Building on the success of last year’s efforts, United for Peace and Justice has declared August 2009 “Nuclear-Free Future Month.” A joint statement in April by Presidents Obama and Medvedev calling for a “nuclear free world” and pledging to move rapidly to make deep cuts in their respective arsenals of 25,000 nuclear warheads, offer new openings for activists to press for negotiations on a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. And the welcome launch in January by Germany of an International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) with 75 participating nations, will facilitate a more rapid phase out of nuclear power, thus halting the major source of nuclear proliferation to other nations--metastasizing nuclear reactors, every one of which is a potential bomb factory.
Through popular education, video screenings, art exhibits, protests, vigils and more, we hope to put nuclear issues on the political agenda of the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections and to build stronger ties between the nuclear abolition, anti-war, and climate justice movements. Please join us!
The purpose of Nuclear-Free Future Month is to take action and raise awareness about the ever-increasing threat from nuclear weapons and the environmental and proliferation dangers posed by the global nuclear power “renaissance.” 
