Archive - 2012

On 20 May 2012 world leaders will meet at the NATO summit in Chicago. The future of nuclear weapons presently deployed in Europe is on the agenda. Sign a petition, initiated by the Global Zero movement, to have these dangerous weapons removed.

A statement signed by 45 medical doctors calls on uranium mining company Toro Energy to stop promoting the view that low-level radiation is beneficial to human health. 

A new MAPW paper says the power to make war should be removed from Executive government (Cabinet) and located in the Australian Parliament. Sending Australians to War is the third in the MAPW War & Militarism series.

A nuclear war anywhere in the world, using as few as 100 weapons, would disrupt the global climate and agricultural production so severely that the lives of more than a billion people would be at risk, according to research findings released overnight by MAPW's international organisation IPPNWⁱ.

Artist Michael Leunig and gardener and TV presenter Peter Cundall will join local writers and performers to reflect on The Language of War,  on Anzac Eve in Melbourne.

Today, 17 April 2012, is Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS).

ICANⁱ and GetUp have set up a petition to help build a groundswell of pressure to ensure the Future Fund change their policy and divest from nuclear weapons manufacturers once and for all!

4 April 2012 is United Nations Landmine Awareness Day. You can show your solidarity with the survivors of landmines by joining the "Lend your leg" campaign.

On Sunday 11 March rallies were held throughout Australia to commemorate the first anniversary of the disaster at Fukushima. The following videos of the rallies in Melbourne and Sydney have been posted on Youtube. Watch them here. 

Melbourne remembers Fukushima, as seen on NTDTV

Don't hold your breath for Fukushima radiation toll is an article written by former president of MAPW and current chair of ICANⁱ, Tilman Ruff. It was published recently in The conversation, a journal of the university and research sector.