Ban the Bomb: Protect our Planet

Event Date: 2nd February 2021
Location: Internet 9pm

UNFOLD ZERO Newsletter

On January 20, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered-into-force (See The Nuclear Ban Is Here. Now What?). Then on January 26, President Biden, in one of his first achievements as President, announced an agreement with Russia to extend the START nuclear arms control agreement.

Even with these positive developments, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced on January 27 that the Doomsday Clock remains at 100 Seconds to Midnight, indicating how close we still are to the possibility of nuclear annihilation.

Joshua Cooper, host of the ThinkTechHawaii Cooper UNion program, will today discuss with three experts the risks of nuclear weapons, the importance of nuclear disarmament and the politics of nuclear abolition. 

• Kehkashan Basu (Canada), Founder-President of Green Hope Foundation, United Nations Human Rights Champion, Winner of the 2016 International Children’s Peace Prize & Winner of the First-Ever Voices Youth Gorbachev-Shultz Legacy Award for Nuclear Disarmament. Named as one of Canada’s 25 most influential women in 2018.
   
• Yasmeen Silva (USA),Partnerships manager for Beyond the Bomb, a people-powered campaign working at local, state, and national levels in the United States to prevent nuclear war and put an end to the exploitative and morally bankrupt system that supports these horrific weapons.
   
• Alyn Ware (New Zealand/Czech Republic), Global Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, International Representative for Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace, Co-founder of UNFOLD ZERO and a Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award (‘Alternative Nobel Peace Prize’). 

Watch live (or the recorded version later) at https://thinktechhawaii.com. Yours sincerely
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