Dear ICAN supporters
Welcome to your monthly e-bulletin from ICAN Australia, updating you on the progress we’re making in our worldwide campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and how you can help.

September/October:  ICAN welcomes a Federal parliamentary inquiry’s call for Australia to play a leading role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons through a global Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC). ICAN’s Bill Williams and James Norman, discuss the importance of US President Obama’s vision for a nuclear weapons free world.

ICAN act: things to do today

Spread the word about ICAN: email friends to sign up to the campaign
Thousands of people around the world have already joined the ICAN campaign online.
Why not email friends and ask them to join so they too can keep in touch about the latest campaign developments and activities for a nuclear weapons free world.  Send them the following link!  http://www.icanw.org/join-the-campaign

 Call for new ICAN partnerships
ICAN Australia now has over 50 partner organisations. We value all our partners who add their voices with ours, calling for a world free from nuclear weapons. Increased partnerships bring increased opportunities for collaborations, so if you have ideas of possible partnerships we should be looking at we’d love to hear from you! Call or email Teri mailto:teri@icanw.org or Dimity mailto:dimity@icanw.org

Sign the Appeal for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
Sign this Appeal from the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs calling for the negotiations of a nuclear weapons convention, to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons without delay.http://www.antiatom.org/sig/2010/E_index.html

Organise an event with an ICAN speaker
Help our work, to abolish nuclear weapons and promote peace, by organising one of our excellent speakers. Contact the ICAN office at info@icanw.org or call 03 9347 4795.

ICAN Give!

Please consider making a donation today so we can continue to campaign on this vital issue and intensify our efforts at this most crucial time.
Donate at www.icanw.org/donate

ICAN Australia Events

Melbourne: Saturday 25 October, ICAN FUNDRAISER ‘The Trial of Adolf Eichmann’
Award-winning playwright Neil Cole is committed to nuclear disarmament and will be speak at this special ICAN matinee of his play, performed by Eagles Nest Theatre. Depicting the 1961 Eichmann trial in Israel, the play explores why Eichmann would obey orders while others, albeit a minority, did not, and interweaves the stories of two Melbourne survivors.
2pm at Studio 1, Northcote Town Hall, High Street Northcote (Top of the hill)
Tickets: $30 ICAN raises $10 from each ticket booked at this link.
http://www.mapw.org.au/events/ican-benefit-trial-adolph-eichmann

Melbourne: Saturday 14 November, Campaign for International Co-operation and Disarmament Anniversary event
In November 2009 CICD will celebrate 50 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament. Come and celebrate this event at their anniversary function.

ICAN’s Associate Professor Tilman Ruff will talk about the progress being made by national and international campaigns to abolish nuclear weapons.

1.30pm to 4pm, Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 110 Grey St, East Melbourne Contact: jessicaamorrison@yahoo.com.au

ICAN News

Australian government urged to act on nuclear weapons threat
ICAN has welcomed calls by a federal parliamentary inquiry for Australia to play a leading role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons through a global Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC).
http://www.icanw.org/node/4881

Stars align in quest to rid the world of nukes
ICAN’s Bill Williams and James Norman, discussed the importance of Obama’s vision in an opinion piece publshed in The Age prior to the recent UN Security Council meeting chaired by US President Barack Obama.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/stars-align-in-quest-to-rid-the-world-of-nukes-20090923-g2m8.html

UN Security Council passes nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament resolution 1887
ICAN welcomed the unanimous adoption of the historic UN Security Council resolution 1887, which affirms the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons.

“This is the most significant commitment in many years by key nuclear powers to work towards a nuclear-weapon-free world,” said ICAN spokesperson Dr Bill Williams. “What we need now is a clearly defined road map to zero, which includes a time frame.”  http://www.icanw.org/node/4894

Australia and Japan make themselves targets by relying on a US shield
ICAN Chair, Associate Professor Tilman Ruff and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Campaign Director, John Loretz discuss both Australia and Japan’s reliance on US nuclear weapons through extended nuclear deterrence. This is euphemistically called the ''nuclear umbrella'' to give a misguided sense of protection. The reality is quite different.
http://www.icanw.org/node/4891

Australia should stop relying on nuclear deterrence
ICAN spokesperson Dr. Sue Wareham also writes on Australia’s subservience to nuclear deterrence - an out-dated and dangerous Cold War policy that lives on. http://www.icanw.org/node/4903

New supporter comment of the month

Vanessa Lane from Australia signed up to the campaign this month with this message: we want our children to grow up, not blow up. People all around the world are demonstrating the awareness, willingness and commitment to create a world that is governed in unity for a long-lasting peace. It is time that all world leaders caught up with the principle of unity in diversity and stopped the nuclear threat.

Nukes News

Nuclear headlines over the past month

Uranium policy a hypocrisy writes David Noonan
By David Noonan: As China celebrates the 60th anniversary of communist rule with a slickly orchestrated march down the Avenue of Eternal Peace to Tiananmen Square that featured new nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles, it is a fitting moment to question Australia's role as uranium supplier to the crouching tiger of our region.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/uranium-policy-a-hypocrisy-20091004-ght0.html

Iran test-fires missiles in 'act of defiance'
IRAN test-fired a missile capable of hitting Israel, on the eve of Yom Kippur - the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.  http://www.theage.com.au/world/iran-testfires-missiles-in-act-of-defiance-20090928-g973.html

NKorea got $2.2B under failed disarmament deals
Associated Press 5 October: North Korea has received the equivalent of about $2.2 billion under deals aimed at persuading the isolated nation to dismantle its nuclear facilities, a South Korean lawmaker said Monday, in what his office says is the first accounting of the cost of the failed strategy.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jIUMgKnfmtyg8T8wMAghB4V2lInAD9B4U40G0

It's not just about Iran
A WMD-free zone in the Middle East could be the answer to rising nuclear tensions in the region writes Hans Blix
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/07/iran-nuclear-weapons-wmd-enrichment

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October 2009