April 25, 2020; 9 – 11 am EDT. Video of the World Conference can Now be watched here.
Humanity faces two existential threats: increasing dangers of nuclear war and climate disruption, with its impact on world health. Human beings created these threats, which can only be reversed by mass popular actions.
In the context of the suffering and changes being wrought by the pandemic, the two-hour world conference will focus on the continuing urgent need to abolish nuclear weapons and its relationship to stanching the climate emergency and challenging injustices which have left so many people marginalized and vulnerable. Click here for speakers.
To accommodate people across the world the conference will be held from 9 – 11 am EDT (3 – 5 pm in Central Europe; 10 pm – 12 am in East Asia) with simultaneous interpretation. The conference will be held in concentric circles with up to 500 people in the conference itself and simultaneous live streaming so everyone can join by listening in. Register here. Livestream URL to be posted here. Video of the conference will be posted here.
Conference organizers understand the urgent priority of caring for those who are sick and most in need. We are also deeply aware that once this plague has passed, the twin existential threats of nuclear war and the climate catastrophe and the need to address social and economic injustice will be, if anything, greater than before.
Initiating organizations include: American Friends Service Committee, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK); Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; Gensuikin (Japan Congress against A & H Bombs); Gensuikyo (Japan Council against A & H Bombs); International Peace Bureau; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A & H Bomb Sufferer’s Organizations); Peace Action; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; United for Peace & Justice, and Western States Legal Foundation. Click here for full list of sponsoring organizations.
An Online World Conference 2020 Youth Assembly is planned for Saturday, May 2 at 9 am EDT. Click here for more information and to register.
