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WILLIAM DURLAND, PhD, JD, of Littleton, CO, graduated from Union University and Georgetown Law School and is a professor and attorney emeritus who was legal counsel for the U.S. Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure. durlandwe@gmail.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Durland.

Secretary, U.S. Study Conference on Peace and Justice, 1971.

Ran for Congress as an independent antiwar candidate, CO, 1972.                   

Co-founder, National Center on Law and Pacifism, which defends conscientious objectors, refugees, and war tax resistors, and opposes the production, transport, and deployment of nuclear weapons, 1978.

Co-founder, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, 1982.

Delegate to 40th International Conference Against A and H Bombs, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan, 1985.

Delegation member to International Peace Conference of Lawyers, New Delhi, India, 1986.

Taught courses in peace and justice, Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center, Wallingford, PA, 1985-1988.

Helped defend two U.S. soldiers deported from Canada, after having fled to avoid fighting in the war against Iraq.

Member, Christian Peacemaker Teams, working in Palestine, Iraq, and the U.S.-Mexico border, 2001-2010.

Author of numerous antiwar publications including People pay for peace: A military tax refusal guide for radical religious pacifists and people of conscience, 1980 and Immoral Wars and Illegal Laws, 2011.

Member and Director, Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, 1980-2016.

 

 

EUGENIA DURLAND, MA, of Littleton, CO, is a teacher, editor, and author. durlandwe@gmail.com

Peace Studies degree, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, IN, 1978.

Co-founder, National Center on Law and Pacifism, which defends conscientious objectors, refugees, and war tax resistors, and opposes the production, transport, and deployment of nuclear weapons, 1978.

Co-founder, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, 1982.

Delegate to 40th International Conference Against A and H Bombs, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan, 1985.

Taught courses in peace and justice, Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center, Wallingford, PA, 1985-1988.

Member, Christian Peacemaker Teams, working in Palestine, Iraq, and the U.S.-Mexico border, 2001-2010.

Editor of numerous antiwar publications including Immoral Wars and Illegal Laws, 11/2011.

Member and Director, Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, 1980-2016.

 

 

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JANICE (JAN) HAAKEN, PhD, is a professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University and a clinical psychologist, activist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker who has focused on peace and antiwar-related scholarship and films. www.jhaaken.com haakenj@pdx.edu  www.facebook.com/janice.haaken www.youtube.com/@JHaakenProductions

Taught courses in Peace Psychology at Portland State University, 2005-2011.

Featured in article, “Visiting Filmmaker Examines Military Psychology, PTSD,” Daily Nexus, 11/20/2013.

Author of books including Speaking Out: Women, War, and the Global Economy (co-author), Ooligan Press, 2005; and Psychiatry, Politics and PTSD: Breaking Down, Routledge Press, 2021.

Gave talks at film screenings including “Return to Duty: The Ethics of Caring for People in Uncaring Places,” Santa Barbara, CA, 11/19/2013; and “Atomic Bamboozle: A Film on the Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance,” Vancouver, Canada, 10/05/2022 and 10/19/2022.

Wrote articles including “Cultural Amnesia: Memory, Trauma, and War,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2002; co-wrote “Moving Images: Psychoanalytically informed methods in documenting the lives of women migrants and asylum seekers,” Journal of Health Psychology, 2014; co-wrote “Behind the curtain: A cultural analysis of virtual reality treatment for combat-related PTSD,” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 12/2016; co-wrote “Women’s perspectives on war and peace in Sierra Leone,” Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 03/2017; and “Trauma, Psychiatry and the War on Terror,” book review of Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America by Nadia Abu El-Haj, Against the Current, 07/2023.

Directed and produced documentary films including “Diamonds, Guns and Rice,” co-director and co-producer, 2005; “Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines,” 2014; “Atomic Bamboozle: The False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance,” 2023; and co-directed “The Palestine Exception: What’s at Stake in the Campus Protests?” 2024.

Speaker at events on topics including “Gender Violence in War Zones,” Vancouver, WA, 02/14/2024; and “Climate and Militarism,” Vancouver, WA, 04/19/2024-04/21/2024.

Interviews including “‘Mind Zone’: New Film Tracks Therapists Guiding Soldiers Through Traumas of Afghan War,” Democracy Now!, 03/16/2012; “Screening Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines,” 07/16/2012; “Atomic Bamboozle film director Jan Haaken Takes on SMRs, Pacific NW Nuclear Nightmares + Doomsday Clock Stuck, Bill Nye Sucks,” 01/23/2024; “Palestinian Film Fest,” 02/26/2024; and “Documenting the Fight Against the Palestine Exception: A Conversation with Filmmakers Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth,” 09/03/2024.

Virtual film screening and discussion of “The Palestine Exception,” Palestine Museum, Woodbridge, CT, 01/11/2025.

 

 

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ABEL N. TOMLINSON, BS in Horticulture Science, of Fayetteville, AR, has been an antiwar activist, organizer, and writer since 2002 who also worked on Occupy Wall Street, Move to Amend Arkansas, the Bernie Sanders campaign, and medical cannabis. Abeltomlinson.com Abeltomlinson@gmail.com  www.facebook.com/noahautumn.tomlinson www.youtube.com/user/abelnoah/videos

Peace activist organizer and board member, OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, & Ecology, Fayetteville, AR, 2003.

Ran for U.S. Congress as a peace candidate, Fayetteville, 2008.

Hosted local cable access TV show, Omnivision, Fayetteville, 2009-2011; and created and hosted local cable access TV show, World Citizen Wire, interviewing nationally renowned peace leaders, Fayetteville, 2017 and 2018.

Formed Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance (later renamed Arkansas Antiwar Alliance) to organize various protest events, Fayetteville, 2018.

Gave speeches:Facing Nuclear Madness from Hiroshima to North Korea,” OMNI Center’s annual Hiroshima Nagasaki Remembrance, Fayetteville, 2017; Preventing the threat of nuclear war, OMNI Center’s annual Hiroshima Nagasaki Remembrance, Fayetteville, 2018; and “What Are The Wars Really For?,” No Iran War & No More Imperial Warfare Protest, Fayetteville, 01/25/2020.

Organized events including rally, “Celebration of Nuclear Abolition Movement and Call for Peace with North Korea,” Fayetteville, 2017; Parade for Peace and peace rally, bringing together numerous organizations, Fayetteville, 2018; peace march and rally to oppose the threat of war with Iran and U.S. imperialism, Fayetteville, 2020; Stop the University of Arkansas Nuclear Weapons Program, Fayetteville, 2021; and events to stop the U.S.-backed genocide of Palestinians, including Palestine Peace March and Rally, Fayetteville, 11/04/2023.

Organized a three-month series of weekly protests to Stop the War with Iran & U.S. Imperialism, Fayetteville, 2019; and seven monthly protest events to stop both the U.S. proxy war with Russia in Ukraine and the threat of nuclear war, Fayetteville, 2022 and 2023.

Wrote letters to the editor and articles to oppose war, The Arkansas Traveler, 2006-2008; The Free Weekly, 2012-2017; and “Radical Change in the USA: Prospects for Domestic Revolution,” CovertAction Magazine, 11/30/2024.

 

 

 

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Founding Mothers Movement

Founded in 2024, FMM is a women-led movement determined to transition humanity from patriarchy to partnership, pledging to shift the paradigm by empowering women, protecting children, and ending war. By building a global coalition that is powerful enough to inspire evolutionary change, their Strategic Plan focuses on the two goals of universal rights for all women and an end to war. Actions include Weekly Worldwide Wakeup campaign and future campaigns, Founding Mothers Proclamation, Theories of Change, blog posts, and events.

 

Contact Information:

Laura George, Peace Room Member

88 Oracle Way

Independence, VA 24348

Email: Info@FoundingMothers.world

Website: www.foundingmothers.world

Facebook: www.facebook.com/FoundingMothersMovement

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@FoundingMothersMovement

Instagram: www.instagram.com/FoundingMothersMovement

  

 

 

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