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By adding your name and a brief message, you help to demonstrate the amount of strong popular support for total nuclear disarmament. |
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Let your friends and family know about ICAN and get them involved. Download ICAN resources to distribute, and write a letter to world leaders or the editor a newspaper. |
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To be a good campaigner, you must be informed! This website includes a raft of information about nuclear weapons and disarmament. |
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Urge your government to support a Nuclear Weapons Convention! We offer a range of resources for effective lobbying. |
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Take action specifically relevant to your country. ICAN has local campaigns in various countries. If there isn't one in your country, why not start one up? We offer a variety of ideas for thinking globally and acting locally. Locate your local organisation. |
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There are plenty of opportunities to volunteer for us. Your contribution to the campaign will make a world of difference! Contact ICAN. |
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ICAN has very limited funds. Any donation, no matter how small, would greatly assist us in our efforts. |
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Boycott those who design, build, maintain, fuel and store nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. Tell them so and tell them why! These include Boeing, IBM, Toshiba, Westinghouse, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, General Electric, Siemens, Rosebank, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Rolls Royce and Silex Systems. |
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Involve your networks
Doctors and other health professionals will increase their collaboration with other key sectors, such as mayors, lawyers, parliamentarians and environmental and human rights advocates. Together we can build a truly global, coordinated strong, credible and united nuclear disarmament network. Your organisation can become an ICAN partner.
The horror of nuclear weapons can make us feel helpless. However the task of abolishing them is not only imperative but also achievable. History is littered with examples of well-entrenched and monumental challenges that have been overcome, such as slavery, South Africa’s apartheid and the stand off of the Cold War.
The goal of abolishing nuclear weapons is not naïve. It is in fact naïve to believe that these weapons can make us secure, or that they can be retained without ever being used again. There is nothing pre-ordained about our future.
Author Jonathan Schell reminds us that whether nuclear weapons are “merely a monstrous leftover from a frightful era that has ended” or “seeds of a new, more virulent era” is not a matter of prediction, but a matter of choice.
