Global Action to Wave Goodbye to Nukes!!!
Governments will meet at the United Nations over four weeks in April-May 2015 for the five-yearly review of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Civil society is calling on governments to end the threat of nuclear weapons by negotiating for their complete prohibition and elimination - a requirement of the NPT.
The Global Wave will involve a simple public action in cities around the world in a timed fashion over 24 hours just before the 2015 NPT Review Conference in New York. Starting at one point on the globe, and then proceeding through each time zone every hour, humanity will ‘Wave Goodbye to Nuclear Weapons’ through symbolic Wave events.
The action will engage parliamentarians, mayors, religious leaders, youth, environmentalists, human rights activists, sports clubs, celebrities and other representatives of civil society. The action in some places will be small and symbolic – in other places it will be larger and more celebratory.
At one point the Wave will pass through a large Peace Rally in New York where approximately 20,000 people will wave goodbye to nuclear weapons. Social media will link the actions world-wide, making this a global action to support the advocacy at the United Nations.
Global Wave 2015 is part of Peace and Planet: Mobilisation for a Nuclear Free, Just and Sustainable World. To get involved in this exciting global action, please email Globalwave2015 or visit www.facebook.com/globalwave2015
Promotional flyers:
* Global Wave 2015: wave goodbye to nuclear weapons
* No nukes, no carbon footprint
* Tell the leaders of nuclear countries to wave goodbye to their nukes on April 26/27
* Letter from Mayor Celia Wade-Brown encouraging mayors and cities to wave goodbye to nuclear weapons
Pictures/logos to use in your wave:
* Global Wave 2015 simple logo (high resolution);
* Global Wave 2015 simple logo (medium resolution);
* Global Wave 2015 logo and text;
* Hand with Scotland flag and peace sign. (Used at the Abolition 2000 wave in the Scottish parliament to support the closure of the UK nuclear weapons base in Scotland and the establishment of Scotland as a nuclear-weapon-free zone)
Global Wave is facilitated by the Basel Peace Office and the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
