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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.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Khoi Nguyen is the Community Engagement and Legal Education Officer at Q+Law, a specialist LGBTIQA+ peer-led legal service operating in Victoria in partnership with Fitzroy Legal and Queerspace. Q+Law provides a free state-wide access to legal assistance over the phone, online or in person for anyone who identifies as part of LGBTIQA+ communities. Today Khoi joined us to speak about an interactive workshop happening this Saturday, where queer folks can learn about their rights and obligations when interacting with police at protests.// We hear an excerpt from 3CR's Radioactive Show where Crunch spoke with Ray Acheson, who's a writer, activist, director of Reaching Critical Will and a steering member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Ray discussed the strength of First Nations organising against all things nuclear, police repression, organising against cop cities, mutual aid and solidarity. You can listen to the full interview that aired on Saturday 13th of April, and catch the Radioactive Show on 3CR Saturdays 10-10:30AM.// Deena is a Masters of Public Health student and member of the grassroots coalition Unimelb for Palestine. Today, Deena spoke to us about the Gaza Solidarity Encampment starting today, Thursday 25th of April at 10AM. The encampment is the latest organising effort by Unimelb for Palestine, again calling on the university to cut all ties with weapons manufacturers. Drawing on inspiration from student protests at Columbia University in the US, the action states ''Disclose, Divest, We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Rest!''// Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the original Aboriginal Tent Embassy's founding four, and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic joins us to discuss the importance of commemorating the Frontier Wars on this date of colonial military remembrance. The March on ANZAC, which has been held on April 25th in Canberra for over a decade now, highlights the vital resistance of Aboriginal people who lost their lives in the Frontier Wars fighting against colonial invasion.//Bill Abrahams is a primary school teacher and member of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine VIC. Today Bill discussed the coalition's recent resource Teaching for Palestine: Challenging Anzac Day, australia's historical and ongoing repression of Palestinians, how official remembrance obscures the realities of war and promotes imperialism and militarisation, and the role of teachers and school staff in dismantling these myths.//

An in studio conversation with Ray Acheson, a writer and activist, visiting from their current home of New York. Ray is the director of Reaching Critical Will, a member of the ICAN, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons steering committee, which is the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. We discuss the strength of First Nations' organising on all things nuclear in 'Australia', the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, AUKUS, police repressiong, organisin against 'cop cities' in the US, and the hope of mutual aid and solidarity. They are the author of ‘Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy' published in 2021 and ‘Abolishing State Violence: a world beyond bombs, borders and cages'. Ray has returned to so called ‘Australia' to attend the 2024 Australian Nuclear Free Alliance conference, as well as reconnect with struggles and community here.ANFAReaching Critical WillICAN AustraliaAbolishing State Violence by Ray Acheson Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Ray AchesonArticle about Australia-Israel FOI request mentioned in interview

The abolition of all forms of state violence is an imperative we must achieve. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages by Ray Acheson, which offers a sharp analysis of the connections that exist between policing, prisons, surveillance, borders, war, nuclear weapons, and capitalism, as well as the organizing activism for their abolition, and what we learn about these many forms of state violence and what we can do to support the ongoing movements for their abolition and for social justice. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Website, Leave us a voice message, Merch store

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We hear a replay from Wednesday Brekky where Jean and Dale from 3CR's DOGS programme discuss how affordability of uniforms and school supplies impacts children as they return to school in 2023. This excerpt first aired on 28 January and you can listen to the full discussion on 3CR's DOGS programme. The Australian Council for the Defence of Government Schools (DOGS) looks at public education and separation of church and state.// It's been almost 32 years since the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) were handed down, but the current prison healthcare system is still failing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and contributing to deaths in custody. Last week,VALS, the Victorian Legal Service, brought together a panel of experts discussing the need for a reformed prison healthcare system so that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are incarcerated can access culturally-safe, trauma-informed healthcare that is of equal adequacy to what they would receive in the community. The panel featured Nerita Waight, Sarah Schwartz and Megan Williams. Megan and Sarah both gave evidence in the coronial inquest into the death of Veronica Nelson who died in custody in 2020. The inquest found among other failures of care that Veronica's treatment was “cruel” and “inhumane”, and her death was preventable. In this excerpt, Wiradjuri healthcare advocate Megan Williams speaks about what cultural safety means in the context of Prison Health care. Listen back to the full recording here.// Crunch and Michaela from 3CR's Radioactive Show recently caught up with Ray Acheson from Reaching Critical Will to discuss strategies to counter militarism. RCW are an organisation working towards disarmament and arms control - they are the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. You can tune into the Radioactive Show on 3CR Saturdays from 10AM.// Janelle, from Queensland-based peer sex worker organisation Respect Inc, joined us to discuss the campaign to decriminalise sex work in the state and to report on the Queensland Law Reform Commission's ongoing review of the sex industry. Sex workers in the state have long raised concerns about the circuitous legislation that currently regulates the industry, as well as its enforcement by the Queensland Police Force. Find out more about the campaign by heading to @DecrimQLD on Instagram.//  Songs// Lupa - King Stingray// Get Inspired - Genesis Owusu// Don't Really Care - Djanaba// Fly - Birdz ft. Ngaiire// Closure - RONA. ft Helena//

This week we had a chat with activist and author Ray Acheson about war, bombs, patriarchy, artificial intelligence & abolition.

A conversation with Ray Acheson in the 3CR studios, visiting from New York. We discuss cultures of militarism, patriarchy and militarism, nuclear submarines and AUKUS, and how to build an alternative to the 'inevitability' argument around war between the US and China. Ray is an organiser with Reaching Critical Will, author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy (2021) and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders and Cages (2022). Ray has written extensively on disarmament issues through a feminist and abolitionist lens.   Reaching Critical WillInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsJeff Sparrow, The Aukus deal is a crime against the world's climate future. It didn't have to be like this, Guardian Australia, 20 March 2023Stop cop city 

Join Ray Acheson and David Vine for a conversation about a shared abolitionist framework to address structures of state violence. This is a book launch event for Ray Acheson's "Abolishing State Violence A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages," available now from Haymarket Books. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1883-abolishing-state-violence Connecting movements for social justice with ideas for how activists can support and build on this analysis and strategy, Ray Acheson will share their thoughts on the many mutually supportive abolition movements, each enhanced by a shared understanding of the relationship between structures of violence and a shared framework for challenging them on the basis of their roots in patriarchy, racism, militarism, settler colonialism, and capitalism. Speakers: Ray Acheson is director of disarmament at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and a steering group member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for its work to highlight the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons and work with governments to develop the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Acheson is the author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy. David Vine is Professor of political anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. David is the author of a trilogy of books about war and peace including the recently released, The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State (University of California Press, 2020). David is also the author of Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World and Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military on Diego Garcia. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/hshsLAT9WzM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Nuclear Weapons & the UN Treaty to Ban Them: Ray Acheson This Week’s Featured Interview: Two years ago, October 24th 2020, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was ratified by the 50th member nation and thus qualified for implementation as international law. To mark this anniversary, we're revisiting an interview we...

Featuring Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor organization allied with the IWW? Weinrib traces the rise of the modern civil liberties movement, and modern constitutional liberalism more broadly, from World War I through the New Deal. She explains how the ACLU went from defending free speech as a means to revolutionary ends to a liberal position exalting free speech as an end unto itself—including the anti-union speech of bosses and the political speech of corporations.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigCheck out Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America by Joshua Frank haymarketbooks.org/books/1940-atomic-daysAbolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages by Ray Acheson haymarketbooks.org/books/1883-abolishing-state-violence Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Featuring Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor organization allied with the IWW? Weinrib traces the rise of the modern civil liberties movement, and modern constitutional liberalism more broadly, from World War I through the New Deal. She explains how the ACLU went from defending free speech as a means to revolutionary ends to a liberal position exalting free speech as an end unto itself—including the anti-union speech of bosses and the political speech of corporations. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America by Joshua Frank haymarketbooks.org/books/1940-atomic-days Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages by Ray Acheson haymarketbooks.org/books/1883-abolishing-state-violence

On the Morning You Wake Part 2: Press the Button re-visits the new virtual reality experience exploring Hawai'i's 2018 false nuclear alarm. This time, Tom Collina talks with Cynthia Lazaroff, founder and director of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy, and Ray Acheson, director of Disarmament at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. On Early Warning, Alex Hall sits down with Colleen Moore, advocacy director at Women Cross DMZ. She discusses the recent developments on the Korean peninsula, which includes the resumption of South Korean drills and the Biden Administration's decision to extend Trump's ban prohibiting US passport holders from entering North Korea for one year.

This time Eric welcomes to the show author and activist Ray Acheson to discuss their brand new book "Abolishing State Violence: A World Without Bombs, Borders, and Cages" (Haymarket, 2022). Eric and Ray explore the nature of abolitionism, its historic roots, and the ways in which it is a framework emerging from the oppressed and marginalized. Ray discusses their anti-nuclear work and how the Left should respond to the growing calls for nuclear energy to tackle the climate crisis. The conversation also touches on the psychology of activism and the importance of seeing past perceived failures toward the larger goal. Ray is an incredible activist and organizer, and we are thankful that they chose to come to CounterPunch and discuss it all with us! More The post Ray Acheson appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

A discussion from one of ICAN's Nuclear Ban hubs, an event featuring experts from on the ground at the landmark first meeting of states parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.This one was hosted by Womens International League for peace and freedom or WILPF, in Meanjin / Brisbane on June 22nd. The event was facilitated by ICAN Australia Director Gem Romuld, Campaigner Jemila Rushton and ICAN Founder Dimity Hawkins, who spoke with Ray Acheson, the director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Rico Ishii Robertson, a third generation hibakusha, or nuclear bomb survivor, from Peace Boat Japan.A recording of the full event can be watched here: https://youtu.be/wwGcERbyuKY

On today's show, we share the 4th session of ICAN's Ban School. This time featuring Ray Acheson, Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of Women's International League for peace and freedom (or WILPF) and Scott Ludlum, former Greeen senator. They will both be speaking about their recently published books - Ray's book is called "Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy", and Scott's book is called "Full Circle".You can watch the full Ban School session here: https://youtu.be/LfKMvm5j-cQ

Ray Acheson discusses their book, Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy, with guest host Alex Hall. On Early Warning: Matt Korda from Federation Of American Scientists provides context on recent satellite imagery findings of a second nuclear silo field in China; and Princeton Ph.D. student Ryan Dukeman shares new ideas about the politics of data and artificial intelligence. And Dr. Doreen Horschig answers a listener's question about nuclear shell games.  

Internationally-known activists will join PeaceWorks-Kansas City board members Kristin Scheer and Ann Suellentrop to discuss this historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which activists believe is the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons. Ray Acheson is the director of the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women’s International League for Peace and […] The post Entry Into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons appeared first on KKFI.

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban – The inside scoop from Ray Acheson,Director of Reaching Critical Will, Women’s International League for Peace and FreedomShe was in ALL the rooms where it happened! This Week’s Featured Interview: UN Nuclear Weapons Ban:  Ray Acheson is Director of the Disarmament Programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom...

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban: who/how/why did it happen? Ray Acheson of Women's International League for Peace & Freedom was in the rooms where it happened and tells the tale! PLUS: Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter rebuts “Science” Friday's Ira Flatow and his most recent pro-nuclear shill job on NPR.

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban: who/how/why did it happen? Ray Acheson of Women's International League for Peace & Freedom was in the rooms where it happened and tells the tale! PLUS: Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter rebuts “Science” Friday’s Ira Flatow and his most recent pro-nuclear shill job on NPR.

UN Nuclear Weapons Ban: who/how/why did it happen? Ray Acheson of Women's International League for Peace & Freedom was in the rooms where it happened and tells the tale! PLUS: Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter rebuts “Science” Friday’s Ira Flatow and his most recent pro-nuclear shill job on NPR.

Ray Acheson is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the Disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. In the show we dive into her recent article ‘COVID-19: Divest, Demilitarise and Disarm.’ We explore how now is the time to expose the grave injustice of military spending, while health care systems around the world are ill-equipped to cope with a pandemic, military spending continues unabated. Yet a ‘culture of militarism’ is embedded in our political and economic systems, Ray highlights Amazon as an example of a corporation eyeing ‘defence’ dollars.  Read 'COVID-19: Divest, Demilitarise and Disarm' by Ray Acheson Explore the work of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

GCSP insights: This man ran a secret blog while hiding from ISIS and the question do nuclear weapons really keep us safe? Omar Mohammed might be the bravest historian alive today. For more than two years, Mohammed lived in his home city of Mosul, Iraq, secretly documenting the occupation by Islamic State militants. However, rather than just collecting intelligence, Mohammed risked his life to write an anonymous online blog, Mosul Eye, that became one of the main sources of information for the outside world about life inside the city, including for foreign journalists. Ray Acheson is the Director of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s (WILPF) Disarmament Programme. Speaking with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Acheson said the notion of nuclear deterrence is outdated and dangerous.

This episode of the en(gender)ed podcast was taped live at the NYU College of Global Public Health in association with the Community Preparedness and Response Group at NYU and is the first in our series of international feminism. Seth Shelden is an attorney, and law professor, an activist, and a performer. He also currently is the United Nations Liaison for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, and Seth was in Oslo to be part of the momentous honor. ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize for its work in drawing attention to the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and for advancing a new treaty prohibiting such weapons. Seth is here with us today to speak about his journey as a scholar and activist, his work as ICAN's United Nations Liaison, and what we can do to help build an awareness and join the movement to promote nuclear disarmament in the United States. We will also ask about his observations on gender justice in the humanitarian sector. During our interview, Seth and I referenced the following resources: John Hershey's book, Hiroshima which is available online for free via the New Yorker Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's March for our Lives David Coleman of the College Board and his opinion that computer science and the US Constitution are two recommended languages for college and life success Seth's Fulbright scholarship work and the story of the 1,000 paper cranes The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons The United States withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty The culture of sexual misconduct in the international aid community Feminist voices in the gender and disarmament community: Carol Cohn, Felicity Hill, Ray Acheson, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom How to support the Nuclear Ban   Following our interview, there is a bonus segment of Q&A with audience participants. --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

It's almost 25 years since the landmark women's conference held in Beijing in 1995. What did women achieve at Beijing and what are some of the key new and unfinished feminist agendas? In this podcast Joanne Sandler, the former Deputy Director of Unifem and current senior associate G@W starts us off by tracing some of the intentions, magic and results from Beijing. Then we discuss the new and unfinished agendas in the area of LGBTQ rights, economic inequality and disarmament and human security with  Menaka Guruswamy, from Columbia University who spearheaded the historic LGBT rights victory in the Indian Supreme court,  Vasuki Nesiah from New York University who specializes in issues of public international law, human rights and economic justice; and Ray Acheson, who heads the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Hear Tim Wright, from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Ray Acheson, of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and ICAN, speaking to the Radioactive Exposure Tour 2018. Features stories and analysis of the recent International Treaty ban on nuclear weapons and ICAN’s subsequent winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. Recording were taken on unceded Adnyamathanha Country in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

Did you know that 122 countries have adopted a treaty to ban nuclear weapons? The organization behind this movement is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In this spirited and informative discussion, Ray Acheson and Beatrice Fihn of ICAN take apart the nuclear deterrence myth, expecially in the case of North Korea, and the belief that nukes are "special" and therefore exempt from the ban on targeting civilians.

Did you know that 122 countries have adopted a treaty to ban nuclear weapons? The organization behind this movement is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In this spirited and informative discussion, Ray Acheson and Beatrice Fihn of ICAN take apart the nuclear deterrence myth, expecially in the case of North Korea, and the belief that nukes are "special" and therefore exempt from the ban on targeting civilians.

Fully autonomous weapons, or killer robots, are currently under development, representing a new level of morally repugnant violence.Ray Acheson is the director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She tells us why these weapons are highly controversial, after outlining the current inspiring momentum for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.Recent breakthroughs in disarmament diplomacy are likely to see negotiations begin in 2017 on a new legal instrument to finally outlaw the nuclear bomb.Image: finding a dumpster for the bomb in Melbourne, with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

We delve a little deeper into the world of disarmament diplomacy, examining landmark United Nations talks that began in Geneva, Switzerland, in February. The new working group is gathering for three sessions this year to discuss how to take forward disarmament negotiations, and a ban treaty is front and centre. This is Part 1 in a two-part report, featuring an interview with Ray Acheson from Reaching Critical Will. Produced by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.