Maine WILPFers picket with other groups each Friday in the center of Portland.
by Martha Spiess
Maine Branch
June 2023
Maine WILPFers picket collaboratively with other groups each Friday in the center of Portland, Maine. This month we deployed both of our most active banners together to emphasize how important diplomacy is, given the threat of all things nuclear, especially nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants.
A failure of diplomacy led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Today, diplomacy is urgently needed to end the war. Having attended the recent Warheads to Windmills Webinar, we asked our legislators to support the Norton Bill H.R. 2775 (Nuclear Weapons Abolition Bill) and H.Res.77. This resolution calls on President Biden to embrace the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of US national security policy. It also calls on the United States to lead a global effort to move the world back from the nuclear brink and to prevent nuclear war.
Additionally, we thanked Maine’s US Representative Chellie Pingree for recently co-sponsoring H.Res 77. The Disarm Committee keeps us informed, involved, and enthusiastic.