[Occupymendocino] Honoring Tony de Brum, Environmental and Nuclear Disarmament Activist

[Lewallen]

Dear friends,

                We grieve the passing of Tony de Brum, the great Marshall
Islands leader, who has died at the age of 72. Tony de Brum clearly saw that
avoiding nuclear war is a fundamental environmental issue, as vital to
global survival as controlling climate change. Mr. de Brum organized 100
nations into the "High Ambition Coalition" at the 2015 Paris climate accord
talks, and is credited with being a key negotiator leading to setting the
clear goal of less than 1.5 degrees temperature change by 2100. In 2014 Mr.
de Brum led a lawsuit against the nine nuclear nations, demanding that they
meet their Non-Proliferation Treaty obligation to negotiate nuclear
disarmament.

                Tony de Brum lived to see 122 United Nations representatives
sign the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty on July 7, 2017, a widely-ignored event
that brands nuclear weapons and nuclear attack threats outlaw activities. In
September the process of ratifying the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty begins, and
after 50 nations ratify it, it will go into effect, prohibiting
development,testing, production, stockpiling, stationing, transfer, use and
threat of use of nuclear weapons.

                We can honor Tony de Brum by supporting the Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty, and making nuclear disarmament a vital and fundamental environmental
issue. For information on the September 22-24 conference of peace groups on
"War and the Environment," visit : http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2017
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            Tony de Brum, Presente!

John Lewallen  

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