US PEACE REGISTRY
A publication of the
US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The US
Peace Registry recognizes and documents the activities of
US citizens who have publicly opposed military solutions (including invasion,
occupation, production of weapons of mass destruction, use of weapons, and
threats of war), rather than diplomacy and global cooperation, to solve
international problems. It is
hoped that honoring these role models will inspire new generations of Americans
to speak out for peace and to work to end the hatred, ignorance, greed, and
intolerance that lead to war. The
specific behaviors listed under each record are intended to provide ideas and
guidance to others citizens so that peace/antiwar behaviors can be replicated nationwide.
This is
a developing national database that will document a broad range of
modern peace and antiwar activities and recognize individual and organizational
role models for peace leadership. US citizens who have written
an antiwar letter to their representatives in Congress or to a newspaper are
included, along with Americans who have devoted their lives to peace and
opposing war. Organizations ranging from groups such as the Quakers, who
have opposed war for centuries, to the hundreds of new peace-related websites
will be included.
The US
Peace Registry is
published on the US Peace Memorial Foundation website. It is expected that a hard copy of the
Registry will eventually be printed as a reference book and be displayed
electronically for public viewing at the US Peace Memorial in Washington,
DC.
Registrants have
provided peace activism-related biographical information, with supporting
documentation (see individual application and organization
application for requirements), which was reviewed by the Foundation
staff. Those applications, vetted
and verified, were approved by the Foundation's Board of Directors for inclusion in this
publication.
Successful
registrants and Foundation members are asked to nominate others for inclusion
in the US Peace Registry and to provide contact information. In addition, the Foundation has directly invited individuals
and organizations that have well known antiwar reputations to submit
biographical information.
As seen in the entries
below, a brief description of the registrant is followed by his or her specific
antiwar/peace activities listed in chronological order from oldest to most
recent.
In addition to recognizing role models, the US Peace Registry documents a broad range of peace and antiwar actions. These are shown in bold to
highlight the wide variety of activities that have occurred throughout the
years. Some of the entries may
serve as models for future peace actions that can help to prevent and/or end US
wars.
INDIVIDUALS
David Adams, PhD, a resident of Branford, CT, promotes the Global
Movement for a Culture of Peace, called for by the UN General Assembly in its
Resolution A/53/243. mail@decade-culture-of-peace.org
Author, Psychology for Peace Activists,
1985.
Organizer, Seville Statement on Violence, 1986.
Organizer of the Peoples Peace
Appeal, 1986.
Author, The American Peace
Movements, 1986.
Consultant for the project of the UNESCO Culture of Peace
Program, 1992-1993.
Staff, UNESCO Culture of Peace Program responsible for
national programs in El Salvador, Mozambique and Russia, 1994-1997.
Director, United Nations International Year for the Culture
of Peace, 1998-2001.
Webmaster, Culture
of Peace News Network http://cpnn-usa.org,
Culture of Peace Information site http://culture-of-peace.info, and World Report on the
Culture of Peace http://decade-culture-of-peace.org,
since 2001.
Anne Anderson, MSW is a social worker who has worked on peace and social justice issues
for most of her life. She is the
mother of three and grandmother of two, living and working in Washington,
DC. mobileanne@earthlink.net
Demonstrated at the White House frequently against the Vietnam War, organized
marches, raised money, passed out leaflets, and provided child
care while others demonstrated as a member
of the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy, Washington, DC, 1969-1975.
Developed and led the workshop, "Living Politics" to help people explore their
understanding of complex crisis situations (including war) in the early 1980's.
Executive Director
of Psychologists for Social Responsibility (www.psysr.org),
an organization that uses psychological knowledge and
skills to promote peace with social justice, 1984-2006.
Michael Andregg, PhD of St. Paul, Minnesota is a teacher who left medical
genetics in 1980 because he thought war was a larger public health hazard than
rare diseases he worked on then, which remains true. mmandregg@stthomas.edu
Led a caravan to the UN Special Session on Nuclear Disarmament in 1981.
Founding member of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, 1995.
Wrote a book, On the Causes of War that won the National Peace
Writing award in 1999, has been translated
into Italian and reprinted in Canada, 1997.
University lectures on causes
of war and global problems related to
war at the University of Minnesota,
1981-2008 and the University of St. Thomas, 1993-2008.
Coordinating peace activists and others to be involved in responding to the 2008
Republican National Convention, 2007-2008.
John Arnaldi, PhD, a resident of Tampa, FL, has been involved in peace work since high
school (late 1960's) including demonstrations, letters-to-the-editor and
congressional representation.
Applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War.
Member of the Tampa Meeting of the Religious Society of
Friends (Quakers) where he serves as Clerk of the Peace and Social Concerns
Committee, 2005-2008.
On the first anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq, helped organize
a peace demonstration in front of Fox 13
TV station, challenging all news media to do honest reporting about the war,
2004.
Coordinated the AFSC Eyes Wide Open exhibit in Tampa. Eyes Wide Open is a memorial display of boots for each U.S. soldier killed in Iraq,
shoes representing the civilian deaths, and an educational exhibit, http://www.afsc.org/eyes, 2004.
Helped organize a memorial service in Tampa for the 60th anniversary of the
U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2005.
Founded a Web Site, www.JesusPrinceofPeace.org to
provide education and inspiration about peacemaking to Christians and to teach
strategic nonviolent actions for peacemaking, 2005.
Marched on Washington
to End the War on Iraq, 9/24/05.
Coordinated the visit to Tampa of an Iraqi pharmacist, Entisar Ariabi,
sponsored by Code-PinkŐs the Women Say No to War
campaign. Held a
press conference, set up radio
interviews and an in-depth newspaper
interview, met with staff of
Senators Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez,
April 2006.
Coordinated a public program on Healthcare in Iraq since the invasion at the
University of South Florida College of Public Health, April 2006.
Wrote letters to
senators, congressmen, leadership in both houses, and the president, calling
for an immediate cease-fire in the Israeli attack on Lebanon, July 2006.
Letter to the Editor,
Tampa Tribune calling for a cease-fire in the Israeli attack on Lebanon http://www.tbo.com/news/opinion/lettertotheeditor/MGBD95P37QE.html,
7/30/06.
Dick Bernard
of Woodbury, MN is a retired teachersŐ union representative (NEA affiliate), a
military veteran (U.S. Army), husband, father, and grandfather of nine. Always oriented to peace and justice,
he became a peace activist with the US bombing of Afghanistan. dick_bernard@msn.com
Participated in many peace demonstrations since his first in October 2001 at the MN State
Capitol to protest the bombing of Afghanistan, 2001-2006.
Began a daily e-network that most often focuses on peace related topics, since 2001.
Published columns on peace and justice issues in major newspapers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul
area, including this pre-Iraq War piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune
4/20/02 www.commondreams.org/views02/0420-02.htm, 2002-2006.
Member, Minnesota
Alliance of Peacemakers and other peace organizations, since 2002.
President,
Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers www.mapm.org, 2005-2007.
Created and maintained websites devoted to Peace and Justice: www.amillioncopies.info
and www.chez-nous.net/peace,
2002-2008.
Helped
organize a conference on peace during the Republican
National Convention peaceisland.us,
2008.
Linked
websites to other world peace resources,
2005-2009.
Warren J. Blumenfeld, EdD is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural and
International Curriculum Studies at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. His research interests include
multiculturalism, Queer Studies, and issues of social justice. wblumen@iastate.edu
High school antiwar activist, 1964-65.
Organized and participated in antiwar activities against US involvement in
Vietnam, including large-scale demonstrations protesting San Jose State University's involvement
in support of the war effort, demonstrated to end the military draft, and
helped organize a student strike
in opposition to the war, 1965-1970.
Member, Students
for a Democratic Society (SDS), a national organization opposing the war in
Vietnam, informed high school
students in the San Jose area of antiwar activities on the San JosŽ State
University campus, 1969-1970.
Organizer of the May Day demonstration (as a member of the Gay Liberation Front) which
brought together antiwar activists from across the US and Canada in an attempt
to shut down the federal government
in Washington, DC to voice opposition to the war in Vietnam, May 1971.
Arrested for
attempting to stage a sit-in in front of the South Vietnamese embassy as part
of an antiwar demonstration, May 1971.
Participated in an antiwar rally on Boston Common in Boston, MA in advance of US
incursion into Iraq, 1990.
Participated in a "Bring Home the Troops" demonstration to end the war in Iraq in Ames, IA, February 2006.
Lucy Bradley-Springer,
PhD, RN, ACRN, FAAN is a
nurse, educator, and director of a regional program to teach healthcare workers
about HIV infection. She is
a Vietnam-era veteran of the United States Air Force, now living in Denver, CO.
Developed and taught a series of classes entitled, "Dead Rats, Dan Rather, and ACT UP:
Social Contributions to Epidemics" that focused on the issues of
colonialism, war, racism, sexism, and classism and how those had historically
fed epidemics around the world, 1991-1995.
As president of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care,
published a President's Letter in the organization newsletter, post 9/11, on the problems related to responding
to violence with violence (ANACdotes, 2003).
Published antiwar editorial in Professional Journal: Collateral damages, Journal of the Association of
Nurses in AIDS Care, 19(2), 87-89, 2008.
Advisory Board member,
Physicians for Human Rights, 2003-2006.
Board of Directors, US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. 2006-2009.
Beth Bradley Brookfield, of Reno Nevada, is an artist whose works of art often
reflect the human condition as it relates to the affects of war. Her paintings and sculptures can be
viewed at www.helloreno.com/art/BethBrookfield.Cfm. beth.brookfield@gmail.com
Rallied against potential military action in Iraq, Washington,
D.C., Spring 2003.
Participated in peace rallies in Reno, NV from 2005-2008.
Antiwar Letter to Editor, Reno News and Review, Spring 2007.
Created an ArtistŐs
conception of the US Peace Memorial that
is included on the Foundation's website at www.uspeacememorial.org/drawing2,
2008.
Noam Chomsky, PhD, LLD is the Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He has received numerous honorary
degrees from prestigious universities around the world and the Dorothy
Eldridge Peacemaker Award. Along with his significant work in the
field of linguistics, he is also widely known for his political
activism and criticism of U.S. foreign policy.
Wrote essay,
"The Responsibility of Intellectuals,"
published in The New York Times Review of Books, and became a
leading opponent of the war in Vietnam, 1967.
Chomsky participated in Vietnam war resistance activities, which he described in subsequent essays and letters
published in the New York Review of Books,
including withholding half of his
income tax and taking part in the 1967
march on the Pentagon.
He testified on the origins of the war before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, chaired by J. William Fulbright, 1972.
Authored
books related to peace including:
Chomsky Reader, a collection of Chomsky's
critical essays on U.S. foreign policy, published 1987.
Rogue States: The Rule of Force
in World Affairs, published 2000.
9-11 became a bestseller in
the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, published 2001.
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, published 2003.
America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia, published 2005.
He has written numerous other
peace-related books and articles and has given hundreds of lectures and speeches, some recorded on DVD and CD, since 1967.
See
Professor Chomsky's official website for
further information: http://www.chomsky.info.
Charles F. Clark, MD,
MPH served as a captain in the Medical
Corps during the Vietnam War, a lieutenant colonel with NATO, a psychiatrist
with the Tampa Veterans Administration Hospital, and currently practices
psychiatry and addiction medicine in Denver, CO.
Letter to the editor opposing invasion of Afghanistan before it occurred
(Boulder Daily Camera, 2002).
Emails to congressmen opposing war, since 2003.
Gives public presentations about long-term detrimental psychological impact of
combat on soldiers and the enormous dollar cost over many years of their care,
2004-2006.
Board of Directors, US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. 2006-2009.
Bill Falcone
lives in Brandon, FL and has been a case manager with Hillsborough County since
1986, working with unemployed ex-felons, homeless, and the medically
indigent. He became involved in
the peace movement after the US invasion of Iraq. wfalcone14@hotmail.com
Member, United for
Peace and Justice, 2005-2008.
Member,
Hillsborough County Green Party, 2005-2008.
Participated in antiwar demonstration: "March on Washington - Tampa Bay", 09/24/05.
Sent many letters to Congress members asking for their opposition to the war,
2003-2006.
Letter to the editor
regarding opposition to US unilateralism in foreign affairs, The Nation
09/26/05
Member, Buddhist
Peace Fellowship, 2005-2008.
Jim Glover
is a long-time peace activist and folk singer who lives in Brandon, FL. Part of the well-known 60s folk
duo, Jim and Jean. He describes himself as an Ňold folk singer with
lots of drive to do liberal political activist songs in the tradition of Woody,
Pete, and Phil OchsÓ and says, "If you believe folk music has a mission to
help change the world, I'm your man."
Participated in peace demonstrations, including the March on the Pentagon on 10/22/67 to
protest the war in Vietnam.
Demonstrated at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago and entertained other
demonstrators, with Jean Glover and Phil
Ochs, at the Quiet Knight Coffee House during breaks in the protests, August
1968.
Peace-inspired Letter to the Editor, (St. Pete Times 9/28/01).
Wrote peace-related poem the day after 9/11 which he recited at a peace rally, September 2001.
Performs peace-related folk songs, 1960s-2008.
For further information see: jimglover.aesound.com
Mike Gravel, BS
served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1963-66, and as Speaker from
1965-66. He represented Alaska in
the U.S. Senate from 1969-81, serving on the Finance, Interior, and
Environmental and Public Works committees, and chairing the Energy, Water
Resources, Buildings and Grounds, and Environmental Pollution
subcommittees. He was a candidate
for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President
of the United States and lives in Virginia www.gravel2008.us.
Waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon
administration to end the military draft, 1971.
Released to the
media a top secret Defense Department study, ŇThe Pentagon PapersÓ that exposed decades of U.S. decision making regarding Vietnam that led the
country into War, 1971.
Began to read the 7000 page top-secret document into
the senate record insisting that his
constituents had a right to know about the lies and manipulations of successive
U.S. administrations that misled the country into the Vietnam War. The US Supreme Court ruled that he
couldnŐt release the information, 1971.
Published top-secret document as The Senator Gravel Edition of The
Pentagon Papers, Beacon Press www.beacon.org/client/pentagonpapers.cfm, 1971.
Appeared on TV (MSNBC) several times warning against the planned attack
on Iraq and stated that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, Iraq
was not a threat to the United States and had nothing to do with 9/11, 2002.
Antiwar Candidate for the 2008
Democratic nomination for President of the United States, 2007-2008.
Spoke at antiwar rallies, participated in nationally
televised debates, interviewed
by news media about his opposition to the
Iraq war, 2007-2008.
Warned against a planned attack on Iran during the Presidential debate at Dartmouth and called to account some of his
fellow Democratic presidential rivals for a vote that gave the Administration a
green light to attack Iran, 9/26/07.
Ian M. Harris, EdD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Policy and
Community Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and President of the International Peace Research
Association Foundation.
As a member of Resistance, participated in numerous
anti-Vietnam war marches and demonstrations, 1966-1976.
Taught first class in peace education, 1983.
Helped found the
Wisconsin Institute for Peace
and Conflict Studies, a statewide consortium of 23 colleges and universities
that promotes peace awareness with conferences, speakers' programs, and by
publishing The
Journal of Peace and Conflict
Studies, 1984.
Part of a faculty committee that established a peace
studies certificate program at UW-M, 1990.
Conducted a 14-day fast to protest U.S. involvement in Central America, 1990.
Ran the UW-M Summer Institute on Nonviolence for
adolescents, Milwaukee, 1995-2002.
Member, Board of Directors of the Consortium of Peace Researchers, Educators and Developers (now
known as the Peace and Justice Studies Association) a nationwide organization
that supports peace studies on college campuses, 1996-1998.
Author of books and articles including: Peace Education (Jefferson, NC: McFarland
&Co., 1988), co-author (with Linda Forcey) of Peacebuilding for
Adolescents (London: Taylor and Francis,
1998), co-author (with Mary Lee Morrison) of Peace Education (2nd edition ) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland &Co., 2003), and over
50 articles on topics that range from violence in schools to peace education.
Secretary-General,
Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association,
helped create The Journal of Peace Education, 1998-2002.
President,
International Peace Research Association
Foundation (iprafoundation.org), 2003-2007.
Tom H. Hastings, MA, is a Peace Studies teacher, writer, editor and
activist who lives in Whitefeather Peace Community (http://www.whitefeatherpeace.org)
located in Portland, Oregon. hastings@pdx.edu.
Conscientious Objector to Vietnam War, 1968.
Board of Directors,
Stop Project Extremely Low Frequency (ELF), 1982-1984.
Founded and served
as community organizer, Waging Peace, Hayward, Wisconsin, 1982-1988.
Authored numerous chapters in edited compilations of peace and nonviolence
books and many op-eds in various
newspapers, 1982-2009.
Founded and served
as newsletter editor, Citizens
for Alternatives to Trident and ELF (CATE) - US Navy Nuclear Submarine Command
Site, 1983-1987.
Anti nuclear weapons nonviolent resister (including two Plowshares actions, i.e. cut down poles supporting ELF
Antennae, resulting in felony convictions in Michigan in 1985 and Wisconsin in 1996), 1983-1999.
Nonviolence trainer
(The Honeywell Project; Citizens for
Alternatives to Trident and ELF (CATE); Mobilization for Survival for
Nonviolent Resistance to Military Aid To the Contra in Nicaragua; Sisters of
the Road CafŽ; Civil Resist Portland (CRP); Students United for Nonviolence),
1983-2009.
Earned a peace studies degree from Northland College, 1993.
National Committee, War Resisters League, 1996-2000.
Authored books, Ecology of War and Peace, 2000; Meek
Ain't Weak: Nonviolent Power and People of Color, 2002; 2002 War Resisters League Datebook (with Geov Parrish); Nonviolent Response
to Terrorism, 2004; Power, 2005; The Lessons of Nonviolence,
2006.
Board of Directors, The Peace and Justice Studies
Association (PJSA), http://www.peacejusticestudies.org,
2000-2001.
Faculty member with
the Conflict Resolution MA/MS program at Portland State University, 2001-2009.
Served as associate editor and columnist, The PeaceWorker, 2002-2007.
Board of Directors, Peace and Conflict Studies Association, http://www.peaceandconflictstudies.org,
2004-2009.
Founded and served as Director, PeaceVoice, http://www.peacevoice.info,
2004-2009.
Founded Civil Resist Portland (CRP) (antiwar campaign of
nonviolent resistance), 2005-2009.
Arrested six times
due to CRP civil disobedience
activity (One arrest in March, 2005 at the Office of US Senator Ron Wyden; Five
arrests at the Office of US Senator Gordon Smith, 2006-2007), 2005-2007.
Co-Chair, PJSA,
2006-2008.
Governing Council member, International Peace Research Association, http://soc.kuleuven.be/iieb/ipraweb,
2007-2009.
Amy M. Holtz is a 6th grade Language Arts teacher and mother
of five living in Kalispell, MT.
She writes songs (especially about peace) and performs in her spare
time.
Antiwar Letter to Editor, The Independent,
Missoula, MT, 3/6/03.
Wrote antiwar song ŇWe Must Choose PeaceÓ,
2003
Antiwar Letter to Editor, Missoulian, Missoula, MT, 5/5/03.
Performed antiwar music for the International Day of Peace, Caras Park, Missoula,
MT, 9/21/03.
Performed at an anniversary party
for the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, Missoula, MT,10/4/03.
Received the Father Hogan Peace
Award, Missoula, MT, November, 2003.
Opened for David Rovics (playing
for many area peace groups), Crystal Theater, Missoula, 02/24/04.
Antiwar Letter to Editor, Missoulian, Missoula, MT, 6/8/04.
Performed at the Second Annual
Festival of Peace, Arlee, Montana, 07/22/06.
Streaming audio performance of ŇWe Must Choose PeaceÓ at www.jrpc.org,
2006-2007.
Kimberly Raechelle Jenkins is a college student studying Peace and Social
Justice Studies at Berea College in Berea, KY. kimberlyraechelle@yahoo.com
Participated in a March on Washington to protest Bush's war in Iraq, January 2007.
Attended a Peace and
Justice Studies Association Conference at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, September 2007.
Abbie Jenks, MSW of Pelham, MA is a former social worker and current
professor at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, MA. She earned her MSW from Smith College
School of Social Work. Abbie has
two sons, both of whom are involved in environmental issues. jenks@gcc.mass.edu
Created Curriculum
for Peace and Justice Studies at
Greenfield Community College (GCC) www.gcc.mass.edu/departments/psj,
2003-2009.
Member, Pioneer
Valley Cuba Solidarity Committee, 2004-2009.
Advisor, GCC Student
Peace and Justice Club, 2005-2009.
Advised, Cuba Film Series, Pioneer Valley Cuba Solidarity
Committee, March 2008.
Sponsored Pastors
for Peace Caravan, Pioneer Valley Cuba Solidarity Committee, June 2008.
Sponsored Footprints for Peace speakers from Australia,
October 2008.
Board of Directors,
Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, 2008-2009.
Advised, GCC PSJ Club Peace and Truth for Reel Film
Series, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, fall 2008.
Robert Jensen, PhD is an associate professor in the School of
Journalism and director of the Senior Fellows Honors Program of the College of
Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a speaker to college and community groups throughout
the US. rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Author many essays and articles on US imperialism
including, "Never a good war or a bad peace", The Hindu (Sunday
Magazine),
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/attack13.htm,
10/28/01.
Founding member, Nowar Collective www.nowarcollective.com, 2001-2004.
Founding board member, Third Coast Activist Resource Center, www.thirdcoastactivist.org,
2004-present.
Author, Citizens of the
Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity,
San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 2004.
Del "Abe" Jones (The Poor Man's Poet) served in the United States Air Force 1958-1961
and is a retired sheet metal worker living in White Bluff, TN where he
writes poetry about current issues including the military/industrial complex
and war. abeabe@bellsouth.net
Wrote antiwar poems
including "Mister President" 7/17/07 and "Rum-De-Dum-DUMB"
7/10/07 posted at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/delabejones/page4.html.
Wrote "Let's build the US Peace Memorial" www.uspeacememorial.org/poem,
5/30/08
Signed petitions
to end the war in Iraq, to bring the troops home, and calling for impeachment
of Bush and Cheney, 2007-2008.
Lucinda Page Knox, MSW, ACSW is a freelance editor and writer and former social
worker currently living in Tampa, FL.
Member, Another
Mother for Peace, 1970-1975.
Participant in antiwar marches, 1969-1972.
Numerous letters and emails to congressional
representatives asking for an end to the
War in Iraq (Response letters on file), 2004-2006
Advisory Council Member, US Peace Memorial Foundation, 2005-2006.
Michael D. Knox, PhD, a licensed Clinical Psychologist, is a Distinguished Professor of
Mental Health Law and Policy, Medicine, Global Health, Aging Studies, and
Psychology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Knox@USPeaceMemorial.org
Delivered talk
against Vietnam War to a university class, 1965.
As a member of the Eastern Michigan University Student
Senate Executive Committee helped to organize antiwar demonstrations, 1966-1968.
As a delegate to the 20th National Student Congress of the
US National Student Association, drafted and
introduced a successful resolution to hold a demonstration on 8/23/67 in front of the White House in
opposition to the war in Vietnam, (resolution and report on file).
Antiwar letter (The
Progressive 9/1/69).
Ran antiwar advertisement in newspaper (Monroe Evening News 11/15/69).
Helped start draft counseling center (Monroe
Evening News 4/7/70).
Resigned in protest,
as member of Wayne County Republican Committee, GOP Advisory Board, and GOP
after Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia (The Progressive, 8/70
and Detroit News, 6/25/70).
Appointed as a member of the Classified Research Committee
of the University of Michigan to oversee secret Defense Department research at
the University 1970-1971. Disclosed
secret details of inappropriate research
to the Faculty Senate (The Michigan Daily, 2/9/71) and provided evidence that university researchers were "perfecting
weapon systems used by the military to kill and incapacitate other human beings"
(Science 2/19/71).
Engaged in numerous speeches, debates, press conferences, and interviews (The Michigan Daily,
2/10,11,12,14,16,18/71; 3/9,10,12,14,16,17,18,21,24/71, 5/15/71, 11/19/71 and Detroit
Free Press 2/22/71).
Prepared minority report documenting conflict of interest and inappropriate activities of the
Classified Research Committee and calling for an end to war research at
Michigan (Ann Arbor News 3/8/71).
Consultation to
member Stanford University Committee on Research regarding publishing study of
classified research there (letters on file, 1971).
Resigned from
Classified Research Committee charging violation of new university research
policy (The Michigan Daily 4/15/71).
Antiwar letters to the editor including Ann Arbor News 4/20/72 and 12/3/73, Time 11/17/03, and USA Today 6/23/04, St.
Petersburg Times www.sptimes.com/2004/07/27/Opinion
7/27/04, and www.sptimes.com/2007/10/21/Opinion/Today 10/21/07.
Made antiwar statements while delivering Plenary speech
at professional meeting (The Miami Herald and CNN 3/28/04).
Published antiwar commentary in Professional Journal Journal of HIV and Social Services
Vol. 4, 2005).
Made antiwar statements
as part of opening address at annual medical conferences, 2006 and 2007.
Letters and phone
calls to Congressional delegation and leadership in opposition to wars, 2005-2009.
Participated in emergency rally during rush hour at busy
intersection to protest Bush plan to send more soldiers to Iraq, Tampa,
1/11/07.
Letters to Congressional
representatives in opposition to attacking
Iran, February 2007.
Marched from White
House to Capitol building via Pennsylvania Avenue, ŇMother of a MarchÓ with
Cindy Sheehan and CODEPINK and Blocked traffic at Independence Avenue and Capitol Plaza for 45 minutes, 05/14/07.
Awarded the Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice ŇFor more
than four decades of outstanding contributions to peace and humanitarian
assistanceÓ, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, San Francisco, CA,
8/18/07.
Refused request to assist US Army (program review) until the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan are ended and all occupying forces have been
withdrawn, 12/12/08.
Professional and community meeting presentations nationwide on the topics of Ňcreating a culture of
peace: a first stepÓ, Ňhonoring the peacemakersÓ and
Ňpeace is socially acceptableÓ, 2006-2009.
Founder and Chair,
US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. 2005-2009.
Letter to President-elect Obama asking that he act immediately to end the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan following his inauguration, 1/13/09.
Rahul Mahajan, PhD, who earned his doctorate in physics from the University of Texas, is
an antiwar blogger, author and activist currently living in Madison, WI. rahul@empirenotes.org
Organized antiwar protests and teach-ins in Austin TX, 1998-2001.
Speaker at
rallies, teach-ins, and conferences, 1998-2008.
Published op-ed on
the one-year anniversary of US bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in
Sudan (Houston Chronicle 8/20/99).
Published antiwar op-eds in USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Dallas
Morning-News, Jordan Times, and others, 1999-2008.
Published online commentary in alternative news websites including Common Dreams www.commondreams.org, ZNet www.zmag.org, Counterpunch www.counterpunch.org and Alternet www.alternet.org, 1999-2008.
Board of Directors, Peace
Action, 2000-2003.
Founding Coordinating Committee member, National Network to End the War on Iraq, 2001.
Founded Austin
Against War, 9/12/01.
Author "Never a good war or a bad peace", The
Hindu (Sunday Magazine),
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/attack13.htm,
10/28/01.
TV and Radio interviews including MSNBC regarding Abu Ghraib, 2001-2008.
Ran for Governor
of Texas as the Green Party nominee on an anti-militarist platform, 2002.
Authored Book, The
New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism, New York, NY: Monthly
Review Press, 2002.
Founded Third Coast Activist Resource Center, www.thirdcoastactivist.org,
April 2003.
Authored Book, Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in
Iraq and Beyond, New York, NY: Seven
Stories Press Open Media Book, June 2003.
Steering Committee
of United for Peace and Justice, www.unitedforpeace.org,
2003-2006.
Reported news from US war zone, Fallujah, Iraq www.democracynow.org,
January and April 2004.
Founded blog
Empire Notes www.empirenotes.org,
writing weekly blog commentary,
2004-present.
Arnold (Arnie) H. Matlin,
MD of Linwood, NY is a retired
pediatrician who has been a peace and social-justice activist since the early
1970s. ahmatlingvcp@igc.org
Founding member of Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace, www.gvcp.org, 1972-2009.
Helped coordinate demonstrations against nuclear weapons for the Finger Lakes Peace
Alliance, Seneca Army Depot, Romulus, NY, 1981-1983.
Planned and executed
demonstration that was the biggest
antinuclear demonstration ever held in Upstate New York, October 23, 1983.
Steering Committee and
Executive Committee member, Peace Action
New York State, www.peaceactionnewyorkstate.org,
2006-2008.
Vice-President
(Upstate) of Peace Action New York State,
2008-2009.
Margaret W. Matlin, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at SUNY Geneseo, NY, author
of college textbooks that discuss peace and social-justice issues, and a peace
activist since the early 1970s. matlin@geneseo.edu
Attended national and regional
peace marches and demonstrations from
1969-2008.
Founding member of Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace, www.gvcp.org, 1972-2008.
Taught college courses in Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking at SUNY
Geneseo, (1980s)
Faculty advisor to student
groups that focus on peace and
social-justice issues at SUNY Geneseo, 1980Ős-2008.
Wrote textbook discussion of aggression, war, groupthink, and conflict resolution in
Matlin, M. W. Psychology, Fort Worth,
TX: Harcourt, 1992, 1995 and 1999.
Member of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, www.psysr.org mid-1990Ős-2009.
Charter member and Fellow of American Psychological AssociationŐs
Division 48 (Peace Psychology), 1998-2008.
Wrote textbook discussion on war,
refugees, conflict resolution in Matlin, M. W. The psychology of women (6th edition), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2008.
Wrote textbook discussion of
peace-related issues in connection with decision making and making
unjustifiable inferences in Matlin, M. W. Cognition (7th edition), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009.
Daniel M. Mayton II, PhD is Professor of
Psychology at Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID, where he has taught courses on nuclear war, peace, and
nonviolence and published research in peace psychology. dmayton@lcsc.edu
Participated in demonstrations against the Vietnam War at Ohio State University in early
1970s.
Developed and taught course on nuclear threat issues, the first taught in Idaho, 1984.
Chair of Task Force on Peace, Society for the Psychological Study of Social
Issues, 1991.
President of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, www.psysr.org, 2002-2003.
President of the Society for the
Study of Peace, Conflict, & Violence (Division 48 of the American
Psychological Association) www.webster.edu/peacepsychology, 2007.
Demonstrated for an end to torture
and an end to psychologistsŐ involvement in torture during Iraq and Afghanistan
wars, San Francisco, 2007
Author of textbook on nonviolence entitled Nonviolence and Peace
Psychology: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Societal, & World Peace, 2009.
William A. McConochie,
PhD of Eugene, Oregon is a research psychologist specializing in
political psychology studies. Bill@Politicalpsychologyresearch.com
Clarified via research more than twenty psychological traits that relate to the
trait of warmongering and developed a rating scale for measuring the
warmongering-proneness of current and historical political and military
leaders, Politicalpsychologyresearch.com,
2006.
Member, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, for whom he has drafted
a new code of ethics for psychologists who
consider themselves pro-social and opposed to participating in torture or other
illegal activities ordered by employers, 2007.
Persuaded a Rotary International
community service committee to donate money and manpower to the new Nobel Peace Prize Monument project in Eugene,
Oregon, 2006.
Presented papers related to peace at annual meetings of the
International Society of Political Psychology, 2007, 2008.
Member, Research Committee, Peace and Violence Studies
Division, American Psychological Association, 2009.
Keith McHenry,
currently of Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, co-founded the Food Not Bombs movement in
1980. He has been arrested over
100 times for his work and faced life in prison. Amnesty International stated
he would be a ŇPrisoner of ConscienceÓ if convicted. keith@foodnotbombs.net
Designed political button "U.S. Out of El Salvador" for the
Committee in Solidarity with El Salvadore, www.consensus.net/illustrations7.html,
October 1979.
Cofounded
Food Not Bombs in Boston Massachusetts
www.foodnotbombs.net/keithbio.html, 5/24/80
First time arrested for sharing food at Golden Gate Park. www.foodnotbombs.net/keitharrest.html,
8/15/88.
Coauthor of the book Food Not Bombs, How to Feed the
Hungry and Build Community www.foodnotbombs.net/bookindex.html,
1992
Planned and participated in the ŇDrop Bush Not BombsÓ tour of Europe and the
Middle East speaking for peace in over 50 cities www.foodnotbombs.net/europe_tour.html
and www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2005/05/the_25th_annive.html,
October 2003 to January 2004.
Keynote speaker at
the Celebration of Gandhi's Birthday in Lagos, Nigeria. www.foodnotbombs.net/nigerian_photos.html,
10/02/05.
Victor Molinari, PhD, ABPP is a Professor in the Department of Aging and Mental
Health at the Florida Mental Health Institute of the University of South
Florida in Tampa, FL. vmolinari@fmhi.usf.edu
Letters and phone calls to Congressional representatives regarding not invading Iraq and stopping
support for the War in Iraq, 2005-2008.
Member of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, www.psysr.org
Member of Peace Division, American Psychological Association,
charged with identifying better ways of resolving conflict than war.
Michael N. Nagler, PhD is Professor emeritus from UC, Berkeley who resides at the Blue
Mountain Center of Meditation and runs the Metta Center for Nonviolence
Education in Berkeley, CA. mnagler@igc.org
Founded the Peace
and Conflict Studies Program at UC,
Berkeley, ca. 1975.
Wrote book America Without Violence: Why Violence Persists and How You Can
Stop It, Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1982.
Founded the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education, www.mettacenter.org, 1982.
Wrote The Search for a Nonviolent Future: A Promise of
Peace for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our World (2nd edition), Makawao,
HI: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2004.
Wrote Our Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom
in a Time of Violence. Chicago: Open
Court, 2005.
Wrote approximately
50 op-eds articles and other antiwar/peace
works, 1970s-2009.
Founded organization, Educators for Nonviolence, www.efnv.org, 2001.
Created nonviolence training
video for LaOnf in Iraq (2008) as well as
many other activities through the Metta Center, 1982-2009.
Barbara M. Nicholson,
MSW retired social worker in Sun City
Center, FL forming Windhunter Corporation with husband David to move planet
toward hydrogen use for energy to prevent wars for resources. dabonich@aol.com
Member, Womens' International League for Peace &
Freedom, Columbus, OH, 1958.
President WILPF Indiana Branch, 1968.
Responded to TV Editorial on anti-ballistic missile program, Indianapolis,
IN, 1968.
Helped organize retirees to
protest plans for Iraq War in Sun City
Center, FL, Jan-March 2002.
Organized Tampa4Kucinich and
Sun City Center4Kucinich groups, 2004.
Worn medallion,
Another Mother for Peace, since
Vietnam "War Is Not Healthy For Children and Other Living Things",
1966-2008.
Featured in newspaper article, "Gray-haired rebels with a cause", 2006
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/10/Brandontimes/Gray_haired_rebelswit.shtml.
Concepcion (Connie)
Picciotto calls 1601 Pennsylvania
Avenue her home, directly across the street from the White House. In 1981 she and her colleagues
began a vigil to protest nuclear arms and war. They have maintained a round-the-clock antiwar presence at this location for over a quarter century. concepcionpicciotto@yahoo.com
Demonstrates daily before the
White House for peace, 1981-2008.
Arrested and jailed by the US Park Police for "camping" 9/24/83.
Press coverage of her street peace vigil includes: Houston Chronicle, 3/13/83; New York Times, 9/7/84, 1/6/86; Washington Post, 12/19/82, 11/3/84, 5/10/85, 8/21/85, 8/24/85, 4/13/94,
12/22/94; USA Today, 8/23/85; and Washington
Times, 10/12/82, 3/10/83, 5/5/83, 8/8/84,
and 6/15/00.
Featured in the film Fahrenheit 9/11,
2004.
Listed in Wikipedia under
the category American activists.
Provides peace education to those who visit her display of signs and
literature or visit her on the web at www.prop1.org/conchita.
John M. Porter, MA, a social worker, lives and works in Traverse City,
MI. porterj3@charter.net
Draft counselor in early 1970s.
Supporter of various peace, environmental, social justice
organizations - ongoing.
Green Party activist/Presidential Nominating Convention delegate, 2000 and
2004.
Circulated petitions to gain access on the ballot for the Green Party of
Michigan in July 2000.
Member, Green Party US Accreditations Committee 2003-2004.
Presenter at conscientious objection workshop in March 2005.
Draft counselor training
completed, 2005.
Participated in anti-Iraq war demonstration on the occasion of the local National Guard unit leaving
town to join the war effort before the invasion, March 2002.
Member, Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
Robert Rouse
is a retired musician who waited until later in life to have a family. He lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana. robert@leftofcentrist.com
Sit-in at Warren
Central High School in protest of the Vietnam War, Bowling Green, KY, 1971.
March and rally in
Washington, DC to protest War in Iraq (http://leftofcentrist.blogspot.com/2005/09/mr-rouse-goes-to-washington.html),
9/24/05.
Participant in Antiwar encampment near the Bush ranch, Camp Casey II's Easter. (http://leftofcentrist.blogspot.com/2006/04/easter-at-crawford-tx-journey-begins.html)
Crawford, TX, April 13-16, 2006
Rally and march (http://leftofcentrist.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-do-we-want-peace-when-do-we-want.html) 1/27/07.
Monthly rallies on the Courthouse Green to protest the invasion of Iraq, Fort Wayne, IN,
First Saturday of each month, 2005-2007.
Maintains the blog
Left
of Centrist that often deals with antiwar issues, 2005 to present.
Writer for
ŇPolitics WikiaÓ and ŇAmerican Chronicle MagazineÓ, often contributing antiwar
articles, 2005-2007.
Wrote and performed antiwar
songs including ŇThe CountdownÓ and ŇNot
One More Man (Bush's War)Ó, 2005-2007.
March on the Pentagon
to protest continuing war in Iraq, 3/17/07.
Coleen Rowley, JD, of Apple Valley, MN is a retired FBI Agent who was on the cover of
Time Magazine twice in 2002; as a FBI whistle-blower
who made our country aware of mistakes the bureau made before 9-11 TIME Cover
June 3, 2002 and as a Time Person of the Year TIME Cover
Dec. 30, 2002. See
wikipedia.
Warned FBI Director
that the launching of a pre-emptive war on Iraq was not justified by the
evidence and that the war would prove counterproductive, Excerpts
From Letter to FBI Director, 2/26/03.
Delivered hundreds of speeches throughout the country and published dozens of op-ed,
letters to the editor, and blog pieces published
nationwide regarding the avalanche of
FBI mistakes, leading to a cover-up of institutional failure, followed by a
willingness to exploit 9-11 and the fear of terrorism in deceptive ways to
launch unjustified wars and engage in illegal actions like torture,
warrantless monitoring and other violations of international and constitutional
law, 2004-present.
Painted and organized the painting of antiwar banners used in Twin Cities peace vigils We'd Banner a Warning this Mother's Day,
2007-2008.
Antiwar Candidate
for Congress, Minnesota's Second
Congressional District, 2006.
Holiday demonstrations (Memorial Day, Flag Day, Mothers and Fathers Day, etc)
holding up peace banners and US flags on footbridges that span
Interstates 94 and 35W. www.myspace.com/tcPeaceVigils in Minneapolis
and St. Paul, Minnesota. 2007-2008.
Planning and hosting a Peace
Picnic (Peace Island
Picnic) as an antiwar protest during, and in the same city as, the Republican
National Convention on 9/4/08.
Invited
Speaker at a parallel conference on peace
during the Republican National Convention peaceisland.us, September, 2008.
Banners
featuring US flag and message, ŇPeace is
PatrioticÓ and are made and displayed, 2008.
Joseph
E. Schwartzberg, PhD, an Emeritus
Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, has been a peace and
justice activist throughout his adult life. He has done significant work in seeking peaceful solutions
to the Kashmir conflict. schwa004@umn.edu
Worked
with retired diplomats, three members of Congress, and senior academic
specialists on South Asia, through the Kashmir Study Group, to promote a
peaceful resolution of the Kashmir
dispute, 1993-2008.
Authored
publications directly related to peace
including:
ŇA new perspective on
peacekeeping: lessons from Bosnia and elsewhereÓ. Global Governance, 3(1): 1-15, 1997.
Ň1947
- 1997, The Kashmir Dispute at Fifty, Charting New Paths to PeaceÓ, co-author
of this report on the Visit of an Independent Study Team to India and Pakistan,
The Kashmir Study Group, 72 pp, 1997.
ŇKashmir:
A Way ForwardÓ. Livingston, NY: Kashmir Study Group, 24 pp, 1999.
See
Professor Schwartzberg's website for further information on his academic
contributions: www.geog.umn.edu/Faculty/Schwartzberg
Co-founder, Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, now comprised of 67
organizations, 1995.
Member, Executive Committee and chair or member of other
committees, Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, 1995-2008.
Peace
related public speaking in US and other
countries.
Organized
and participated in numerous peace marches, rallies, and organizations.
Cindy Sheehan of San Francisco, CA became a leading voice in the
antiwar movement soon after her eldest child, Casey Austin, was killed in
military action in Sadr City, Iraq on April 4, 2004.
Co-founder and President, Gold Star Families for
Peace, an organization devoted to families who have lost loved
ones in Iraq and dedicated to ending the occupation in Iraq, January 2005-2009.
Speaker, opening of Eyes Wide Open: the Human Cost of War,
a traveling exhibition created by the American Friends Service Committee that
displays pairs of combat boots to represent every U.S. military casualty,
Washington, D.C., January 2005.
Organized vigils and demonstrations near the Crawford, Texas home of George W. Bush in
protest against the U.S. occupation of Iraq – what became known as
"Camp Casey" – drawing thousands of activists and celebrities
from around the word, August 2005.
Founder and Director, The Camp Casey Peace Institute, 2005-2009.
Authored four books, including ŇNot One More MotherŐs ChildÓ (Kihei,
Maui: Koa Books; 1st THUS edition, 2005); ŇDear President BushÓ (San Francisco,
CA: City Lights Publishers, 2006); ŇPeace Mom: A MotherŐs Journey through
Heartache to ActivismÓ (New York: Atria Books,
2006).
Authored scores of articles, including ŇPulling No PunchesÓ (2005), ŇA Lie of
Historic ProportionsÓ (2005), ŇFriends Don't Let Friends Commit
War CrimesÓ (2006), ŇThe Human Cost of WarÓ (2006), ŇImagine PeaceÓ (2007)
and ŇAll Power to the PeopleÓ (2008).
Arrested numerous
times for antiwar and civil disobedience behavior: antiwar demonstration
outside the White House (September 2005), displayed antiwar slogan while attending George W. BushŐs State of the Union
address (January 2006), blocked the door to the U.S. Mission to the U.N. offices in New York during a protest
against the Iraq war (March 2006), repeatedly interrupted
congressional testimony of General David
Petraeus, BushŐs top war commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador
to Iraq (September 2007).
Keynote and
featured speaker at a variety of
conferences and organizations around the world, including at the International
Peace Conference - London, organized by the Stop the War
Coalition (December 2005), Feminism and War Conference (Syracuse,
NY, October 2006), 3rd Annual Midwest Peace and Justice Summit (April 2007), Greensboro Peace Fair (April 2007), Omaha Peace and Justice Expo (April 2007), San Diego Protest Rally to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the
U.S. invasion of Iraq (March 2009).
Nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize, 2005.
Participated in the protest
action and vigil Declare Peace on
MotherŐs Day which was staged in front of the White House, May 2006.
Lead march,
sponsored by Code
Pink: Women for Peace from White House to Capitol building ŇMother
of a MarchÓ blocked traffic at
Independence Avenue and Capitol Plaza until arrested, 05/14/07.
Recipient of
numerous awards, including
Pacifica Radio's ŇUnvarnished Truth AwardÓ (2005), The Peace AbbeyŐs
ŇThe Courage of Conscience AwardÓ (2005), ŇPegaso d'oroÓ of the Tuscany Region - U.S. Citizens for Peace
and Justice (2006), ŇThe Truthout Freedom and Democracy
AwardÓ (2007), and Thomas Merton
CenterŐs ŇThe Thomas Merton AwardÓ (2007).
Panel member, presenter and honored guest at a
host of conferences and events, including at Historians Against the War
(HAW) - "Empire, Resistance, and the War in
Iraq" (University of Texas, Austin,
February 2006), Peace and Sustainability Conference (Albany, NY, April 2008), and Building a New World conference (Radford, VA, May 2008).
Candidate for Congress (House
of Representatives) - ran as an Independent for California's Eighth District
seat (San Francisco) against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on a platform that
included antiwar/peace principles and policy objectives, July 2007-November
2008.
Radio talk show host,
Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, LLC,
an alternative media platform for open exchanges on issues ranging from war and
peace to progressive social change and justice, 2008-2009.
Brian J. Trautman, MEd, is a doctoral student studying educational
leadership and change at Fielding Graduate University. His research examines education
initiatives using the ÔEarth CharterŐ as a teaching and learning tool. He is on the faculty of the Peace and
World Order Studies program at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA
and resides in Albany, NY. b.trautman@yahoo.com.
Participated in antiwar protests, pending invasion of Iraq, Anchorage, AK, 2003.
Signed petitions and
wrote letters to congressional and local representatives on various peace issues, including letters
condemning violent US foreign policy and action such as the Iraq war,
Afghanistan war, military support of Israel, and rhetoric of aggression against
Iran, 2003-2009.
Authored articles and
book reviews on peace issues, including
two book reviews for Academic Leadership Journal, 2006, and two
entries for The International Encyclopedia of Peace (2009), edited by Nigel Young, New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004-2009.
Facilitated workshops and presented papers at
conferences on peace related issues, including panel participation and
presentation of a short essay, ŇPeace education informed by systems
thinking, Eastern mysticism, and Indigenous worldviewsÓ at the 2008
Comparative and International Education Society – Panel: Peace Education:
Transformative Models for Self, School, and Society, Teachers College, Columbia
University, 2007-2009.
Member, Comparative and International Education Society
(CIES), Peace Education Special Interest Group (SIG), http://www.cies.us/SIGS/peace_education,
2007-2009.
Member, American Educational
Research Association (AERA), Peace Education SIG, http://www.aera.net/Default.aspx?id=831,
2007-2009.
Participated in peace vigils, Pittsfield, MA, 2007-2009.
Member, Berkshire Citizens for
Peace and Justice (BCPJ), http://www.endusmilitarism.org,
2008-2009.
Member, Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), http://www.peacejusticestudies.org,
2008-2009.
Invited participant
at the ŇGlobal Peace and Security in Community Colleges and the Communities
They Serve: A Seminar for Community College Faculty &
AdministratorsÓ, United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington,
DC, http://www.usip.org,
2008.
Assistant Editor, US
Peace Registry of the US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc., 2008-2009.
Volunteered in
various roles for the conference ŇHow to prevent war on Iran and on the US
Constitution,Ó Berkshire Community College, 2008.
Participated in annual memorial
ceremony led by spiritual leader Jun Yasuda in commemoration of the atomic bomb
attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (63rd anniversary), Grafton Peace Pagoda,
Grafton, NY, 2008.
Member, Global Research Team,
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS). Personal research
contributions to HumanDHS involved the role of peace education to protect and
restore human dignity and prevent and end humiliation. http://www.humiliationstudies.org,
2008-2009.
Co-advisor, Global Issues Resource Organization (GIRO),
Berkshire Community College, 2009.
Co-organizer, GIRO
and BCPJ sponsored bus trip to ÔMarch on the PentagonŐ to mark the 6th
anniversary of the US war against Iraq, 2009.
Published editorials
on various antiwar/peace topics including U.S. torture of prisoners,
military recruitment, and nonviolence: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42755,
Meredith Tupper
is a small business owner in Springfield, VA.
Attended and documented
the MacDill AFB / Central Command protests in January 2002 (http://www.newworldtimes.com/peace_rally.html)
and January 2003. (http://www.newworldtimes.com/MacDillProtestJan2003sm.jpg)
among others.
Member, The Peace
Alliance whose goal it is to form a US Department of Peace (http://www.thepeacealliance.org). Have lobbied Congressional
representatives to support this
initiative.
Andrea G. Walsh is a Realtor living in Temple Terrace,
Florida. She has 2 children and 4
Grandchildren. AndreaGWalsh@Yahoo.com
Active member of the Peace and Social Concerns Committee within
Tampa monthly Quaker Meeting, 2004-2008.
Demonstrated in front of Fox 13 TV station asking for all news
media to report the war news honestly, 2004.
Worked on the American Friends
Service Committee "Eyes Wide Open" exhibit at the University of South
Florida Tampa campus. Eyes Wide
Open is a memorial exhibit of boots for
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and shoes representing civilian deaths, 2004
Marched on Washington
to End the War in Iraq, September 2005.
George Wilhelm, MSW is a realist sculptor living in San Francisco,
CA. wilhelm767@aol.com
Helped
start draft counseling center (Monroe Evening News, 04/07/70).
Participated in antiwar
demonstrations, 1970-1972.
Arrested during anti-Gulf War demonstration at San Francisco
Federal Building, 1991.
Participated in numerous antiwar
marches, 2002-2006.
Sent many letters to
congress members asking them to
oppose war in Iraq, 2003-2006.
Linked personal/business
website to Antiwar site georgewilhelm.com, 2008.
Alice Yeager, MFA has
a creative and healing arts studio and residence at Peace Point in
Edgewater, MD. She is
Founder and President of Spirit Creative Services, Inc. and the American
Healing Arts Alliance Inc. To help
create peace in the world, her work encourages individuals, and especially
leaders, to take responsibility for becoming peacebuilders, starting within
themselves and then inspiring their family, community, nation, and the world to
do the same. alice@spiritcreativeservices.com
Developed Inner Peace TreatyŞ, www.americanhealingarts.org/the-inner-peace-treatyTM,
initially ratified in Annapolis, MD, 06/21/98.
Began global email version on the Inner Peace TreatyŞ, 03/21/04
With others, formed a human
peace symbol on the front lawn of the US
Capital Building, 2007.
Created an ArtistŐs
conception of the US Peace Memorial that
is included on the Foundation's website at www.uspeacememorial.org/sample,
2007.
Kim Yaeger is
a graduate of California Polytechnic State University. She works as a Program and Research
Assistant at the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation, financially assisting
families of children who are catastrophically ill. Kim resides in Burbank, CA. kyaeger@mac.com
Member, Burbank High
Conscientious War Objectors club, Burbank, CA 2002
Demonstrated against possible military action in Iraq, Hollywood, CA 2002 and 2003
Demonstrated against the War in Iraq, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2006
Demonstrated against the War on Iraq, Cal Poly campus, San
Luis Obispo, CA, 2006
Stephen Zunes, PhD, is Professor of Politics and Chair of Middle
Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. He resides in Santa Cruz, CA. zunes@usfca.edu
Antiwar activist against Vietnam War as a teenager, 1968-1975.
Trainer and activist,
Movement for a New Society, Philadelphia Life Center, 1976, 1979-1982.
Staff and volunteer,
Mobilization for Survival, Philadelphia (1980) and Boston (1983-84), 1980-1984.
Antiwar activist against
intervention in Central America, Ithaca, NY, 1984-1988.
Traveled to Iraq and organized
against Gulf War, 1990-1991.
Board member and chair,
Washington State SANE/Freeze, 1991-1994.
Founding director, Institute for a New Middle East Policy, 1991-1995.
Delegate, disarmament conferences in Hiroshima, 1992.
Chair, Peace & Justice Studies
Program, University of San Francisco, http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/ug/peace_justice_studies,
1997-2004.
Authored scores of articles on peace themes, including ŇNonviolent Resistance and IslamÓ, Nonviolent Activist (2002); ŇHow the hawk kills the dove: Western intervention keeps slamming the door on peace in Iraq,Ó Thomson Gale: New Internationalist (2005), 1995-2009.
Delegate, Hague Appeal for Peace, http://www.haguepeace.org, 1999.
Authored several books on peace themes, including Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective (Eds.), Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA (1999); Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism, Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press (2003), 1999-2009.
Member, Governing Council, International Peace Research Association, 2000-2002.
Peace Scholar of the Year, Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), http://www.peacejusticestudies.org, 2002.
Chair, Commission on Law and Peace in the Middle East, Toda Institute, http://www.toda.org, 2002-2003.
Board member, Peace Action Education Foundation, 2004-2006.
Chair, Committee of Academic Advisors, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org, 2006-2009.
ORGANIZATIONS
After
Downing Street (founded in 2005)
After
Downing Street is a nonpartisan coalition of over 200 veterans groups, peace
groups, and political activist groups that work to pressure Congress and the
media to investigate whether President
Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the war in Iraq. The coalition takes its name from the emergence
in May and June of 2005 of several documents that quickly came to be known as
the Downing Street Memos. Their
website features impeachment books, evidence/documentation, and planned activities designed to lead to impeachment.
Contact Information:
David Swanson, Co-Founder
Telephone: 202-329-7847
E-mail: david@davidswanson.org
Website: afterdowningstreet.org
Christian Peacemaker
Teams (founded in 1988)
Christian Peacemaker Teams
(CPT) arose from a call in 1984 for Christians to devote the same discipline
and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war.
Enlisting the whole church in an organized, nonviolent alternative to war,
today CPT places violence-reduction teams
in crisis situations and militarized areas
around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers. CPT
embraces the vision of unarmed intervention waged by committed peacemakers ready
to risk injury and death in bold attempts
to transform lethal conflict through the nonviolent power of God's truth and
love.
Contact Information:
Carol Rose, Co-Director
Operations
Doug Pritchard, Co-Director
Program:
Box 6508
Chicago, IL 60680-6508
Telephone: 773-277-0253
Fax: 773-277-0291
E-mail: peacemakers@cpt.org
Website: http://cpt.org/
Dayton International Peace Museum (founded in 2003)
Vision: to inspire a
culture of peace. Mission: to
contribute to a local, national, and international culture of peace through exhibits,
activities, and events that focus on nonviolent choices.
The historic Pollack
House, home of the Dayton International Peace Museum in Dayton, OH, houses
permanent and rotating exhibits, a host of peace activities and special events
that focus on changing our culture of violence to a culture of peace.
Contact Information:
Steve Fryburg,
Director
208 W. Monument Ave.
Dayton, OH 45402
Telephone: 937-22PEACE
(227-3223)
Email: steve@daytonpeacemuseum.org
Website: www.DaytonPeaceMuseum.org
Food
Not Bombs (founded in 1980)
Food
Not Bombs is an all volunteer worldwide movement that shares free vegetarian
food with the hungry in protest to war and poverty.
Contact Information:
Keith
McHenry, Co-founder
Food
Not Bombs
P.O.
Box 424
Arroyo
Seco, NM 87514
Telephone:
505-776-3880 or 800-884-1136
Email:
menu@foodnotbombs.net
Website: http://www.foodnotbombs.net
Genesee Valley
Citizens for Peace (founded 1972)
Work towards peaceful
solutions to international conflicts, zero nuclear weapons, and an end to
militarism in our society. Current
and ongoing activities include Antiwar storefront, Annual
Vigil in Commemoration of the victims of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic
bombings, and marches and demonstration. Affiliated with Peace Action New York
State.
Contact Information:
Arnie Matlin
P.O. Box 363
Geneseo, NY 14454
Telephone:
585-624-3673
Email: ahmatlingvcp@igc.org
Website: www.GVCP.org
Human Rights and Peace Store
The online Human Rights
and Peace Store www.humanrightsandpeacestore.org is a joint venture of the Human Rights Resource
Center (University of Minnesota) and Growing
Communities for Peace. The Store is an important tool for bringing Human
Rights and Peace Education into our schools, homes, workplaces, and
communities. This unique Store provides easy access to Human Rights and Peace
Education books, curricula, posters, training guides, multi-media materials, gifts,
bookmarks, kindness currency, and other resources. This special
collection of Human Rights and Peace Education products represents years of
research and networking to find, through links with partnering human rights and
peace organizations, publishers, small presses, and other hard-to-find
community-based initiatives.
Contact Information:
Human Rights and Peace Store
University of Minnesota
N-120 Mondale Hall
229 – 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Human Rights Resource
Center: 612-626-0041
E-mail: peace@umn.edu
Website: www.humanrightsandpeacestore.org
Jeannette Rankin
Peace Center (founded in 1986)
The Jeannette Rankin
Peace Center exists to connect and empower people to build a socially just,
non-violent and sustainable community and world. We are committed to
a process of reflection, dialogue and action, both in times of crisis and in
the ongoing work of peacemaking. We believe that informed, engaged
citizens are the foundation of both democracy and peace, and aim our efforts at
supporting both. Ongoing activities include: a resource lending
library; a public education/media campaign; an Arts
Activism program; a weekly e-newsletter; an interactive
website; local underwriting of Free Speech TV which includes
the program "Democracy NowÓ; and a weekly peace and justice
film series at the University of Montana.
Contact Information:
Betsy
Mulligan-Dague, Executive Director
Jeannette Rankin
Peace Center
519 S. Higgins
Missoula, MT 59801
Telephone: 406-543-3955
Fax: 406-543-0128
E-mail: peace@jrpc.org
Website: www.jrpc.org
Minnesota Alliance
of Peacemakers (founded in 1995)
Mission: to
strengthen the effectiveness of the peace and justice community in Minnesota by
enabling member organizations to share resources, insights and ideas and devise
cooperative strategies to accomplish common goals. Sponsor and/or support peace related activities including conferences, Alternatives
to Violence Training, petition drives, lobbying, and protests.
Contact Information:
Rebecca Janke,
President
Minnesota Alliance of
Peacemakers
c/o Hennepin Ave.
United Methodist Church
511 Groveland
Minneapolis MN
55403-3240
Telephone: 651-214-8282
E-mail: peace@tc.umn.edu
Website: www.mapm.org
Nobel Peace
Laureate Project (founded in 2003)
Will inspire others
to act for peace by creating the first ever programs honoring and educating
about the American winners of the Nobel Peace Prize as a
group. A K-12 education project
has been completed and is available on our website. Fundraising is
in progress to create a Peace Park in Eugene, Oregon that
will honor all American Nobel Peace Laureates.
Contact Information:
John Attig,
President
2335 Terrace View
Drive
Eugene, OR 97402
Telephone: 541-686-1027
Fax:
541-345-2459
E-mail: jnhattig@efn.org
Website: www.nobelpeacelaureates.org
Peace
Abbey (founded in 1988)
The
Peace Abbey is dedicated to creating innovative models for society that empower
individuals on the paths of nonviolence, peacemaking, and cruelty-free
living. We offer a variety of
programs and resources that teach, inspire and encourage one to speak out and
act on issues of peace and social justice. Faith in action is the cornerstone of our fellowship and
activist pacifism is our creed.
The organization offers a gathering place for peace activists, a peace
museum, conference center, and training in nonviolent civil
disobedience.
Contact Information:
Lewis
M. Randa, Founder/Director
Two
North Main Street
Sherborn,
MA 01770
Telephone: 508-655-2143
Fax:
508-376-6246
E-mail: info@peaceabbey.org
Website:
www.peaceabbey.org
Peacework Magazine (founded in 1972)
The mission of Peacework
Magazine is to spotlight global thought and local action for nonviolent social
change. This
monthly publication is intended to serve as a source of dependable
information to those who strive for peace and justice and are committed to furthering the nonviolent social
change necessary to achieve them.
Contact Information:
Sara Burke and Sam
Diener, Co-editors
American Friends
Service Committee New England
2161 Massachusetts
Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
Telephone: 617-661-6130
E-mail: pwork@igc.org
Website: http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org
Political
Psychology Research, Inc. (founded in 2007)
PPRI
is a non-profit corporation dedicated to research in the public
interest, specifically on psychological traits, attitudes, etc.
related to government, politics, peace and empowering
the people to have an effective voice in these issues. Some research
findings include that
Warmongering-proneness and Violence-proneness can be reliably
measured as a psychological trait using questionnaires. These studies
have led to a practical tool for identifying dangerous,
warmongering-prone political leaders so that citizens can avoid voting them into office.
Contact Information:
William A. McConochie, Ph.D., Founder and President
71 East 15th
Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Telephone: 541-686-9934
Fax:
541-485-5702
E-mail: Info@PoliticalPsychologyResearch.com
Website: www.politicalpsychologyresearch.com
Psychologists for
Social Responsibility (PsySR) (founded in
1982)
PsySR applies the
research, knowledge, and practices of psychology to promote durable peace at community,
national, and international levels.
To accomplish this mission, our members mobilize and train
psychologists, social scientists and other mental health professionals to apply
their knowledge to foster peace, social justice, and sustainable
development. We support each other's
projects and join in coalitions for effective action. We supply critical information from psychology for local,
national and international public policy making.
Contact Information:
Colleen Cordes, Executive Director
208 I St. NE, Suite B
Washington, DC
20002-4340
Telephone: 202-543-5347
E-mail: psysr@psysr.org
Website: www.psysr.org
FOUNDATION MEMBERS
Dr. D. C. Amarasinghe, Virginia
Anne Anderson, District of
Columbia
Dr. John Arnaldi, Florida
Robin D. Azevedo,
California
Nancy Baker, Vermont
Dr. Jeffrey Beal, Florida
Dr. Marion A. Becker,
Florida
Dick Bernard, Minnesota
Mona Bernstein, California
Thomas A. Block, Maryland
Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld, Iowa
Beth Bradley Brookfield, Nevada
Dr. Lisa M. Patty Brown, Florida
Dr. Lucy Bradley-Springer, Colorado
Dr. Gloria B. Callwood, US Virgin
Islands
Dr. Robert J. Casa–as, Florida
Dr. Beata Casa–as, Florida
Dr. Tiffany Chenneville, Florida
Dr. David Chiriboga, Florida
Citizens for Global Solutions,
Minnesota
Dr. Charles F. Clark, Colorado
Dr. Hewitt B. Clark, Florida
Janet R. Clark, Florida
Dr. Marcus A. Conant, California
Conant Foundation, California
Dr. James W. Conn, Florida
Dr. A. Gene Copello, District of
Columbia
Alice M. Curtis, Washington
Dr. Clinton J. Dawes, New
Hampshire
Kathleen Dawes, New Hampshire
Dr. Ann Vickery DeBaldo,
Florida
Patrick T. De Marco, Florida
Adma d'Heurle, New York
Dr. Glen Dunlap, Nevada
Brian Dunn, Florida
Jeremy Ebersole, Pennsylvania
Dr. Judy I. Eidelson,
Pennsylvania
Dr. Roy J. Eidelson,
Pennsylvania
William J. Falcone, Florida
Dr. Francisco Fernandez,
Florida
First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barbara Fite, Florida
Dr. Sondra J. Fogel, Florida
Dr. Linda Rose Frank, Pennsylvania
Dr. Martha Friedrich, Florida
Donna Gallagher, Massachusetts
Dave Gammon, Massachusetts
Stephen M. Gammon, Florida
Dr. Jerry D. Gates, California
Jim R. Glover, Florida
Dr. William Haley, Florida
Nuzhat Haneef, Minnesota
Dr. Ian M. Harris, Wisconsin
Roseann Hirneisen, Florida
Dr. Kathryn Hyer, Florida
Del "Abe" Jones,
Tennessee
Esther Kleine, Florida
Dr. Georg Kleine, Florida
Chris A. Knox, Ohio
Harold L. Knox Trust
James Robert Starring Knox, Florida
John Michael Page Knox, Texas
Lucinda Page Knox, Florida
Mary Knox, Florida
Mary Knox Trust
Dr. Michael D. Knox, Florida
David M. Korman, Pennsylvania
Dr. Jeffrey D. Kromrey,
Florida
RoseMarie K. Kromrey, Florida
Dr. Bernadette Lalonde, Washington
Mary
Robin Leigh, Florida
Beth Lenholt, Washington
Dr. Nathan L. Linsk,
Illinois
Dr. Jancis Long, California
Jason M. Longo, Florida
Karen E. Lowman, Florida
Dr. Charles S. Mahan, Florida
Dr. Anthony J. Marsella, Georgia
Donald Martin, Michigan
Dr. Arnold H. Matlin, New York
Dr. Margaret W. Matlin, New York
Dr. Daniel M. Mayton II, Idaho
William D. McColl II, District of
Columbia
Dr. William A. McConochie, Oregon
Dr. Lynette Menezes, Florida
Robert Lockwood Mills, Florida
Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers,
Minnesota
Dr. Victor Molinari, Florida
Dr. Linda Moody, Florida
Network of Spiritual Progressives, Minnesota
Dr. Dennis Neyman, Kentucky
Barbara M. Nicholson, Florida
David W. Nicholson, Florida
Dr. Lois LaCivita Nixon, Florida
Dr. Bradley Olson, Illinois
Dr. Henry R. Pacheco, Texas
Christina Pacheco, Missouri
Chorale Page, Florida
Shirley J. Page, Illinois
John C. Palm, Florida
Rev. Leslie K. Penrose, Oklahoma
Joyce D. Piecuch, Indiana
Psychologists for Social Responsibility, District of Columbia
Susan Purdin, New York
Dr. Kathleen M. Rehl, Florida
Dr. E. Michael Reyes, California
Penny J. Rice, Iowa
Anne M. Richter, Florida
Barbara A. Riordan, New York
Dr. Lawrence G. Ritt, Florida
Riverhills Corporation
Carol Lee Ross-Gammon, Florida
Dr. William Rowe, Florida
Coleen Rowley, Minnesota
Delia Sanchez, Florida
Jolyon Sasse, Florida
Barbara Schechtman, Illinois
Dr. Alice E. Dash Scheuer, Hawaii
Dr. Joseph E. Schwartzberg,
Minnesota
Edmund A. Schwesinger, Jr., Connecticut
Marjorie D. Schwesinger, Connecticut
Dr. Michael W. Sharinus, North
Carolina
Madeline Simon, Minnesota
Barbara Sinnott, Florida
Dr. John Sinnott, Florida
Dr. Karen M. Sowers, Tennessee
Deborah Spielberg, Maryland
Robert E. Springer, Jr., Colorado
Dr. Charlie Stapatanachai, Alaska
Charles F. Streibig, Jr., Pennsylvania
Joyce A. Streibig, Pennsylvania
Dr. Gregory B. Teague, Florida
Frank L. Tetrick, III, Virginia
Barbara A. Tomsik, Florida
Francis J. Tomsik, Florida
Meredith Tupper, Virginia
Dr. Art Ulene, Utah
Melva Underbakke, Florida
Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church,
Kentucky
Peace & Justice Team of the Unitarian Universalist
Church of Vancouver, Washington
Peace Network, Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, Georgia
Vancouver for Peace, Washington
Richard V. Wagner, Maine
Andrea G. Walsh, Florida
Dianne Weyer, Georgia
Dr. Richard B. Weinberg, Florida
George Wilhelm, California
Dr. Nilufer Wilkins, Florida
Linda J. Winsor, Minnesota
Alice Yeager, Maryland
Stephen G. Yovino, Florida
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