Projects

YOU have an idea for a Youth Project against nuclear weapons?
You want to do this in the name of BANg?
You need support?
You want to become your project an offical BANg project, spread informations through our email-list and report on it on this website?
Than please fill in this application form and send it to contact@bang-europe.org and/or to our email-list. You can find the guidelines for setting up a BANg-project here.

In July 2008 we send a report for "UN Secretary General on Disarmament and non-Proliferation Education" reporting on our Projects from 2006 until 2008, written by Giorgio Alba.

This BANg-projects already took place:

• In May 2009 two BANg members attended the NPT Preparatory Committee in New York and wrote articles and press releases which were read and spread over the BANg network. They also supported the second simulation of negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons convention done by 30 students from the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. more!
  
  
• November 2008: The local BANg group in Bretten did a "My cup of Tea" in the pedestrian area in Bretten. more!
  
  
• August 2008: 10 BANg members joined an action camp in Büchel, Germany where still 20 US-Nuclear Weapons deployed as part of the NATO nuclear sharing. The action camp was organized by the campaign "Unsere Zukunft - atomwaffenfrei" (atomwaffenfrei.de) and ended with a big demonstration and concert. BANg had a lot of colorful actions like clowning, street- theater and we showed a Hiroshima-Nagasaki exhibition to the soldiers until the police send us away. more!
  
  
• April/May 2008: BANg organized a youth and student delegation to the NPT PrepCom in Geneva. The over 80 participants stayed in a nuclear bunker, witnessed the negotiations, held a youth speech to the plenary, and did street information actions and performances (with IPPNW students). They held a negotiation simulation on a Nuclear Weapons Convention on the 3rd of May, organized by INESAP and ZIT Darmstadt, and in the preparation for this the simulation delegations had talks with the real delegations, thus raising awareness about the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention among diplomats. more!
  
  
• March 2008: BANg and the Germaneducational project "Nuclear Weapons Policy: Learn - Experience - Participate" published the educational poster "Nuclear Weapons in Europe" for schools and workshops in English and German. more!
  
  
• Summer 2007: Various other colourful demonstrations and blockades in Schottland and France. more!
  
  
• August 2007: BANg has been able to send five young women between 16 and 21 on board of Peace Boat to travel to New York.more!
  
  
• July 2007: BANg has organized an EU-sponsored program with 20 people, consisting of an Action Academy at Faslane nuclear base at Scotland (including renowned experts like Dr. Rebecca Johnson and Regina Hagen, and a non-violent action at the nuclear submarine base, as part of Faslane 365), a postcard competition and a media campaign to follow (postcards, documentary film, educational poster). more!
  
  
• May 2007: BANg had a delegation of around 25 young people to the NPT PrepCom in Vienna, Austria. BANg delivered the youth speech to the plenary of the conference, which had been developed via an international Email list. Also, daily actions like juggling with "nuclear balls", banners, chalking, or planting a sunflower peace symbol, have been part of the activities to remind the delegates of disarmament, like one banner posed it, as "your duty - our future".more!



• In June BANg released the multilingual DVD "Genie in a Bottle - Unleashed", with the short film of the same title, made by two 13 year old boys from the US, on the story of the nuclear genie, the Manhattan Project and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The DVD also contains numerous other short films and information items. Over 70 people were involved in or contributed to the voluntary project. more!
  
  
• August 2006: Participation in the "Youth for a Nuclear Free Europe" event of Friends of the Earth Belgium, in which context BANg hold a member meeting with around 30 participants. Part of the activities with youth from 13 countries were a bike tour through Mayors for Peace member cities, actions at NATO headquarter SHAPE and Nuclear Weapons Base "Kleine Brogel", as well as commemorations of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. more!
  
  
• May 2006: Workshop "The challenge to create a colorful, creative and effective youth network for nuclear disarmament at the European" IPPNW Students Conference in Naples, Italy. more!
  
  
• March 2006: Participation with the support of Tri-Valley CAREs in DC Days of Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) lobbying in Washington, USA. Meetings with the US youth network "Think Outside the Bomb" members.
  
  
• October 2005: Founding meeting in Milano, Italy, with 20 people from 7 countries. more!