With one day left in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, a new draft text is out. It takes the urgency and concreteness out of nuclear disarmament, but retains some important language. See our latest report for a quick assessment & more: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
Ray Acheson
@rayacheson.bsky.social
they/them. abolitionist, antinuclear. author: Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages. organizer at reachingcriticalwill.org. writer at counterpunch.org. more at rayacheson.com.
As the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference enters its final week, nuclear-armed states are trying to systematically weaken their commitments to nuclear disarmament. This morning’s meeting was closed to civil society, but was open yesterday: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
New draft, new discussions, but same debates. The members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are three weeks into the Review Conference but serious challenges remain, especially over the core issue of nuclear disarmament. Get the scoop with our latest: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
As delegations attending the NPT Review Conference complete their first read-through of the zero draft outcome document, it seems clear that the divergences among states’ positions are as stark as ever. Catch up on all the discussions with our latest report: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Committee’s discussions on non-proliferation and nuclear energy are struggling to reconcile with their incompatibility, and with the fact that the key driver of proliferation is the failure to disarm. Catch up with our latest! 📰: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference continues its work, but to what end? The nuclear-armed states still refuse disarm, but as activists, experts, and many delegations point out, action is imperative to prevent disaster and build peace. 📰: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
The Prairieland 9 were labeled ‘Antifa terrorists’ even before trial — for carpooling, wearing black, carrying a first-aid kit, and joining a book club. Insights from: @willpotter.bsky.social @crimethinc.com @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @rayacheson.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social
From Activists to Terrorists
On June 28, 2025, locals from Dallas-Fort Worth met for a potluck dinner at a community garden, a garden that allows residents to partake in the seasonal
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Week one of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference is a wrap! Our report analyses and summarises key discussions from the opening session and general debate, and has several commentaries and advocacy articles from other contributors! 📰: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
The Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons starts Monday. See the preview edition of our NPT News in Review for our recommendations for action and join us over the next month as we work for nuclear abolition! 📰: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
125 organisations, including @wilpf.bsky.social, released an open call to all states to end support for US extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The letter reminds states that continuing to provide support could expose them to legal responsibility.
An Open Call to All States to Stop Facilitating US Extrajudicial Killings
125 organizations released an open call to all States to end support for US extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, and reminding States that continuing to provide support could...
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As the disarmament community prepares for the NPT RevCon, our April E-News features recent developments related to wars and weapons, the worldwide resistance against further violence, and an important announcement from the RCW team. Check it out: www.reachingcriticalwill.org/news/newslet...
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
In response to the US President’s threats to commit genocide against Iran and ongoing Israeli-US war crimes in their illegal war of aggression, @wilpf.bsky.social has issued the following statement calling on everyone to work to end this war and to urgently abolish nuclear weapons.
WILPF Condemns the US Government’s Threat of Genocide Against Iran
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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is holding its next Review Conference starting 27 April. We’ve updated our Briefing Book to provide analysis of the current context, updates on critical issues, and recommendations. Nuclear abolition is needed now! 📘: reachingcriticalwill.org/resources/pu...
Our March E-News it out! 🗞️ Amidst increasing use of AI in warfare and talks of nuclear expansion, our newsletter offers some hope to inspire new actions. Read here: www.reachingcriticalwill.org/news/newslet...
Last week, governments met for the latest round of talks on autonomous weapons, as the US and Israel ramped up their use of AI in attacks on Iran, Gaza, and more. Urgent action is required to prohibit and regulate these weapons now. See our latest report. 📰: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
Once again, the US and Israel have launched an unlawful war of aggression against another country, complete with false claims about WMD. We are being marched deeper into a global hellscape of carnage and chaos, but opportunities to resist abound. My latest for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social.
Boys With Toys Try to Blow Up Iran
Once again, the United States and Israel have launched an unlawful war of aggression against another country. Once again, US and Israeli officials claim “self-defense” and “pre-emption,” attempting to...
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Once again, the United States and Israel have launched an unlawful war of aggression against another country. The unconscionable harm to civilians in Iran and beyond, the destruction of international law, and the militarised bullying must end now. 📃: reachingcriticalwill.org/news/latest-...
It’s been a challenging year so far, with ongoing and new imperial military action, occupation, and genocide. But resistance is underway, all over, at all levels! Our February E-News highlights recent developments and the actions to build a better world. reachingcriticalwill.org/news/newslet...
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Thursday at 7 PM ET events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
@attackerman.bsky.social on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable.
“Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter
Spencer Ackerman on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable.
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The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
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Join us on 11 February at this webinar hosted by @ippnw.bsky.social Canada. @rayacheson.bsky.social and Lovely Umayam will discuss disarmament, abolition of state violence, and art as resistance. 🕰️: 17:00 PST / 20:00 EST Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A horrific new report from Al Jazeera about Israel’s use of thermal and thermobaric weapons provided by the United States reveals how munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. The supply chain is evidence of complicity in genocide and war crimes.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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As the US sends an armada to Iran and threatens to strike, diplomacy and dialogue are imperative. War is not a nuclear non-proliferation strategy and the imperialist designs of Israel and the United States must not be supported. 📃: reachingcriticalwill.org/news/latest-...
From the United States' new Board of War Criminals to the Canadian Prime Minister’s speech at Davos, imperial states are jostling to control the international system. It’s clear we need a real alternative rooted in human rights, justice, and demilitarisation: reachingcriticalwill.org/news/latest-...
Join us for our second webinar with organizers from FL, KS, and CA on how they are resisting detention expansion to Abolish ICE! 📆Thursday, February 19th, 2026 at 13:00-14:30 PT/ 15:00-16:30 CT/ 16:00-17:30 ET 🔗Register here: bit.ly/RESISTANCE101
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
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