Join the MA coalition
Coalition partners include: Mass Peace Action | 350 Mass | Traprock Center for Peace and Justice | Center for Nonviolent Solutions | NuclearBan.US | Climate Action Now | Mass Interfaith Power and Light | New England Peace Pagoda | Better Future Project | Nuclear Free Future Coalition | First Churches Peace & Justice Northampton | Western Mass CodePink | Watertown Citizens for Peace | Justice and the Environment | Haydenville Congregational Church | Peace and Justice Steering Committee | Citizen’s Climate Lobby Hilltowns Mass Chapter | Pax Christi MA | Northampton Friends Meeting | Springfield Climate Justice Coalition | Progressive Democrats of America, MA | Newton Dialogues on Peace and War | Demilitarize Western Mass | Veterans for Peace, Smedley D. Butler Brigade | Framingham Friends Meeting
A coalition of organizations in Massachusetts who want to work together to address the twin existential threats of climate change and nuclear war at one and the same time. The coalition’s full demand is that the US and the other 8 nuclear armed nations eliminate their nuclear weapons, based on the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and use those human and financial resources to seriously address the climate crisis. In Massachusetts, the coalition works to bring awareness to these two joint issues of climate and nuclear weapons and influence broader action for this cause.
The Citizens Commission
Our state legislation, H. 738 and S.1488, calling for the creation of a Citizens Nuclear Weapons and Climate Commission in Massachusetts. This commission, appointed by state officials with recommendations from statewide peace and climate organizations, would investigate and advise on the state’s involvement and investment in nuclear weapons, and the transition of these resources to green technologies necessary for addressing the climate crisis.
Take Action!
We will be delivering a letter to Governor Maura Healey in November calling on her to establish the Commission. We are currently collecting names of organizations based in Massachusetts, names of elected officials representing an electorate in MA, and faith leaders representing a specific congregation in MA to join the letter. If you are authorized to represent an organization, a faith community, or a constituency in MA please read the letter here and sign on using this form.
If you do not fit in one of those roles you can still spread the word and share this with any colleagues who do!
Current Signatures:
Organizations:
- NuclearBan.US
- Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Massachusetts Peace Action
- Traprock Peace and Justice Center
- Pax Christi Newton Chapter
- Pax Christi MetroWest, Boston Chapter
- Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment
- Newton Dialogues on Peace and War
- MA Pax Christi
- St. Susanna Pax Christi Chapter
- Brookline Students for Nuclear Disarmament
- Demilitarize Western Mass
- Climate Action Now, Western Mass
- Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution
Elected Officials:
- Nicole LaChapelle, Mayor, Easthampton
- Gina-Louise Sciarra, Mayor, Northampton
- Joshua A. Garcia, Mayor, Holyoke
- Tony Palomba, City-Councilor-At-Large, Watertown
- Lindsay Sabadosa, State Representative, 1st Hampshire
Faith leaders:
- Martin Kelly, Associate Chaplain, College of the Holy Cross
Current Co-Sponsors include:
- Sen. Joanne Comerford (D – Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester)
- Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa (D – 1st Hampshire)
- Rep. Jack Patrick Lewis (D – 7th Middlesex)
- Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven (D – 27th Middlesex)
- Rep. Natalie Higgins (D – 4th Worcester)
- Rep. David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf (D – 17th Worcester)
- Rep. Patrick Joseph Kearney (D – 4th Plymouth)
- Rep. Tommy Vitolo (D – 15th Norfolk)
- Rep. Ruth Balser (D – 12th Middlesex)
- Rep. Simon Cataldo (D – 14th Middlesex)
- Rep. Samantha Montaño (D – 15th Suffolk)
- Rep. James Arena-DeRosa (D – 8th Middlesex)
- Rep. Mike Connolly (D – 26th Middlesex)
- Rep. Carmine Lawrence Gentile (D – 13th Middlesex)
- Rep. Kay Khan (D – 11th Middlesex)
- Rep. Danillo A. Sena (D – 37th Middlesex)
- Rep. Marjorie C. Decker (D – 25th Middlesex)
- Rep. Mary S. Keefe (D – 15th Worcester)
- Sen. Jacob R. Oliveira (D – Hampden, Hampshire and Worcester)