Corporate Stances

What We Say

Corporate Stance on Bilateral Nuclear Disarmament
And the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael call upon the United States government to change the United States military policy to declare that nuclear weapons are not legitimate as political instruments or weapons of war and that this nation will never use nuclear weapons on a first strike basis. We call on our government to lead the way for global abolition of nuclear and all other weapons of mass destruction by adopting a plan to lock down, reduce, and eliminate all weapons of mass destruction. We call for immediate development, adoption, and implementation of a plan that will ensure that there will be no new nuclear weapons, no new materials for nuclear weapons, and no testing of nuclear weapons.

Adopted 1982;
updated November 2006

What We Do

     We have been participating in early morning vigils at Livermore Lab twice a year:  on Good Friday and in August on the anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The option for civil nonviolent disobedience is part of this demonstration.

     We have participated in the Nevada Desert Experience in Las Vegas, marching out to the  U.S. nuclear test site on sacred Indian grounds in the desert. The option for civil nonviolent disobedience is part of this demonstration..

     We lobby our legislators to limit the creation of new nuclear/chemical/biological weapons and to reduce our huge nuclear arsenal (stockpiles), especially those on “red alert,” as we hope and pray to move towards the total elimination of weapons of mass destruction. We also lobby against the U.S. movement towards the militarization of space.

     We have extended our stance against death-dealing weapons by lobbying against the U.S. weapons export cartel. The lucrative U.S. world-wide sale of arms has caused unknown millions of lives among warring nations. We also work to establish laws regulating gun control in our own country (Coalition to Control Gun Violence), a daunting project in the face of the strength of gun lobbyists in Washington.

     With our Enaid Jones Social Justice monies, we financially support organizations who work for the elimination of nuclear weapons (i.e. Plowshares Fund, Council for a Livable World, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation).