FREE ZONES
NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE ZONES
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
STAND FOR PEACE
Free Zones stand for solidarity among the peoples of the world in working for a safer, more equitable future.
They stand for freedom from the threat of nuclear weapons and unity in confronting the real security challenges facing humanity – threats to people and planet like climate change, ecosystem loss, and racial and economic injustice.
DECLARE YOUR OWN
FREE ZONE!
Online or IRL, you can take a stand for peace by declaring the spaces you control Free Zones.
Download the icon pack below and get creative!
At home or work, on your socials, in your parish, or on your devices – recolor the symbol if you want, join the movement, declare your own Free Zone!
Free Zones are an invitation to take a stand for peace, people, and planet.
FREE ZONES
INSPIRATION
Individual agency,
collective power.
The peoples of Latin America, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa, and Mongolia all live in nuclear weapon free zones recognized by the United Nations.
Today, we live our lives increasingly online: it’s where we build community, learn and explore, and where we take a stand on the issues we care about.
So we got to thinking – what if we all declared our online spaces Free Zones?
What if the entire metaverse was a Free Zone?
History shows that while an individual act may not change the world, when many people act together, we have the power to make real change.
In the late 1970s, disarmament advocates in Aotearoa-New Zealand began encouraging citizens to post stickers declaring their homes, businesses, sports clubs, churches, and marae (Māori community centers) Nuclear Weapon Free Zones.
As momentum grew, nuclear free homes became streets, then suburbs, cities, regions, and eventually, a nuclear free nation. With 72% of New Zealanders living in self-declared Free Zones, Aotearoa was declared a Nuclear Free Zone by law.
What began as a symbolic act by individuals became a powerful movement for change.
That movement has echoed across the decades, for example, in Aotearoa’s leadership in helping create the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
“Alone, we can do so little. Together, we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller