Past Events
July 11-17, 2022 – Germany
US Peace Delegation to Germany
Please join the German campaign to send the existing U.S. nuclear weapons back home, and to halt production of the new B61-12 nuclear bomb to be deployed in five European countries―Italy, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, and Germany.
We invite anti-nuclear, environmental, peace and human rights activists to the Nukewatch delegation July 11 to 17, 2022 at the main gate of the Büchel Air Base in Germany. Our peace camp includes networking, vigils, and nonviolent civil resistance.
For more info. about joining the Nukewatch delegation, email us. Consider joining the delegation, and endorse the campaign by signing the Declaration of Solidarity at buechel-atombombenfrei.de and (click on International & English, or the Translate icon on your browser).
For more information about past camps…
Friday, April 22
No Line 5 Earth Day Project
On Earth Day, Nukewatch will join dozens of communities around Wisconsin following Indigenous-led resistance to demand a swift and powerful action for climate justice – including rejecting Enbridge’s oil pipeline Line 5.
Wednesday, April 20 at 7pm Central – Online
“Nukewatch Talks” Zoom Meeting
Want to get a handle on the nuclear news?
If you haven’t gotten your newsletter yet, it will be in your mailbox in a few days: just in time for you to look it over and ask us about it!
“Nukewatch Talks” is an online gathering for new and old friends to give you an update about nuclear risks in war and peace time and hear about the work we are involved in. Nukewatch Quarterly contributors John LaForge, Christine Manwiller, Kelly Lundeen, and Adrian Monty will be available to discuss and answer your questions about the nuclear news. Join us on Wednesday, April 20 at 7pm.
January 25, 2022 Noon Central – Online
Nuclear Colonialism in the Age of the Ban Treaty: from New Mexico to Marshall Islands and across the Pacific
The Affected Communities Working Group of the Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative will host a discussion marking the one year anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (ban treaty). This free on-line seminar seeks to tell the truth through the lived experience of those most affected by the nuclear fuel trajectory and activate our collective work toward disarmament. See more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1596049160732207?ref=newsfeed
While this event is free, we encourage donations to the Marshallese Educational Initiative, an organization that works to benefit the Marshallese who have left their home in the Marshall Islands, many due to lingering effects of radiation from US nuclear testing and climate change. Click here to donate: https://www.mei.ngo/contribute.
Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpfu2prz0vH9B3AXJ9wUg6l3j1BAWr1Nop
January 22, 2022 – Wherever You Are
Nuclear Ban Treaty Day of Action
On January 22, 2022, people around the world will celebrate the 1st anniversary since the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. It is “the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons.”
We invite people across the U.S. and beyond to be part of a major media event, holding signs and banners at nuclear weapons related sites and other places on this important day. For more info see The Nuclear Ban Treaty Days of Action Facebook Group or Resources for Actions in the Age of the Ban Treaty. Add your event to the calendar so people in your area can join you HERE.
January 21, 2022 1pm Central – Nukewatch office
Nuclear Ban Treaty 1st Birthday Party
Cancelled – all local office staff is infected with coronavirus and have cancelled this event.
Come to the Nukewatch office for cake and warm drinks!
Celebrate the one year anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We will meet briefly outside for a socially-distanced party and bannering with the option of warming up in the office! We will be present in spirit with the hundreds of actions around the US and the world demonstrating the hopes of the global majority for a nuclear-free world! Our address is 740A Round Lake Road, Luck, WI 54853
Jan. 6, 2022 at 6pm Central – Online
National Planning Zoom Meeting for the 1st Anniversary of the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Join the Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative and Nukewatch in a planning meeting to help maximize the global impact of this historic anniversary. We envision a variety of coordinated, nationwide public actions that spotlight the nuclear ban treaty as a victory for humanity.
Dec. 20, 2021 at 11am Central – Online
“Nukewatch Talks” Zoom Meeting
Want to get a handle on the nuclear news?
“Nukewatch Talks” premieres December 20 at 11am Central to give you a live update from Germany about the trials of John and others in the US Bombs out of Germany campaign. Nukewatch Quarterly editors Kelly Lundeen and John LaForge will be available to discuss and answer your questions about the nuclear news. Register HERE.
January 22, 2021 – Wherever You Are
Nuclear Ban Treaty – Entry into Force Action Day
On January 22, 2021, people around the world will celebrate the day the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force. It is “the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons.”
We invite people across the U.S. and beyond to be part of a major media event, holding signs and banners at nuclear weapons related sites and other places on this important day.
May 22-25, 2020 – Maryville, TN
Stop the New Nuclear Arms Race Conference – CANCELLED
The Nuclear Resister, Nukewatch, and the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance invite you to an international conference May 22-25 in Maryville, Tennessee.
What is it about? We want to develop ways to collaborate globally to advance the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and achieve nuclear abolition. We will have strategy sessions, panel presentations, music, and opportunities for networking, training, protest, action, and cake.
Who is it for? You—if you want to be part of a coherent, effective movement, blending multiple strategies, to get rid of nuclear weapons. We’re planning sessions on resistance, divestment campaigns, legal challenges, local organizing, political action. We are stronger when we understand and collaborate with each other.
Where is it? Maryville College, Maryville, TN, is 20 miles from the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, TN, where US thermonuclear weapons components are made. How do I get more information? We are in the early planning stages. For more information check: nukewatchinfo. org/stop_new_nuclear_arms_race for more information.
Why now? It’s two minutes to midnight—the nuclear threat is real and urgent. 2020 also marks 75 years since Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Trinity. And 40 years of the Nuclear Resister, Nukewatch, and the Plowshares movement.
Find more info at nukewatchinfo.org/stop_new_nuclear_arms_race.
July 13-22, 2020 – Germany
4th US Peace Delegation to Germany – CANCELLED
Please join the German campaign to send the existing U.S. nuclear weapons back home, and to halt production of the new B61-12 nuclear bomb, scheduled to be built in the U.S. by 2020 and deployed in five European countries―Italy, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, and Germany.
We invite anti-nuclear, environmental peace and human rights activists to the Nukewatch delegation July 8 to 16, 2019, at the main gate of the Büchel Air Base in Germany with emphasis on young people! The international Action Camp is part of our 20 weeks of action from March 26th to August 9th (Nagasaki memorial day). Twenty weeks represent the 20 B61 H-bombs still at Büchel AB. Our peace camp includes networking, vigils, and nonviolent civil resistance.
For more info. about joining the Nukewatch delegation, email us. For more information about the Peace Camp, visit the websites buechel-atombombenfrei.de and atomwaffenfrei.de (click on International & English, or the Translate icon on your browser), where you can consider joining the delegation, and endorse the campaign by signing the Declaration of Solidarity.
July 8 – 16, 2019 – Germany
3rd US Peace Delegation to Germany
Please join the German campaign to send the existing U.S. nuclear weapons back home, and to halt production of the new B61-12 nuclear bomb, scheduled to be built in the U.S. by 2020 and deployed in five European countries―Italy, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, and Germany.
We invite anti-nuclear, environmental peace and human rights activists to the Nukewatch delegation July 8 to 16, 2019, at the main gate of the Büchel Air Base in Germany with emphasis on young people! The international Action Camp is part of our 20 weeks of action from March 26th to August 9th (Nagasaki memorial day). Twenty weeks represent the 20 B61 H-bombs still at Büchel AB. Our peace camp includes networking, vigils, and nonviolent civil resistance.
For more info. about joining the Nukewatch delegation, email us. For more information about the Peace Camp, visit the websites buechel-atombombenfrei.de and atomwaffenfrei.de (click on International & English, or the Translate icon on your browser), where you can consider joining the delegation, and endorse the campaign by signing the Declaration of Solidarity.
August 12-18, 2019 – Germany
Nuclear Heritage Network’s International Anti-nuclear Summer Camp 2019
Nuclear Heritage Network is pleased to announce that there will be another anti-nuclear camp this year, this time in Döbeln, Germany, from August 12th-18th, 2019. As previous camps in Germany (2017) and France (2018) have shown, it is a great opportunity for people from different countries and continents to come together and network, learn and share information. We have welcomed participants from the Americas and Asia and gained a more in depth insight into the anti-nuclear movement in the US, Turkey, India and Japan. We hope that this camp will bring together even more people from all over the world!
If you are interested in attending the camp please email us: camp2019@nuclear-heritage.net
The planning team
http://camp2019.nuclearheritage.net
Friday, April 5, 2019 – Washington, DC
Ousting U.S. H-Bombs from Europe
As NATO Foreign Ministers will have just gathered for a Summit in Washington, DC to Commemorate NATO’s 70th Anniversary on April 3-4, you are invited to a special program to hear about an inspiring European/U.S. nonviolent campaign
Marion Küpker, coordinator of the German Nonviolent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and John LaForge, co-director of Nukewatch, will report on the U.S. nuclear weapons deployed in Europe under a NATO agreement and the international campaign to get rid of them. Please join us to hear about the Peace Camp being organized by Nonviolent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons next to the Buchel Air Force Base in Germany, host of the U.S. nuclear weapons, and the U.S. solidarity delegation planned by Nukewatch.
Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 – Milwaukee, WI
100th anniversary of Armistice Day: celebrating peace, not war
7 pm, Milwaukee City Hall
SPEAKERS:
*** Reggie Jackson, Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign
*** Janan Najeeb, President, Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, Director, Islamic Resource Center
*** John LaForge, Co-director of Nukewatch & The Progressive Foundation
Thursday, November 15, 2018 – Rice Lake, WI
“Land-Based Missiles: Dangerous, Useless, Expensive”
Thursday, Nov. 15, Noon – 12:50 p.m.
University of Wisconsin – Barron County
“Thursdays @ the U,” Blue Hills Lecture Hall (Ritzinger 234), 1800 College Dr., Rice Lake, Wisc. 54868
The Nukewatch Co-Director John LaForge, and coeditor of Nuclear Heartland: A guide to the 450 land-based missiles of the United States, reports on the instability of the Air Force’s giant Minuteman III missiles, the scandals that have plagued missile field personnel, and the military chiefs that have called them unnecessary.
July 10 – 18, 2018 – Germany
2nd US Peace Delegation to Germany
Nuclear abolitionists in Germany will again sponsor 20 weeks of nonviolent resistance at Büchel Air Base, from March 26 to August 9, 2018. The campaign demands that the 20 US B61 H-bombs at Büchel be sent home permanently—not replaced with new bombs as the US intends—and that Germany ratify the new nuclear weapons ban treaty. A delegation from the US coordinated by Nukewatch will join the Büchel peace camp July 10-18. For more info., visit the websites buechel-atombombenfrei.de and atomwaffenfrei.de (click on International & English), where you can consider joining the delegation, and endorse the campaign by signing the Declaration of Solidarity.
September 10, 2017 – St. Paul, MN
Nuclear Power Realities & Climate Chaos
A Workshop with Nukewatch and Beyond Nuclear
MREA Energy Fair St Paul, Minnesota
Harriet Island Regional Park
11am – Black Tent
PRESENTERS: JOHN LaFORGE, Co-Director and Editor at Nukewatch, and KEVIN KAMPS, Nuclear Waste Specialist with Beyond Nuclear.
What does it take to site, approve, construct, and license new nuclear reactors? A time-consuming, colossally expensive process that robs resources from conservation and efficiency efforts – and hinders deployment of the safe, clean, renewable energy systems required to confront climate disruption.
For more about MREA’s St. Paul, MN Energy Fair see: www.theenergyfair.org/schedule-mn/
July 12 – 18, 2017
US Peace Delegation to Germany
A delegation of US peace activists will participate in protests at the Büchel Air Base, July 12 to 18, demanding the withdrawal of the 20 remaining US H-bombs still deployed there. Notable among the 11-person delegation, brought together by Nukewatch, are seven participants who have served a combined total of 36 years in US jails and prisons for protest actions taken against nuclear weapons programs and the war system. The eleven US activists — from Wisconsin, California, Washington-DC, Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Maryland — will join the coalition of 50 German peace and justice groups and organizations converging on the air base.
Nuclear Heartland Book Tour 2016
| Weds., March 2: DULUTH, MN
Holiday Center Downtown, 11:30-1:00; 207 W. Superior St, Duluth, MN UMD 1:00-2:00 Sponsors: Veterans for Peace, Grandmothers for Peace |
Thurs., March 3: MILWUAKEE, WI
First Unitarian Society, 7:00 p.m. 1342 N. Astor St., Milwaukee, WI Sponsors: Casa Maria Catholic Worker |
Sun., March 6: KALAMAZOO, MI
Quaker Meeting House, 10 am Sponsor: Peace House Catholic Worker |
| Mon., March 7: OBERLIN, OH
106 King, Oberlin College campus: 4:30 p.m. Kendal, Continuing Care Retirement Community (22 Kendal Dr.) 7:15 p.m. |
Weds., March 9: CLEVELAND, OH
John Carroll Univ., 5:30 p.m. Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, OH |
Fri., March 11: WASHINGTON, DC
Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, 7:00 p.m. |
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Sun., March 13: BALTIMORE, MD Jonah House, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. 1301 Moreland Ave., Baltimore |
Mon., March 14: TAKOMA PARK, MD Busboys & Poets: 7 to 9 p.m. (in the Nicolás Guillén Room) 235 Carroll St NW,Washington, DC Sponsors: Beyond Nuclear, FCNL, SOA Watch, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, PSR, Council for a Livable World, Nuclear-Free Takoma Park Committee, Peace Action |
Fri., March 18: NEW YORK CITY
Mary House Catholic Worker: 7:00 p.m. 55 E Third St., East Village, New York City |
| Sun., March 20: BOSTON
Quaker Meeting House, 7:00 p.m. Sponsors: Quaker Mtg., AFSC |
Thurs., March 24: NEW YORK CITY
Unitarian Church of All Souls: 6:30 p.m. refreshments; 7:00 p.m. talk 1157 Lexington Ave, New York City Sponsors: Physicians for Social Responsibility |
Thurs., April 7: ST. PAUL, MNCommon Good Books, 7:00 p.m. 38 Snelling Ave South, St. Paul, MN Sponsors: Veterans for Peace, Women Against Military Madness |
| Sun., April 10:UNDERWOOD, MN
Unitarian Universalist Church: 10:00 a.m. 206 N. Main St., Underwood, MN |
Thurs., April 28:MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Boneshaker Books, 7:00 p.m. 2002 23rd Ave S., Mpls. |
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Action Events
Seventy years after the destruction of Hiroshima, Japan by the world’s first atomic bomb (and, three days later, Nagasaki, Japan), events in East Tennessee will join in solidarity with survivors of those bombings who say, “Never again.”
“It’s only about the past insofar as we don’t want to repeat it,” said Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance which is sponsoring a series of events beginning in early August. “Our main concern, shared with the people of Japan, is about the present and the future.”
The Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, TN, will be a focus for OREPA’s events. Y12 produced the highly enriched uranium that fueled the Little Boy bomb that the United States used to destroy Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
In 2015, Y12 is still actively producing thermonuclear cores for US nuclear warheads and bombs under the “Life Extension Program.” The US is also spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design a new multi-billion dollar bomb production plant, disingenuously called the Uranium Processing Facility, to continue producing components for decades to come.
“The work at Y12 has been declared ‘Unlawful,’ by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark,” noted Hutchison. “Clark was the Attorney General in 1968 when the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed, and he testified in federal court that the work at Y12 violates the spirit and the letter of that treaty.”
Events in August include:
Sunday, August 2: Putting the Bomb in its Historical Context: An evening with Gar Alperovitz, author of The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb.
Monday, August 3: Faith Leaders speak about the Bomb.
Thursday, August 6: Names and Remembrance Ceremony, 6:00 – 9:00am, Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex main gate, intersection of Scarboro and East Bear Creek Road, Oak Ridge, TN
Friday, August 7: Nonviolence Training: 10:00am – 4:00pm, Knoxville, TN
Friday, August 7: Hungry for Disarmament: East Tennesseans will participate in a global fast for nuclear abolition.
Saturday, August 8: Hiroshima + 70: It started here; it should end here. Now. Concert for Nuclear Abolition, Alvin K. Bissell Park, Oak Ridge, TN: 11:00am – 1:30pm
Saturday, August 8: 2:00pm – March to Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex from Alvin K. Bissell Park; SAY NO TO THE UPF: Action for Disarmament at Y12.
Sunday, August 9: 8:00pm – Peace Lantern Ceremony; Sequoyah Hills Park, just off the parking lot at the west end of Cherokee Drive: Shadow puppets, music, peace lanterns.
Other events during the week are in the planning stages; they will be announced here, and details now marked TBA will be filled in as soon as possible.
All OREPA events are free and open to the public. All events are nonviolent in tone as well as action. No drugs or alcohol permitted. If you are not able to respect these guidelines, please do not attend the event.
Join Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Wisconsin Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, and Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
Madison, Wisconsin to Volk Field, August 18-25, 2015
We will walk from the Dane County Jail in Madison, Wisconsin to Volk Field in Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, about 90 miles. Volk Field is the home of the Wisconsin Air National Guard. This base trains pilots to remotely operate the “Shadow” drone by computer linkup. Drones of this type are used in conjunction with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps for reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting, and assessment.
We start from the Dane County Jail and end at Volk Field to underline the connection between the violence perpetrated by the drones indiscriminately killing people of color overseas and the militarization of our police forces at home where people of color are being killed through the use of police violence.
There will be a kick-off event on the evening of Monday August 17 in Madison. The walk will begin on Tuesday morning with a short program in front of the Dane County jail.
We will be walking through the beautiful, hilly Wisconsin countryside. The daily walks will range from 12 – 16 miles. We will take advantage of opportunities to share with communities we are passing through.
The walk ends on Tuesday August 25 with a vigil against drones at the gates of Volk Field. The Wisconsin Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars has been holding monthly vigils at the gates of Volk Field for 3 ½ years.
We hope you will join us for this crucial walk to ground the drones!
If you live in Wisconsin and would like to participate, provide housing, or organize meals and events, please contact Joy First at joyfirst5@gmail.com or call 608 239-4327.
If you live outside Wisconsin and want to discuss participating in the walk, please contact Buddy or Carly at info@vcnv.org or call 773-878-3815.