Cluster Bomb Survivors Tour Midwest

“NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of East Lansing hereby urges Congress to enact legislation that would prohibit military use of cluster bombs and encourage participation in a global ban.” ~Resolution passed unanimously by the East Lansing, MI, city council, declaring cluster bomb awareness week and urging the United States to ban cluster bombs

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Cluster Bomb Survivors Tour receives mayoral proclamation from City of Lansing, MI.

This resolution was one of the many tangible results from the Cluster Bomb Survivors Tour, which traveled through the Midwest in early October. The tour stopped in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana and included meetings with elected officials, in places of worship, at the Arab American National Museum, and on college campuses.

Organized by FCNL and sponsored by the United States Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs, the tour included a 17-year old Afghan boy who lost both legs to a cluster bomb, the father of a five-year-old boy killed by these weapons in south Lebanon, and the mother of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq while cleaning up U.S.-dropped cluster bomblets.

The tour’s goal was to build public support for legislation that would effectively prohibit the United States from using and exporting cluster bombs and to encourage support for the U.S. entry into the global cluster bomb treaty that more than 120 nations will sign in December.

See the tour blog on FCNL’s website, and read press reports of the tour.