Please see CFPA's most recent Action Alert sent on March 4, 2024.
Dear Friend,
I'm excited to inform you that momentum is building for CFPA’s high impact peacemaking in this critical election year!
After conducting our first Candidate Briefing for candidates in targeted races in our region (click preceding link to see photo and short summary), we are now in the process of scheduling six more!
Recently, CFPA collaborated with partners to lobby Congresspersons in the suburbs of Philadelphia (a key electoral swing area) to support a Ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War. As of last Friday, five of the six members have publicly announced their support!
After Putin's nuclear saber rattling in his recent speech to the Russian people, I just had this letter to the editor advocating for nuclear restraint, and ultimately global abolition, published in today's (March 4) edition of the Trenton Times. It has also been submitted to other newspapers in the region
We just postal mailed membership renewal notices to CFPA members who hadn't yet renewed for 2024. If you are among those who receive the letter, I urge you to click here or below to save time and the $1.50 cost of using the business reply mail envelope to postal mail your annual membership.
If you aren't yet a CFPA member, this would be a great time to help sustain CFPA's increasing momentum in our high impact election year peacemaking.
If you are already a member, you can also click here or below for an option to make a donation in addition to your membership! Please renew or join by clicking to contribute your 2024 Membership or Donation ONLINE NOW!
Another sign of increased momentum with our Ceasefire NJ Project is that CFPA just partnered on a meeting with a key legislative leader urging him to co-sponsor a bill to mandate safe storage of guns in the home, to prevent suicides and accidental shootings.
Starting nearly 30 years ago, CFPA pioneered a highly effective Peace Voter (PV) campaign with proven results to maximize our peacemaking impact on elections.
In addition to the Candidate Briefings by CFPA experts and organizational leaders mentioned above, we plan to follow up with Candidate Questionnaires and other research on their positions. Then we will culminate the PV campaign by publishing Peace Voter Guides in targeted races.
To meet the above challenges and take full advantage of our proven approaches in 2024, I urgently request that you click the button below to contribute your 2024 Annual Membership or Donation ONLINE NOW!
We can only build on our momentum and meet the great challenges in this 2024 election year if we each do our part, starting with contributing NOW as generously as possible.
Make your annual commitment to intensify CFPA’s peacemaking in this critical Election Year ONLINE TODAY!
Sincerely,
The Rev. Robert Moore
Executive Director
Coalition for Peace Action &
Peace Action Education Fund
40 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
Currently, the decision to use nuclear weapons is in the hands of just one person. Unless Congress acts, the President could single-handedly start a nuclear war within minutes. Having that decision fall on only one person, with no checks or balances, is contrary to our Constitution and increases the probability that nuclear weapons will be used.
Reintroduced by Rep. Ted Lieu and Sen. Edward Markey, the "Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act" creates a safeguard by requiring authorization from Congress before nuclear weapons can be deployed, except if the United States is under nuclear attack.
Tell your Legislators: Reduce the chance of first use of US nuclear weapons, due to miscalculation or misunderstanding, by co-sponsoring, and voting in support of, H.R.669 / S.1186: the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act! Click here NOW to quickly email your two US Senators and your US Representative; it only takes a minute!
If you have time, you can increase your impact by also calling your Senators and US Representative! Call 1-202-224-3121 and ask to speak to the offices of your US Representative and Senators. When you get through, say:
“I am calling as a constituent concerned about the danger of US nuclear weapons being used first due to miscalculation or misunderstanding. To reduce that threat, we need a requirement for Congress to specifically authorize the use of nuclear weapons before they can be used, except if the United States is under nuclear attack. I urge Sen./Rep. ______ to co-sponsor the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, H.R.669 / S.1186. Please let me know what action they take on this important measure to reduce the chance of accidental nuclear war."
P.S. Click here to see a recap of CFPA's Annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration from August 8th which includes a link to view a video recording of the program. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Stewart Prager, highlighted the danger of continuing to let just one person make the decision to use nuclear weapons.
Sincerely,
The Rev. Robert Moore
Executive Director
Coalition for Peace Action &
Peace Action Education Fund
40 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
The world was just reminded again how close we are to a nuclear arms race—or an unimaginable nuclear war—when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he is suspending his country's compliance with the New START arms control agreement. While suspending New START, the last remaining bilateral treaty between the United States and Russia, is not the same as withdrawing, it is still deeply troublesome.
Nuclear arms control is essentially on life support. Rather than use this moment to double down on the importance of arms control, some policymakers are using the war and Putin's announcement as an excuse to push for new and more destructive nuclear weapons. This is exactly the wrong move right now.
We need our decisionmakers in the United States to get us on a safer path, one toward a world without nuclear weapons. Luckily, a number of US Representatives are creating that path: Urge your US Representative to protect us from nuclear war by cosponsoring H. Res. 77.
H. Res. 77 calls on the United States to embrace the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to adopt comprehensive policies for reducing nuclear risks including: declaring the United States will never be the first to use a nuclear weapon, ending the president's sole authority to launch a nuclear weapon, and canceling plans for new and unnecessary nuclear weapons.
Introduced by representatives Jim McGovern and Earl Blumenauer, H. Res. 77 is a tool to stimulate real debate about nuclear weapons in communities around the country and for cultivating congressional leaders committed to advancing the cause of nuclear disarmament.
The demand for change is growing. More than 70 cities, towns, counties, and states (including the NJ Assembly) have passed Back from the Brink resolutions with these comprehensive policies. More than 400 organizations--including CFPA-- have also endorsed Back from the Brink. And 92 nations around the world have signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
We need your help to keep up the pressure and continue building the nuclear disarmament movement. Write TODAY and urge your US Representative to keep us safe from nuclear weapons.
The Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) is a grassroots citizens' organization bringing together people of all ages, backgrounds, professions and political persuasions around three goals: global abolition of nuclear weapons, a peace economy and a halt to weapons trafficking at home and abroad.
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