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Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy Ray Acheson, Program Director, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy By Ray Acheson, Program Director, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Summary

This book is about the story of grassroots social movements and building a strategy for effective activism.

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy Summary

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Ray Acheson, Program Director, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Two years ago, at the United Nations in New York, activists and diplomats banned nuclear
weapons. This book covers the story of their collective activism-a story of courage and hope, as well as lessons learned, that will hopefully inform and inspire others working for social justice.

The story of banning the bomb belongs to these diplomats, along with activists who brought a
legacy of protest and vision for an alternative future to the international table. This is, ultimately, a story of resistance and of movement building. It is a story of people saying, !Ya basta!, enough, to the nuclear-armed governments. But this movement did not just reject what the nuclear-armed were offering. It consciously, creatively, and collectively sought to build something new-to generate and promote ideas, arguments, and frameworks that would disrupt mainstream myths and narratives about nuclear weapons, institute new international norms and laws, and ultimately set in place key mechanisms for the abolition of the atomic bomb.

I was directly involved in this work as an activist with one of the partner organizations of ICAN. I represented my organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), on ICAN's International Steering Group. The steering group is the policy-making body of ICAN, a group of ten activist organizations from around the world that works with ICAN's staff team to lead the campaign. As a genderqueer feminist peace activist, I tried to promote a feminist vision of both process and product in my work with ICAN-to bring theories and experiences of feminist and queer activists to the task of banning nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapon policy and discourse space is one that commonly reeks of toxic masculinity.

About Ray Acheson, Program Director, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Ray Acheson is currently Program Director, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, New York. As Director of WILPF's disarmament program, Reaching Critical Will, I lead the organization's work on stigmatizing war and violence, advocating for disarmament and arms control, and raising gender perspectives on militarism and weapons. I provide 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. I represent WILPF within the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. For ICAN, I worked closely with other activist partners and with governments to develop the key strategies and advocacy for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons from 2010 to 2017, when the Treaty was negotiated and adopted at the United Nations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Terminally Unserious: Ideologies and Oppressions of Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 2. Rage Against the Bomb: A Brief History of Antinuclear Efforts

Chapter 3. Reclaiming Our Time: Changing Discourse, Changing Minds

Chapter 4. Karaoke and Campaigning: Building a Case and a Community

Chapter 5. Revitalizing a Movement

Chapter 6. From Deterrence to Disarmament: How the Humanitarian Initiative Disrupted the Nuclear Weapon Orthodoxy

Chapter 7. Courage, My Love: How Nuclear-Free States Fought for the Ban

Chapter 8. Getting Our Ban On, Part One: The What

Chapter 9. Getting Our Ban On, Part Two: The How

Conclusion

Bibliography

Additional information

NGR9781786614896
9781786614896
1786614898
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Ray Acheson, Program Director, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
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Hardback
Rowman & Littlefield International
2021-06-25
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