NYC War Resisters League

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Nuclear weapons Nonproliferation Treaty conference @ UN, April 27-May 22. Join us for two important actions to demand that the conference take real steps toward abolishing nuclear weapons!

Sunday, April 26, 2026 – 10:00 a.m.
Meet on the steps of the New York Public Library, 5th Ave. and 41st St.
Facebook event page
Rally with music and speakers, including Japanese & Korean Hibakusha, members of their delegations to the Treaty conference, and U.S. antinuclear activists.
10:45 – Noon Procession begins, walking across 42nd Street to the Isaiah Wall across from the UN and on to Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, ending at Noon.
All invited! Safe and permitted with about 200 expected.
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Wednesday, April 29 – 9 – 10 a.m. vigil across from UN as delegates arrive for the Nonproliferation Treat conference, continuing our demand for a nuclear-free world.
See the Facebook event page

Initiated by Manhattan for a Nuclear-Free World, with NYC War Resisters League, NY Peace Action, NYS Pax Christi, Raging Grannies, and a long list of co-sponsors including Abolition 2000; Back from the Brink; Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; Gensuikin (Japan Congress against A- & H-Bombs); Gensuikyo (Japan Council against A & H- Bombs); Nihon Hidankyo (Japanese Confederation of A- & H- Bomb Survivors Organizations); International Peace Bureau; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; Massachusetts Peace Action; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; SPARK; Western States Legal Foundation; World Beyond War.

TAX DAY – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 – outside the Manhattan IRS office
Thanks to everyone for coming out!

Initiated by NYC War Resisters League and Taxpayers Against Genocide and co-sponsored by Brooklyn For Peace, Pax Christi NYS, Peace Action NYS, Peace Action Staten Island, CAIR New York, Theater Workers for a Ceasefire, NYC Jericho Movement, Veterans for Peace NYC, World Can’t Wait, NYC Catholic Worker, Kairos Community, NYC Metro Raging Grannies, CodePink NYC

Stop Killing in Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen — and throughout the region! NO to war on Iran!
Refuse to pay taxes for war!
Contact us for a war tax resistance presentation or workshop.
See more info and resources here

Links for Ongoing Actions in NYC:
ICE and Everything Trump Administration: riseandresist.org
Jewish Voice for Peace NYC
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights – National
NYC Protest calendar (all types)
Resources and links on WRL National website
Support Israeli Conscientious Objectors and resisters – Refuser Solidarity Network
War Resisters’ International organizing internationally against war and supporting war resisters around the world

War Resisters League has been around more than 100 years!h year, founded on October 19, 1923. Read the history blog posts and see other centennial info here.

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