Nuclear Weapons

A Different Way to Mark Veterans Day

shan with hiroshima mayor

shan with mayor akiba

Shan Cretin and Mayor Akiba discuss issues on the table at the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit. View the slideshow.

While the U.S. marked Veterans Day, the AFSC’s delegation to this week’s Nobel Peace Laureates Summit observed Armistice Day, the holiday’s original designation, by meeting with Hiroshima’s Mayor, several fellow/sister laureates, and joining other peace advocates in Hiroshima, Japan.

Counter-NATO Summit Conference in Lisbon, Portugal Nov. 19 & 21

Friday, November 19, 2010 (All day) - Sunday, November 21, 2010 (All day)

The NATO heads of state, including President Obama, will meet in Lisbon to promulgate a new NATO doctrine for the nuclear and increasingly global alliance. Leading European and other peace advocates will gather for a counter-summit conference that will be live streamed on the web: www.no-to-nato.org.

Contact Information: 

www.no-t.o-nato.org

World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates

Friday, November 12, 2010 - 9:30am - Sunday, November 14, 2010 - 12:00pm
Contact Information: 

For more information, please visit http://www.nobelforpeace-summits.org/

The American Reporter: How Vermonters Helped End the Cold War

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- Twenty-five years ago this month, something else was on the annual town meeting warrants in Vermont besides school budgets and highways: stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.

Huffington Post Blog: A Nuclear-Free World Awaits Action by Obama, Senate

A-Bomb Survivor Junko Kayashige holds photo of her family - 1945

A-Bomb Survivor Junko Kayashige holds photo of her family - 1945

Hiroshima A-Bomb Survivor Junko Kayashige holds picture of her 1945 family

Humans and nuclear weapons cannot co-exist.

This start judgment begins an opinion article by the AFSC's Shan Cretin and Joseph Gerson on the urgency for action by President Obama and the U.S. Senate, on the occasion of the 11th Annual Nobel Peace Laureates Summit next month in Hiroshima Japan. 

Learn How the Past Affects your Future

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 7:00pm

Dr Yuli Miyamoto, Assistant Professor at De Paul University of Chicago's Peace , justice and Conflict Studies Program will speak on the issue of abolishment of nuclear weapons. Dr Miyamoto is a second generation survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima.

The event will be at Carnegie Mellon University room to be announced.

 

Contact Information: 

For more information contct AFSC PA Office 412 371 3607

Email: 
swahrhaftig@afsc.org

Film series nuclear weapons

Friday, September 24, 2010 (All day) - Sunday, September 26, 2010 (All day)

Film Series September 24th-26th at Melwood Theatre in Pittburgh

September 24th - The last Atomic Bomb
September 25th - The Last Atomic bomb, I Live in Fear, Dr Stranglove
September 26th - I Live in Fear, Dr Strangelove

 

Contact Information: 

Melwood Theatre 412 681 5449

Countdown to Zero

Raging Grannies busking outside Harris Theatre

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