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ICAN-UK CAMPAIGN ACTIONS
 
1. Write to your MP and ask them to sign EDM 498 on a Nuclear Weapons Convention:

    ICAN-UK needs your help to get more MPs to support a Nuclear
    Weapons Convention (NWC)

Since November 2007, over 170 MPs have signed Early Day Motions (EDM 72 in 2007/08 or EDM 1282 in 2008/09 or EDM 144 in 2009/10) supporting a NWC. The majority of these are either Labour or Liberal Democrat MPs.
 
So far, only three Conservative MPs are pro-NWC and none voted against replacing Trident in 2007. However, since the economic crisis, a new cross-party debate has begun over whether Trident is affordable and desirable.
 
ICAN-UK is calling on the Government to show real leadership in the world by scrapping Trident and entering multilateral negotiations towards the verifiable global abolition of nuclear weapons. We therefore need people to write to their MPs and lobby them to support a NWC by signing EDM 498.
 
Furthermore, there are 34 MPs who voted against replacing Trident in 2007 but haven't yet signed an EDM in support of a NWC.
 
So we particularly need people who are constituents of these 34 MPs to write to them and explain why the Government should back a NWC.
 
Please let us know if you receive a reply from your MP or about any other progress you make.
 
For a model email to send to your MP, click here.
 
To see who's already signed EDM 72 (2007/08), click here.
 
To see who's already signed EDM 1282 (2008/09), click here.
 
To see who's already signed EDM 144 (2009/10), click here.
 
 
2. Email your MP- Trident and the Strategic Defence and Security Review 
 
Encourage your MP to put pressure on the government to move on from the 'old politics' and include Trident in the Strategic Defence and Security Review. 
 
You can do this by using CND's online lobbying tool to ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 110 - Trident and the Strategic Defence and Security Review- which has been launched with cross-party support.
 
With many new MPs in the House of Commons, your correspondence will have more impact than ever, so please make sure your MP adds their name.
 
 
3. Add your message to the Million Pleas website

 
ICAN's new Million Pleas initiative aims to gather one million pleas from people all over the globe calling on the leaders of nine nations to finally retire their nuclear weapons.
 
The initiative was launched by ICAN on 6th August 2010, the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, just three days before a second atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
 
Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only cities ever to have had nuclear weapons used against them in war, though thousands of nuclear tests have been conducted around the world since.      
 
Visit millionpleas.com to:     
 

  • View the film: Million Pleas features a special promotion filmed in Hiroshima of school children and Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) saying “please” rid the world of nuclear weapons. It appears in both English-only versions and Japanese/English versions.

 

  • See the Pleas: You can then view the videos and messages from thousands of other people already sending their plea for a world free of nuclear weapons.

 

  • Add your own plea: voice your support for nuclear disarmament by uploading your personal plea at www.millionpleas.com through a short YouTube video, Facebook or Twitter! If you don’t have access to these but can send an email, there is that option too!

 

  • Share this with your friends: share this new campaign with your friends and family, helping to create the worlds longest video letter!

 
Its simple to participate – just say please!
 

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Survey Results: Lobby your election candidates
 
CND set up an online tool so that constituents could find out where their election candidates stand on Trident and a Nuclear Weapons Convention.
 
See the results here.
 
 
Thank You! Over 40,000 signatures for our petition: 
   
No Trident Replacement - Yes to a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC)
 
This petition has now closed. It was presented during the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations in New York and to a representative of the UK Government at the United Nations.
 

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