NEIS ACTION ALERT Major actions next two weeks — you’re invited for COVID-safe participation!

January 21, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

NEIS ACTION ALERT

Name: NEIS ACTION ALERT Major actions next two weeks — you’re invited for COVID-safe participation!
Start: 2021-01-21T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-01-21T17:00:00+00:00

Major actions next two weeks — you’re invited for COVID-safe participation!

Greetings All –

This week, on Friday January 22, the international Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) goes into LEGALLY BINDING effect that prohibits the use, manufacture, possession and sharing of nuclear weapons. This is a major international milestone in ending our march towards Armageddon.

To mark this historic moment, NEIS invites you to a series of events and actions:

TPNW Webinar, and Nukes Banned!-Car Caravan for Peace:

ZOOM Panel of Experts, Thursday, January 21, 6 p.m. CTZ; ZOOM registration link here

Join this group of nuclear weapons experts on Zoom to learn more about the significance of the Ban Treaty entering into force, and what the United States can do to move toward nuclear weapons abolition.

Panelists include:

LauraGrego,PhD, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
TaraDrozdenko, PhD, Acting Executive Director, Outrider Foundation
Doug Shaw,PhD, Consultant, Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Panel moderator: Rachel Bronson, PhD, President and CEO, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Nukes Banned! Car Caravan for Peace, Friday, January 22, 12 noon- 1:00 p.m., car caravan for peace circles Federal Plaza in Chicago (Clark and Dearborn Streets, downtown Chicago).
Volunteer drivers are needed for the car caravan. 100% COVID-safe, since no one will have to leave their cars. Rendezvous to get signage at 11 a.m. Ten more drivers needed!
Sign-up for the caravan (details will be sent to you after you register)
Facebook event

Night with the Experts: The Weapons/Reactor Connections:

The next installment of this increasingly popular monthly series will connect the dots that exist between the so-called “Peaceful Atom” and nuclear weapons:

Nuclear Power and Weapons – The Connections

Thursday, January 28, 2021, 7 p.m. CTZ

ZOOM link: click here to join the session (use a computer with camera and microphone for best experience. You do not need to have ZOOM installed on your device to participate.)

Dr. Arjun Makhijani

Director, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), Takoma Park, MD.

On January 22, the International Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will come into full force, having been ratified now by 51 parties of the 86 sovereign signatories to the treaty. This is the most important international agreement on nuclear weapons since the Non -Proliferation Treaty came into force in 1970, a treaty that the United States was instrumental in bringing to fruition. What people and governments constantly overlook is that nuclear weapons programs often come from nuclear power programs around the world – linking the two inextricably.

Dr. Makhijani is an engineer, physicist and noted national energy expert. He is author of the 2007 book, Carbon Free – Nuclear Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (available in PDF online here), which predates the Green New Deal in any form by nearly a decade. The Renewable Maryland Project updates this work comprehensively, including all aspects of the energy transition from hour-by-hour modeling to energy equity and a just transition for fossil fuel workers. He has written extensively on the issues of disarmament and nonproliferation.