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Hear Peace Activists from Russia, India, U.S. discuss Nuclear Disarmament
Hear Peace Activists from Russia, India, U.S. discuss Nuclear Disarmament
To Al Johnson
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Nuclear Disarmament in a Changing World: Russian and Indian Peace Movement Perspectives
Tuesday, May 7
7:00-9:00 PM
Community Church
of Boston
565 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Dear Al,
Join two Russian and one Indian peace and disarmament movement leaders for an in-depth discussion of US-Russia relations, India-Pakistan relations, and the challenges to peace posed by each.
The speakers are in the U.S. to participate in the “Growing Nuclear Risks in a Changing World” conference in New York on May 4.
 Boris Kagarlitsky, born in Moscow in 1958, was a dissident and political prisoner in the USSR under Brezhnev, then a deputy to Moscow city council (arrested again in 1993 under Yeltsin). Since 2007, he has run Institute for Globalization Studies and Social Movements in Moscow, a leading Russian leftist think tank. He is the editor of the online magazine Rabkor, author of numerous books, of which the two most recent to appear in English areEmpire of the Periphery (Pluto) and From Empires to Imperialism(Routledge). He is an associate of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and a contributor to The Nation magazine. |
 Oleg Bodrov graduated from the Physics & Mechanical faculty of Leningrad Polytechnic University in 1976 and worked on testing nuclear reactor units. After a visit to the Chernobyl contaminated area (Autumn 1986) on an investigatory mission, and the state’s limitation of dissemination of information about nuclear safety and its impact to the environment, he joined the environmental movement. The focus of his activities is the promotion of a nuclear free future, nuclear and environmental safety, renewable energy and energy saving on the basis of public participation and involvement of all stakeholders in decision-making process. He is the producer and director of eight video-documentaries about decommission challenges and positive international decommission experience. Oleg Bodrov is the author of a monograph and dozens of scientific and socio-political articles. |
 Achin Vanaik is a retired Professor of “International Relations and Global Politics” in the Political Science Department of Delhi University. He has authored or edited 12 books ranging from studies on contemporary India’s politics/economy/foreign policy to matters of religion, secularism, communalism and nationalism to issues of international politics and nuclear disarmament. He is a founder-member of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), India, a member of the Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI), and have repeatedly been invited as a panelist at international conferences organized by the ‘UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ first set up in 1975. He is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam). He was co-recipient of the Sean MacBride International Peace Prize for the year 2000 given by the International Peace Bureau, the world’s oldest international peace organization, for work and activities for South Asian and global nuclear disarmament. |
All three speakers will also speak at the State House on Wednesday, May 8, at 10am, and at a fundraising event on Thursday evening. For more information call Massachusetts Peace Action - 617-354-2169.
 | Yours for Peace, |
| Jonathan King Chair, Nuclear Disarmament Working Group |
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unsubscribe Great news! Congresswoman Norton's nuclear weapons abolition and energy conversion bill introduced as HR-2419.
Great news! Congresswoman Norton's nuclear weapons abolition and energy conversion bill introduced as HR-2419.
From Ellen Thomas, Co-Chair US WILPF Disarm Committee via PvS
GREAT NEWS! DC's Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced a new and improved version of her bill, the "Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act" ( HR-2419), so now let's begin calling, writing, and especially meeting with our Representatives to urge them to become co-sponsors of the bill.
The WILPF-US Disarm Committee sent Ms. Norton a letter in January requesting some revisions to the legislation she has introduced each session since 1994, changes which reflect the existence of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), and remove some unnecessary clauses.
We believe this version of the bill is much stronger ... and so does Beatrice Fihn of ICAN, who was with Ms. Norton when the bill was introduced, as were Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson of NuclearBan .US, who have been enthusiastically supporting the revisions.
Beatrice Fihn was quoted in the press release that Norton's office issued, "Congresswoman Norton has been one of the few voices showing courageous leadership on this issue for several years.... We now have a nuclear ban treaty that provides a clear path to realize the vision the Congresswoman has been presenting. Her strong support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is an example for all US political leaders and an important message to other nations who are leading on this issue."
“Our bill is as timely as ever,” Norton said. “Although the United States possesses one of the largest nuclear arsenals, there are still plans to spend trillions of dollars more on these doomsday weapons while urgent domestic needs, including health care, infrastructure, and clean energy, face funding shortfalls. The United States can reestablish our moral leadership in the world by redirecting these funds to urgent domestic issues, not preparing for human extinction.”
Keep up to date with what's happening at http://prop1.org, where you can find links to online and paper petitions supporting Norton's legislation in the House, as well as to the WILPF-US online and paper petitions for Senate support of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Thanks!
Ellen Thomas
202-210-3886
www.avg.com
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