Links to activism for April

[Brian]

The Center for International Policy's Win Without War coalition wants you to see -- and share -- this graphic.

Win Without War has been a fixture in my inbox since the campaign hooked onto Move On's machine.  Peace groups have networked so much lately that I'll get at least half a dozen e-mails a day on the same topic from different organizations.  Win Without War is a coalition of more than 40 of them, headed by the Center for International Policy, established in 1975 in response to the Vietnam War. Now the Center has a website -- No War With Iran --that kicks off with a petition to all members of Congress:

nowarwithiran.org/

[Roberta]

This from Nina, our sister peacenik and Peace Train parader from Eagle Rock about what they/we will be up to instead of the usual Saturday vigil this week at Colorado and Eagle Rock, and below it an email I got just now about an event the next day in Santa Monica:

Greetings Friends and Cohorts!

NOT a march, NOT a rally!
April 25, 2015: 2-5pm Wilshire Boulevard From Lafayette Park to Western
Call it a "turn out" call it a "Stand" it's "Building Blocks Against Climate Change"

If you want to hang with me and North East Radical Neighbors for Peace through Justice, we will be just East of Mariposa

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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Chain Reaction in Santa Monica is pleased to join with our colleagues at Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles on Sunday, April 26 at 1 pm as we wave goodbye to nuclear weapons at the historic Chain Reaction peace sculpture in Santa Monica.

The event is part of an international Global Wave action (**** Montrose Peace Vigil is an endorser!!!!!) taking place over 24 hours prior to the 2015 Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the UN in New York, where governments meet to discuss their obligations toward nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.

Global Wave for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
Sunday, April 26th at 1:00 pm
Chain Reaction Sculpture, Santa Monica Civic Center
1800 block of Main Street in Santa Monica

World communities are joining together on April 26 in a Global Wave mobilization that calls on governments to abolish nuclear weapons and re-invest the $100 billion annual global nuclear weapons budget into areas of social need such as eliminating poverty, addressing climate change, and ensuring basic health care and education world-wide.

The Global Wave will start in New York City and proceed through each time zone every hour through symbolic Wave events. Photos and video from the Global Wave events will be shown to governments at the NPT Review Conference to demonstrate global support for a nuclear weapons free world.

In Southern California, what better place to join this international chain of peace events than Chain Reaction, Paul Conrad’s historic peace sculpture in Santa Monica. Chain Reaction is a 26-foot-tall sculpture depicting a nuclear mushroom cloud created from chain links. The inscription at the base reads, “This is a statement of peace. May it never become an epitaph.”

Don’t miss this historic opportunity to vote with your hands for a nuclear weapons-free world!

For more information contact Denise Duffield at [phone] ext 104 or [e-mail].

[Brian]

Some Republicans intend to add amendments the National Defense Authorization Act that would restrict or even ban transfers out of the prison at Guantanamo.  The National Religious Campaign Against Torture has a customizable letter for your members of Congress, asking them to vote against any attempts to keep Guantanamo open:

org.salsalabs.com/o/2162/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17664