2009 Event Calendar
THE TIME TO WORK FOR A NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE IS NOW!
JANUARY 19 - MARCH 27: Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, first of three sessions. This is the sole official body for negotiation of disarmament treaties. Read Reaching Critical Will's Guide the Conference on Disarmament (HTML) or in PDF. Subscribe the WILPF weekly CD monitor to follow progress and debates.
FEBRUARY 13 - APRIL 8: March for a New Spring for the abolition of nuclear weapons, renunciation of war and the conversion of our economy fom war to peace. Organized by a Buddhist Order and widely supported by New England Peace Organizations. FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 2: WILPF co-sponsors the Security Without Empire organizing conference in Washington D.C. for the No Bases movement. MARCH 5: In Geneva WILPF delivered the International Woman's Day Statement of women's NGOs to the Conference on Disarmament, reporting on their two part seminar on creative new ways to make peace a reality in the Middle East. MARCH 8: International Women's Day celebrated in U.S. WILPF Branches, each with a focus on one of our inter-related issues that are all part of our work for a world with peace and freedom for all. APRIL 25 to 30: WILPF participation in lobbying for nuclear weapons abolition in Washington D.C. with Alliance for Acountability and many of our partner organizations. APRIL 28: WILPF Birthday MAY 4 to 25: Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty Prep Com at the United Nations in New York. WILPF Reaching Critical Will coordinates NGO side events and presentations to the official UN sessions. Read the WILPF produced NPT News in Review for day-by-day reports on the NPT official and NGO meetings. MAY 5: WILPF DISARM! seminar on U.S. Prospects for Nuclear Abolition in the United States was held at the NPT. U.S. WILPF presented the first seminar at the NPT for government delegates and NGO representatives. Four DISARM! committee members presented on WILPF projects. Three other ANA members present on countering the nuclear labs and others in the military-industrial complex that are strongly resisting nuclear weapons abolition. Participant questions and discussion followed. Report on the seminar appears in NPT News in Review #2, page 8. MAY 22: PROPOSITION ONE ROAD SHOW, led by DISARM! co-chair Ellen Thomas, prepares to travel the country promoting voter initiatives calling for nuclear weapons abolition and conversion to a peace economy. First meetings in Georgia and Washington D.C. MAY 24: International Women's Day for Disarmament has been celebrated around the world since 1984. Other WILPF Sections participate on this day. What about U.S. WILPF? MAY 26: International WILPF statement on the May 25 North Korean Nuclear Weapons test and calls for rapid entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. JUNE 2: Vermont legislature declares August 6 Nuclear Disarmament Day, thanks to WILPF Burlington Branch campaign. JUNE 13: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon announces the 100 day countdown to September 21, the International Day of Peace. He is launching an intensive ongoing campaign to build support for abolition of nuclear weapons. JUNE 19: The International WILPF PEACE UPDATE is online! Read it one and all! Congratulations Joan Bazar and Susi Snyder for putting together an information packed and stimulating edition for us all! JUNE 22: The Proposition ONE Roadshow begins in North Carolina, with plans to visit Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland all states with provision for initiatives and/or referendums. Can WILPF Branches help set up meetings and contacts for them? JUNE 29: U.S. launches nuclear weapons missile test and WILPF responds with a protest vigil and a letter to President Obama calling for cancellation of the test. AUGUST 1 TO 31: Nuclear Free Future Month AUGUST 6: Hiroshima Day (wide Branch participation) AUGUST 9: Nagasaki Day (wide Branch paticipation) AUGUST 13-16: Think Outside the Bomb Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. An annual conference for concerned young people. Last year most were under 25. Can we help any of our Y-WILPFers go? September 6: Jane Addams Birthday. SEPTEMBER 9-11: For Peace and Development, DISARM NOW! UN conference in Mexico City. Sponsored by the United Nations Public Information Service and international NGOs working on disarmament and development issues.Two DISARM! Leadership Team members have registered to attend. Those who want to register and attend for WILPF should contact Ray Acheson (who is also going) at Reaching Critical Will. Spaces are limited and extended reservation ends August 15.. SEPTEMBER 21: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE. UN Secretary General asks the world to focus abolishing nuclear weapons as a encessary step toward general and complete disarmament and putting an end to wars.(Major international event for WILPF.) OCTOBER 3 to 10: WILPF co-sponsors Keep Space for Peace Week with Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. (Wide Branch participation). (Major WILPF international event). OCTOBER 24: United Nations Day (Major international event.) OCTOBER 24-30: United Nations Disarmament Week DECEMBER 10: Human Rights Day and celebration of the Unversal Declaration of Human Rights and the resulting Human Rights Treaties.(Major international event.) Also Illinois Jane Addams Day. DECEMBER 11: Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday DISARM! Dismantle the War Economy Committee (web email: carol.disarm@gmail.com or web site: www.disarm.wilpf.org) |
