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USA Mayors’ unanimous call to redirect nuclear weapons spending to social benefit

Mayors unanimously voted to move military spending to domestic needshttp://www.examiner.com/article/mayors-unanimously-voted-to-move-military-spending-to-domestic-needs?CID=examiner_alerts_article JUNE 25, 2013 BY:  

At the 2013 annual United States Conference of Mayors in Las Vegas Monday, mayors unanimously adopted the Mayors for Peace resolution to end nuclear weapons and redirect military spending to domestic needs, a major step forward for human rights globally……he final resolution with the list of 30 sponsors can be read athttp://wslfweb.org/docs/uscmres2013.PDF.

Mayors for Peace is an international organization of cities, dedicated for the promotion of peace that was established in 1982.

In 2004, 2006 and each year since, the USCM has “adopted increasingly stronger resolutions calling on the president to commence negotiations for the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2020, as urged by Mayors for Peace, an international association headed by the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” reports the Baltimore Sun.

“This year’s Mayors for Peace resolution calls on Congress to slash nuclear weapons spending and to redirect those funds to meet the urgent needs of cities,” the Sun says. “The resolution was adopted unanimously, without debate.”

June 26, 2013 - Posted by | USA, weapons and war

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