Mayors for Peace
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Mayors for Peace is an international organization of cities, dedicated for the promotion of peace that was established in 1982 at the initiative of then mayor of Hiroshima Takeshi Araki.
The current mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, is an important figure in the organization today.
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Mayors for Peace was started in Japan and since then Mayors throughout the World have signed on. When Mayors sign on it means they support the commencement to negotiations of the elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2020.
In Western Massachusetts, a campaign was spearheaded by a coalition of the American Friends Service Committee (Shira Wolf, Jo Comerford, and Joyce Rosenfeld), the Buddhist Peace Pagoda in Leverett, and grassroots organizers from the Western Ma. After 2 years of hard working starting in Fall '05 and continuing today, all eleven Western Ma Mayors have signed on to the campaign.
This encouraged some legislative action, and the state Reps brought forth a resolution for nuclear abolition by 2020 which passed in the Massachusetts House and Senate. Now Senator Kennedy will be asked to bring the resolution to the federal level.
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