Push Newsom to Support Ban on Nuclear Weapons

Dear Friends: Time is short; please take a few minutes to take action from the following message, particularly if you live in San Francisco. Copy the letter and send it to julian.potter [at] sfgov.org and or fax it to the attention of Wade Crowfoot 415-554-6158. We have spent weeks/months working with Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office, to no avail. He hasn’t said that he wouldn’t sign the letter, but he hasn’t signed it, despite nearly daily efforts to ascertain his position. His office has said that he is not available to go to New York for the NPT Treaty review conference. If you send him the letter, please cc me. You can call his office at 415-554- 6141. If you live in other cities please check the website to ascertain if your mayor has already signed, if not send him the following letter and organize your friends and neighbors to do the same. If your Mayor has signed, call and tell them that you appreciate the gesture. This is a no-brainer and so easy for them to do.

Thanks for your help.

Sandra Schwartz

Mayors from Japan, U.S., and Around the World Unite for Peace
Urge Your Mayor to Join Call for Negotiations to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Dear Friend:

People are shocked to hear that America still maintains over 10,000 nuclear weapons -- enough to destroy the world many times over. Not only are these bombs dangerous, but they also eat up billions of tax dollars each year that could be spent on Head Start, health care, and other good stuff that our government does.

Next month, we have a rare opportunity to shine the public spotlight on this problem.

Led by the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dozens of mayors from all over the world will march to the United Nations, where they will call on the nations represented at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to negotiate a ban on nuclear weapons -- as America and other nuclear nations promised to do in 1970 but never did.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently sent your mayor a letter inviting him or her to join these other mayors in calling for immediate negotiations to ban nuclear weapons worldwide.

If you are a TrueMajority member and would like to send a message (text below) to your mayor urging him or her to accept the invitation and endorse the Resolution of the U.S. Conference of Mayors calling for negotiations on the elimination of nuclear weapons, just click "reply" and "send" in your email program to send your message.

For more information about the Mayors for Peace Initiative, click on http://www.abolitionnow.org/mayors.html <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M68313394328733113730365> .

For an end to the nuclear madness,

Duane Peterson
TrueMajority Coordinator



Here's the message that we will send to your mayor:

Dear Mayor (your mayor's name):

Each year our country is spending tens of billions of dollars maintaining and threatening to use nuclear weapons -- more than enough money to provide health care for all uninsured kids in America.

This is scary and senseless, and here's a way for you to help stop it.

Mayors from over 20 U.S. cities, including Denver, Pittsburgh, and Hartford, have already signed a statement calling for immediate negotiations to ban nuclear weapons worldwide. This group is being led by the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and includes hundreds of additional mayors from around the world -- from Germany to New Zealand.

I hope you will also join this effort. But time is short. The statement will be presented at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, taking place at the United Nations in New York beginning May 2. When the NPT was signed, starting in 1968, America and other nations promised to negotiate a ban on nuclear weapons but never did.

Please take a moment to read and sign the mayors' statement at http://www.abolitionnow.org/mayors.html <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M68313414328733113730365> , and join your fellow mayors in addressing this urgent long-standing problem.

And please consider joining Mayor Plusquellic of Akron, Ohio, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, along with Mayors Akiba of Hiroshima and Itoh of Nagasaki in New York May 1- 4 as part of a 100-strong delegation of international mayors.

As a mayor, you see the human costs of mixed-up federal spending priorities every day, when you try to scrape together enough money for such basic human needs as schools and hospitals. It's time to end the nuclear madness that has held humanity hostage for 60 years. I hope you will not pass up this opportunity to take action.

Sincerely,

(we'll add your name here)



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