WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO & HOW FAST TO DO IT
community groups, labor affiliations, religions, neighborhoods, social clubs and hobbies.
Yeah, I think I’ll look into that. But between you and me, what can one person really do?
Thousands of individuals volunteer daily to work for disarmament organizations: writing, mailing, phoning, typing, researching, organizing and leading. One of the most important actions one person can undertake is to plan an informative get-together in his or her neighborhood or work-place—most disarmament groups provide speakers, films, and literature for such meetings.
One person, Randall Forsberg, proposed a way to stop the arms race; she called her plan the Freeze. She envisioned a mutually verifiable freeze between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on the production, deployment and testing of all nuclear weapons. Today this bilateral Freeze has had a major influence. In the 1982 election 8 out of 9 states approved the Freeze referendum, as did many
major cities. In New Jersey it passed with over 75% of the vote! It won in California, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Michigan and in Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, and Washington D.C.
The people of Garrett Park, Maryland, approved a referendum making their town the First American Nuclear-Free Zone. Sykesville, Maryland, followed. Ashland (Oregon), Cambridge (Massachusetts), Madison (Wisconsin), and the state of California have begun their own Nuclear-Free Zone campaigns.
The governments of Norway, Sweden and Denmark have declared themselves Nuclear-Free Zones, and a Nuclear-free Balkans is being discussed.
The South Pacific Islanders of Belau voted for a constitutional guarantee of becoming a
