Webinar:The Threat of Nuclear Weapons with Noam Chomsky
Register for the webinar: January 22, 2PM EST
Mark the momentous day in the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons with Noam Chomsky. As the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force on January 22, join the world-renowned intellectual on “The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Why Canada Should Sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty”.
Registration for this webinar is free and open to the public.
HOSTS:
Organizer: The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Co-sponsors: The Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition (Toronto), PeaceQuest, Science for Peace, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), World Beyond War
Media Sponsor: Canadian Dimension
endorsed by:
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Greenpeace Canada
Peace Brigades International - Canada
Just Peace Advocates
Peace Alliance Winnipeg
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Resources:
Why Won’t Canada Back a Nuclear Weapons’ Ban? | The Tyee | By Bianca Mugyenyi
No Shelter from the Storm| Cape Breton Spectator | by Sean Howard
Appel de Mme Setsuko Thurlow au Premier ministre | Les Artistes pour la Paix| par Pierre Jasmin
Armes nucléaires – deux bonnes nouvelles | L’Aut’ Journal| par Pierre Jasmin
Let reason guide our actions in the Atomic Age| Canadian Pugwash Group | by John Polanyi
Elizabeth Renzetti https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-new-global-treaty-bans-nuclear-weapons-but-why-didnt-canada-sign/
Motoko Rich, "Witnessing Nuclear Carnage, Then Devoting Her Life to Peace," https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-japan-setsuko-thurlow.html
Douglas Roche https://pugwashgroup.ca/75-years-after-hiroshima-i-wonder-if-the-goal-of-abolishing-nuclear-weapons-is-just-a-dream/
Michael Swan, "Nuclear Arms and Canada" https://www.catholicregister.org/item/32339-nuclear-arms-and-canada
Setsuko Thurlow https://pugwashgroup.ca/canada-must-acknowledge-our-key-role-in-developing-the-deadly-atomic-bomb/
Setsuko Thurlow's June 2020 appeal to Prime Minister Trudeau http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/to-the-right-honourable-justin-trudeau.pdf
Anton Wagner, "Canada and the Atom Bomb" http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/canada-and-the-atom-bomb.pdf
Anton Wagner, “Mackenzie King Opens the Atomic Pandora’s Box” http://nikkeivoice.ca/mackenzie-king-opens-the-atomic-pandoras-box/
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