Naomi Watts and Valerie Plame Wilson Re-Team to Scrap Nukes, Save the Budget

Naomi Watts and Valerie Plame Wilson are teaming up – again – but this time it’s about more than whitewashing history via the big screen.

Watts portrayed the former CIA operative in ‘Fair Game,’ the 2010 feature on Wilson’s famous outing by a member of the Bush administration.

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Now, the two women are joining forces to compel the Obama administration to “cut nuclear weapons instead of education and other priorities.”

Their new Public Service Announcement asks citizens to sign a Global Zero pledge found at CutNukes.org. Global Zero is an international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Here’s some text from the just-released PSA:

Naomi: This fall our kids start the new school year in the middle of an economic crisis. There are fewer teachers and extra curricular programs, and more overcrowding in our schools.

Valerie: In the face of this global economic crisis governments around the world are slashing funding for education, and the things that really matter to most of us.

Naomi: Meanwhile over the next decade, governments will spend one trillion dollars on nuclear weapons globally.

Valerie: We’re both mothers, and along with Global Zero we’re urging our government to invest our tax dollars in essential things like education, jobs, health care and not in useless, dangerous weapons that belong in the dustbin of history.