Ending Nuclear Weapons Before They End Us: Opportunities Under the Biden Administration to Take Action
Date: Thursday March 4
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET / 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time
Register today for the virtual policy briefing and interactive workshops.
This event will have two distinct segments. First is a policy briefing to discuss challenges and opportunities with a distinguished panel of experts, including Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN, and Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation in the Obama administration.
The briefing will be followed by a series of interactive workshops to help build your knowledge and advocacy skills. You'll have the opportunity to choose from topics such as: what the TPNW means in the United States; exploring the connection between nuclear weapons, the climate crisis, racism, and colonialism; learning how to lobby your legislators; passing a local nuclear weapons resolution; engaging with the media and public; building a diverse and inclusive movement; and more. Check out the entire list of workshops and join us on March 4 to learn how to advocate for a world free of nuclear weapons.
This moment demands unprecedented leadership from our federal government, as our country confronts so many crises, from climate change to the pandemic to the rise of authoritarianism and white supremacy. Now is the time to reform our nuclear weapons policies to make us safer, and to invest in our communities and economic recovery, instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars on new nuclear weapons that make us less safe and will only accelerate the global nuclear arms race.
We need you in this fight and in your community organizing and advocating for change. We need you to help build the political power to get Washington decisionmakers to act. This virtual conference will help you do just that. Please register today and we hope you can join us next month.
Sincerely,
Sean Meyer
Manager of Strategic Campaigns
Global Security Program
Union of Concerned Scientists
P.S. If you haven't already, please take another moment to sign our petition calling on President Biden to take bold action on nuclear weapons.