Co-Organizers
in cooperation with:
Cities for Progress
Cities for Progress is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. We are a growing network of locally-elected officials and community-based activists working together for social change. We are a network that incorporates local, national and global approaches to issues that affect us in our own communities. Following in the footsteps of Cities for Peace local resolutions prior to the Iraq war in which almost 200 cities and towns expressed their concerns about local costs of such a war, Cities for Progress is taking on other issues including Universal Healthcare and opposing Wal-Mart expansion.
Our vision is one of creating national change at the local level. Through resolution campaigns such as the Cities for Peace campaign, the Bill of Rights campaign, Living Wage campaigns and others, we feel the strength and power of locally-elected officials and citizens changing communities and indeed national consciousness as we work together, forcing our collective voices to be heard in the national media and on Capitol Hill.
Nukewatch
Nukewatch is a Wisconsin-based environmental and peace action group, dedicated to the abolition of nuclear power and weapons. Nukewatch brings critical attention to the locations, movements, dangers, and the politics of nuclear weapons and radioactive wastes. Staff and volunteers advocate Gandhian nonviolence in education and action, and report on nuclear issues in a quarterly newsletter, Nukewatch Quarterly .
Nukewatch began in 1979 in response to the cold war build up of nuclear weapons and the secrecy surrounding the nuclear industry. Nukewatch conducted TrackWatch; a program to monitor and expose secret shipments of radioactive waste on U.S. rails; TruckWatch, the transportation of H-bombs and component parts in unmarked trucks by the DOE; Nukewatch mapped all 1,000 land-based nuclear missile silos for educational and organizing purposes. Nukewatch has a long history of successful grassroots organizing across the nation.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Social Responsibility recognizes global warming and nuclear weapons as the preeminent threats to the health of our nation and the world. As health care professionals and individuals concerned for the survival of our nation and the planet, we are calling on our elected officials to curb greenhouse gas emissions, eliminate pollution and toxins from our environment and abolish nuclear weapons.
Wisconsin Carbon Free/Nuclear Free
We hear over and over again that we need to increase our use of nuclear energy to prevent climate change—but it just isn’t true. The Carbon-Free Nuclear-Free Alliance has come together to promote the ways science and economics prove a carbon-free nuclear-free future is possible, practical and urgently needed.
We are working together to create the world we want to live in—not a world of exchanging one huge problem for another, but a sustainable world, built on clean, renewable energy. We have a plan for how to get to that world, and we are working every day to build that world—at the local, state, regional and national levels. By building the strongest US climate policy, we are also helping the US lead the world in climate change in the most positive sense—by example.
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
The Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (WNPJ) was founded in 1991 as a coalition of activist groups and citizens of conscience within Wisconsin.
Mission Statement: WNPJ facilitates activities, cooperation and communication among Wisconsin organizations and individuals working toward the creation of a sustainable world, free from violence and injustice.
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