Agenda
2:00: Welcome: MLK Jr and our tasks- Jonathan King (MIT and Mass Peace Action)
2:05 Dangers: Chair Susan Mirsky (Mass Peace Action)
Nuclear Winter – Alan Robock (Rutgers University)
Folly of Replacing ICBMs- David Borris (Chicago Area Peace Action)
Dangers from Ukraine/Russia Conflict – Medea Benjamin (CodePINK)
Dangers from Israel/Gaza Conflict – Trita Parsi (Quincy Institute)
3:00 Unsustainable Costs: Chair Dave Pack – (PeaceWorks Kansas City)
Nuclear Weapons Budgets – Lindsay Koshgarian (Institute for Policy Studies)
Human Costs of the War Economy – Shailly Gupta Barnes (Kairos Center & Poor Peoples Campaign)
3:30 Congressional Battlegrounds:
Supporting the Congressional Progressive Caucus – Larry Cohen (Our Revolution national Chair)
Prospects for Change in the House – Rep. Ro Khanna
4:00 Breakouts: [List Below]
5:00 Major Grassroots Campaigns: Chair Cole Harrison (Mass Peace Action)
Poor Peoples Campaign 40 Weeks of Moral/Political Action – Rev. Savina Martin (Mass Poor Peoples Campaign)
Back from the Brink – Dr. Ira Helfand (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
Fund HealthCare Not Warfare – Jonathan King (Mass Peace Action)
Ceasefire Now! – Marcy Winograd (CodePINK).
Breakouts
A). Building Local Back from the Brink Campaigns – Dave Pack (Kansas City Peaceworks); Jeremy Love (PSR); Jackie Cabasso (Mayors for Peace).
B). Building Progressive State Political Coalitions – Martha Karcere (Our Revolution MA); Russell Freedman (Progressive Dems of America); State Rep. Mike Connolly (Massachusetts); Roger Quindell (Milwaukee Veterans for Peace); Cynthia Silva Parker (MA-Poor Peoples Campaign).
C). Campus Organizing and Nuclear Disarmament Curricula – Prof. Steve Slaner (Northern Essex Community College); Prof. Gary Goldstein (Tufts Univ); Prof. Stewart Prager (Physicists Coalition); Prof. Ceasar McDowell (MIT Urban Studies); Lynne Hall (Mass Peace Action).
D). Defending the Squad and Building the Progressive Caucus - Amanda Nichols (Our Revolution); Larry Cohen (Our Revolution); Andrew King (Citizens for Public Schools).
E). Opposing Militarism At Home – Nancy Goldner (Racial Justice Actin Group, Mass Peace Action); Keith Harvey (AFSC); Gerry Gorman (Chicago Area Peace Action).
F). Direct Actions including Divestment –Susan Mirsky, Peter Bergel (Salem, Oregon); David Swanson (World Beyond War).
G). Following up on the TPNW Conference – Joe Gerson (CPPDCS); Cherrill Spencer (WILPF); Kevin Martin (National Peace Action); State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa (Mass).
H). Joining the Ceasefire Now Movement – Raytheon, Gaza, and Nuclear Weapons – Paul Shannon (AFSC); Jasmine Owens (Win Without War); Raytheon, Gaza, and Nuclear Weapons – Paul Shannon (AFSC); Jasmine Owens (Win Without War); Hayat Imam (Mass Peace Action); Glen Cote (Mass Peace Action); Aaron Shakow (Harvard Medical School).
I). New Dangers from Tactical Nuclear Weapons – Richard Krushnic (Mass Peace Action), Dan Shaw (Newton Dialogues on Peace and War); Elaine Scarry (Harvard Univ).
J). Pressing for Ceasefire in Ukraine – Medea Benjamin (CodePINK); Jackie Dee King (Mass Peace Action); John Ratliff
(Mass Senior Action); Brian Garvey (Mass Peace Action).
K). Promoting State Legislation: Bonnie Gorman (Veterans for Peace, MAPA), State Rep Carol Doherty (Massachusetts); Kathleen Hamill (Warheads to Windmills).
L). Relations with Catholic Organizations – Peter Metz (Mass Peace Action); Mike Moran (Pax Christi); Claire Schaeffer-Duffy (Catholic Worker).
M). Rotary Clubs and Related Civic Organizations – Fran Jeffries (Rotary International); Ann Frisch (Rotary International); Kathie Malley-Morrison (Mass Peace Action).
N). Warheads to Windmills– Timmon Wallis (Nuclear Ban, US); Vickie Elson (Nuclear Ban, US); John MacDougall (350.org).
O). Working with Communities of Faith –John Bach (Cambridge Quakers), Rev. Savina Martin (Poor Peoples Campaign); Nicholas Colluras (MIT Chaplains); Cathy Murphy (Minnesota Peace Project).
P). Working with Nurses and Public Health orgs; Sandy Eaton (MassCARE); Catherine DeLorey (Fund Healthcare not Warfare); Dr. Bob Gould (Am Public Health Assn Peace Caucus); Jonathan King (Mass Peace Action); Mateo Krumholz (University of Minnesota).
Co-sponsors: Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; Chicago Area Peace Action; CodePINK; Institute for People’s Engagement; Kansas City Peaceworks; Massachusetts Peace Action; MIT Faculty Newsletter; MIT Radius; National Our Revolution; Peace Action Maine; Warheads to Windmills.
