPLIFT & UPHOLD. UN Nuclear Ban Treaty \n\nPhila. Federal Courthouse\, 601 Market Street.\nThe world is fighting back against the nuclear weapons powers.\n\n\nJoin the fight to abolish nuclear weapons and rid our Mother Earth of the threat to all humanity\, the threat of nuclear war! \n\nJuly 7\, 2017 –- following a decade of advocacy by International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and its partners -– an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations adopted a landmark global agreement to ban all nuclear weapons\, known officially as the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. \nThe treaty was negotiated at the United Nations headquarters in New York in March\, June and July 2017\, with the participation of more than 135 nations\, as well as members of civil society. It opened for signature on 20 September 2017. It is permanent in nature\, and will be legally binding on those nations that join it. \nAll nine nuclear armed nations abstained from the treaty’s adoption. The United States along with Russia possesses 90% of existing nuclear weapons. \nThere’s a growing\, worldwide movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons\, to end\, once and for all\, the scourge of nuclear weapons upon the earth and to end the unspeakable threat of nuclear war to our human family. \nOn October 24\, 2020\, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons reached the required 50 states parties for its entry into force\, after Honduras ratified just one day after Jamaica and Nauru submitted their ratifications.  On January 22\, 2021\, the treaty entered into force\, cementing a categorical ban on nuclear weapons\, 75 years after their first use. \nThis is a historic milestone for this landmark treaty. Prior to the Treaty on the Prevention of Nuclear Weapons adoption\, nuclear weapons were the only weapons of mass destruction not banned under international law\, despite their catastrophic humanitarian consequences. Now\, with the treaty’s entry into force\, we can call nuclear weapons what they are: prohibited weapons of mass destruction\, just like chemical weapons and biological weapons. \nNUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE ILLEGAL!\nThis is just the beginning. Once the treaty is in force\, all states parties will need to implement all of their positive obligations under the treaty and abide by its prohibitions. States that haven’t joined the treaty will feel its power too. We can expect\, under pressure\, companies – like Lockheed Martin\, the U.S.’s #1 nuclear weapons contractor –  to stop producing nuclear weapons and financial institutions to stop investing in nuclear weapon producing companies. \nHow do we know? Because we have nearly 600 partner organizations in over 100 countries committed to advancing this treaty and the norm against nuclear weapons. People\, companies\, universities and governments everywhere will know this weapon has been prohibited by law and that now is the moment for them to stand on the right side of history. \nhttps://www.icanw.org/signature_and_ratification_status\n\n\n\n
URL:http://www.brandywinepeace.com/event/philadelphia-area-celebration-uplift-1-year-anniversary-of-u-n-nuclear-ban-treaty-entry-into-force-phila-federal-courthouse-liberty-bell/
LOCATION:Phila Federal Building\, 601 Market Street\, Philadelphia\, 19106\, United States
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