On Saturday April 7th and Sunday morning April 8th, MIT and Massachusetts Peace Action will co-host a conference and workshop at MIT on understanding and reducing the risk of nuclear war. Tickets are free for students. To attend, please register here.

Saturday sessions

• Continuing Dangers from Nuclear Weapons
  • Prof. Aron Bernstein, Prof. Elaine Scarry, Stephanie Savell.
• International Initiatives Toward Disarmament
  • Joseph Gerson, Hon. John Tierney, Charles Knight, Chuck Johnson, Jim Anderson (Chair).
• Political Initiatives
  • John Tierney, Medea Benjamin, Kristina Romines, Jonathan King, Andrea Miller (Chair).
• Campus Organizing for Peace & Justice: What Works? What Doesn’t? Where Next?
  • Campus Peace leaders including Caitlin Forbes (Mass Peace Action), Kate Alexander (Peace Action of NY), Eric Stolar (Fordham), Luisa Kenausis (MIT).
• Actions for the Coming Period: Shout Heard Round the World
  • Michelle Cunha, Poor Peoples 40 Day Campaign (Paul Johnson), Peace for Koreans (Mike Vanelzakker), Cole Harrison (Chair).

Workshops

• Resisting the Trillion dollar Nuclear Weapons Escalation
  • Prof. Gary Goldstein, Peter Casey, Prof. Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Richard Krushnic, Guntram Mueller (Chair).
• Congressional Budget-Civilian vs Pentagon
  • Subrata Ghoshroy, Andrea Miller, Stephanie Savell, Paul Shannon, Michelle Cunha (Chair).
• Don’t Bank on the Bomb Divestment Campaigns
  • William Hartung, Lucas Perry, State Rep. Mike Connolly, Medea Benjamin, Councilor Dennis Carlone (Chair).
• Preventing Nuclear Weapons Use
  • Lisbeth Gronlund, Dr. Kea van der Ziel, Prof. Elaine Scarry, Shelagh Foreman, Jerold Ross (Chair).

Sunday Morning Planning Breakfast

Student-led session to design and implement programs enhancing existing campus groups, and organizing new ones; extending the network to campuses in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.

For more information, contact Jonathan King at <jaking@mit.edu>, or call 617-354-2169