Investing in Minds Not Missiles: Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War
Saturday, April 7, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm and Sunday, April 8 morning
MIT Room 34-101, 50 Vassar St, Cambridge
 Join us for our third annual conference!
This third conference in the 'Reducing the danger of nuclear war' series is intended to update everyone concerned about the extremely dangerous nuclear policies of the Trump administration and discuss what we can do as well as to reach out to campus-based students, faculty and staff who are among those Americans that will be hurt by coming limits in federal investment, due to the diversion of federal funds to the Pentagon’s dangerous $1.7 trillion taxpayer’s dollar nuclear weapons escalation.
Saturday sessions:
- Continuing Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Prof. Aron Bernstein, Prof. Elaine Scarry, Prof. Zia Mian, Stephanie Savell.
- International Initiatives Toward Disarmament: Joseph Gerson, Hon. John Tierney, Charles Knight; Chuck Johnson; Jim Anderson, Chair.
- Political Initiatives: John Tierney; Medea Benjamin; Kristina Romines; Jonathan King; Andrea Miller, Chair.
- Campus Organizing for Peace & Justice: What Works? What Doesn’t? Where next? Campus Peace leaders including Caitlin Forbes (Mass Peace Action), Kate Alexander (Peace Action of NY); Eric Stolar (Fordham); Luisa Kenausis (MIT).
- Actions for the Coming Period: Shout heard Round the World –Michelle Cunha; Poor Peoples 40 Day Campaign-Paul Johnson; Peace for Koreans - Mike VanElzakker; Cole Harrison, Chair.
Workshops:
Resisting the Trillion dollar Nuclear Weapons Escalation (Prof. Gary Goldstein; Peter Casey; Prof. Heidi Garrett-Peltier; Richard Krushnic; Guntram Mueller, Chair.
Congressional Budget-Civilian vs Pentagon (Andrea Miller; Stephanie Savell; Paul Shannon; Michelle Cunha, Chair).
Don’t Bank on the Bomb Divestment Campaigns (William Hartung, Lucas Perry, State Rep. Mike Connolly, Medea Benjamin; Councilor Dennis Carlone, Chair).
Preventing Nuclear Weapons Use (Lisbeth Gronlund; Dr. Kea van der Ziel; Prof. Elaine Scarry; Shelagh Foreman; Jerald Ross, Chair).
Sunday Morning Planning Breakfast:
Student-led session to design and implement programs enhancing existing campus groups, and organizing new ones; extending the network to campuses in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine;
Co-sponsored by: MIT Radius; American Friends Service Committee; Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security; Council for a Livable World; Institute for
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