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25 January 2005 Mexico to Host Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Conference
Representatives from more than 100 member nations of the world’s four nuclear weapon-free zones have been invited to attend a conference set to be held April 26-28 in Mexico City, the Mexican Foreign Ministry announced yesterday (see GSN, July 9, 2004).
29 January 2005 Preparations for the NPT Review Conference (May 2005)
In preparation for the upcoming Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in May 2005, we offer the following background briefing "Nuclear Weapons Free Zones: The Untold Success Story of Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation", in cooperation with BASIC (British American Security Information Service) and ORG (the Oxford Research Group). We are delighted that in this same week, the Mexican Government announced their hosting of a meeting of all 100+ countries part of Nuclear Weapons Free Zones. This historic meeting will be held in Mexico City from April 26-28, just prior to the NPT Review Conference (please see the following news item).
23 February 2005 Honoring the life and mourning the death of Satomi Oba
Our team lost our beloved Hiroshima Representative, Satomi Oba, in late February. We honor her as an International Treasure and mourn her death with family and friends around the world.
19 March 2005 Appeal to Bring Pacific Woman Leader to NPT in May
Bring Motarilavoa Hilda Lini from Vanuatu to New York for the NPT Review Conference. Help Bring a Pacific Woman who Made Nuclear History to the UN in May.
In this 60th anniversary year of the nuclear age, we honor all women leaders working in sung and unsung ways to bring an end to the nuclear dangers we all face.
We are writing to ask your help to bring one of those leaders, Motarilavoa Hilda Lini of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu, to the United Nations in May.
17 April 2005
Ventura County City Councils Consider Peace Resolutions
Citizens are invited to make public comment supporting Mayors for Peace/Abolition Now! and encouraging adoption of the proposed resolutions calling for the United States to fulfill its treaty obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Read More...
and
Local Delegation Carries Message of Peace, OpEd in the Ventura County Star
On May 1, when thousands of citizens and hundreds of mayors from around the world gather in New York's Central Park to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons, Ventura County will be well-represented.
A Ventura County delegation will carry the message of concerned citizens and local elected officials that in a world dominated by the war on terror, nuclear weapons do not provide for anyone's security, and it's time to get rid of them. Read More...
22 April 2005 World Civil Society Leaders Gather in Mexico Next Week to Promote a Nuclear Weapons Free World
Parliamentarians, mayors, disarmament experts and other members of civil society will be gathering in Mexico from April 26-28 to support an initiative of the Mexican government to bring together the world’s nuclear weapon free zones as a step towards preventing nuclear proliferation and achieving global nuclear disarmament.
23 April 2005 Nuclear Weapons Free Zones Conference in Mexico
An Atomic Mirror delegation will be present at the historic Conference
of
States Parties to Nuclear Weapons Free Zones that will meet in Mexico City
from April 26-28.
Our Briefing Paper on "Nuclear Weapons Free Zones: The Untold Success Story of Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation" is available from the Preparations for the NPT Review Conference main page in English and Spanish.
27 April 2005 Speech to the Civil Society Forum at the Nuclear Weapons Free Zones Conference in Mexico
We, at the Atomic Mirror, are profoundly honored to convey the message of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat to the Seventh Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in 2005.
4 May 2005 Atomic Mirror speaks in the Great Hall of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Following the Wednesday morning plenary session of the 7th Review Conference of the Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Remarks by Janet Bloomfield - Coordinator of the Abolition Now! Campaign
See the webcast at: http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/conferences/npt2005/npt050504am.rm
(Please note the webcast requires Realplayer
to be viewed. Please fast forward to 3:25:00 to see the speech)
5 June 2005 Atomic Mirror helps raise WMD Awareness at Hay Festival of Literature.
The exhibition will be on view from June 7th to July 29Th, 2005 at the Esso Gallery and the Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, 531 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York, USA.
5 July 2005
Update on the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference
Report on the Nuclear Weapons Free Zones Conference in Mexico
Janet Bloomfield reports on Robert McNamara’s appearance at the Hay Festival of Literature.
6 July 2005 Atomic
Mirror co-sponsors major debate in London on US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
DROPPING THE ATOMIC BOMB TO END THE SECOND WORLD WAR – WAS
IT NECESSARY?
IS HISTORY ABOUT TO REPEAT ITSELF?
17 July 2005 No more Hiroshimas film showing
On the 31st July at the Curzon Soho London
To commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has teamed up with Curzon Cinemas and Contemporary Films to present a number of rarely seen films and a panel session to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1 August "Never Again!" 60th Atomic Anniversary
August 6-9 activities and resources.
1 September 2005 We Remember Your Humanity: Sir Professor Joseph Rotblat
Farewell to a Beloved and Great Human Being
We learned his morning, 1 September 2005, that Sir Professor Joseph Rotblat, one of the great heroes of the Nuclear Age, Nobel Peace Laureate, and friend and ally of all who worked for a nuclear weapons free world, died peacefully in his sleep in London last night.
24 September 2005
The Atomic Mirror sends its warm congratulations to our friend
and advisor Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, of Vanuatu in the South Pacific
on receiving the 2005 Nuclear
Free Future Resistance award. This honour is richly deserved.
28 October 2005 Atomic Mirror sponsors special sneak screening of new film “The Last Atomic Bomb” at the United Nations
7 and 8 November 2005 Atomic Mirror breaks new ground with citizen delegation to OPANAL meeting in Santiago Chile
A Ventura County delegation of citizens went to Santiago,
Chile in November 2005 to take seats at the diplomatic table of the world’s
first nuclear weapons free zone: the biannual meeting of the Treaty of Tlatelolco,
which includes all of Latin America and the Caribbean from the US-Mexico
border south. Dr. Gabino Aguirre (Santa Paula City Council member and former
mayor) joined Carmen Ramirez (Oxnard attorney and recently elected member
of the California State Bar Board of Governors) and Dr. Debbie DeVries (co-director
of the KEYS Academy, Oxnard Youth Leadership Program, and owner of Oxnard’s
Café on A) in carrying the hopes and concerns of our central California
coastal region for a nuclear free world.
13 December 2005 The People Speak: Atomic Mirror hosts a discussion on America’s Nuclear Role in the World at the Café on A in Oxnard
The Atomic Mirror and Abolition Now-Ventura County hosted a forum on American international policy on Tuesday, December 13 from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Café on A, Oxnard, California. The forum featured local citizen diplomats former Santa Paula Mayor Dr. Gabino Aguirre, Carmen Ramirez, esq., and Dr. Deborah DeVries, recently returned from the Latin American Nuclear Weapons Free Zone meeting (OPANAL) in Santiago, Chile. They reported back to the community, and invited discussion on US nuclear policy in light of the nuclear weapon free status of 90% of the Western Hemisphere.
