On Facebook Live. Tune in for the WNYPC’s weekly taping of #TalkingPeace! With host Vicki Ross, WNYPC Executive Director. Recorded by #ThinkTwiceRadio: Home of the Future! Featuring:

1st hour: Mark Colville, Kings Bay Plowshares 7 – of the Amistad Catholic Worker, New Haven, Connecticut; Emily Rubino, Director of Policy & Outreach, Peace Action NYS

• • 1/22/21: Enter Into Force (EIF) day for the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
  • what that means to the US and other (nuclear-armed) non-ratifiers
  • Catholic Workers, KBP7
  • Nuclear Weapons as a gun to the World’s head
  • action steps: Back from the Brink campaign; call Congressional Reps

2nd hour:  Aisha Jumaan, President of the Yemen Relief & Reconstruction Foundation; Kawthar Abdullah, Lead Organizer NYC Chapter of Yemeni Alliance Committee

• • current situation in Yemen
  • International Day of Action for Yemen on 1/25
  • involvement of external actors including especially US
  • current needs [including personal stories]
  • what people can do to help (including urging Biden to rescind Trump Admin’s designation of Houthis as a terrorist group)
  • opportunities on 1/25