Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace
PO Box 363
Geneseo NY 14454
 
<www.gvcp.org> 
585-624-3673
February 19, 2015

Dear GVCP Member:

NEXT GVCP MEETING is SATURDAY, March 7th 1:00 PM (Lunch), 1:30 PM (Meeting).  Omega Restaurant, 4182 Lakeville Road, Geneseo.

Save the Date:  (From PANYS) We look forward to seeing everyone at the PANYS Annual Meeting on Saturday evening, April 25th, in NYC (place TBD).  This meeting will take place right after the International Peace & Planet Conference for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just, and Sustainable World that will take place on Friday April 24th and Saturday, April 25th, in New York City.

This International Peace & Planet Conference will be held on the eve of the Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.  It is being organized on the basis of five themes: Nuclear weapons abolition; Move the money (cutting military spending to prevent wars and fund essential human needs); Climate change and environmental justice; The new era of global military tensions and wars; and Racism and Militarism.

Through plenaries and workshops, the Conference Program will allow people to share information and analyses, build and further integrate our movements for the longer term, and increase our impact on the NPT Review Conference.  In addition to the five themes, a youth track is being organized.

On Sunday, April 26th—the day before the 2015 NPT Review Conference begins—peace activists will gather by the thousands in the streets of New York City for an international rally and march to the United Nations.  On the streets and in front of the U.N., activists from around the world–with 2,000 from Japan, including Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)–will make our demands for a nuclear-free world, for racial, economic, social, and environmental justice, and for an end to military crises and wars.

The Peace & Planet website is an excellent way to find out all the details of these April actions: http://www.peaceandplanet.org/mobilization/

My thought is that some GVCP members will want to participate in the conference, the annual meeting, and the rally and march in NYC.  I assume that members of our sister group, Geneseo Peace Action, will want to participate as well.  Possibly those of us who can’t be at the conference and rally could organize a local demonstration, in support of the activities in NYC.  Let’s discuss this at the March 7th meeting.

Peace,

Arnie Matlin for GVCP

GVCP is proud to be a chapter of Peace Action New York State