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Great News! NYC a “Nuclear-Free” Zone!

BFP Team
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Call To Action, Nuclear Zero, Peace Activism

On December 9, 2021, the NYC City Council voted overwhelmingly (41 to 5) in favor of important Nuclear Disarmament legislation: Int. 1621 and Res 976. This legislation calls for the NYC pension funds to be divested from any exposure to nuclear weapons production and maintenance, reaffirms New York City as a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, and signs NYC on to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Cities Appeal, calling on the United States to support and join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).  It also creates a nuclear disarmament and nuclear weapons-free zone advisory committee to support the city in maintaining its commitment to being a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone. 

This is great news! Thanks to the activists from NYCAN (New York Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons), Peace Action, and others who worked to make this happen.

Pease thank your Councilmember. If you’re not sure represents you in the City Council, find them HERE.

Photo credit: Anthony Donovan

Today, New York City joined hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world that have called on their national governments to join the TPNW. This commitment is especially meaningful in light of NYC’s legacy as the city where nuclear weapons began, and in light of the ongoing impact that the Manhattan Project and the nuclear weapons industry continues to have on communities throughout NYC’s boroughs.

But this powerful package of legislation couples the ICAN Cities Appeal with even more consequential legal obligations for New York, for example:

  • Resolution 976 calls upon the NYC Comptroller to instruct the pension funds of public employees to divest from companies involved in the production and maintenance of nuclear weapons. This stands to impact approximately $475 million of the $266.7 billion fund.
  • Resolution 976 further reaffirms NYC as a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone, supporting an earlier City Council resolution that prohibited the production, transport, storage, placement, and deployment of nuclear weapons within NYC.
  • Introduction 1621 establishes an advisory committee to educate the public and recommend policy on issues relating to nuclear disarmament. READ MORE
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RES 423 toMOVE THE MONEYfromWAR to our COMMUNITIES **** now has ELEVEN sponsors ****and more every day! See below to see how we can win more Council Members to step up and sponsor RES 423.


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Have you called your Council Member, urging them sponsor RES 423 to …Move The Money from War to Our Communities?Ten sponsors already and growing day by day.YOUR CALL COUNTS! Let’s Pass it!★ Watch a constituent call his Councilmember.Then call yours! Find your CM here: bit.ly/find.rep#movethemoneynyc


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Let’s Pass It!Find your Council Member here: bit.ly/find-cmAsk them to sponsor RES 423 (if they already have, well THANK’EM!).Put our city ON THE RECORD toMove The MoneyFrom War To Our Communities!★ THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER LINCOLN RESTLER ★ We appreciate your sponsorship of City Council RES 423 that now has TEN sponsors. We’re on a roll – let’s go for more sponsors – You can help!★ Find your Council Member here: bit.ly/find-cm★ If they’re already a sponsor – thank them and ask them to ask their colleagues to sponsor 423.★ If they are not yet a sponsor – call or write them and remind them that our city faces a financial cliff. Also, tell them that THERE IS MONEY – but Congress shovels our taxes into war spending by funding huge Pentagon budgets, year after year … at the expense of our cities, its residents, and their constituents. ASK THEM TO SPONSOR RES 423 which puts our city on official record urging substantial cuts to the Pentagon budget so that the urgent needs of our people can be funded and met. LET’S PASS IT!CURRENT SPONSORS: • Carlina Rivera – Primary SponsorCo-Sponsors-• Alexa Avilés • Charles Barron • Carmen N. De La Rosa • Amanda Farías• Shahana K. Hanif • Crystal Hudson• Kristin Richardson Jordan • Farah N. Louis • Lincoln Restler#movethemoneynycNY City Council Council Member Lincoln Restler NY City Council Brad LanderNYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams Councilmember Chi Ossé Jumaane D. Williams Eric Dinowitz City Council Member Keith Powers Council Member Sandra Ung Council Member Francisco Moya Jumaane D. Williams Brad LanderTiffany Cabán Council Member Sandy Nurse


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We’re on a roll!Ten Councilmembers have now signed on as sponsors of RES 423 to MOVE THE MONEY from WAR to OUR COMMUNITIES!** Call your Councilmember today – * Thank them if they’ve already signed.or * Ask them to sponsor if they haven’t yet done so.Find your CM here: bit.ly/find-rep.★ THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER CRYSTAL HUDSON ★ We appreciate your sponsorship of City Council RES 423 that now has TEN sponsors. We’re on a roll – let’s go for more sponsors – You can help!★ Find your Council Member here: bit.ly/find-cm★ If they’re already a sponsor – thank them and ask them to ask their colleagues to sponsor 423.★ If they are not yet a sponsor – call or write them and remind them that our city faces a financial cliff. Also, tell them that THERE IS MONEY – but Congress shovels our taxes into war spending by funding huge Pentagon budgets, year after year … at the expense of our cities, its residents, and their constituents. ASK THEM TO SPONSOR RES 423 which puts our city on official record urging substantial cuts to the Pentagon budget so that the urgent needs of our people can be funded and met. LET’S PASS IT!CURRENT SPONSORS: • Carlina Rivera – Primary SponsorCo-Sponsors-• Alexa Avilés • Charles Barron • Carmen N. De La Rosa • Amanda Farías• Shahana K. Hanif • Crystal Hudson• Kristin Richardson Jordan • Farah N. Louis • Lincoln Restler#movethemoneynycCouncil Member Crystal HudsonNY City Council NYC Council Speaker Adrienne AdamsBrad Lander Jumaane D. WilliamsCouncilmember Chi Ossé


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THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER CHARLES BARRONfor sponsoring RES 423 to MOVE THE MONEYfrom WAR to OUR COMMUNITIES.★ THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER CHARLES BARRON! ★ City Council RES 423 now has TEN sponsors. We’re on a roll – let’s go for more sponsors – You can help!★ Find your Council Member here: bit.ly/find-cm★ If they’re already a sponsor – thank them and ask them to ask their colleagues to sponsor 423.★ If they are not yet a sponsor – call or write them and remind them that our city faces a financial cliff. Also, tell them that THERE IS MONEY – but Congress shovels our taxes into war spending by funding huge Pentagon budgets, year after year … at the expense of our cities, its residents, and their constituents. ASK THEM TO SPONSOR RES 423 which puts our city on official record urging substantial cuts to the Pentagon budget so that the urgent needs of our people can be funded and met. LET’S PASS IT!CURRENT SPONSORS: • Carlina Rivera – Primary SponsorCo-Sponsors-• Alexa Avilés • Charles Barron • Carmen N. De La Rosa • Amanda Farías• Shahana K. Hanif • Crystal Hudson• Kristin Richardson Jordan • Farah N. Louis • Lincoln Restler#movethemoneynycCM Charles BarronNY City Council NYC Council Speaker Adrienne AdamsBrad Lander Jumaane D. Williams Councilmember Chi Ossé


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