SFVP News:

Santa Fe Veterans for Peace (SFVP) invites the community to Ashley Pond Park 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22 to celebrate the first anniversary of Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Monday, SFVP paused to honor the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an apostle for nonviolence. A week later they celebrate the first anniversary of another milestone toward peace: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force Jan. 22, 2021.

This is the Treaty that prohibits states parties from developing, testing, producing, manufacturing, acquiring, possessing or stockpiling nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.

A year ago, 86 signatories including 59 nation states signed the Treaty making nuclear weapons illegal in international law. (Predictably, nuclear-weapons powers—US, UK, Israel, France, Pakistan, India, China, and North Korea with their total of 17,270 weapons—did not. https://www.sipri.org/yearbook/2013/06)

The Santa Fe Chapter of Veterans for Peace and other organizations invite the community to join together Saturday at Ashley Pond Park to honor Dr. King and celebrate the first anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Martín Luther King, Jr., who lived his life then gave it for peace, would be there to tell our leaders again and yet again, that the way to peace is not mutually assured destruction, but equity under the law. The budget is a moral document—it needs to fund our values. SFVP asks the community to join them in solidarity to show its values are equity and justice rather than supporting the unending pandemic of nuclear weapons.