Nuclear Free Future Tour – July 19th at 7 p.m. at the UU Church

                                                           Nuclear Free  Future Tour                                                            Ellen Thomas, Nuri Gonaghy, and Alan Shorb are representing WILPF US Disarm/End Wars Committee in an amazing tour of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and nuclear-free Kobe, Japan this coming August.  Before they depart for Japan the three will be visiting 8 California cities, including Fresno, giving presentations promoting the international ban of nuclear weapons and collecting messages, petitions, photos and videos to take with them to Hiroshima.  There, they have arranged to deliver over 7,000 petition signatures to Hidankyo, the organization representing Japanese atomic bomb survivors.  WILPF US members have collected these signatures on the U.S. petition to the Senate supporting the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)  – some of the nine-plus million signatures collected worldwide so far on Hidankyo’s Hibakusha Appeal.

    Nuri and Alan will share their concerns about the risk of nuclear war from US belligerence toward Iran.

    The group will share updates about recent important legislation regarding nuclear weapons:

        HR-2419 – Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic & Energy Conversion Act of 2019

        HRes 302 – a resolution  “Embracing the goals & provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of

        Nuclear Weapons.”

The text of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty is linked to the WILPF US online petition.  The treaty was launched in July 2017, at the United Nations, thanks to Reaching Critical Will and Nobel Peace Prize winner ICAN, with which WILPF is an international partner.

Join us on Friday, July 19, 7 P.M. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno for this important, free presentation.