NEEDED: MESSENGERS - Americans Need to Hear the Awful Truth of Nuclear Devastation

Needed: MESSENGERS!

Over the next several days, people from the around the world will gather in Vienna to lay it out in the open: the truth about the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons.

That's important, because:

* The widely-known facts about the fire and blast of nuclear explosions are something just about everybody tries to avoid thinking about.

* In particular, no one ever wants to confront the very real risk that their own city will be obliterated in a nuclear attack.

* It's part of a larger human predicament: most of us are terrible at imagining bad things in advance of them actually occurring, and even worse about taking action to eliminate the risk.

Oh . . . and did I mention the call for a massive mobilization for nuclear disarmament in spring 2015, to coincide with the UN meeting on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)?

Account (with illustration) by
survivor of Hiroshima bombing

The U.S. is one of two nations in the world with massive nuclear arsenals, and the U.S. arsenal needs to be eliminated if we are to escape nuclear devastation. It is the people of the U.S. who will make this happen -- the people, a massive number of them, must push this, because the politicians answer to the people.

So: It's up to those of us with networks in the U.S. to get the word out to people in this country about the what nukes do to people -- and the need for people to become active in the movement to eliminate nuclear weapons.

#NoNukesTuesday is a week-in, week-out social media campaign to build the movement. #HINW14Vienna laid the foundation deep -- #NoNukesTuesday is the place to take the message wide.

TAKE ACTION:

#NoNukesTuesday
Getting the word out every week

* Look at the #HINW14Vienna twitter stream to find

exciting materials from the Vienna conference.

* See more resources on the 

Courage to Ban Nuclear Weapons

conference website.

* Tweet, RT, Follow and build the 

network on #NoNukesTuesday

(Here's my contribution: #GOODBYENUKES: 10 Images I'll Be Sharing From #HINW14Vienna )


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