New York City Council Hearing on Resolution 0976 – 2019 calling on the New York City Comptroller to instruct the pension funds of public employees in New York City to divest from and avoid any financial exposure to companies involved in the production and maintenance of nuclear weapons, reaffirming New York City as a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, and joining the ICAN Cities Appeal and calling on the United States to support and join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and also INT 1621 – 2019, a Local Law in relation to creating a nuclear disarmament and nuclear weapons-free zone advisory committee on January 28, 2019.
Photos By Yolanda Andersson
Opening Statement by Council Member Daniel Dromm
Testimonies:
Marilru Kojima | Ian Zabarte | Owl Smith (speaks, and then reads Chief Dwaine Perry’s statement) | Miyako Taguchi | Frida Berrigan | Liz McAlister | Joanne Kennedy (reading the statement of Martha Hennessy) | Betty Reardon | Bill Hartung | Blaise Dupuy | Mary Yelenick | Brendan Fay | Maura Keaney | Alice Slater | Ray Acheson | Jacqueline Cabasso | Seth Sheldon (written testimony) |Raymond Black | Elaine Scarry | Jamie Bauer | Jonathan Granoff | Michael Lent | Tom Gogan | Robert Croonquist | Susan Schnall | John Marigliano | Tom Dwyer, Sr. | Tarak Kauf | Emilie McGlone | Herey Metange (sp?) (reading statement by Linda Chapman) | Sengilla Kenwa (reading testimony of Hibakusha, Yasuaki Yamashita) | Chinwi Wong (reading the testimony of Hibakusha, Shigeko Sasamori) | Lena Gerung (reading the testimony of Hibakusha, Setsuko Thurlow) | Mitchie Takeuchi | Rosemarie Pace | Sally Jones | Anthony Donovan | Michael Gorbachev | Rev. Toshikazu Kenjitsu Nakagaki | Christian Ciobanu | Jon Lipsky | Donna Stien | Bill Ofenloch (reading statement of Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J.) | Yuni Chang | Leslie Cagan | Heidi Hunter | Lilly Adams | Timmon Wallis | Vicki Elson | Alfred Meyer | Chuck Johnson.
Written Stament
- Sachem Maqua, Chief Perry of the Ramapough Lunape Nation
- Ngodup Tsering, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to North America
- Cardinal Joseph Tobin, D.Ss.R., Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Newark Newark, New Jersey
- Fr. Steve Kelly, SJ has no other means of communication aside from a small white postcard from his prison.
- Sister Carol Gilbert, OP and Sister Ardeth Platte, OP, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
- Walter Naegle
- Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congress of the United States, House of Representatives Washington, DC
Background Paper
Video feed of the hearing
