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It's Time to Reclaim Our Clyde! Join Fiona and Marlene's discussion with passionate SCND activists David Kelly and David Peutherer as we talk about the vital need to rid the River Clyde of nuclear weapons.  We dive into the engaging new campaign "It's Time to Reclaim Our Clyde" urging young people to find out more and take action for a nuclear free Scotland. Discover why independence is the only way to ensure a safer nuclear-free future for Scotland and how the campaign is empowering the next generation to rise up and make a difference.   Key themes: 00:02:40   Background to the campaign 00:12:45   But what about the nuclear jobs? 00:15:00   Increasing our defences? 00:17:45   Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) 00:18:42    Independence is key 00:19:44    Campaign next steps 00:25:34     Generational differences 00:28:23     Trump 00:31:00     Cuddly green nuclear power? 00:35:49      Whatever happened to the Labour party? It's time to act before it's too late!  Find out more including how to get involved and make your voice heard here: Scottish CND  - https://.banthebomb.org/campaign/reclaim-our-clyde/   International Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament https://icanw.org Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/nuclear/tpnw/ #NuclearFreeScotland #ReclaimOurClyde #tpnw The Scottish Independence Podcasts team produce a NEW podcast episode every Friday search for Scottish Independence Podcasts wherever you get your podcasts.  Remember to like and subscribe! Contact Us: indypodcasters@gmail.com  Visit our website https://scottishindypod.scot for blogposts, newsletter signup and more episodes Subscribe for free to our Youtube channel @scottishindypodExtra for more of our video footage and clips.  video premieres most Tuesdays at 8pm If you've enjoyed this podcast you might like to buy us a coffee?  https://ko-fi.com/scottishindependencepodcasts or choose us as your Easyfundraising good cause. Music: Inspired by Kevin MacLeod  

Press Conference by President: H.E. Ambassador Akan Rakhmetullin, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan; Ms. Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Ms. Eirini Giorgiou, Legal Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross; Ms. Taraem Taukaro of Kiribati, A representative of affected community. --- As the third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) got underway today (3 Mar) at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Kazakh First Deputy Foreign Minister Akan Rakhmetullin welcomed new ratifications of the Treaty by Indonesia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone and the Solomon Islands.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support.

The Mine Ban Treaty is one of the most successful humanitarian disarmament agreements in modern history. Also known as the Ottawa Treaty, it emerged in the 1990s in response to the devastating impact of landmines on civilians worldwide. At the time, millions of these hidden explosives were scattered across conflict zones, continuing to kill and maim long after wars had ended. A coalition of activists, survivors, and diplomats led a groundbreaking campaign to ban these weapons, culminating in a treaty that transformed global approaches to disarmament and humanitarian action. But how did this treaty come to life? What made it so effective? And what challenges does it face today? I speak with Tamar Gabelnick, Director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition, who tells the story of the treaty's journey from grassroots activism to high-level diplomacy, explaining how the ban became a reality. We also examine the treaty's lasting impact—how it has reduced the use of landmines, driven demining efforts, and supported victims—while also considering ongoing challenges, including some recent setbacks. This episode is produced in partnership with Lex International Fund, a philanthropic fund dedicated to strengthening international law to solve global challenges. It is part of a series that demonstrates the impact of Treaties on state behavior that we are calling "when treaties work"  

Send us a textOn Inside Geneva, we take a deep dive into the United States' cuts in foreign aid.“In Colombia, they've just had to lay off 200 staff who were doing the demining in the south of the country. So, all of a sudden, these families have no work. And the alternative in the area, you know what it is: coca plants. So how is that in the US interest?” asks Tamar Gabelnick, director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.“The freezing is not democratic. Congress has voted for some of these programmes and it's Mr. Trump, Mr. Musk, etc. who are cutting them out without the approval of Congress. So, legally, I don't see how they can do this,” says analyst Daniel Warner.Why is Washington cutting something that is a lifesaver for vulnerable people worldwide, but costs just 0.2% of the US gross national product?“President Trump and Musk will say that these cuts to USAID are about shrinking a bloated bureaucracy and getting rid of waste and fraud. But I'd say that this whole thing has more to do with ideology and politics,” continues Dawn Clancy, a journalist based in New York.What happens when ideology cuts humanitarian aid?“It's not just American isolationism. It's not just America first. There seems to be a quite deliberate undermining of fundamental freedoms,” says Imogen Foulkes, host of the Inside Geneva podcast.“We don't have four years. The international legal framework and universal human rights are at a critical juncture and are being eroded, threatened and instrumentalised in unprecedented ways. Now is the time to step up,” says Phil Lynch, Executive Director of the International Service for Human Rights.  Search for Inside Geneva wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en Thank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/Host: Imogen FoulkesProduction assitant: Claire-Marie GermainDistribution: Sara PasinoMarketing: Xin Zhang

This episode is a recording of a live event in Oslo 11.12.24: From Hiroshima to Gaza, with Hiroshima survivor Ms. Rumi Hanagaki, and Gaza-photojournalist Motaz Azaiza. The event is opened with a joik by Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, and an introduction by Beatrice Fihn, the Executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The conversation is led by artist and activist Nosizwe Baqwa, and the event ends with a speech by the leader of Palestinakomiteen (The Palestine Committee of Norway), Line Khateeb. The event was hosted by ICAN, Lex International, Aksjonsgruppa for Palestina and Palestinakomiteen i Norge, and supported by Fritt Ord and Norsk Folkehjelp (Norwegian People's Aid).

Dave Sweeney (pictured) stood on Melbourne's Collins St and told the crowd of about 30 why nuclear power stations are a bad idea and a step backwards for Australia. Dave, a nuclear-free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation, was also the co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), two things about which he is passionate and subsequently deeply committed. He loves his work and, he believes, it helps pay his "planetary rent" The December 3, Collins St, Melbourne nuclear power station protest during which Dave spoke was organized by the city's office of "Friends of The Earth". Listen to this episode and Dave talks about why he helped set up the Nobel Peace Prize-winning ICAN and what international success means, personally and for the group

Welcome To Country News headlines 7.15 Human Rights Day Rally- segment from the Flagstaff Gardens, with Uncle Robbie Thorpe,Ballardong/ Yuid Nyungah man Uncle Desmond Blurton, and Community member Glen. 7.30 Tilman Ruff spoke about the recent International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons report on the link between nuclear war, weapons, energy generation & climate crisis.https://icanw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/ICAN-Nuclear-weapons-and-our-climate-web-pages.pdf 8am Alexandra Brown, Medecins Sans Frontieres Medical Communications Adviser spoke about MSF's programme on acute malnutrition.www.msf.org.au SongsFirst Aid Kit - The Lions RoarWooden Shjips- GhoulsJack White - Old Scratch Blues

Seven years ago the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel Peace Prize and T,oday the Executive Director, Melissa Parke (pictured) was interviewed on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Sunday Extra program and pointed out that climate change could cause devastation equal to nuclear war, albeit slower., the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel Peace Prize. Today, the Executive Director, Melissa Parke (pictured). The program was called "Nobel Week Focus on Nukes". "Event: Nuclear power protestors declare it is "Too expensive. too dangerous. too slow"; "Nuclear energy debate draws stark gender split in Australia ahead of next year's election"; "EV sales in Britain skyrocket year-on-year"; "Trump's not a ‘fascist', but the world is in trouble"; "Why democracies, from South Korea to France to the U.S., are in crisis"; "Divided over whether to stop making plastic, U.N. treaty talks collapse"; "INTRODUCING — The Weather That Changed Us"; "Vicious cycle: Wildfires are making climate change worse"; "A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline"; "What Trump 2.0 Means for the Climate"; "Despite 2024's ‘greenlash', the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here's how"; "Climate policy is on a collision course with physical reality"; "Storm Darragh leaves hundreds of thousands in the UK and Ireland without power, disrupts travel"; "Why so many Americans prefer sprawl to walkable neighborhoods"; "Plibersek made a vow on environmental reforms. Albanese has put that at risk"; "We finally have an explanation for 2023's record-breaking temperatures"; "Climate Commission recommends carbon negative 2050 target"; "Why a two-year surge in global warmth is worrying scientists"; "It's Do or Die Time for Philly Hydrogen Hub, and Some Green Groups Are Rooting for Death"; "Decline of Reflective Low Clouds May Have Contributed to Recent Record Heat"; "Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here."; "The US is making and deploying more solar panels than ever before"; "Saving ‘old and wise' animals vital for species' survival, say scientists"; "Why prioritise the climate crisis given the high cost of living burdens lives in the UK right now?" "A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights"; "New sodium-ion developments from CATL, BYD, Huawei"; "A rising danger in the Arctic"; "Climate tech company aims to clean up the dirtiest energy grids"; "How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized"; "Fury as US argues against climate obligations at top UN court"; "How long will an EV last before it has to be replaced? A guide to electric car battery life"; "Could more charging stations help increase demand for EVs in Europe?"; "Nuclear energy debate draws stark gender split in Australia ahead of next year's election"; "Reflections on COP29: Progress Amid Political Headwinds"; "Quarter of New Cars Sold in the UK Were Electric in November"; "‘Climate bomb' warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects"; "Trusted partner to the Pacific, or giant fossil fuel exporter? This week, Australia chose the latter"; "Friday essay: ‘A future of dust' – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides"; "

The Melbourne office of Friends of the Earth organized a Collins St protest outside a building that was the venue for a Federal Government inquiry into the Liberal National Party's idea that Australia should build and commission seven nuclear power stations throughout the nation. More than 30 people joined the noisy but peaceful demonstration. While passers-by were left with no doubt the nuclear power stations were too expensive, too dangerous and too slow, those attending had the chance to listen to several exciting, articulate and far-seeing speakers, including two people from the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Associate Professor Tilman Ruff (pictured) and Dave Sweeney who is also with the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). Representatives of the Melbourne-based "Lighter Footprints" and the "Kooyong Climate Change Alliance" and a passionate Danae Bosley from the Victorian Trades Hall Council also spoke.

 His Week That Was – Kevin Healy, Part Two of the annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture, entitled 'The Ethnocentric State and Our Fragile Australian Democracy: How Support for Israel Erodes Democratic Values and Practices in Australia and the West', and delivered this year by Dr Samah Sabawi, internationally acclaimed Palestinian author, playwright and poet. Associate Professor Tilman Ruff, board member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons and the twin dangers of nuclear weapons and climate change, Retired Adelaide QC Paul Heywood-Smith and the decisions of the ICC and ICJ relating to Israel and Palestine, PhD candidate Sasha Gillies-Lekakis Sasha Gillies- Lekakis with Part Two of his profile of Bolivia, Head to www.3cr.org.au/hometime-tuesday for full access to links and previous podcasts

We discuss brainworms, Elon's new gig, and why it's a really bad idea to micro-dose E. coli. Dr Ruth Mitchell, neurosurgeon and founding member of the Australian Nobel Prize-winning group, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, joins Dr Emma Shortis to discuss the global consequences of Trump's cabinet picks and what his election means for efforts to eradicate nuclear weapons. This discussion was recorded on Thursday 21 November and things may have changed since recording. Pre-order What's the Big Idea? 32 Big Ideas for a Better Australia now, via the Australia Institute website. australiainstitute.org.au // @theausinstitute Guest: Ruth Mitchell, Board Chair, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War // @drruthmitchell Host: Emma Shortis, Director of International & Security Affairs, the Australia Institute // @EmmaShortis Show notes: Risky Business: An update on super funds and nuclear weapons by Rosemary Kelly and Margaret Beavis (September 2024) Super-powered nukes: Aussie funds and weapons of mass destruction, Follow the Money (October 2024) Theme music: Blue Dot Sessions Subscribe for regular updates from the Australia Institute. We'd love to hear your feedback on this series, so send in your questions, comments or suggestions for future episodes to podcasts@australiainstitute.org.au.Support After America: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dave Sweeney has spent much of his life campaigning against the use of nuclear materials. For his efforts working with a group of colleagues at ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - he won a Nobel Peace Price in 2017.This is a story of the work he has done. For those curious about the history and risks of nuclear and to better understand some of the debate that is going on right now around nuclear energy, this is an episode worth listening to. This is a "In Case You Missed It Episode" (#ICYMI). We recorded this episode back in 2019.ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatattsOn LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave Sweeney has spent much of his life campaigning against the use of nuclear materials. For his efforts working with a group of colleagues at ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - he won a Nobel Peace Price in 2017.This is a story of the work he has done. For those curious about the history and risks of nuclear and to better understand some of the debate that is going on right now around nuclear energy, this is an episode worth listening to. This is a "In Case You Missed It Episode" (#ICYMI). We recorded this episode back in 2019.ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatattsOn LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Akira Kawasaki, a senior official of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, has praised the role being played by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, in the international community.

取材に応じる核兵器廃絶国際キャンペーンの川崎哲・国際運営委員、１０月３１日、東京都新宿区被爆者でつくる唯一の全国組織、日本原水爆被害者団体協議会へのノーベル平和賞授賞が決定してから１１日で１カ月となる。 Akira Kawasaki, a senior official of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, has praised the role being played by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, in the international community.

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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. 诺贝尔和平奖被授予日本飞段协（Nihon Hidankyo），这是一个由美国广岛和长崎原子弹爆炸幸存者组成的日本组织，因其反对核武器的积极行动而被授予。 The Nobel committee said it "wishes to honor all survivors who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace." 诺贝尔委员会表示，“希望向所有幸存者致敬，尽管他们遭受了身体上的痛苦和痛苦的记忆，但他们选择利用他们代价高昂的经历来培养对和平的希望和参与。”Hidankyo's Hiroshima branch chairperson, Tomoyuki Mimaki, who was waiting at the city hall for the announcement, cheered and became emotional when he received the news. 正在市政府等待通知的飞段京广岛分会会长御牧智之得知这一消息后，兴奋不已，激动不已。"Is it really true? Unbelievable!" Mimaki screamed. “这是真的吗？难以置信！” 美牧尖叫起来。 The Nobel committee has honored efforts to ban nuclear weapons before. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the peace prize in 2017, and in 1995 Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs won for their efforts to reduce and ban nuclear weapons. 诺贝尔委员会此前曾表彰过禁止核武器的努力。国际废除核武器运动于 2017 年荣获和平奖，1995 年约瑟夫·罗特布拉特和帕格沃什科学与世界事务会议因其在减少和禁止核武器方面所做的努力而获奖。This year's prize was awarded as war continues in Ukraine. 今年的奖项是在乌克兰战争仍在继续的情况下颁发的。 In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a change in his country's nuclear policy. The change appeared to make it easier for Russia to use nuclear weapons if attacked. 9月，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京宣布改变其国家的核政策。这一变化似乎使俄罗斯在受到攻击时更容易使用核武器。 Jørgen Watne Frydnes is chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. He said Friday the award was made as the ban “against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure." 约尔根·沃特纳·弗里德内斯 (Jørgen Watne Frydnes) 是挪威诺贝尔委员会主席。他周五表示，该奖项是在“禁止使用核武器的禁令面临压力”的情况下做出的。 EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on social media that the results of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still affect humanity. The United States bombed those two Japanese cities using atomic weapons to end World War II in 1945. 欧盟委员会主席乌苏拉·冯德莱恩在社交媒体上表示，广岛和长崎的后果仍然影响着人类。1945年，美国使用原子武器轰炸了这两个日本城市，结束了第二次世界大战。 Von der Layen said the work of Nihon Hidankyo is very important. “This Nobel Peace Prize sends a powerful message. We have the duty to remember. And an even greater duty to protect the next generations from the horrors of nuclear war," she said. 冯德莱恩表示，日本飞段协的工作非常重要。“诺贝尔和平奖传递了一个强有力的信息。我们有责任记住。保护下一代免遭核战争恐怖的更大责任，”她说。The United States military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. An estimated 70,000 people died. Three days earlier, U.S. forces had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths. The bombings resulted in Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, bringing World War II to an end. 1945 年 8 月 9 日，美国军方在长崎投下了一颗原子弹。估计有 7 万人死亡。三天前，美军在广岛投下一颗原子弹，造成约 14 万人死亡。这次爆炸导致日本于 1945 年 8 月 15 日投降，第二次世界大战结束。 Survivors of the atomic bombs and victims of nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific formed the group, Nihon Hidankyo, in 1956. At the time, the survivors were demanding government support for health problems. 原子弹的幸存者和太平洋核武器试验的受害者于 1956 年成立了“Nihon Hidankyo”组织。当时，幸存者要求政府支持解决健康问题。U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement that the survivors selflessly brought attention to the human cost of nuclear weapons. 联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯在一份声明中表示，幸存者无私地引起了人们对核武器造成的人员伤亡的关注。 "Nuclear weapons remain a clear and present danger to humanity, once again appearing in the daily rhetoric of international relations," he added. "It is time for world leaders to be as clear-eyed as the hibakusha, and see nuclear weapons for what they are: devices of death that offer no safety, protection, or security." Hibakusha is a Japanese word that refers to survivors of the atomic bombs or the radiation they caused. 他补充说：“核武器仍然对人类构成明显而现实的威胁，再次出现在国际关系的日常言论中。” “世界领导人现在应该像原爆幸存者一样保持清醒的头脑，认清核武器的本质：无法提供安全、保护或保障的死亡装置。” Hibakusha 是一个日语单词，指原子弹或其造成的辐射的幸存者。 Alfred Nobel wrote that the peace prize should be awarded for "the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." 阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔写道，和平奖应该颁发给“为国家之间的兄弟情谊、废除或裁减常备军以及举办和促进和平会议所做的最多或最好的工作”。Last year's prize went to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for her work supporting women's rights and democracy, and against punishment by death. 去年的奖项颁给了被监禁的伊朗活动家纳尔吉斯·穆罕默迪(Narges Mohammadi)，以表彰她支持妇女权利和民主以及反对死刑的工作。 In times of war, the Norwegian Nobel Committee sometimes chooses not to award a peace prize. The peace prize was not awarded 19 times since 1901, including during both world wars. The last time it was not awarded was in 1972. 在战争时期，挪威诺贝尔委员会有时会选择不颁发和平奖。自 1901 年以来，和平奖有 19 次未颁发，其中包括两次世界大战期间。上一次未获奖是在1972年。 The Nobel prizes are valued at about $1 million. The Nobel season ends Monday with the announcement of the winner of the economics prize. 诺贝尔奖的价值约为100万美元。诺贝尔奖季将于周一宣布经济学奖得主。

This month on Tibet Talks join us as we speak with John Ackerly, an eyewitness to the Oct. 1 1987 Lhasa uprising who went on to work at the International Campaign for Tibet for two decades.

Episode #267: Yèshua Moser-Puangsuwan discusses the profound impact of landmines in Myanmar with an equal mix of empathy and depth. He vividly describes how retreating soldiers have planted landmines indiscriminately in both military and civilian areas, leading to devastating consequences. His meticulous investigations reveal the Myanmar military's systematic and large-scale use of landmines, which he categorizes as war crimes due to their indiscriminate nature. Yet he is unsparing of resistance groups in his exposé as well. His extensive fieldwork and research have shown that landmines often harm civilians long after conflicts have ended. Yèshua's work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, involves meticulous documentation and advocacy. He emphasizes that landmines are a suicidal policy for any armed group, as they primarily end up harming their own communities. The challenge of attributing specific landmine incidents to either the military or ethnic groups complicates efforts to address the crisis, but Yèshua remains steadfast in his commitment to transparency and thorough documentation. A crucial aspect of Yèshua's resilience and clarity in addressing these issues comes from his dedicated vipassana meditation practice. He spends about a month each year in intensive meditation. He says that his practice helps him process the immense suffering he witnesses and experiences, allowing him to maintain a compassionate and balanced perspective.“The development of compassion by seeing deeply into your own experience, which is the human experience, leads to very deep compassion for the suffering of others. And for any real social change to occur, I think it has to come out of that space of acknowledging our shared human predicament of suffering and [developing] compassion for that,” he says. “If I didn't do the meditation practice, I probably would have burned out as an activist a long time ago! Also, I don't use anger as my motivation. Anger burns up its own supports, and a lot of activists run on anger, and they can only run for so long. Most of the people who were activists when I first became an activist, are no longer activists. They burned out long time ago. Compassion is what keeps me doing my activism.”

Many local, regional and international non-governmental organizations are organizing live and virtual actions in recognition of the International Day of Peace on Saturday, September 21 st and you can join in these efforts. From the “No Money for Nuclear Weapons” Week of Action headed by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons to the Warhead to Windmills Coalition (the Coalition), small and large actions will be taking place around the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ccnsupdate/support

In this episode, we continue our conversation about the implications of AUKUS (part I was broadcast in May) with Professor Marianne Hanson, who is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland and co-chair of The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Ray Acheson. Ray is Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). They provide analysis and advocacy at the United Nations and other international forums on matters of disarmament and demilitarization. Ray served on the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to ban nuclear weapons, and is also involved in organizing against autonomous weapons, the arms trade, war and militarism, the carceral system, and more. They are author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages (Haymarket Books, 2022). Ray is a regular columnist at CounterPunch+. Two of their most recent articles are “Solidarity to Stop AUKUS: Saying No to Nuclear Subs” and “Divest from Death: Resisting the Complexes of Empire.” More The post Ray Acheson appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

A symbol of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Anti-nuclear activists are often isolated from each other because we focus on what's most important to us – a local issue with radioactive waste dump, or uranium mining, or weapons, or a spike in health...

#TIBET:  Asking for peace.. Tencho Gyatso, president of the International Campaign for Tibet, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/20/lawmakers-support-dalai-lama/ 1966 Red Guard in Tibet

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Somalia asks peacekeepers to slow withdrawal, fears Islamist resurgenceSummary: Somalia's government has asked the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, which is a peacekeeping force of about 4,000 troops, to slow their withdrawal from the country, which is currently expected to be completed on December 31 of this year; around half that force is scheduled to be withdrawn by June, and the government is asking them to wait until September.Context: The ATMIS is an African Union force, is largely funded by the EU and US, and is in Somalia to help the government fend-off extremist militants in the region, especially those aligned with al Shabaab; the government is concerned their own forces won't be ready to fill in the gaps left by the ATMIS when they pull out, basically, and that could leave a power vacuum al Shabaab or another group could rush to fill; the head of the ATMIS has said there's no definitive timeline for concluding negotiations regarding the withdrawal, and that everyone involved has committed to achieving sustainable peace and security in the area.—ReutersOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Greece introduces the six-day work weekSummary: A new law that comes into effect in Greece on July 1 will allow business owners in some sectors to assign their employees hours up to six days a week, if they deem it necessary, adding a 40% supplement to the employee's daily wage if they are called in for a sixth day of labor.Context: This is a contentious piece of legislation, as while it could help boost the wages of some hospitality, agricultural, and retail workers in particular, it's generally not meant to increase the number of hours they work, but rather than number of total hours businesses are producing goods and services, and Greek workers already work more hours than those in any other European country, tallying an average of 41 hours per week (the pay they receive per hour is low by European standards, however); collective agreements have been frozen in the country for years, as the government has had to ask for three economic rescue packages, and has suffered through 15 years of recession and austerity measures, so this is generally being seen as another effort to shore things up at a moment of relative calm in that regard, making up for a lack of skilled workers by putting those who are available to work a little more, each week.—Deutsche WelleGunmen kill 15 police officers and several civilians in Russia's southern Dagestan regionSummary: Attacks by gunmen on two Orthodox churches, a synagogue, and a police post in two cities in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan on Sunday have left more than 15 people dead, according to local officials.Context: These attacks occurred near-simultaneously, and the country's Anti-Terrorist Committee has said the five confirmed gunmen have been killed, while the governor of the republic said six “bandits” were “liquidated”; no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, though there was a report that a local official was detained because of his son's possible involvement; another recent attack on a concert hall in Moscow, during which 139 people were killed, was initially (and without evidence) blamed on Ukraine, before the government admitted it was an Islamic State-linked group, and some reports suggest officials may try to link this new attack to Ukraine, as well, though there doesn't seem to be any evidence that's the case.—The Associated PressThe 2024 US election is looking to feature the most “double-hater” voters on record, with around 25% of surveyed Americans saying they don't particularly like either major candidate.—Axios$91.4 billionSum spent by the nine nuclear-armed countries on nuclear weapons in 2023, according to a new report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.That's about $3,000 per second, and is around $10.7 billion more than was spent in 2022.—VOA NewsTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Air Date - 20 May 2024Pluto in Aquarius is moving our experience of power from top-heavy to collective and community action. Kathy's guest is on the front lines of one way this is playing out with global implications.  Lawyer and law professor Seth Shelden is the General Counsel and United Nations liaison for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017). He is also an actor and co-founder of the theater company Ground Up Productions – and appeared with Kathy as Harpo in the first-ever revival of the Marx Brothers' first Broadway musical “I'll Say She Is.”To learn more about ICANW and its work: https://www.icanw.org/#SethShelden #ICANW #CelestialCompass #Astrology #KathyBiehlVisit the Celestial Compass Show Page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/celestial-compass/Connect with Kathy Biehl on her website https://empowermentunlimited.net/Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

In today's episode, Professor Marianne Hanson, co-chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, joins us to discuss the increasing US-Australian military ties and the militarisation of Australian society and the education sector. This is a two-part interview; the second part will be broadcast in August.Later, we headed down to the University of Melbourne Gaza Solidarity encampment, which was led by students from the UniMelb for Palestine group. Gender studies student Liz joined us to discuss the military-research ties at the University of Melbourne. The group was the second group in Australia to join the international student intifada, calling on their universities to disclose, divest from weapons manufacturing, and boycott Israeli institutions. 

John Everard, former British Ambassador to Belarus & Beatrice Fihn, former Excecutive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and director of Lex International

In this week's News Roundtable episode, Chris Wright is joined by:Founder and Director of the Israeli Disarmament Movement, and the Middle East Treaty Organization, Sharon Dolev. Sharon was also the Israeli representative of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate International Campaign for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at UCL, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, and author of 'The Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Disobedience and Resistance', Dr Julie Norman -  she is currently writing a book on the political history of Gaza. Geopolitical and financial crime researcher and consultant, Middle East Research Fellow at ITSS (The International Team for the Study of Security) Verona - an apolitical non-profit organisation focused on the study of International Security Omri Brinner. He specialises in Middle Eastern geopolitics and terror financing, namely Hamas' financing.The panel provide the historical context for the beginnings of the current crisis in the Middle East, looking beyond the 7th October attack back to the Israeli disengagement of 2005 and The Arab Peace Initiative of 2002. They paint the picture of the political misopportunities on the behalf of the Israeli and Palestinian leadership that led to the last six months' vast acceleration in violence. They discuss the relations between all the countries in the region including Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.  They move onto what's happening on the ground in Gaza, the military capabilities of Israel, analysing the reality of their proclaimed aim to eliminate Hamas. They turn their focus to Iran's attack on Israel over the weekend. Whether it was a mistake, and whether is was a true display of Iran's full military capabilities. Led by Sharon, they turn to the reality of Iran's nuclear capabilities, and set out a vision for how peace can truly be achieved in the whole region of the Middle East. Many thanks,WOTN Team'I Hit The Nail Right On The Head' by Billy Bremner. © Fridens liljor/Micke Finell.Rock around the clock productions AB.www.rockaroundtheclock.coThis episode was produced by Sound Sapiensoundsapien.comThis podcast is published by New Thinking: www.newthinking.com

At the start of the 21st century, several groups began efforts aiming not just to control nuclear weapons but to eliminate them altogether. The so-called Gang of Four, William Perry, George Shultz, Sam Nunn and Henry Kissinger, wrote numerous powerful op-eds, urging us to work towards a world without nuclear weapons. Bruce Blair turned from academics to founding Global Zero, dedicated to the same goal. And a coalition of activist groups formed the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN. In 2017, the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and ICAN was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

On 7 July 2017 – following a decade of advocacy by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and its partners – an overwhelming majority of the world's nations adopted a landmark global agreement to ban nuclear weapons. It entered into force on 22 January 2021. In this talk with Claire Yorke, expert on empathy and international security and convenor of the GCC's working group on International Relations, Daniel Hogsta - Interim Director of ICAN - will talk about how the treaty was won, the lessons he learned, and why peace is always possible.

The Accutron Show is delighted to talk to Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In October 2017, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize honor was given to ICAN "for its efforts to raise awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use and for pioneering efforts to achieve a treaty-based ban on nuclear weapons". Our hosts David and Indrani discuss with Beatrice the importance of knowledge, correct information and awareness about the subject of nuclear weapons, today ever so relevant. Listed by Bloomberg Media as one of 50 innovators who "changed the global landscape", Beatrice is one to listen to and to follow.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS 10:00 With everything going on in the world from a political point of view, the subject of nuclear weapons is relevant again. The movie "Oppenhemer" also contributed to make this issue one to discuss and learn more about. 14:00 All our problems right now are global. We have seen it with Covid, climate change, migration issues etc. No country can solve these issues on their own. But at the same time, as these problems become global, countries' leaders retract to become more nationalistic. 20:00 When we won the Nobel Prize, we were a small project and no one really paid attention to us. We went overnight to get a lot of attention. I remember signing the Laureate book as asked by the committee and seeing all the signatures of these incredible individuals like Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, Malala... My hand was shaking, I was so nervous!

Nuclear Bailout chart compiled by Environmental Working Group. This Week’s Featured Interview: Kevin Kamps Links from Interview: The Monthly ICAN UPDATE on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Alistair Burnett, Head of Media for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) reports the latest on the Treaty from ICAN headquarters in Geneva,...

Dr. Pavel Podvig, Senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva and Beatrice Fihn, Former Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and director of Lex International

This Week’s Featured Interview: A networking session, with trade booths, at the 2024 Nuclear Deterrence Summit in DC. Each of those tables costs $6,000 – $7,500 for 90 minutes of branding. Logo keychains, anyone? Links referenced in this interview: NEW FEATURE: The ICAN Update – From the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons The ICAN...

This week's show features stories from Going Underground, France 24, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr240126.mp3 (29:00) From GOING UNDERGROUND- Afshin speaks with Alistair Crooke, former advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief and founder of the Conflicts Forum. He talks about the growing anti-colonial sentiment across the global south over the war in Gaza, and the collapse of the West's narrative over Gaza and Ukraine. Also the US and European media omission of South Africa's evidence against Israel at the International Court of Justice. and the US and UK airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen. From FRANCE- International press reviews on the death toll in Gaza, farmers blocking roads in protest across Europe, and 1.4 million Germans protesting against far-right extremists who are pushing for the deportation of immigrants. According to the Iraq government US military strikes in Iraq and Yemen are undermining years of cooperation and creating a dangerous escalation of war in the region. From JAPAN- Russia says their military aircraft returning Ukrainian prisoners of war was shot down by Ukraine. An update on the January first earthquake in central Japan. The head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons urged Japan to participate in their meetings. The Taiwan President-elect met with US politicians, angering China. From CUBA- A United Nations expert warned about the danger of the UK crackdown on environmental activists. Available in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml PODCAST!!!- https://feed.podbean.com/outFarpress/feed.xml (160kb Highest Quality) Website Page- < http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml ¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts "Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?" -Elizabeth Warren Dan Roberts Shortwave Report- www.outfarpress.com YouthSpeaksOut!- www.youthspeaksout.net

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) new Executive Director, Melissa Parke (L) interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): So many numnutz to choose from! The Congressional “comprehensive” 160-page review of nuclear arms build-up that doesn’t mention “waste” even once, or Atoms4Food ?...

Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan is a thematic research coordinator for the Cluster Munition Monitor. In this episode, CEO of Legacies of War, Sera Koulabdara, sits down with Yeshua to discuss the return of cluster munitions to Southeast Asia, the impact that the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) has had around the world, and advice for advocates of all ages. Learn more on our website For further information, read the statement by the CMC: Cluster Munition Coalition Condemns Myanmar's Use of Cluster Munitions, 31 August 2023 Also see Cluster Munition Monitor: Briefing Paper on Cluster Munition Production and Use in Myanmar/Burma, August 2023

SynopsisIn 2001, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize, Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, commissioned American composer Steve Heitzeg to write a “Nobel Symphony.”In 1866, the Swedish engineer and scientist Alfred Nobel had invented dynamite. His patent helped him amass a great fortune, but, troubled by the destructive power and potential misuse of his invention, Nobel arranged that his estate would award annual prizes to those who made significant contributions to world peace.For his “Nobel Symphony,” Heitzeg chose to set quotes from a variety of Nobel laureates , including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King, Jr, and the Dalai Lama. Purely instrumental effects were also employed to convey something of their ideas and ideals. For example, in a section honoring a 1997 winner of the Nobel Prize, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Heitzeg scored an eerie march for a percussion ensemble consisting of hollow artificial limbs.The October 2, 2001 premiere of Steve Heitzeg's “Nobel Symphony” came shortly after the tragic events of September 11th. Understandably, its message had a special resonance for the performers and audiences present at its first performance.Music Played in Today's ProgramSteve Heitzeg (b. 1959) Nobel Symphony Gustavus Orchestra; Warren Friesen, cond. Gustavus Adolphus 60171-10022

Photo: 1917 USMC. No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Tibet: Mass detention clues.  Tenzin Norgay,  research analyst at The International Campaign for Tibet: @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill .  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/27/satellite-data-sheds-light-on-chinas-detention-facilities-in-tibet

Photo: 1910. No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Bestof2021: Tibet holds on.  Bhuchung Tsering @BuchungTsering, vice president of the International Campaign for Tibet (Originally posted December 21, 2021) https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-urged-to-spell-out-policy-on-tibetan-exiles/article37704554.ece

Rebecca McKean and I visited Alice Slater in her Upper East Side apartment. Since 1968, Ms. Slater has been an anti-war activist and since 1987 an anti-nuclear bomb protestor. As a young mother she helped organize Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign working to end the war in Viet Nam and then got a law degree. Alice is the United Nations NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and is on the Board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, the Global Council of Abolition 2000, and the Advisory Board of Nuclear Ban-US which supports the mission of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work in realizing the successful UN negotiations for a Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.Alan WinsonContact: barcrawlradio@gmail.comPJaBmaPB4qrkx9OFxGXS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, we discuss the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons' (ICAN) work to reduce nuclear stockpiles.

In this episode, Annelise Riles talks  Beatrice Fihn, the Former Executive Director of ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Under her leadership, ICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize and played a key role in the adoption of the landmark UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 

Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology (Cornell UP, 2022) examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonize" it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeology—forged in the crucible of imperialism—played as the "new nations" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War. As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new barrage's floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian archaeological work conducted under British occupation and influence. During that process, the campaign drew on the scientific racism that guided those earlier surveys, helping to consign Nubians themselves to state-led resettlement and modernization programs, even as UNESCO created a picturesque archaeological landscape fit for global media and tourist consumption. Flooded Pasts describes how colonial archaeological and anthropological practices—and particularly their archival and documentary manifestations—created an ancient Nubia severed from the region's population. As a result, the Nubian campaign not only became fundamental to the creation of UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage Convention but also exposed questions about the goals of archaeology and heritage and whether the colonial origins of these fields will ever be overcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

After nine years as Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Beatrice Fihn is stepping down. She talks with Ploughshares President Emma Belcher to reflect on her time leading the organization, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and her hopes for the future. On Early Warning, Lauren Billet sits down with Tong Zhao, senior fellow at Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. He discusses the leaked memo by a high-ranking US general predicting a war between the US and China by 2025 and how it furthers the narrative of the “China threat”.

 In this episode I speak with Georgette Bennett and Jerry White, co-authors of, "Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence." Georgette founded the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding to combat religious prejudice, Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees and co-founded Global Covenant Partners. Jerry leads the United Religions Initiative (uri.org) – the world's largest grassroots interfaith network promoting peace and shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Their through lines have been two lifetimes of bringing peace to the world. https://www.amazon.com/Religicide-Confronting-Roots-Anti-Religious-Violence/dp/1637581017/

After decades of our government denying healthcare to veterans they exposed to poisonous toxins, the PACT Act - which will eventually provide this hard-fought-for care - is now law. In this episode, learn exactly who qualifies for these new benefits and when, discover the shocking but little-known events that led to their poisonings, and find out what exactly happened during those 6 days when Senate Republicans delayed the passage of the PACT Act. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! View the shownotes on our website at https://congressionaldish.com/cd257-pact-act-health-care-for-poisoned-veterans Background Sources Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD249: A Few Good Laws CD205: Nuclear Waste Storage CD195: Yemen CD161: Veterans Choice Program CD124: The Costs of For-Profit War CD107: New Laws & Veterans' Health Care What the PACT Does and Doesn't Do “BREAKING NEWS! Huge Step Forward for Veterans: PACT Act 2022 Adds New Presumptive Conditions for Burn Pit, Agent Orange, and Radiation Exposure.” Aug 10, 2022. VA Claims Insider. Abraham Mahshie. Aug 10, 2022. “Biden Signs PACT Act to Expand VA Coverage for Toxic Exposure, but Some Are Left Out.” Air Force Magazine. Leo Shane III. Aug 4, 2022. “Now that PACT Act has passed, how soon will veterans see their benefits?” Military Times. “The PACT Act and your VA benefits.” U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 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May 11, 2020. “Report Claims Vietnam-Era Veterans Were Exposed to Agent Orange on Guam.” Military.com. “Clinic Issues Report Confirming Guam Veterans' Exposure to Dioxin Herbicides Like Agent Orange.” May 11, 2020. Yale Law School. “Agent Orange - Johnston Island Atoll, AFB.” Vietnam Security Police Association. Susan E. Davis. Apr 9, 1991. “The Battle Over Johnston Atoll.” The Washington Post. Enewetak Atoll Chris Shearer. Dec 28, 2020. “Remembering America's Forgotten Nuclear Cleanup Mission.” Vice. “The Radiological Cleanup of Enewetak Atoll. March 2018. U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Dave Philipps. Jan 28, 2017. “Troops Who Cleaned Up Radioactive Islands Can't Get Medical Care.” The New York Times. Palomares, Spain Nuclear Accident “New Federal Suit Filed Against VA on Behalf of Veterans Exposed to Radiation at Palomares Nuclear Cleanup.” November 1, 2021. Yale Law School Today. Dave Philipps. 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Biden Drone Bombing “'Cutting-edge technology used to eliminate Zawahiri.'” Aug 7, 2022. The Express Tribune. Jon Stewart People Staff. August 11, 2022. “Jon Stewart Shares His Emotional Reaction to Signing of Veterans Health Bill: 'I'm a Mess'” People. Republican F*ckery Ryan Cooper. Aug 3, 2022. “Republicans Just Exposed Their Greatest Weakness.” The American Prospect. Jordain Carney and Anthony Adragna. August 1, 2022. “Senate GOP backtracks after veterans bill firestorm.” Politico. “Roll Call 455 | H. J. Res. 114: To Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.” Oct 10, 2022. Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Foreign Wars No One Talks About Ellen Knickmeyer. Jun, 16 2022. “GAO: US Failed to Track if Arms Used Against Yemen Civilians.” Military.com. Joseph R. Biden. June 08, 2022. “Letter to the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate regarding the War Powers Report.” The White House. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim. Oct 16, 2017. “The Deaths of Four Elite U.S. Soldiers in Niger Show Why Trump Must Wake Up on Terrorism in Africa.” Newsweek. Overseas Contingency Operations Emily M. Morgenstern. Updated August 13, 2021. “Foreign Affairs Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) Funding: Background and Current Status” [IF10143 ]. Congressional Research Service. Todd Harrison. Jan 11, 2017. “The Enduring Dilemma of Overseas Contingency Operations Funding.” Center for Strategic and International Studies The Law S. 3373: Honoring our PACT Act Jen's Highlighted PDF of S. 3373 - Final Version Timeline of Votes and Changes June 16, 2022 Senate Roll Call Vote July 12, 2022. “Comparative Print: Bill to Bill Differences Comparing the base document BILLS-117hr3967eas.xml with BILLS-117S3373ES-RCP117-56.” U.S. House of Representatives. July 13, 2022 House Roll Call Vote July 27, 2022 Senate Roll Call Vote August 1, 2022. “Amendments Submitted and Proposed.” Congressional Record -- Senate. Audio Sources President Biden signs the PACT Act, expanding healthcare for veterans exposed to toxins August 10, 2022 PBS NewsHour on YouTube "Justice has been delivered": Biden says top al-Qaeda leader killed in drone strike August 1, 2022 Global News on YouTube “Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Claims | Veteran Owned Law Firm.” The Carlson Law Firm on YouTube Senator Toomey on State of the Union with Jake Tapper July 31, 2022 CNN Clips 7:00 Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Here's what you need to keep in mind, Jake. First of all, this is the oldest trick in Washington. People take a sympathetic group of Americans — it could be children with an illness, it could be victims of crime, it could be veterans who have been exposed to toxic chemicals — craft a bill to address their problems, and then sneak in something completely unrelated that they know could never pass on its own and dare Republicans to do anything about it because they know they'll unleash their allies in the media and maybe a pseudo-celebrity to make up false accusations to try to get us to just swallow what shouldn't be there. That's what's happening here, Jake. 10:40 Jake Tapper: So one of the questions that I think people have about what you're claiming is a budgetary gimmick is, the VA budgets will always remain subject to congressional oversight, they can't just spend this money any way they want. And from how I read this legislation, it says that this money has to be spent on health care for veterans who suffered exposure from toxic burned pits. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): This is why they do this sort of thing, Jake, because it gets very deep in the weeds and very confusing for people very quickly. It's not really about veteran spending. It's about what category of government bookkeeping, they put the veterans spending in. My change, the honest people acknowledge it will have no effect on the amount of money or the circumstances under which the money for veterans is being spent. But what I want to do is treat it, for government accounting purposes, the way we've always treated it for government accounting purposes. Because if we change it to the way that the Democrats want, it creates room in future budgets for $400 billion of totally unrelated, extraneous spending on other matters. Senator Toomey on Face the Nation with John Dickerson July 31, 2022 CBS News Clips 4:10 John Dickerson: 123 Republicans in the House voted for this, 34 Senate Republicans voted for it. Same bill. This week, the bill didn't change but the Republican votes did. Why? Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Now, the Republican votes didn't change on the substance of the bill. Republicans have said we want an amendment to change a provision that has nothing to do with veterans health care. The Republicans support this. The Democrats added a provision that has nothing to do with veterans health care, and it's designed to change government accounting rules so that they can have a $400 billion spending spree. 6:25 Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Honest Democrats evaluating this will tell you: if my amendment passes, not a dime change in spending on veterans programs. What changes is how the government accounts for it. John Dickerson: I understand, but the accounting change, as you know, is a result — the reason they put it in that other bucket is that it doesn't subject it to the normal triage of budgeting. And the argument is that the values at stake here are more important than leaving it to the normal cut and thrust of budgeting. Jon's Response To Ted Cruz's PACT Act Excuses July 29, 2022 The Problem with Jon Stewart on Youtube Clips 00:20 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): What the dispute is about is the Democrats played a budgetary trick, which is they took $400 billion in discretionary spending and they shifted it to a mandatory one. Jon Stewart: What Ted Cruz is describing is inaccurate, not true, bulls ** t. This is no trick. Everything in the government is either mandatory or discretionary spending depending on which bucket they feel like putting it in. The whole place is basically a f * ing shell game. And he's pretending that this is some new thing that the Democrats pulled out, stuck into the bill, and snuck it past one Ted Cruz. Now I'm not a big-city Harvard educated lawyer, but I can read. It's always been mandatory spending so that the government can't just cut off their funding at any point. No trick, no gimmick, [it's] been there the whole f**king time. 1:50 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): What's the Republicans made clear is, if we leave that spending as discretionary — don't play the budgetary trick — the bill will pass with 80 or 90 votes. Jon Stewart: I don't know how many other ways to say this, but there was no budgetary trick and it was always mandatory. And when they voted in the Senate on June 16, they actually got 84 votes. And you know who voted for that? Ted f*cking Cruz and every other one of those Republicans that switched their votes. There was no reason for them to switch the votes. The bill that passed the Senate 84 to 14 on June 16 has not had one word added to it by Democrats, or spending fairies, or anybody else. It's the same f*cking bill. ‘I Call Bullshit!' Jon on the PACT Act Being Blocked in the Senate July 28, 2022 The Problem with John Stewart on YouTube Clips 3:20 Jon Stewart: June 16, they passed the PACT Act 84 to 14. You don't even see those scores in the Senate anymore. They passed it. Every one of these individuals that has been fighting for years, standing on the shoulders of Vietnam veterans who have been fighting for years, standing on the shoulders of Persian Gulf War veterans fighting for years, Desert Storm veterans, to just get the health care and benefits that they earn from their service. And I don't care if they were fighting for our freedom. I don't care if they were fighting for the flag. I don't care if they were fighting because they wanted to get out of a drug treatment center, or it was jail or the army. I don't give a shit. They lived up to their oath. And yesterday, they spit on it in abject cruelty. These people thought they could finally breathe. You think their struggles end because the PACT Act passes? All it means is they don't have to decide between their cancer drugs and their house. Their struggle continues. From the crowd: This bill does a lot more than just give us health care. Jon Stewart: It gives them health care, gives them benefits, lets them live. From the crowd: Keeps veterans from going homeless keeps veterans from become an addict, keeps veterans from committing suicide. Jon Stewart: Senator Toomey is not going to hear that because he won't sit down with this man. Because he is a fucking coward. You hear me? A coward. 5:15 Jon Stewart: Pat Toomey stood up there — Patriot Pat Toomey, excuse me, I'm sorry. I want to give him his propers, I want to make sure that I give him his propers. Patriot Pat Toomey stood on the floor and said “this is a slush fund, they're gonna use $400 billion to spend on whatever they want.” That's nonsense. I call bullshit. This isn't a slush fund. You know, what's a slush fund? The OSO, the Overseas Contingency Operations Fund. $60 billion, $70 billion every year on top of $500 billion, $600 billion, $700 billion of a defense budget. That's a slush fund, unaccountable. No guardrails? Did Pat Toomey stand up and say, this is irresponsible. The guard rails? No, not one of them. Did they vote for it year after year after year? You don't support the troops. You support the war machine. 7:10 Jon Stewart: And now they say, “Well, this will get done. Maybe after we get back from our summer recess, maybe during the lame duck…” because they're on Senate time. Do you understand? You live around here. Senate time is ridiculous. These motherfuckers live to 200 — they're tortoises. They live forever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose all those things. Well, [sick veterans are] not on Senate time. They're on human time. Cancer time. 8:20 Jon Stewart: I honestly don't even know what to say anymore. But we need your help, because we're not leaving. These people cannot go away. I don't know if you know this, you know, obviously, I'm not a military expert. I didn't serve in the military, but from what I understand, you're not allowed to just leave your post when the mission isn't completed. Apparently you take an oath, you swear an oath, and you can't leave, that these folks can leave because they're on Senate time. Go ahead, go home, spend time with your families, because these people can't do it anymore. So they can't leave until this gets done. Senator Toomey PACT Act Amendment Floor Speech July 26, 2022 Senate Session Representative Mark Takano PACT Act Floor Speech July 13, 2022 House Session 3:38:20 **Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA): The way this country has dealt with toxic exposure has been piecemeal and inadequate. President Biden recognizes this, too. Shortly after he was sworn in, I met with the President about our shared priorities for veterans. Upon learning of my goal to pass comprehensive legislation to help toxic-exposed veterans, the President leaned over to me and talked about his son, Beau, who served near burn pits in Iraq and Kosovo. It might be hard for most Americans to imagine what a burn pit looks like because they are illegal in the United States. Picture walking next to and breathing fumes from a burning pit the size of a football field. This pit contained everything from household trash, plastics, and human waste to jet fuel and discarded equipment burning day and night. Beau Biden lived near these burn pits and breathed the fumes that emanated from them. President Biden believes that con- stant exposure to these burn pits, and the toxic fumes they emitted, led to Beau's cancer and early death. It was during that meeting when I knew I had a partner in President Biden. 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