Oct 23, 2023 | Campaign Updates, Latest News
WRITE TO YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TODAY The horrific war in Israel and Gaza is the latest reminder that the world is a nuclear tinderbox—one bad decision or miscalculation away from nuclear war—and it’s well past time to get serious about getting rid of nuclear weapons....
Oct 4, 2023 | BftB Resolutions, Campaign Updates, Latest News
On October 3, the City of Madison, Wisconsin approved a Back from the Brink resolution with a commitment ton nuclear weapons free contracts and investments. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and 12 Alders co-sponsored the Resolution. See the Mayor’s blog at...
Sep 15, 2023 | Campaign Updates, Latest News
BftB is proud to announce that the National Baptist Convention of America has endorsed Back from the Brink. The endorsement followed a presentation by Dr. Ira Helfand on September 14 at the 143rd annual session of the National Baptist Convention of America...
Sep 12, 2023 | Campaign Updates, Latest News
SEE OUR NEW ONE-CLICK ACTION ☝️ Launched on October 23, 2023. ———- This fall, Back from the Brink will be organizing around the 2nd Meeting of States Parties (2MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which will be held in New...
Sep 6, 2023 | BftB Resolutions, Campaign Updates, Latest News
On August 23, 2023, the South Salt Lake City Council unanimously adopted a resolution and proclamation that endorses the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and Back from the Brink’s (BftB’s) common sense policy solutions to prevent nuclear...
Aug 2, 2023 | Campaign Updates, Latest News
More than 100 medical journals, including the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the JAMA issued a joint call for urgent steps to decrease the growing danger of nuclear war and to move rapidly to the elimination of nuclear...
Jul 30, 2023 | Campaign Updates, Latest News
Back from the Brink (BftB) activists and supporters around the country are doing all they can to use this summer’s release of the Christopher Nolan film, Oppenheimer, to educate and engage their communities about nuclear weapons, the harm they continue to cause, and...
Jul 6, 2023 | BftB Resolutions, Campaign Updates, Latest News
On Tuesday June 20, 2022, the South Portland City Council unanimously adopted a resolution “Calling Upon the United States Government to Lead a Global Effort to Prevent the Use of Nuclear Weapons” introduced by City Councilor Natalie West and proposed by the...
Jun 5, 2023 | Campaign Updates, Latest News
For immediate release: June 5, 2023 Contact: Jackie Cabasso, Mayors for Peace North American Coordinator, (510) 306-0119; wslf@earthlink.net U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts New Resolution “Calling for Urgent Action to Avoid Nuclear War, Resolve the Ukraine Conflict,...
Jun 5, 2023 | Campaign Updates, Events, Latest News
Back from the Brink’s Growing Support for Nuclear Abolition webinar held on May 31 with Congressman Jim McGovern and 140 folks from around the country was truly inspiring. We express our deepest appreciation to the Congressman for his wisdom and insights...
