[E-rundbrief] Info 1550 - Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World

Matthias Reichl info at begegnungszentrum.at
Sa Aug 13 20:53:04 CEST 2016


E-Rundbrief - Info 1550 - Peace and Planet: Montreal Declaration for a 
Nuclear-Fission-Free World, August 10 assembly at the World Social 
Forum in Montreal.

Bad Ischl, 13.8.2016

Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit

www.begegnungszentrum.at

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Following presentations and discussions in Peace and Planet's August 
10 assembly at the World Social Forum in Montreal, we adopted the 
following Declaration.

Please use it in ways that will help to build your movements.

For Peace & Planet,

Joseph

Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World

As citizens of this planet inspired by the Second Thematic World 
Social Forum for a Nuclear-Fission‐Free World, conducted in Montreal 
from August 8 to August 12, 2016, we are collectively calling for a 
mobilization of civil society around the world to bring about the 
elimination of all nuclear weapons, to put an end to the continued 
mass‐production of all high‐level nuclear wastes by phasing out all 
nuclear reactors, and to bring to a halt all uranium mining worldwide.


This call goes out to fellow citizens of all countries worldwide who 
see the need, whether as an individual or as a member of an 
organization, for a nuclear-­fission‐free world. We are committed to 
building a global network of citizens of the world who will work 
together, using the internet and social media to overcome isolation, 
to provide mutual support and to coordinate the launching of joint 
actions for a world free of nuclear fission technology, whether 
civilian or military.


We will begin by creating communication channels to share information 
and educational tools on legal, technical, financial, medical, and 
security‐related matters linked to

military and non‐military nuclear activities. We will pool our 
resources across national boundaries in a spirit of cooperation, 
allowing us to contribute to the formulation of a convergent and 
unified response to counteract the plans of the nuclear establishment 
that operates on a global scale to multiply civil and military nuclear 
installations worldwide and to dump, bury and abandon nuclear wastes.


We recognize each nuclear weapon as an instrument of brutal and 
unsurpassed terror, designed to kill millions of innocent men, women 
and children at a single stroke. We realize that even a limited 
nuclear war can provoke sudden extreme climate change on a global 
scale, crippling agricultural production and threatening the survival 
of all higher

forms of life. We are grimly aware that a nuclear‐armed world will 
surely destroy itself and set in motion a process that will undo four 
billion years of evolution. We are determined to help guide the world 
away from the brink of nuclear annihilation.


We recognize each nuclear reactor as a repository of the most 
pernicious industrial waste ever known; waste so radioactive that it 
spontaneously melts down if not continually cooled; waste that, when 
targeted by terrorists or saboteurs, or by conventional warfare, will 
render large portions of the earth uninhabitable for centuries;

waste that contains material that can be used as a nuclear explosive 
at any time in the future, for thousands of years to come.


We recognize uranium as the key element behind all nuclear weapons and 
all nuclear reactors, and we endorse the call by the International 
Physicians for the Prevention of- Nuclear War and by the 2015 Quebec 
World Uranium Symposium for a total global ban on the mining and 
processing of uranium.


We will use our networks

‐to pressure governments everywhere to put an end to nuclear fission

‐to expose the dangers associated with the export and transport of 
nuclear materials and nuclear waste;

‐to puncture the myths used to prop up and justify our irrational 
nuclear addiction;

‐to tell the sobering stories of nuclear victims and nuclear refugees;

‐to emphasize our moral responsibilities not to burden future 
generations with a poisonous nuclear legacy;

‐to warn governments without nuclear facilities to realize the dangers 
and avoid becoming enmeshed in this technology;

‐to disseminate the findings of engineers, doctors, biologists, 
ecologists, physicists and concerned citizens having special knowledge 
and appreciation of nuclear dangers;

‐to promote and popularize the wide variety of renewable energy 
alternatives that are green and sustainable;

‐to launch lawsuits and to support whistle‐blowers to halt the most 
egregious examples of nuclear malfeasance;

‐to promote non‐violent conflict resolution, and

‐to denounce the illegal, immoral, and insane obsession with nuclear 
weapons arsenals.


We invite all people, groups and organizations involved in the effort 
for a world without nuclear fission and uranium mining, to

commit themselves to this effort. We also ask them to endorse this

declaration and to transmit it widely in their networks.


This declaration is partly inspired by the Tokyo Appeal issued by the 
First Thematic World Social Form for a Nuclear‐Free World held in 
Tokyo and Fukushima in March 2016.


To endorse the declaration send name and e‐mail address to ccnr [at] 
web.ca and to JGerson [at] afsc.org

http://www.PeaceAndPlanet.org

info [at] peaceandplanet.org


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Begegnungszentrum fuer aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
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