As a sequel to the concert last year (6 August 2020) (VIDEO , 5’ 28’’), ACDN is organising in Saintes on 6-9 August 2021 a festival called "Disarm to Live". It is supported by the city, by several partners, and by citizens responding to a call for crowdfunding. Here is the programme and the list of speakers and performers (in order of appearance)
Alice Rosset, Pianist and Yuko Hirota, Franco-Japanese pianist (association Piano-no-ki)
Jérôme Pellistrandi (Général 2°S) Chief editor of the (...)

ACDN on April 5, the day its bilingual website received its millionth visit, is launching a last-ditch campaign to obtain the referendum that will enable the French people to open the path to the abolition of nuclear and radioactive weapons.
Parliamentarians and citizens, foreign supporters, please wake up while there is still time!
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Two major risks threaten the panet: climate change and nuclear technology. The first is not being combatted enough, but it is now universally (...)

On March 16, the United Kingdom released its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development, and Foreign Policy, in which it announced that it will increase the cap on its nuclear stockpile by over 44 percent, from 180 warheads to 260. The report also states the UK will no longer provide information about the size of its stockpile or its deployment, thus embracing deliberate ambiguity in its nuclear strategy. These two very dangerous moves increase the risk of nuclear escalation and (...)