Tuesday 20 February 2007

Nuclear disarmament now! Before a bomb is used - afterwards it will be too late....

Humanists around the world are organising living peace symbols on Saturday the 17th March, 2007, to put pressure on world leaders to disarm all nuclear weapons arsenals. In Australia we will hold events in Sydney and Hobart. For more information see the links below or leave a comment and we'll get back to you...

A WORLD OF PEACE
a planet without nuclear weapons

Across the world scientists, artists, soldiers, women and men, young and old alike are saying: war is a disaster! At the beginning of the third millennium, on a planet where nowhere is isolated any more and where it is possible to know in real time what is happening in far away continents, one question resounds in the hearts of all people of the Earth: what future is there?

The events of recent years show the same tendency: nuclear re-armament, the control of the planet’s resources at all costs, the use of violence to resolve international, regional and local conflicts. Governments change colour but not policies, wars occur at a sustained rhythm, the profits of the arms industry increase and the declarations of the politicians are increasingly empty and further away from reality.

Violence envelops the planet like a blanket and touches everyone, becoming part of daily life and poisoning people's hearts. The declarations of the USA and France sustaining the possibility to use nuclear weapons in a first strike against terrorism, leaves everyone dismayed.

People across the planet are demanding: let’s give peace a chance!

http://www.centreofcultures.org.au/ - www.peacebound.org