Dr. Lawrence Wittner: “How Peace Activists Saved the World.” @SPSCC

Dr.
Lawrence Wittner, who many of you saw when he was in the Pacific Northwest last
spring, is returning to our area for a few events next
week.

Please repost and publicize these events to your
lists:

MONDAY, SEP. 27

Noon-1:30 PM. WSBA World Peace Through Law Section mini-CLE: “Civil
Society and the Making of Public International Law: The Nuclear Disarmament
Movement’s Effect on Nuclear Weapons Policy and Treaties.” WSBA-CLE Conference
Center at Century Square, 1501 Fourth Ave., Ste. 308, Seattle. Free to students
& WSBA members, $25 for general public. Register at https://pro.wsba.org/forms/cle/M100927.asp.

TUESDAY, SEP. 28

8
PM. “How Peace Activists Saved the World,” plus the premiere screening of a
short documentary of the “Journey of Repentance” of local Tacoma activists to
Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki in 2009. First United Methodist Church, 621
Tacoma Ave. South Tacoma. Free, but a collection will be taken to assist with
the defense of Fr. Bill Bichsel, recently indicted on federal charges from the
Disarm Now Plowshares nonviolent direct action at the Bangor nuclear sub base in
late 2009.

WEDNESDAY, SEP. 29

Noon. “How Peace Activists Saved the World.” South Puget Sound Community
College auditorium, Olympia. Free. open to the public.

Dr.
Wittner was, until his recent retirement, a professor at State University of New
York-Albany, and the foremost historian in the world on the nuclear weapons
abolition movement. He’s the author of a definitive scholarly trilogy on the
topic, as well as a condensed single book on it for popular audiences that was
published last year. His basic message – after research through historical
archives of the US and Russia going back 60 years – is that grass roots activism
has consistently had far more impact on elected officials policymakers than the
activists realized at the time. It’s a hugely important (and inspiring) message
that a lot of people could stand to hear these days!