From Abel Tomlinson
Dear Friends, Our Nuclear Bomb Ban Celebration & Protest of U of A Participation in Building Nuclear Weapons event went great! A huge Thank You goes out to everyone that showed up in the cold weather! And we were not alone, as at least 158 other groups all over the world, on every continent, rose up to celebrate this historic milestone! Nuclear weapons are now officially illegal under international law!
Here is a Facebook livestream video of the speeches and music from the event, and here are 14 photos from our event, and look close at this last picture to see the special guest that showed up: https://www.facebook.com/ArkansasNonviolenceAlliance/posts/807426469845262
After the rally, we delivered a stack of petitions with 342 signatures to many of the top U of A administrators at the Chancellor’s office, the College of Engineering and the Law School, and many more will soon receive the petition by email. As you know, the petition is calling on the U of A to cancel its nuclear weapons contract with the Honeywell corporation. If you still haven’t signed the petition, please do so and share it to your networks, as this campaign is just beginning: https://www.change.org/p/university-of-arkansas-stop-helping-build-nuclear-bombs
One of the biggest goals of holding these protests is to seek media coverage, especially broadcast TV coverage, so that many thousands of people hear our message. We were successful, as KPSQ radio covered the event, UATV did here, and the top rated TV station KNWA covered our event very well here. Also, professor Jeremy Kuzmarov, editor and author of the unsung independent journal Covert Action is writing a piece on the event.
Lastly, this event is the beginning of a long term effort to seek a cancellation of the U of A’s nuclear weapons contract. For the next phase, we are thinking about holding monthly protests at the U of A Entrance, at the intersection of MLK & Razorback. A big question that needs resolved is the best day and time to hold these. We will hold an online Zoom meeting to discuss this and more next Sunday at 3 P.M. Please join us! Planning Meeting for UA Nuclear Contract Cancellation Time: Jan 31, 2021 03:00 PM Central Time
Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78486465575?pwd=RVM3RzRvWVoraGNQbnNTOUhJY1dDUT09
Meeting ID: 784 8646 5575 Passcode: hGr5mm
Toward Peace,
Abel Tomlinson
OMNI Peace Action Committee, Chair
Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance, Founder
(479)283-5762
Follow Up of Nuclear Bomb Ban Celebration & Protest, and Future
