Please join us at Portland City Hall on Wednesday, November 13th, 3:30 pm as the Portland City Council considers two important resolutions: one in support the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and a second advocates for diplomacy, not war, with Iran. Wear blue to show your support for peace and diplomacy!
Oregon PSR and American Iranian Friendship Council have been working with Commissioner Amanda Fritz who is introducing both resolutions at the Portland City Council hearing on Wednesday, November 13th, 3:30 pm.
The City Council will hear the resolution supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and urging congress to take action to prevent nuclear war at 3:30 pm. This resolution, which is based on state Senate Joint Memorial 5, acknowledges that Portland taxpayers are spending roughly $142,413,000 annually on nuclear weapons, money that could be better spent on healthcare, education, infrastructure, and the environment. It calls out the racial injustice and harm to human health that nuclear weapons have already caused from uranium mining on indigenous land to weapons testing in the Marshall Islands to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the contamination of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The resolution is part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons's (ICAN) #ICanSave my city campaign and the "Back from the Brink" Campaign. Read the draft resolution language.
On the same date, at 3:55 PM, the city council will also hear a resolution to support diplomacy, not war, with Iran. This resolution was developed by the American Iranian Friendship Council, a local group of Iranian Americans and others who have deep ties with Iran. Read the draft resolution language.
American Iranian Friendship Council, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, 350PDX, American Friends Service Committee Oregon, Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)*, Augustana Lutheran Church, Coalition of Communities of Color*, Code Pink, COFA Alliance National Network (CANN)*, Columbia Riverkeeper*, Democratic Party of Multnomah County, Environmentalists Against War, Living Earth, Living Islands*, National Association of Atomic Veterans, OPAL Environmental Justice, Oregon Women's Action for New Directions (WAND), Peace Action Group, First Unitarian Church, Peace and Justice Works **, Portland Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC), Sierra Club, Oregon Chapter, Soka-Gakkai USA*, Union of Concerned Scientists *, Unite Oregon, Verde *, Veterans for Peace Chapter 72 and more.
(* nuclear weapons resolution only, ** Iran resolution only)
Organizations endorsing the resolution to “Urge our Federal Government to engage in diplomacy with Iran”
Organizations endorsing the resolution to “Declare City’s opposition to nuclear weapons and urge the U.S Federal Government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons"