Re: “The pragmatist’s information to nuclear disarmament” [Feb. 11, Opinion]:
Thanks for working Steve Olson’s piece arguing for a grassroots anti-nuclear motion. In actual fact, there already exists a worldwide grassroots marketing campaign which has superior the reason for nuclear disarmament by selling the creation and ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which Olson discusses.
That motion is the Worldwide Marketing campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and its web site, icanw.org, incorporates many sources for these eager about becoming a member of the disarmament motion right here within the Pacific Northwest or wherever in the USA. Many of the organizations Olson mentions in his op-ed. are ICAN companions and plenty of others have joined a brand new marketing campaign, Warheads to Windmills, which goals to show the cash now spent on nuclear weapons to advertise sustainable power infrastructure on this nation (warheadstowindmills.org).
The SANE/Freeze motion of the Nineteen Eighties triggered the deepest reductions ever in nuclear weapons. A brand new motion can revitalize nuclear disarmament and free humanity from this existential menace whereas liberating up funds for human wants.
Nick Mele, Bellingham, Senior Advisor, Pax Christi USA