About the Workshop
Title: Why and How to Build a Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy System
Track: Environment/Health
Co-sponsored by: IEER, PSR, IPPL. Panelists include Jennifer Nordstrom, Natalia Mironova, Cathey E. Falvo, and Alice Slater.
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Transcripts
by Alice Slater — Shifting the Paradigm: Time to Replace Article IV of the Non-Proliferation Treaty with Universal Membership in the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) (download in PDF)

While the world applauds the growing recognition that the abolition of nuclear weapons seems to be an idea whose time has finally  come—from the calls by rusty cold …

Below speech was delivered at workshops “Winning the Withdrawal of Foreign Military Bases” and “Challenging Asia-Pacific Militarism and the Arms Race” (See the entire conference schedule)
By Kyle Kajihiro
Program Director, American Friends Service Committee Hawai’i Area Office, member of DMZ-Hawai’i / Aloha OAina network
Aloha kakou. Warm greetings from Hawai’i.
For more than a century, the U.S. has treated the Pacific ocean as an “American Lake” and Pacific islands as stepping-stones to extend the march of “manifest destiny” westward to the Asian prize.
The peoples of the Pacific were merely an afterthought. Henry Kissinger’s …

About the Workshop
Workshop Title:  Global Hibakusha: Testimonies of Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Witnesses/Survivors
Track: Abolition
Co-sponsored by:  Gensuikyo, the International Peace Bureau, and BANg. Panelists include: Junko Kayashige, Matashichi Oishi, Claudia Peterson, Abbacca Anjain Madison, Kin Yongkil, Claudia Peterson, and Natalia Mironova.
Held on: May 1st, 2010  3:15 pm   (See the conference schedule)
Transcripts
Talk by Claudia Peterson
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be a part of this conference peace and justice.
I come to you from Southern Utah, downwind from the Nevada Test Site, where the U.S. government has tested over 1000 nuclear devices.
I …

Below is a transcript of Christopher Paine’s talk delivered at the “Modernization of the Nuclear Weapons Complex” Workshop
Faded “Vision”
The Obama Administration’s Retreat from Nuclear Disarmament
Christopher Paine
May 1, 2010
In a widely heralded April 2009 speech in Prague, President Obama pledged “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” While not the first U.S. president to pledge support for this aspirational goal, he was the first to link it to “a trajectory we need to be on,” comprised of “concrete steps toward a world without nuclear …

Workshop speakers
“Taking on Nuclear Power: Pitfalls and successes at Entergy Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant and beyond”: Hattie Nestel of Shut It Down Affinity Group has been arrested 7 times at Vermont Yankee.
Nuclear Disarmament Day observed on August 6 seeks a change of heart in the U.S. and the world: As co-chair of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Disarm! Dismantle the War Economy Team, Margaret Harrington is active in Vermont where peace activists and Vermont legislators face down the monstrous nuclear weapons/nuclear power industry.
Ursula Gelis is active in …

Below is a transcript of John Burroughs’s speech delivered at the April 30th plenary session.
International Conference
For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World
April 30, 2010, Riverside Church, New York City
Dangers and Opportunities: Nuclear Weapons and the NPT Review
John Burroughs, Executive Director
Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
On April 6, the Obama administration released its Nuclear Posture Review. It’s required reading for anyone you know – even yourself! –  who thinks nuclear weapons went away after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. There are some positive elements in the review. …

Below is a transcript of Maryam Shansab’s speech during the May 1st afternoon conference.
Because I’m Afghan-American I had the opportunity to live in both a developing country and a developed country.  So, I had the experience to be in both sides of war, on the side where the bombs were dropped and on the side where my tax dollars pay for bombs to be dropped.  And these experiences let me to conclude that there is a tendency for the developed countries to act as enforcers of “democracy” and “security” in …

This workshop was co-sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Stop Essais. Panelists: Marylia Kelley, Jay Coghlan, Christopher Paine, and Dominique LaLanne.
Jay Coghlan’s portion of the workshop was based on the following factsheets:

Three Huge New Facilities Rebuild U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Capacity
The Road to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World? U.S. to Build a Massive New Plutonium “Nuclear Facility” for Expanded Nuclear Weapons Production

A transcript of Christopher Paine’s talk is available.