Activities in The USA
In Western Massachusetts, a campaign was spearheaded from grassroots organizers in 11 towns. After 2 years of hard working starting in The autumn of 2005 and continuing today, all eleven Western Ma Mayors have signed on to the campaign.
This encouraged some legislative action, and the state Reps brought forth a resolution for nuclear abolition by 2020 which passed in the Massachusetts House and Senate. Now Senator Kennedy was asked to bring the resolution to the federal level. However, after Senator Kennedy died there are no plans to see the resolution at a national level.
Read more about this topic: Mayors For Peace
Famous quotes containing the words activities and/or usa:
“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.”
—I.F. (Isidor Feinstein)