PEACE & EARTH EVENT Movie: The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons On January 31, 2021 (fifth Sunday of the month) Peace and Earth Committee will be showing a film about nuclear weapons and how they have been banned. This will happen after rise of Meeting. We will have a short break between the end of Meeting and the film and a short discussion afterwards. The film is 56 minutes long and is on YouTube under the title THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. If you want to watch this video at some other time, or share it with a friend, here is the film link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWyYuYLxlM&link_id=0&can_id=43e595db80cf35904784dd06c46549c1&source=email-follow-up-from-yesterdays-ban-nuclear-weapons-watch-party&email_referrer=email_1053314&email_subject=follow-up-from-yesterdays-ban-nuclear-weapons-watch-party This film is about the history and use of nuclear weapons and the history of how the Nuclear Weapons Ban was passed. This international treaty was ratified by over 50 countries and is now the law for the entire plant. Nuclear weapons are now illegal! While the USA has not ratified this treaty, it may still have an impact on our government and their decisions. The US government never passed the Land Mines Ban treaty, yet we do not produce or use land mines anymore. Here is the description from the YouTube video: On the 7th of July 2017, 122 countries voted in favour of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Countries that don’t have nuclear weapons but live under their threat voted for a ban. Without the knowledge of most of their citizens, the governments of the world’s nuclear powers didn’t vote, and yet the ban went ahead. Something new is happening. This documentary film about efforts to bring a nuclear weapon ban treaty into international law and the role of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, is told through the voices of leading activists from several different organizations and countries and the president of the negotiating conference. This 56 minute documentary film takes the viewer through a brief history of the bomb and the anti-nuclear activism that has pushed to eliminate them ever since their invention. It moves into a consideration of the humanitarian initiative that successfully challenged the dominant security narrative and the historic steps taken since 2010 to turn the treaty from a dream into a reality. Finally, the film shows what can be done by anyone to help bring the treaty into force and to stigmatize nuclear weapons until they are finally eradicated. Extracts of fourteen interviews are woven into the story that will leave you feeling inspired! Peace & Earth Committee felt this was a worthwhile film to watch and we hope you can join us for this viewing on January 31, 2021 after rise of Meeting.