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Longmont Action August 9

August 6, 2022 By Bob Kinsey

Calling all Longmont folks! On Tuesday, August 9th, the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, join us in speaking at the Longmont City Council meeting, urging them to pass a proclamation in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons!When:  Tuesday August 9th, at 7:00pm

Where: City Council Chambers, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont, CO

How:

1.  Speak in Person at the City Council Chambers on August 9th at 7:00pm. Please reference the background information below and customize your own statement.

2.   And/or send them an email in advance to show your support. Click this link to email the Council.

Background: The U.S. has conducted more than 1,000 nuclear bomb tests, the vast majority were on Western Shoshone land at the Nevada Test Site. The Federal government plans to spend approximately $2 trillion over the next 30 years on nuclear weapon modernization. Among many locations, this includes uranium mining (often exploiting the land of indigenous people), uranium processing at Oak Ridge Tennessee, plutonium pit production at Las Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and a new plutonium bomb plant at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. As U.S. Citizens, we do not want trillions of our taxpayer dollars going to weapons of mass destruction. And the Citizens of the World agree. The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons thus far has been ratified by 66 nations and counting.

We must speak out locally to move the Federal government to action and stop the escalation of a new nuclear arms race. On 3/22/21 Denver City Council passed a proclamation in support of this treaty. August 6th and 9th this year marks the 77th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now is the ideal time for a proclamation to commemorate this moment in history. Please join in solidarity with our neighbors in Denver and pass a resolution supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Contact christopher.allred@colorado.edu for more information!

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Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996

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