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		<title>Workshop: Looking up at the Apocalypse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About the Workshop
Title: Looking up at the Apocalypse: Disarmament, Climate Change, and Justice
 Track:  Economic Justice/Human Needs
 Co-sponsored by:  Western States Legal Foundation and Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace. Panelists: M. V. Ramana, Jennifer Nordstrom, and Andrew Lichterman
(See the entire conference  schedule)
Transcripts
by Andrew Lichterman (view bio):  &#8221;Superficial politics, fundamental causes: some reflections on the relationship between the movements to abolish nuclear weapons and to stop global warming&#8221; — Download PDF
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		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/07/workshop-looking-up-at-the-apocalypse/</link>
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		<title>Workshop: Youth Lobbying and Messaging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About the Workshop
Title: Youth Lobbying and Messaging
Track: Abolition
Co-sponsored by:  Ban All Nukes Generation USA (BANg USA), Ban All Nukes Generation Europe (BANg Europe), and the Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project (a project of IPPNW).
(See the entire conference  schedule)
Workshop Material

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		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/07/workshop-youth-lobbying-and-messaging/</link>
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		<title>Zia Mian Plenary Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is an edited transcript of Zia Mian’s speech delivered at the April 30th plenary session. (Download PDF)
Confronting the Challenges of Nuclear Weapons and Capitalism
by Zia Mian
April 30, 2010
As we all know—both the people in this room and the people who run the world—we are in a moment of profound crisis in so many ways.  We face a political, economic and ecological challenge of unprecedented proportion.
There are a very small number of countries—and a small number of people who make real decisions that shape the policies of those countries—that are trying ...]]></description>
		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/07/zia-mian-plenary-speech/</link>
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		<title>Workshop: Missile Defense Deployments Impact Hopes for Nuclear Disarmament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About the Workshop
Title: Missile Defense Deployments Impact Hopes for Nuclear Disarmament
Track: Abolition
Co-sponsored by: Co-sponsored by the Campaign to Nuclear Disarmament UK and Global Network Against Weapons &#38; Nuclear Power in Space. Panelists: David Webb, Bruce Gagnon, Niu Qiang and J. Narayana Rao.
(See the entire conference  schedule)
Transcripts
by J. Narayana Rao (view bio): &#8221;INDIA AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION &#38; SPACE EXPLORATION&#8221;  &#8212; download PDF
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		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/07/workshop-missile-defense-deployments-impact-hopes-for-nuclear-disarmament/</link>
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		<title>Workshop: Why and How to Build a Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
(See the entire conference  schedule)
Transcripts
by Alice Slater &#8212; 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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/06/workshop-why-and-how-to-build-a-carbon-free-nuclear-free-energy-system/</link>
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		<title>Kyle Kajihiro&#8217;s speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below speech was delivered at workshops &#8220;Winning the Withdrawal of Foreign Military Bases&#8221; and &#8220;Challenging Asia-Pacific Militarism and the Arms Race&#8221; (See the entire conference schedule)
By Kyle Kajihiro
Program Director, American Friends Service Committee Hawai&#8217;i Area Office, member of DMZ-Hawai&#8217;i / Aloha OAina network
Aloha kakou. Warm greetings from Hawai&#8217;i.
For more than a century, the U.S. has treated the Pacific ocean as an &#8220;American Lake&#8221; and Pacific islands as stepping-stones to extend the march of &#8220;manifest destiny&#8221; westward to the Asian prize.
The peoples of the Pacific were merely an afterthought. Henry Kissinger&#8217;s ...]]></description>
		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/06/kyle-kajihiros-speech/</link>
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		<title>Workshop: Global Hibakusha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/06/workshop-global-hibakusha/</link>
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		<title>Christopher Paine&#8217;s Workshop Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a transcript of Christopher Paine&#8217;s talk delivered at the &#8220;Modernization of the Nuclear Weapons Complex&#8221; 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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/06/christopher-paines-workshop-talk/</link>
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		<title>Workshop: Nuke Power is THE way to Nuclear Weapons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/06/workshop-nuke-power-is-the-way-to-nuclear-weapons/</link>
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		<title>John Burroughs Plenary Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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! &#8211;  who thinks nuclear weapons went away after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. There are some positive elements in the review. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://peaceandjusticenow.org/wordpress/2010/06/john-burroughs-plenary-speech/</link>
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