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About WSLF

WSLF recognizes that nuclear weapons affect the environment, the economy, the role of violence in society, and democracy itself. Rather than enhancing our "national" security, nuclear weapons threaten our fundamental human security. WSLF seeks to abolish nuclear weapons, compel open public environmental review of nuclear technologies, and ensure appropriate management of nuclear waste. Grounded in nonviolence and rooted in both international and environmental law, the principle guiding WSLF's activities is democratization of decision making affecting nuclear weapons and related technologies.


Program areas:

• Research and analysis on current U.S. nuclear weapons policies, ongoing nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities, and their impacts on international security.
  
  
• Research and analysis on other high technology weapons programs, such as ballistic missile defense and efforts to further militarize outer space, which threaten international stability and make the elimination of nuclear arsenals more difficult to achieve.
  
  
• Assisting communities affected by the health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons research and production and of other nuclear technologies.
  
  
• Organizing for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

        In May, 2005 world leaders converged at the United Nations in New York City for the 5-year Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to discuss the fate of a treaty in serious disarray, its disarmament obligations largely ignored by major nuclear weapon states. In preparation for the Review Conference, citizens of the world mobilized for a nuclear-weapon-free world, a call embodied in the global grassroots campaign – Abolition Now! Dare to Plan!

        Spearheaded by Abolition 2000, a global network of over 2000 organizations working for a global treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons, Abolition Now! continues to work in collaboration with Mayors for Peace Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons to create the political will and commitment among individuals, citizen groups, community and civic leaders to call for concrete plans for a nuclear-weapon-free future and the total abolition of nuclear weapons by 2020.

        Western States Legal Foundation continues to be an active part of the Abolition Now campaign. For more information, visit WSLF's Abolition Now USA page, the web site of the international Abolition Now campaign, or contact Western States Legal Foundation.

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Affilations:

WSLF is a founding member of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. WSLF has been a member since 1989 of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, and is affiliated with the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, the International Peace Bureau, and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

Some notes on our site format:

We have tried to keep our site graphically simple so that it will load quickly on older equipment and in regions which do not offer fast internet connections. Many of our longer documents, however, are in acrobat pdf format, and are relatively large files. We have marked these downloads accordingly. Acrobat Reader for pdf files is available for free. You can go to the site where it is available for download by clicking here.

Contact Information:

Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director
Andrew Lichterman, Program Director

Western States Legal Foundation
1204 Preservation Park Way
Oakland, CA 94612 USA
phone: (510) 839-5877  
fax: (510) 839-5397  

webmaster(at)wslfweb.org

Site updated August 2, 2006.

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