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Shop nowBanning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
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Learn moreWith so much at stake, from climate change and reproductive rights to threats from weapons of mass destruction and police brutality, the last decade has seen ordinary people take to the streets to challenge and change the way our governments and institutions legislate our future. Movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo have had an incredible impact on public understandings and political commitments, showing the meaningful change that social movements and popular resistance can have on our world.
The story in this book offers a look inside the antinuclear movement and its recent successful campaign to ban the bomb. Ray Acheson narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons—from scrappy organizing to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and achieving a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons—and developments in feminist disarmament activism.
Ray Acheson is currently the program director for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, New York. As director of WILPF's disarmament program, Reaching Critical Will, Acheson leads the organization's work on stigmatizing war and violence, advocating for disarmament and arms control, and raising gender perspectives on militarism and weapons. Acheson provides analysis, reporting, research, and advocacy across of range of issues, including nuclear weapons, armed drones, autonomous weapons, small arms, the arms trade, and the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. Acheson represents WILPF within the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.