Increasing your Voice
Political Advocacy for a Nuclear
Ban
Xanthe Hall, IPPNW / Philipp Holz, ICAN

Disarmament from ‘below’
What happens when you
need your government to
change its policy, but you
can’t get them to listen?

Increase your Voice
USUAL TOOLS
 Petition
 Opinion poll
 Social Media
 and so on...

Increase your Voice
TOOLS WE USE
 Parliamentary Pledge
 Cities Appeal
 Federal State declarations
 „Friends of the TPNW“

Parliamentary Pledge
We have over 500 parliamentarians in:
 Regional parliaments
 Bundestag (national parliament)
 European Parlament

Spreading the Pledge

Cities Appeal
• 64 cities since February in Germany
• of which 12 federal state capitals
• 21% of the population is represented
• Aim to get all state capitals and over 50%
of population

Federal State declarations
• Can take between one and two years of
persistence
• Get yourself invited to speak
• Need a majority in regional govt, or one party
needs to persuade others
• Bremen (5.12.2017), Berlin (9.5.2019),
Rheinland-Pfalz (22.8.2019)

Friends of the TPNW
• MPs from across parties join together
• Organise event with ICAN speaker
• Cross-party parliamentary action

A Matter of Conscience
Party line
Conscience
I #nuclearban

Find open Doors
STRATEGY
 Develop strategies for each political party –
decide on focus
 Listen to arguments of parties that oppose
you and develop counter arguments for your
supporters
 Have a stand at party conferences with the
Parliamentary Pledge ready to sign

‘Follow my leader’ ;)
STRATEGY
 Look for leading politicians to make speeches
supporting the nuclear ban
 Use church leaders to speak to Christian
democrats

Thanks for listening
Please support the #nuclearban
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Xanthe Hall, IPPNW | Philipp Holz, ICAN
xanthe@ippnw.de | philipp@ican.berlin