Upcoming events
E-Bulletins
ICAN activity in Australia
Mayors unite for peace

In Canberra, September, lobbying for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (L-R): Dr. Sue Wareham (MAPW Australia President), Associate Professor Tilman Ruff (ICAN Australian Chair), Jessica Morrison (ICAN Australia Director) and Dimity Hawkins (ICAN Australia Committee).

Upcoming events

Sunday March 16 (Sat March 15 in Tas)

Palm Sunday Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

• Melbourne: 2pm at the State Library (corner Swanston & Latrobe Streets, city).

Download the poster, help spread the word and bring friends and family. Organised by the Palm Sunday Committee 2008.

Endorsed by ICAN, the Peace Organisation of Australia, the Justice and International Mission of the Uniting Church, Nuclear Free Australia and the Stop the War Coalition.

Contact: Katie Cherrington: 0433 695 693 or Jessica Morrison: 0431 519 577

E-bulletins

These are e-mail bulletins sent out by the Australian Director of ICAN and include action alerts, ICAN news and nuclear weapons news.

Bulletin #8 - February 2008

Bulletin #7 - December 2007

Bulletin #6 - November 2007

Bulletin #5 - October 2007

Bulletin #4 - September 2007

Bulletin #3 - August 2007

Bulletin #2 - July 2007

Bulletin #1 - May 2007

ICAN activity in Australia

Pulling back from the nuclear precipice

February, 2008 by John Langmore

'On 29 and 30 August 2007 six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were loaded on a US Air Force plane, flown across the country and unloaded. For 36 hours no-one knew where the warheads were or even that they were missing.'

So reported a bipartisan US panel of American international relations celebrities including George Shultz and Henry Kissinger. The panel used this diabolical faux pas in the handling of nuclear weapons by their country as part of their case for a nuclear weapons free world.

The eminent Americans wrote in the Wall Street Journal on 15 January 2008 of 'the importance of the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons as a guide to our thinking about nuclear policies, and about the importance of a series of steps that will pull us back from the nuclear precipice'.

I couldn't agree more. (See the full article: here).

December, 2007
THE NUCLEAR POSTERS

Breakdown Press has published a powerful collection of 17 posters by artists, designers and writers. The posters build on the history of the political poster movement to oppose this vicious nuclear chain. Cost: just $15 plus postage. To see or order the posters online: www.breakdownpress.org/posters.html

October, 2007

Thanks to those who took ICAN actions this month:

ICAN supporters have had letters on nuclear issues published in major newspapers and received by MPs, have visited mayors and signed them up to Mayors for Peace, distributed leaflets and attended public forums.