NH #650: EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Int'l Activists Gather in NYC for UN 2nd Meeting of States Parties on Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (TPNW)

NH #650: EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Int’l Activists Gather in NYC for A Week of UN Meetings on Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (TPNW)

This Week’s EXCLUSIVE REPORT on the UN Meetings of States Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons:

Interviewees:

• Pablo Sadgardurl, Mexico City. He has created an interactive map of international nuclear test locations akin to Alex Wellerstein’s Nukemap. Check out the world of nuclear tests and hibakusha communities here: nucleartestimpacts.org

• Kendra Wahogreneales from Sweden.
• Janet Fenton, Scotland
• Lynn Jamieson, Scotland
• Petuche Gilbert, Navajo Nation
• Aigerim Seitenova – Kazakhstan

• Joey Tau, Pacific Islands
• Eperi Lesuma, Fiji
  
• Melissa Parke, Executive Director, ICAN. ICAN Executive Director Melissa Parke’s ICAN high level statement delivered to the opening of the Second Meeting of States Parties of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear War

• U.S. Congressman, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), the first and only (thus far) U.S. Member of Congress to attend United Nations meetings on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

• Claus Biegert, founder of the Nuclear Free Future Awards, holding a specially designed Delft plate to honor the late Daniel Ellsberg.

• 2023 Nuclear Free Future Award winners Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross of French Polynesia (r) and Tina Cordova of the Tularosa Basin in New Mexico, in a heartfelt hug of congratulations and empathy for their shared status as NFFA winners, Downwinders, and cancer survivors.

• Susi Snyder, Programme coordinator, ICAN.