Some companies — and there are lists showing which ones — make a lot of money by helping build and maintain nuclear weapons. When Metta spoke with Alyn he was hosting a meeting in Basel, Switzerland for organizations that intend to get investors to take their money out of these companies and force them to quit that horrible business. That’s a promising way of promoting the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 

https://youtu.be/PHCddyuBhZw   (video version 21 Jan, 2019)

• Alyn Ware, Parliamentarian Network for Nuclear Disarmament, in conversation with the host, Metta Spencer.

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