Nuclear Abolition Day
ICAN coordinates Nuclear Abolition Day, an annual global day of action in June for a treaty banning nuclear weapons. Events in past years have included non-violent street demonstrations, benefit concerts and recitals, picnics, vigils, marches and educational workshops. According to ICAN, "the aim is to raise public awareness about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and build political support for negotiations for a treaty banning these weapons."
Read more about this topic: International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Famous quotes containing the words nuclear, abolition and/or day:
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What a hundred years is not enough to build, one day is more than enough to destroy.”
—Chinese proverb.