DAVID-BAPTISTE CHIROT: NOW! A Peace & Disarmament History: Peace Action since 1957, Wed, June 10th, 9-10 PM Eastern

WHAT:       A Peace & Disarmament History: Peace Action since 1957

WHEN:       Tonight! Wednesday, June 10th, 9-10 PM Eastern

WHO:       Lawrence S. Wittner, PhD, preeminent peace historian, Peace Action board member, author, professor and activist. Moderated by Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action. He will be monitoring email and several Instant Messaging programs as paulkawika to take questions.

WHERE:   Conference Call Number 712-432-3900, Conference Access Code: 820346#

RSVP:         RSVPs are helpful, but not required to pmartin@peace-action.org, 301.565.4050 x 316

Did you know that some of the founders of the ACLU, AFLCIO, Saturday Review, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) were all a part of the peace and disarmament movement and Peace Action? Find out more from one of the editors of Peace Action: Past, Present and Future. More information about Prof. Wittner and his new book:

Peace Action: Past, Present and Future is a collection of short, lively essays written by prominent leaders and supporters of Peace Action (America's largest peace organization) and its two important predecessors - the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Surveying a half-century of the work of three of the largest and most influential peace organizations in American history, this book provides a unique resource for understanding popular protest against nuclear weapons and war in the modern era. It also illuminates the local, national, and international role of Peace Action today and outlines Peace Action's strategies for the future. (Edited by Glen H. Stassen and Lawrence S. Wittner). You can get the book for $15 on Peace Action's website or here:

https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/161/t/288/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=182&t=&store_item_KEY=895

A New Book on Worldwide Activism Against the Bomb
For years, the only complete history of the worldwide campaign against nuclear weapons was Lawrence Wittner's scholarly, three-volume study, The Struggle Against the Bomb.
But Larry-a member of the Peace Action national board-has now come out with a brief, popular version: Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement. Published by Stanford University Press in an inexpensive paperback edition, it tells an inspiring story of the largest social movement of modern times. Based on massive research in the files of peace organizations and in formerly top secret government records, as well as on extensive interviews with antinuclear activists and government officials, Confronting the Bomb shows conclusively that peace movement activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
As Peace Action heightens its campaign for a nuclear-free world, this is a great book to put on your reading list or to urge your local library to obtain. Copies can be purchased from Stanford University Press (http://www.sup.org) or from on-line bookstores.
Lawrence S. Wittner: Biographical Information
            Lawrence Wittner was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Columbia College, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in History in 1967. Since then he has taught at Hampton Institute, at Vassar College, at Japanese universities (under the Fulbright program), and at the State University of New York/Albany, where he is Professor of History. A former president of the Council on Peace Research in History (now the Peace History Society), he has written extensively on the history of peace movements and on the history of United States foreign policy. He has received major fellowships or grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the United States Institute of Peace.
            His books include Rebels Against War (1969, rev. ed. 1984), Cold War America (1974, rev. ed. 1978), and American Intervention in Greece (1982). His most extensive project was a scholarly trilogy entitled The Struggle Against the Bomb (1993-2003). In June 2009, he came out with an abbreviated version: Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford University Press). He has also edited or co-edited four other books, served as co-editor of the scholarly journal Peace & Change, and written about 200 published articles and book reviews.
            Professor Wittner has spoken at the United Nations and at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, delivered guest lectures on dozens of college and university campuses (including Princeton University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Yale University, Rutgers University, the University of Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, American University, the University of Maine, the University of Utah, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of New Mexico, Swarthmore College, and Colgate University), and given talks in numerous countries (including Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, and Spain).
            Lawrence Wittner has been a peace movement activist for nearly fifty years, and currently serves on the national board of Peace Action, America's largest peace organization. He is also active in the labor movement and performs, vocally and on the banjo, with the Solidarity Singers.