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14Jun 2021 by clive

Open Letter to Presidents Putin and Biden In advance of their June 16, 2021 Summit

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Open Letter to Presidents Putin and Biden In advance of their June 16, 2021 Summit We write to you, world leaders whom we know fully understand the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and the cataclysmic effects on humanity of a nuclear war: the possible end of civilization as we know it. We are participants of a growing international campaign for a commitment by nuclear-armed states to a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons. We have just completed a number of successful global events, including a two-day conference preparatory to launching this campaign, which have included over 700 participants from Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East,South America, North America, and the Pacific. Arising from these events is an appeal to you to use your summit to…

26Apr 2021 by peacepeople

OPEN LETTER TO TWO WORLD LEADERS ‘I HAVE NO ENEMIES AND I DON’T WANT WAR’ FROM NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE.

OPEN LETTER TO TWO WORLD LEADERS ‘I HAVE NO ENEMIES AND I DON’T WANT WAR’

Dear President Biden and President Putin, I hope this letter finds you and your families well. I hope you will continue in good health to perform your important work. Thank you for all you do to make the world a better place for our children. I write to you both as World Leaders to ask for your advice and help in these challenging times. I would like to know what I can do, together with my friends, to help avert a Third World War, and prevent further suffering and death for millions for my brothers and sisters around the world. I have been reading the news about military build-up in Europe and South East Asia,etc., and the rhetoric being used by many of our World Leaders (words cut deeper than…

25Mar 2021 by peacepeople

Displaced people in Calais and Grande-Synthe

Refugee Women's Centre

Louise Mc Gowan from the Peace People has returned home from working in both Calais and Grande-Synthe with the Refugee Women’s Centre from October - February 2021. Louise says there is little peace for displaced people living in northern France. How can there be peace when you are worried for your own/your family’s safety? How can there be peace when the fear or expectance of police violence hangs overhead every morning? How can there be peace when the only way to get to the place where you might feel safe is via dangerous routes? In the past year, volunteers working in northern France have witnessed a rise in dangerous channel boat crossings, deteriorating living conditions in informal camps and accommodation centres, as well as numerous tragic deaths. These have been accompanied by increasingly hostile…

26Jan 2021 by peacepeople

A letter from Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire to President Biden. “Free Julian Assange & end the war on Yemen”

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Mairead Maguire & other members of the Peace People delivered a letter to the U.S. Consulate General Belfast today. This letter was for President Joe Biden. The open letter is requesting the following: 1. Free Julian Assange 2. End the war on Yemen Mairead Maguire and Ann Patterson today calling for the freedom of Julian Assange and end the war on Yemen. Open Letter to President Joe Biden from Mairead Maguire - Nobel laureate. A letter from Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire to President Biden. To address the following requests: Dear Mr President Please accept my congratulations and best wishes in your work as President. I have two urgent requests to ask of you. l) Free Julian Assange. Please do all you can to free Julian Assange and release him to let…

26Jan 2021 by peacepeople

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Global Harmony Association (GHA) Generation Hip Hop Global (GHHG) World Growth Forums (WGF)

Anti-Nuclear Manifesto

Anti-Nuclear Manifesto Gandhian peace spherons tetrad replacing genocidal nuclear triad Mahatma Gandhi:Nonviolence [harmony of the spherons verified now by worldstatistics] is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It ismightier than the mightiest [nuclear] weapon of destruction.Nonviolence [of the spherons] is the law of our life.DedicatedTo the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Victims 75th AnniversaryByThe ICAN/GHA 46 co-authors from the 26 countriesNew Delhi2020The Manifesto co-authors & contributors can be seen below: “Nuclear weapons present an unacceptable danger to humanity. The only real way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons is to eliminate nuclear weapons…75th Anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima andNagasaki: time to end the nuclear menace.”UN Secretary-General António Guterres“No problem can be solved from the same levelof consciousness that created it”.Albert EinsteinThe UN has been talking about the elimination of…