Making nukes history

Supporter-

Yesterday, President Obama signed a treaty that commits to cutting stockpiles of nuclear weapons.

For decades, people of faith have been working together to realize the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, but as of now, no road map to nuclear disarmament exists. The treaty President Obama signed yesterday could be a huge step toward a future with real security free of nuclear weapons - but only if it is approved by the Senate.

That's why I wanted to forward along this message from our friends at TrueMajority, who are working to make sure the Senate realizes how important this treaty is to our safety, our security, and our values.

I hope you'll join them by taking action today to urge the Senate to ratify this important treaty and to stand up for a world without nuclear weapons.

Thanks for all that you do.

Beth

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We've been working on nuclear disarmament for decades. Obama's given us a real chance to make progress. Help me tell our leaders to follow through.

Dear friend,

Like a lot of you, I've been working to reduce our dangerous and expensive nuclear weapons stockpile for a lot of years. Remember when Jerry and I first came out with the Peace Pop, back in 1988, to call attention to the need to change our priorities?

And those of you who have been reading these emails for a while know that when I started TrueMajority we always had nuclear disarmament as a top priority. Hard to improve the world for our kids if we blow it up first!

Well, unfortunately we haven't been making much progress for a while. In fact, the country's stack of strategic nuclear warheads has stayed at the same crazy level for nearly 20 years.

Until now. The new nuclear arms reduction treaty which President Obama signed yesterday with Russia's President Medvedev will start cutting those stockpiles again. It's a fantastic step toward closing the book on the Cold War, at last. That is, IF the Senate approves the treaty.

That's where we all come in, as usual - making sure our elected officials stick to the will of US, the people. And as usual, we've made it really easy. Just click here to add your name to the petition put together by our friends at Global Zero and join the list of Americans who want to dismantle thousands of nuclear weapons by approving this treaty.

http://www.truemajority.org/nuclearnightmare/FA

More than 30,000 TrueMajority members have already signed on, and Global Zero will be delivering the names to world leaders next week, so make sure yours is one of them.

There will be a lot more to do before we achieve our goal of total nuclear disarmament. But this is real, and important. Making changes like this is why we started TrueMajority - so sign your name, pass the message on to your friends and seize the moment.

Ben Cohen
Founder, Truemajority.org,
Co-founder, Ben & Jerry's