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Japan appeals to India against nuclear power

Find out the reality of the Fukushima accident, stop oppressing your own people, and abandon nukes! Letter from No Nukes Action Committee: To Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Hearing that you would be visiting Japan from November 15 to 18, we…

UK: Cameron inflates jobs figures to justify arms promotion

The Prime Minister David Cameron has again defended government promotion of arms sales by relying on grossly inflated and out-of-date jobs figures, while ignoring human rights concerns. Dismissing critics as ‘squeamish’, Cameron justified the exports by again claiming 300,000 jobs…

India-China – Congress plea against nuclear anything…

Letter from The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy to The Delegates, 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China The Delegates – 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China Great Hall of the People Beijing [via] H. E. The Ambassador of…

Egypt’s Women Rebel Against Harassment

We reproduce here an article by Mel Frykberg for IPS. Photograph: Tahrir Square, the cradle of Egypt’s revoltution, has become also a place for harassment of women. Credit: Khaled Moussa al-Omrani/IPS. CAIRO, Nov 1 2012 (IPS) – Egyptian bullies who…

Breaking the Nuclear Chain: From Victim to Actor

Breaking the Nuclear Chain is a campaign, of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), IKV Pax Christi and Peace Boat, that aims to give the debate on the consequences of all components of the nuclear chain…

Scotland – In or Out of NATO?

With Scotland in the process of organising a referendum on its status in or out of the United Kingdom, the question of what to with the UK’s nuclear weapons based in Faslane are an issue of great interest to the…

UK: Protests end National Gallery’s arms trade links

The National Gallery’s long-standing sponsorship arrangement with weapons manufacturer Finmeccanica has ended, following a campaign by Campaign Against Arms Trade to ‘Disarm the Gallery.’ The arrangement has been terminated one year early and just weeks before the next protest event…

Karipbek Kuyukov: “My Dream is to Save Our Children from Radiation”

This is an English version of the special interview with Karipbek Kuyukov on August 30, 2012 in Astana, Kazakhstan during the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament conference. The original Japanese version is on the interview section of Nuclear Weapon…

Belgian Peace activists hinder departure of F16 airplanes to NATO nuclear weapons exercise

As of 7:30 AM peace activists are using non-violent means to try and stop the departure of F16 airplanes from the base in Kleine Brogel. Starting today, Belgian pilots are training for the deployment of nuclear weapons together with their…

Firenze 10+10 Joining forces for another Europe!

November 8-11, 2012 Ten years ago, Florence hosted the first ever European Social Forum. It constituted an extraordinary moment in the construction of a continent-wide demos, which presented analyses, proposals and solutions which – had they been translated into policies…

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