Bulletin # 1 - May, 2007

21 May 2007

Welcome to the first ICAN Australia e-mail update. If you wish to continue to receive this bulletin via email, please register as an ICAN supporter here.

Actions

  1. Visit www.icanw.org to educate and inspire yourself. For a summary of the issue, see our short video.
  2. Sign the ICAN petition
  3. Forward this e-mail to friends and colleagues to join us creating a nuclear weapons free world.
  4. Click here to see if your Mayor is a member of Mayors for Peace. If they are not, e-mail them and encourage them to Join Mayors for Peace before the 25th Anniversary celebrations in June. See www.mayorsforpeace.org/english/ for more information.

Updates

  1. ICAN has been launched! Many wonderful events have launched the campaign as a diverse, world-wide and inspiring campaign - from concerts in Oslo, lobbying actions in the USA, a luncheon in Melbourne with a former Prime Minister, and our international launch in Vienna as part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) meetings. Speeches, photos and other details are at: www.icanw.org/launch
  2. www.icanw.org is live. It features information and resources, updated and expanded daily. Features include: publications page with e-copies of publications including "Securing our Survival" - the case for a nuclear weapons convention", and order form for hard copies; downloads page includes videos, brochures and posters.

  3. NPT meeting voices support for a Nuclear Weapons Convention. This NPT meeting got off to a shaky start because of procedural wrangling. But there was some positive dialogue in the second week. The highlight was that the Chairman's final speech included the following: "The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice regarding the obligations of nuclear weapon States was recalled and support was voiced for the development of a nuclear weapons convention". For daily reports and other material, see WILPF's Reaching Critical Will website.

Other relevant Campaigns

  1. Japan: Petition in regard to Okinawa US base and environmental impacts.
  2. USA: Students and Alumni go on a hunger strike to protest the University of California's involvement in nuclear weapons research.
  3. Australia: Peace Convergence: Events surrounding the Australian: US joint military training exercises "Operation Talisman Sabre".

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Jessica Morrison
ICAN Director - Australia
Medical Association for Prevention of War
Phone: + 61 38344 1637	
Mob:     0431 519 577
Fax: + 61 38344 1638 
www.icanw.org www.mapw.org.au