TPNW First Anniversary Celebrations
Published on February, 05 2022
Click here to view slide show of photos of WILPF members across the country celebrating the first anniversary of the entry into force of the TPNW.
By Ellen Thomas
Disarm/End Wars Co-Chairs
February 2022
On the weekend of January 22, 2022, WILPF members gathered around the country to celebrate the first anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Below are photos that were sent to the Disarm Committee Chairs to post at WILPF SMART and add to the larger collection at Nuclear Ban Treaty Days of Action on Facebook.
If you have photos that we haven’t received yet, please send them, with descriptions of places and people, to disarmchair@wilpfus.org so we can add them!
And be sure to let people know they can send letters to their Senators and Representatives in support of the TPNW!
You can check on how many countries have ratified the TPNW at ICAN – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Asheville, North Carolina (photos by Scott Baker)
Ellen Thomas, who intended to participate, was quarantined with COVID and was unable to attend the Asheville event, but Scott Baker kindly sent photographs.
WLOS News wrote about the event, “Stop the nuclear madness -- that was the message behind a demonstration held in downtown Asheville Saturday, Jan. 22. The group Reject Raytheon AVL gathered at Pack Square Saturday afternoon calling on the U.S. to join the United Nations Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.”
Brunswick, Maine (from Martha Spiess)
Christine DeTroy of WILPF_ME and Rosalie Paul of PeaceWorks (and Raffi) launch the 2022 Maine #NuclearBan Banner Caravan from Brunswick, Maine. The banner travels to General Dynamics/Bath Iron Works in Bath next, to join an event sponsored by Smilin’ Trees Disarmament Farm, Maine Natural Guard, Global Network, ME VFP, and Pax Christi Maine. Over the next few months, the Caravan will visit landmark people, places, and things in Maine that have advocated for this Milestone Treaty.
Burlington, Vermont (from Robin Lloyd)
Four members tabled and leafleted in the atrium of the Davis Center at the University of Vermont Friday noon. Many students came and went, and a few stopped and talked and signed up to help lobby our state house of representatives to make VT free of nuclear weapons delivery systems. (The resolution has passed in the Senate, so we have only one to go!). Pictured is Robin Lloyd, Jane Hendley, and John Reuwer. Photographer: Jean Hopkins.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, California (from Judy Adams)
Judy Adams helped coordinate branch involvement and did publicity for the Livermore event, which Marylia Kelley organized. Two WILPFers from Berkeley/East Bay (Ed Thacker, for Sandy, and Anne Henny), and from Palo Alto (Judy Adams, Cherrill Spencer, Chuck Jagoda, and a new "transfer" member moved to our area, Lotus Yee Fong). All photos are from Pro Bono volunteer Misha DeGraw and can be viewed here.
Madison, Wisconsin (from Pamela Richard)
Church bells ring in a New era of No Nuclear Weapons in Madison, WI, on Jan 22, 2022. Abolish Nuclear Weapons and No F-35 Nuclear weapons bombers in WI or anywhere! Pamela Richard sent a short video clip of the church with bells ringing. You can view the video here.
Palo Alto, California (from Cherrill Spencer)
Peninsula/Palo Alto branch of WILPF held its demo celebrating the first anniversary of the EIF of the TPNW at the busy corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero Roads in Palo Alto from noon to 1 p.m. There were five people that held signs and banners silently and showed them to the thousands of cars that passed through the intersection during that hour, plus around 100 pedestrians.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (from Tina Shelton)
Tina Shelton and others show their banners and signs to abolish nuclear weapons. You can view more pictures here.
San Francisco, California (from Betty Traynor)
Barbara Nielsen, Deetje Boler, and Betty Traynor, three members of WILPF San Francisco, went to Japantown to put up some signs (see holding in photo, put together by Betty Traynor) and gave out small business cards on TPNW (made by Barbara Nielsen) to people there for about an hour.
