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Ray Acheson
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Ray Acheson is the director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She represents the WILPF on the international steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has reached the 50 ratifications needed to become international law.
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A year after 122 nations adopted a nuclear-weapons ban, the treaty is showing results.
A fierce resistance to nuclear weapons means disrupting the dominant narratives about nuclear weapons as tools of “safety” and “security” and “peace.”
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What the burgeoning youth-led fight against gun violence can learn from the global antinuclear movement.
Nuclear arsenals are part of broader systems of patriarchy, racism, militarism, and capitalism.
The terrifying incident in Hawaii proves that nuclear disarmament is as important as ever.
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