Important Divestment Documents

RESOLUTION FOR DIVESTMENT OF FUNDS IN CORPORATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN THE DESIGN, ASSEMBLY AND MANUFACTURE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND COMPONENTS

 Whereas, recent polls have indicated that 76% of the people of the United States have declared that NO COUNTRY should possess nuclear weapons; and further

 Whereas, all humanity faces the threat posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, hundreds of times more powerful than those that killed 245,000 people and destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan, 60 years ago; and further

 Whereas, the United States retains an arsenal of 12,700 nuclear weapons on trigger-alert and continues research into new, smaller, more powerful nuclear weapons; and further

 Whereas, the Pentagon has announced a policy of preemption that includes the use of nuclear weapons, including attacks on “deep, hardened bunkers” requiring new nuclear weapons that Congress has already rejected; and further

 Whereas, the Pentagon claims that about “thirty nations with weapons of mass destruction programs”; and further

 Whereas, the refusal of the United States to allow the Final Review Conference of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty at the United Nations to deal with the obligation of nuclear-weapons states under Article 6 to initiate negotiations for the total abolition of nuclear weapons causing the Conference to end in shambles; and further

 Whereas, the threats and heightened tensions surrounding nuclear weapons discussions with Iran and North Korea are adding to the instability of world peace;

 Therefore, in order to translate the will of the people for the total abolition of nuclear weapons in order to save humanity itself, we call for the divestment of all funds: personal, institutional, church, trade unions, municipalities and state governments in any corporation involved in the design, manufacture, assembly or production of component parts of nuclear weapons; and further

 We call upon _________________to immediately request that fiduciary agents responsible for the investment of funds to remove those funds invested in corporations so involved as soon as possible, and so report.

US Peace Council

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