Conference: Weapons and War (October 26, Washington D.C.)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>WEAPONS AND WAR
>
>A SYMPOSIUM ON
>INTERNATIONAL ACCORDS TOWARDS WORLD SECURITY
>AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE AFTER SEPTEMBER 11
>
>Friday, October 26, 2001    8:00 a.m.  -  6:00 p.m
>
>Lutheran Church of the Reformation
>212 East Capitol Street   Washington D.C.
>(2 blocks east of the Capitol Building and one block east of the Supreme
>Court)
>
>Activist and academic experts will provide an update on threats from
>biological, toxic, and nuclear weapons and existing international
>agreements intended to minimize these threats. Discussions will cover the
>Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), the Anti-Ballistic Missile
>(ABM) Treaty, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), and the
>Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The United States government is
>sabotaging all four treaties: by rejecting a Compliance Protocol on the
>BTWC that is to be finalized in November in Geneva, by beginning to build a
>missile defense facility in Alaska, by refusing to ratify the CTBT, and by
>developing low-yield bunker-busting weapons.
>
>Speakers include:
>Congressman Dennis Kucinich (invited)
>Brian Becker, co-director of the International Action Center (IAC)
>Max Obuszewski, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
>Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
>Edward Hammond, Sunshine Project
>Hillel W. Cohen, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
>Kevin Martin, Peace Action
>Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation
>John Burroughs, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
>Tara Thornton, Military Toxics Project (MPT)
>
>For more information contact Chela Vazquez (IATP) at (612) 870-3441
>cvazquez at iatp.org
>
>Steering committee and supporters include: Institute for Agriculture and
>Trade Policy (IATP), Bradford University, Sunshine Project, International
>Peace Bureau (IPB), Transnational Institute (TNI), The Center for Defense
>Information (CDI), Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in
>Space, Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos (ILSA),
>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), NGO Committee
>on Disarmament, Peace Action, Corporacion de Unidades Democraticas para el
>Desarrollo (CEUDES), Centro de Debate y Accion Ambiental, Institute for
>Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), Accion Ecologica, OXFAM Change
>Inititiative.
>
>FREE TO THE PUBLIC