45 new members bring membership to 2,170 - support needed
March 18, 2008
More details about all the 45 new member cities when you click on the link above
Between February 28th and March 18, 2008 another 45 cities have joined Mayors for Peace. Thus, the Conference involves 2,170 cities in 127 countries and regions around the world. New members are from Belgium (5), Canada (1), Czech Republic (1), Denmark (1), Italy (2), Japan (32), Luxembourg (2) and Spain (1). In February already 97 cities had joined the network.
With an average of 2 to 3 new member cities a day it is clear that the 2020 Vision campaign continuous to attract strong support. It doubled our expectation as we had hoped to attract at least one new member per day for the 2008 - 2010 period where we prepare the Decisive Decade for Nuclear Disarmament. We wish to thank all the Mayors, their staff and civil society for their ongoing support.
Further support needed
Between February 28th and March 18, 2008 another 45 cities have joined Mayors for Peace. Thus, the Conference involves 2,170 cities in 127 countries and regions around the world. New members are from Belgium (5), Canada (1), Czech Republic (1), Denmark (1), Italy (2), Japan (32), Luxembourg (2) and Spain (1). In February already 97 cities had joined the network.
With an average of 2 to 3 new member cities a day it is clear that the 2020 Vision campaign continuous to attract strong support. It doubled our expectation as we had hoped to attract at least one new member per day for the 2008 - 2010 period where we prepare the Decisive Decade for Nuclear Disarmament. We wish to thank all the Mayors, their staff and civil society for their ongoing support.
Further support needed
As the network is growing Hiroshima and Nagasaki invite the entire membership of over 2,000 cities to match their annual contribution of 250,000 euro in 2008. It is not normal that these 2 Japanese cities continue to carry the financial burden of the entire network. We are sure everybody agrees that it should be possible for over 2,000 cities to match financial contributions of the 2 Japanese cities which were victim to US atomic bombings in 1945. However support from outside Japan is slow, with the exception of Belgium where we now have 64 cities and municipalities committed to support the 2020 VIsion Campaign financially. We ask both Mayors, their staff and civil society to make it a top priority to table the resolution in support of the 2020 Vision Campaign to their council. You can find the draft resolution on http://www.2020visioncampaign.org/pages/325/
Note that the resolution is available in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Translations website
In the international campaign office we are now in the process of translating the 2020 Vision Campaign website in French and Spanish. Also other important documents should get translated systematically. This should make it possible to increase our presence and co-operation in regions where these languages play an important role such as large parts of Europe, Africa and South-America. We are looking for assistance. Please contact us if you know of a volunteer who wants to help with the translations.
Contact Jaira Valenzuela <jaira@2020visioncampaign.org>.
