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Towards a Nuclear Weapons Free World: 3-page ad in the Hill Times, with a multitude of supporting groups and signatories, pressing the government to accede to the UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. The campaign continues.

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View from Quebec on the importance of civil action to persuade the Canadian government to accede to the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons.

PETITION CONCERNING UN TREATY PROHIBITING NUCLEAR WEAPONS Please sign a very important Petition that calls upon the Government of Canada to accede to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It now has more than 1100 signatures but we need hundreds more. The link is https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details

Some good news. ... The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weaponscommonly called the nuclear ban treaty comes into force on January 22, 2021. Colonialism = Civilizing the Global South + Might makes right + Nuclear powers as custodians of arms control + keepers of the definition: "Whose nukes are safe?" "The treaty de-centers the historically Eurocentric idea of security by instead focusing on the development and defense of the weak, and not of Western great powers."... " ... A post-colonial security, by contrast, would do just that. It would focus on the humanitarian consequences of such policies and be sensitive to the multiplicity of different cultural conceptualizations of humanity and security. It would protect all humans, natures, and cultures from destruction. A world free of nuclear weapons would surely be a more just world. No longer could a single nuclear-armed country threaten the sovereignty and very existence of another nation. No longer would another nation have to submit to the will of the nuclear hegemony. Only time will tell whether the treaty’s entry into force on January 22, 2021 will rapidly jumpstart efforts toward global disarmament, or whether the nuclear haves will continue to resist. But regardless, the ban treaty can usher in a new, post-colonial understanding of nuclear weapons and their role in national security."

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