Governments will meet at the United Nations over four weeks in April-May 2015 for the five-yearly review of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Civil society is calling on governments to end the threat of nuclear weapons by negotiating for their complete prohibition and elimination – a requirement of the NPT.
The Global Wave will involve a simple public action in cities around the world in a timed fashion over 24 hours just before the 2015 NPT Review Conference in New York. Starting at a major peace rally in New York on April 26, and then proceeding westward through each time zone every hour, humanity will ‘Wave Goodbye to Nuclear Weapons’ through symbolic Wave events.
The action will engage parliamentarians, mayors, religious leaders, youth, environmentalists, human rights activists, sports clubs, celebrities and other representatives of civil society. The action in some places will be small and symbolic – in other places it will be larger and more celebratory.
Global Wave 2015 is part of Peace and Planet: Mobilisation for a Nuclear Free, Just and Sustainable World. To get involved in this exciting global action, please email Globalwave2015 or visit www.facebook.com/globalwave2015
Global Wave is facilitated by the Basel Peace Office and the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
Here are just a few of the wave actions already planned (or done):
- Approximately 15,000 people will wave goodbye to nuclear weapons from the Peace and Planet rally in New York;
- Bethlehem Christmas Church will wave goodbye to nuclear weapons with a bell-ringing event;
- Physicians for Social Responsibility (Los Angeles) is doing a Wave goodbye to nuclear weapons from the historic Chain Reaction sculpture in Santa Monica, USA;
- Youth in Gainesville, Florida will hit tennis balls 16,000 times (one for each nuclear weapon in the world) to Hit away the nukes!
- A Global Wave has been done at the Inter Parliamentary Union Assembly (160 parliaments are members) led by the IPU President;
- Right Livelihood Laureate Huang Ming, author of the Renewable Energy Law adopted in China, has done a Global Wave from Solar Valley in China (to the music of Michael Jackson’s ‘Earth Song’;
- Bike away the nuclear bomb will do global waves as they cycle from Washington to New York;
- Participants in the Buchel 65 blockade of the nuclear weapons base in Germany will wave goodbye to nuclear weapons from in front of the base;
- A wave was done from Hradčany square in Prague on the anniversary of President Obama’s anti-nuclear speech there;
- Tri-Valley CAREs will wave goodbye to nuclear weapons from in front of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where US nuclear weapons are designed.
and many more waves are planned…
