Left to right: Sheila Allen (Yolo County Supervisor, District 4), Angel Barajas (Yolo County Supervisor, District 5), Doug Walter, Genevieve Diane Colborn, Tom Pattison, Mary Vixie Sandy (Yolo County Board Chair and Supervisor, District 3), Sarah Pattison, Lucas Frerichs (Yolo County Supervisor, District 2), Judy Reynolds, Oscar Villegas (Yolo County Supervisor, District 1)
On July 22, 2025, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, located in California’s northern Central Valley region, unanimously approved a resolution calling on the United States to lead a global effort to prevent nuclear war and declaring August 6th as Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembrance Day.
The resolution makes a number of important findings regarding past harms and current threats posed by nuclear weapons, calls on the Congress of the United States to pass H. Res. 317, and also urges the U.S. to embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
The resolution was sponsored by the Davis Committee Against Nuclear Weapons (DavisCAN), a local grassroots group in Yolo County that serves as a local Hub for Back from the Brink.
In presenting the resolution, Supervisor Lucas Frerichs pointed out that it was not the first time the county had taken a position on the nuclear threat, noting their predecessors in 1982 had adopted a resolution in support of the California Bilateral Nuclear Arms Freeze Initiative.
