July 2011
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From the Summit Floor: Why Students Must Care...
by Christina GL Walters Four years after the 2007 financial crisis, individuals around the world are still facing increasing economic insecurity. Plagued by unemployment and rising costs, it’s time that our governments rid their budgets of unnecessary nuclear weapons programs and reallocate these resources to where they are truly needed.
For students in the US, we face increasing tuition costs...
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Pitchfork: Great Music, Good Times and Solidarity...
by Ellie Cooper
What an incredible weekend! As I write this I’m sitting in the back of the Global Zero van on the way back to DC after three excellent days of music and discussion about getting to zero at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.
The Global Zero tent at Pitchfork 2011.
When I volunteered to help talk to festival-goers about the Global Zero cost campaign, I anticipated a fun...
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I’ve Got Hope for Global Zero!
by Claudia Cheffs This piece is excerpted from a longer article about Claudia’s experience attending the Global Zero Student Institute and Summit last month in London. You can read the full story on Claudia’s blog. We all walked in through the doors of the Savoy Hotel, where the Summit was held, with our jaws wide open. It was something I had never seen before. The room was decorated in Global...
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Why We Must Cut Nukes, Not Education
by Holly Davis
Education has always been my passion, and until joining the Global Zero staff I spent much of my own studies and professional life focused on the American education system. Education is a critical investment in our future – here’s just one of many studies that outline the big return on investments in early education. The bottom line is that spending money on early childhood...
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Help Us Deliver 25,000 Petition Signatures to...
It’s crunch time!
Politicians have just two more weeks to strike a deal on how to cut the deficit to prevent the nation’s default on our debts.
President Obama says: “Everything must be on the table.” But it seems there’s one thing that is NOT on the table –– the $600 BILLION the US will spend this decade on dangerous and useless nuclear weapons. Washington is putting education, Medicare,...
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From the Summit Floor: The Time to Act is Now!
by Ellie Cooper It’s exhilarating to look around a room of 40 student leaders from around the world knowing that you’re all devoting two days of brainpower exclusively to advancing the Global Zero cause. And yet, the prospect of convincing students back home that the abolition of nuclear weapons is a moral and an international security imperative can be daunting. That said, the methods and tools...
So, You Want to Cut the Defense Budget? Look to...
Holly Davis—Global Zero program coordinator and former program assistant with AmericaSpeaks—contributed this article to the AmericaSpeaks blog last month. It calls on governments to cut budget for nuclear weapons, not for education and important programs. Here is an excerpt from Holly’s guest post on AmericaSpeaks:
At this time last year, I was excited to hear what the thousands of participants...
From the Summit Floor: The Global Zero Opportunity
By Natalie Chindipha
For a long time I wanted to become part of an organization that advocated for a cause I’m truly passionate about. From the moment I came in contact with Global Zero I just knew I had to be involved. It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.
During the London Institute and the Global Zero Summit at the end of June, I learned so much—not only about Global Zero but also about...
