[Peace-discuss] ALEC in Chicago Thursday; and 11am CDT *today* Hiroshima Day National Teleseminar -- The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and the Abolition of War -- David Culp and Tad Daley -- NOON EDT -- Join Us!

[Stuart Levy]

Two announcements -

**Today*, **11am Central time* Aug 6th, the 68th anniversary of the 
bombing of Hiroshima, there's a nationwide call-in on nuclear 
disarmament and anti-nuclear-weapon activism. See below.  Sorry for the 
short notice. The number is 415 671 4335, backup number 206 402 0110, 
and the code to enter is 862166#.

Thursday, Aug 8th: ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, 
which under the guise of an educational nonprofit is a pro-corporate 
lobbying group on all sorts of issues: from "right-to-work" union 
busting, to private prisons, to "tort reform" (avoiding corp. 
responsibility for harm to consumers), to stand-your-ground laws, and on 
and on.  ALEC's annual meeting is in Chicago on Thursday Aug 8th.  A 
number of groups are gathering to protest them.   At least a couple of 
people - Paul, Sandra - have been talking about driving up to Chicago to 
join them.  Are others interested too?


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Subject: 	[ufpj-activist] Hiroshima Day National Teleseminar -- The 
Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and the Abolition of War -- David Culp and 
Tad Daley -- NOON EDT -- Join Us!
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Hello my disarming colleagues. Tad Daley here, with the Center for 
War/Peace Studies in Washington and New York. I'm writing to invite you 
to join David Culp of the Friends Committee on National Legislation and 
me on a national teleseminar TOMORROW, the 69th Hiroshima Day, at NOON EDT.
I'm going to talk for awhile about the many facets of the contemporary 
nuclear weapons peril, about the mountaintop vision of banning and 
dismantling every last nuclear weapon on Earth, and about how that might 
lead some distant day -- really! -- to no less than the abolition of 
armies and the abolition of war.
Then David is going to talk about hardheaded near term activist 
organizing activities that folk can undertake right now. At least about 
the nuclear part.
I'm pretty sure there ain't no legislation pending in the 113th Congress 
about the abolition of war.
The teleseminar is put on by "The Shift Network" as part of their 
"Summer of Peace." Candidly, I think a lot of the folk on the call will 
be of a more spiritual than political orientation.  So David and I would 
both be most pleased if some hardheaded peace activist veterans like you 
cats would contribute to the dialogue. It's a good opportunity to preach 
beyond the choir!
You can register for the call at
*https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/sop13TD/daley/*
**
AND/OR you can just call in at Noon EDT. The number is 415 671 4335, 
backup number 206 402 0110, and the code to enter is 862166#.
Join us as we plot the revolution, eh?
tad
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Tad Daley, JD, PhD

Director, The Project on Abolishing War at The Center for War/Peace 
Studies, Washington and New York
Author: /*_APOCALYPSE NEVER: Forging The Path To A Nuclear Weapon-Free 
World_ */(Rutgers University Press 2010 and in paperback 2012)
www.abolishingwar.org <http://www.abolishingwar.org>
_www.apocalypsenever.org_ <http://www.apocalypsenever.org>
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy; if the world 
were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I wake up each 
morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor 
the world. This makes it very hard to plan the day.? ? E. B. White, 
author of /CHARLOTTE'S WEB, THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, /and /THE WILD FLAG/
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