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Created: Nov 18, 2008
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
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Los Angeles Area Nuclear Disarmament Coalition
(a.k.a.: LAANDC)
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The Los Angeles Area Nuclear Disarmament Coalition (LAANDC) is a newly formed coalition coming out of a September 2008 Nuclear Disarmament Conference in LA. We have participation of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara and Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA as well as a dozen other local organizations, and a good chance, we think, of bringing in all the LA area groups that see nuclear disarmament as an important goal. Outreach to the mainstream is at the top of our list. We are 100% behind the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World. We think Mayors for Peace is strategic globally. Locally, we have decided to sponsor an event on Nagasaki Day, Sunday August 9, 2009, details tba, but perhaps involving a wave of sermons on the topic "No Third Use". Our own web page at udcworld.org/laandc has more details.
The Coalition has a three part structure with a monthly conference call, a monthly activists meeting and an online dialog using software of our own design. These three parts are meant to be mutually invigorating, and so far that has proved to be true.
For the online dialog, every month we write messages, discuss them and elect a single message to represent the Coalition. This elected message is one of the topics addressed in the monthly conference call and the activists meeting. The dialog (please sign up at globalassembly.net) is the innovation that we think makes us fundable as a model for other metropolitan areas, and on that basis we are considering applying for a grant.
--> There is nothing to stop us from going global and electing a message with tens of thousands of participants from all the cities of the earth. The software allows each metro area to have its own "voice" while also electing a message from all participants together to represent humanity as a whole. With this idea of going global in mind, our local coalition is cultivating a relationship with Mayors for Peace.
The key to realizing our goal of 100% nuclear disarmament is to put as much effort into the metropolitan and global levels as we do the national level. It is at the city and world levels that we can build the political strength to overcome the resistance of the nuclear weapons states.
We think we can ramp up quickly using the internet, our voting-on-messages software, and the massive majority that exists globally for nuclear disarmament. Our strategy is to partner with global organizations that already exist. In particular, Mayors for Peace with its 2020 Vision provides an existing structure that makes rapid action on a global scale possible.
It is a tall order, but we would like to bring world opinion to bear on the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference. To do this we will need to reach out on the internet to spark similar metropolitan coalitions everywhere to participate in the online election of a Message from Humanity to the 2010 NPT conference. Therefore, we need online evangelists, who may come from anywhere in the world, as much as we need local activists.
Please sign up for the online dialog, and/or contact Roger Eaton, LAANDC Coordinator at rogereaton@earthlink.net - please mention nuclear disarmament in your subject line.
