Thank you to everyone who attended last weekends Annual Peace Conference. With more than 150 in attendance, the event was a huge success! We had the pleasure of hearing from two stellar keynote speakers: Mike Moore, author of the award-winning Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance, and Heidi Beirich, director of research for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama.
In addition to the keynote addresses participants attended lively break-out sessions on issues ranging from the International Violence Against Women Act and Stopping Violence Against Women in Whiteclay to The War in Afghanistan & Pakistan. Workshop topics also included Religious Movements & Modern Peacemaking, Organizing for a Just Immigration Policy and Helping Chapter Activists Utilize NFP’s Web Resources. The conference provided an amazing overview of the work that NFP is currently doing and why NFP is still so vital, even after 40 years!
As a recognition of our 40th anniversary celebration NFP was featured on KFOR radio's Lincoln Live program with Dale Johnson. Dale sat down with NFP Board President, Paul Olson and board member, Jill Francke. We invite you to take a few minutes to listen to the interview by clicking here.
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Lincoln Civil Rights activist and NFP state board member, Leola Bullock, died Sunday, October 17. Her funeral will be held at 10:00am, Friday, October 22, 2010 at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 8550 Pioneers Blvd, Lincoln, NE. Read the editorial, Leola Bullock’s legacy is everywhere, that appeared today in the Lincoln Journal Star to celebrate her life. She will be sorely missed.
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I have been a member of Nebraskans for Peace for the full forty years of its existence. I have attended every annual peace conference in that span of time if I was in this country. I remember when Randall Forsberg, then a young woman, talked about the Nuclear Weapons Freeze to NFP—years before we had a FREEZE movement nationally, years before Ronald Reagan finally gave in and negotiated a START nuclear weapons reduction treaty. I remember when Isabel Letelier, whose husband had been assassinated by the Chilean government in this country with the complicity of the U.S. government, spoke to us about our plot to destroy a duly elected government in Chile. Later evidence confirmed what she said to be true.
I remember dozens of times like this when NFP met to deliberate at a time when history was about to turn. We made a difference. I believe that we are at such a point now.
First, we as Nebraskans are responsible for examining how our state turns a profit economically. We are meeting in Omaha where U.S. Strategic Command accounts for ten percent of the economy—much of it designed to arm space and use space-guided drones to kill people a continent or more away. Once space is armed, there will be no turning back from our exhausting our resources militarizing the heavens. Author Mike Moore in his keynote address will speak to us about what we can do turn this situation with StratCom around and start solving our manifold problems here on earth.
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Celebrating 40 Years of NFP
The oldest statewide Peace & Justice organization in the U.S. will celebrate its 40th anniversary Saturday, October 16 at the 2010 Annual Peace Conference in Omaha. To commemorate this milestone in Nebraskans for Peace’s history, this year’s event is featuring keynote addresses from not just one, but two nationally known speakers.
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Date: Friday & Saturday, September 17-18, 2010
Location: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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