2014 DISARM/End Wars Calendar

January 2014

• All month: Invite your Representative to co-sponsor HR 1650 and US Conference of Mayors 2012 Resolution, both calling for nuclear weapons abolition by 2020.
• All month: Sign the petition to support Sister Megan and the &-12 activists and to stop modernization of nuclear weapons.
• January 6-13: Fast for Justice in Guantanamo locally or in Washington D.C.
• January 7: House members return from holiday break. Contact legislators re co-sponsoring HR 1650 and continue work on a uranium mining moratorium.
• January 8: Senate returns to Washington D.C. 
• January 8: Emily Green Balche was born on this day in 1867, and in 1946 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with WILPF.
• January 11: March on the White House to close Guantanamo
• January 20: Martin Luther King Day. Participate in local events and recall his words on ending war.
• January 27: International Holocaust Day
• January 28: Sentencing of the "Y-12 Peace Activists" or "Plowshares 3" on January 28, 2014 in Knoxville, TN.

 
February 2014

• February 3: 2015 budget could be introduced in US Congress
• February 12–14: Second  inter-governmental conference on Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear War, Nayarit, Mexico
• February 10–15: Civil Society participation in Nayarit Conference

March 2014

• March 1: 60^th anniversary of US hydrogen nuclear bomb test on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
• March: 2015 budget is expected to be introduced in US Congress (a month later than usual.)
• March 8: International Women's Day
• March 11: Third anniversary of the continuing Fukushima Disaster
• March 14–16: Global Network annual International conference will be at Santa Maria House in Santa Barbara with a vigil at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

April 2014

• All month: Coalition days of action on militarized drones during month of April
• April 14: Global Day of Action on Military Spending coincides with release of military expenditure statistics by Sipri.
• April 15: US Income Tax Day traditionally marked by creative WILPF demonstrations against wasting tax dollars on militarism.
• April 22: Earth Day
• April 22–May 1: Green Cabinet Global Climate Convergence (includes demilitarization and green economy).
• April 28: WILPF 99th birthday!
• April 28–May 9: 2014 UN NPT Prep Com in New York City, preparing for 2015 Review conference. WILPF-US—ANA Side Event on US nuclear weapons complex

 
May 2014

• Through May 9: UN NPT Prep Com continues and concludes
• May 13–16: 117 nations party to the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons will begin discussion of banning autonomous drones
• May 18–21: ANA D.C. Days
• May 21–25: ANA spring retreat in D.C. Check info on ANA members (WILPF is last with a video on You Get What You Pay For)

 
June 2014

• UNAC national conference at sometime this summer, date and place as yet unknown.

 
July 2014

• July 4: Some Branches have joined peace contingents in past Fourth of July Parades.
• July 25: In 1945 the first atomic bomb, Trinity was tested in White Sands New Mexico. Continue preparing for Nuclear Free Future month and nuclear weapons abolition.

 
August 2014

• August Nuclear Free Future Month; A full month of nuclear abolition events.
• August 1–3: WILPF-US Triennial Conference – Detroit. (May start Thursday, July 31.)
• August 6: Hiroshima Day
• August 9: Nagasaki Day

 
September 2014

• September 6: Jane Addams 154th birthday.
• September 21: International Day of peace. Probably launch date of new End War movement.

 
October 2014

• October 2: International Day for Non-violence
• October 4–11: Keep Space for Peace Week
• October 4–10: UN World Space Week
• October 6 until end of the month: General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament.  Reaching Critical Will organizes side events and issues newsletters all month. This is where forward action on disarmament now occurs in the UN. Watch for details.
• October 24: UN Day
• October 24–30: UN Disarmament Week

 
November 2014

• November 11: Ring Bells for Peace (Remember Armistice Day and the Kellogg Briand Pact). Cooperate with Veterans for Peace.
• November 25: UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
• November 25–December 10: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. International WILPF urges active participation and an emphasis on the effects of violence of war and militarism on women and their children.

 
December 2014

• December 10: Human Rights Day and also culmination of 16 Days. In Illinois it is also Jane Addams Day and a state holiday—the first in the country to honor a woman!
• All month: evaluate 2014-Nuclear Weapons Abolition Campaign by 2020 and other DISARM/End War projects.