Europe

The co-chair of Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases to spend 45 days in prison

Manuel Elkin, Scientist and discoverer of a new vaccine to cure Malaria, will participate this Wednesday in the second lecture of Ethics, Humanism and Science Dialogues in Donostia, where he will discuss: “The Social Commitment Of Science: The Malaria Vaccine As An Example.”

We are starting to see signals from different sectors about the urgency for nuclear disarmament, the first of the objectives of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence.

“Let us honor our past by reaching for a better future”, proclaimed Unites States President Barack Obama, vowing to a new era without nuclear weapons.

Peace sign sit-in

Obama’s visit was the occasion to continue Czechs protests against US military base (see Video)

While President Obama spoke in Prague, over 1,000 protesters gathered nearby to condemn US plans to build a missile shield system in the Czech Republic and Poland.

Rejected USA request to send more combat troops to Afghanistan

An unknown artist’s comment on the G20 meeting in London,
April 2009

‘Although the (nuclear) threat has been greatly diminished since the end of the Cold War, it continues to be the greatest threat against humanity’, declared Obama.