WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO & HOW FAST TO DO IT
Nuclear-Free Zone leading to a Nuclear-free Pacific.
Entire continents—South America and Antarctica—are Nuclear Free Zones by international agreement.
Here in New York our City Council, like other city councils around the country, has opposed federal funding for the implementation of FEMA’s civil defense plans because “such plans promote the illusion of protection and/or defense against nuclear war.”
So our only defense is preventing nuclear war in the first place?
Yes. And that answers your first question. In 1982 nearly one million people came to New York for the June 12th march because they wanted to state publicly that prevention of nuclear war is our only hope. People gathered with their families, friends and colleagues from all over the U.S. and abroad to show support for a bilateral U.S.-U.S.S.R. Freeze and to oppose military spending at the expense of human needs and jobs. People from very different cultural and political backgrounds joined together for the first time in the largest rally in American history.
Somehow trying to stop nuclear war seems like an endless job!
But if we are serious about preserving life and a future and a planet for our children to inherit, then we must work for nuclear disarmament. There is an old proverb: “You may not be able to finish the task; neither are you free to excuse yourself from it.”
