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US Peace Delegation Joins International Call for Ouster of US Nuclear Weapons from Germany

JULY 2, 2018       FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:  John LaForge, (w) 715-472-4185/ (cell) 715-491-3813; or Marion Küpker (Germany) +49 (0)172 771 32 66

     A delegation of US peace activists* will participate in protests at the Büchel Air Base in the west central part of Germany, July 10 to 18, 2018, demanding the permanent withdrawal of the 20 US H-bombs still deployed there.

     The delegation has been organized by Nukewatch (a peace and environmental justice group based in Luck, Wis.) in conjunction with “Büchel is Everywhere: Nuclear Weapons-Free Now!” a German-wide coalition of 50 peace groups. The nine US activists -- from Wisconsin, California, New York, Kansas, Georgia, Idaho and Arizona -- will join the German coalition converging on the air base, where German pilots flying Tornado jet fighters train to use the US H-bombs known as B61s.

     The target of the protests is the controversial policy of placing US nuclear weapons known as B61s in other countries, and US plans to replace the current bombs with new ones. The US is the only country in the world that places its nuclear weapons in other countries. Under a program called “nuclear sharing” Germany, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, and The Netherlands still deploy a total of 150 the Cold War-era US gravity H-bombs.** Critics point out that all five countries are parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which explicitly prohibits nuclear weapons from being transferred to or accepted from other countries -- to avoid further proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction.

     In March, the Büchel is Everywhere coalition launched a 20-week-long series of nonviolent protests -- “Twenty Weeks for Twenty Bombs” -- to rid Germany of the remaining 20 B61s. The protests continue through August 9, the anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. The US delegation will be a part of “International Week,” July 10 to 18, joining with activists from Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany and elsewhere. (Last year’s delegation to the peace camp at Büchel joined nuclear weapons opponents from as far away as China, Mexico, and Russia.)

     Many of the US delegates are representatives of groups working to stop production of the new B61. CeeCee Anderson, from College Park, Georgia near Atlanta works with Women’s Action for New Directions which campaigns to end nuclear weapons work at the plutonium-producing Savannah River Site, in South Carolina; Ann Suellentrop works with Physicians for Social Responsibility in the Kansas City area confronting the Kansas City Plant which produces non-nuclear components for all US nuclear warheads; Susan Crane from Redwood City, CA works with opponents of California’s Vandenberg Air Force base which tests nuclear weapons systems; Anthony Donovan award winning documentarian of Good Thinking, Those Who’ve Tried To Halt Nuclear Weapons (2015), who was part of Civil Society throughout the negotiations for the Treaty For the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and focusses now on Divestment from the industry;   Max Smay is a volunteer with the Snake River Alliance in Idaho which focuses on the Idaho National Lab and its nuclear weapon and reactor experiments; Victor White, with Veterans for Peace, also works to bring attention to the nuclear weapons testing at Vandenberg Air Base.

     “The world wants nuclear weapons abolished,” said US delegate Bonnie Urfer, a long-time peace activist and former co-director of Nukewatch, pointing to the newly established United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, endorsed by 122 nations in July 2017. “To waste billions of dollars replacing them with new ones is outrageous considering the millions now in poverty or in need disaster relief, emergency shelter, and safe drinking water,” Urfer said.

     An overwhelming majority of the German public objects to US/NATO plans to replace the B61s deployed across Europe (including the 20 at Büchel Air Base). The US plans to produce 480 of the new H-bombs, dubbed the “B61-12.”

     “Our united resistance will stop the new, illegal nuclear bombs nobody needs,” said Marion Küpker, a disarmament campaigner with Büchel Is Everywhere. “We all want Germany to be nuclear weapons-free,” she said.

     * The delegation includes: CEECEE ANDERSON from College Park, Georgia; SUSAN CRANE, of Redwood City, California; ANTHONY DONOVAN of New York, NY; DENNIS DUVALL, from Prescott, Arizona; ANN SUELLENTROP of Kansas City, Kansas; VICTOR WHITE, of Oceanside, California; MAX SMAY of Boise ID; and BONNIE URFER and JOHN LaFORGE, both with Nukewatch, in Luck, Wisconsin.

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Pressenza Interview May 2018

www.pressenza.com/2018/05/face-2-face-anthony-donovan/

I made an error, saying we have 50 ratifications of the Treaty, meant to say we need 50 to make it law, we have over 50 countries who’ve signed the Treaty.

They also recently linked my article in The Catholic Worker written in Dec. 2017... slightly dated.  But transalted to Spanish.   Thank you David and Pressenza.   

https://www.pressenza.com/2018/05/abolition-nuclear-weapons-everything-connected/

Please keep aprised of international nuclear abolition campaigns gathering at Buchel Base in Germany July 10th-18th, 2018, and Faslane, Scotland, Sept. 22nd.

Please follow ICAN’s information on Divestment.   We can each make a difference here.   

Below is just one example of the many resolutions the NY City Council adopted in our long pushback to these horrors.   We can recall this vigor and courage, to encourage our urgent needs today.  The cost is far greater, the danger has multiplied, and the democratic process decimated in comparison.    Onward, together.    Thank you

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This gathering, two hours on Mothers Day, May 13th, to carry on honoring all mothers and our Mother Earth.  Recieve and Share the latest information.

Please also keep aprised and share the news kept out of the media:  the Kings Bay Plowshares (FB page of same name) of April 4th 2018, on the recent action of our brave colleagues who risked life and years in prison (some are mothers and grandmothers) to help expose the great call and urgent necessity for nuclear abolition.

We are involved and supporting the Korea’s in talks and building their bridges.  Our arsenals especially are the great threat to humanity.

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“Winner Platinum Award Feature Documentary Directors Awards 2017”  Indonesia

Film Festivals Good Thinking was disqualified by most the larger film fests because of my decision to make it public online in March, for free to those organizations concerned with this topic.  I felt this information should not wait a year for consideration.   Besides, I didn’t think most fests would take a 3.5 hr film.   But to my surprise these festivals did in 2016 (several awards yet to be announced, and several more coming in 2017, not listed here):

**  Won “Best Documentary” at the Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival

Won “Award of Excellence” at the Headline International Film Festival

Won  “Winner, Award of Recognition” at the IndieFest Film Awards

Won “Merit Award” at the Awareness Film Festival (Los Angeles)

“Official Selection”   AAB International Film Festival, N. India

“Official Selection”  Miami Independent Film Festival

“Official Selection”  Docs Withour Borders Film Festival

“Official Selection” Lake View International Film Festival (India)

“Official Selection”  WIPE Film Festival (Berlin)

“Official Selection”  Planet Film Festival, Barcelona

“Official Selection”  ArtHouse Film Festival, Hong Kong

“Official Selection”  Near Nazareth Film Festival, Israel

Others in the pipeline

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While there are serious setbacks, my recent article, slight roundup of 2017 progress toward Abolition.  

Share the Wisdom with our Reps

Thank you for all you do.   Boycotted by our country and all our Reps, You well know the most important issue for us all today: The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony, today, Dec. 10th 2017

the issue perfectly put:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1daV8n6fTY

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Share the Wisdom with our Reps

Thank you for all you do.   Boycotted by our country and all our Reps, You well know the most important issue for us all today: The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony, today, Dec. 10th 2017

the issue perfectly put:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1daV8n6fTY

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This is a very momentous (not exaggerating) week for nuclear weapons.  (Week of Sept. 20th, 2017).   Our historic Treaty opens to 193 nations for signing.   

Here is a short video in support of this treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons,  

https://vimeo.com/234240471

Also, fyi:   a MoveOn Petition to Sign the Treaty

https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/sign-the-treaty-to-prohibit

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Please read Timmon Wallis’s book, just released:   Disarming The Nuclear Argument

It is avaiable on Amazon.  Ask your bookstore to order it.   It will prepare you in easily understood, clear sense, using only the real truth about these weapons.  A tremendously helpful companion, and excellent teaching tool.    

Below is one of the side Panels I had the honor to moderate.   Gathering the tremendous wisdom of those all around us.   Team.  Widening Community.

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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Adopted July 7th.

Below is the painstakingly crafted Preamble of the Treaty, as well as the core Article One. (Full treaty of ten pages is available online)   Perhaps imperfect for some, but finally, these genocidal devices are illegal.   This is the tool we need to now spread and educate and lobby all about, to be presented before 192 nations this September at the General Assembly in New York.    There is not one argument used by the nuclear states that can not be disarmed with basic common sense and any worthy discussion, not to mention facts.   Please contact me any of the organizations listed in this endeavor if you ever need clear back up on an argument.

Some of those forming and contributing to the panel I moderated on Role Playing any and all of the arguments of Nuclear Weapons.   Frank Jackson (88yrs from UK), Alice Slater, J.D., Dr. Kate Dewes (NZ), Janet Fenton (Scotland), MP from Scotland Bill Kidd, Sr. Carol, myself, Sr. Ardeth, Fmr. Comdr. Rob Green (Royal Navy, UK and now NZ)  

The Final vote up on screen, July 7th, 2017, as the cheers are about to errupt, as 1 against, 1 abstained, 122 voted for.    The treaty is adopted after weeks (and years of hard focussed work together).  The loopholes the weapon states have been using against all humanitarian law and the UN Charter, are finally directly addressed.    Whether it stops one bomb or not, they are rightfully, officially declared illegal, by any and all means.  Something vast humanity has stood up for for 72 years. 

The Treaty’s Preamble:

“Submitted by the President of the conference

The States Parties to this Treaty,

Determined to contribute to the realization of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, 

Deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from any use of nuclear weapons, and recognizing the consequent need to completely eliminate such weapons, which remains the only way to guarantee that nuclear weapons are never used again under any circumstances,

Mindful of the risks posed by the continued existence of nuclear weapons, including from any nuclear-weapon detonation by accident, miscalculation or design, and emphasizing that these risks concern the security of all humanity, and that all States share the responsibility to prevent any use of nuclear weapons,

Cognizant that the catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons cannot be adequately addressed, transcend national borders, pose grave implications for human survival, the environment, socioeconomic development, the global economy, food security and the health of current and future generations, and have a disproportionate impact on women and girls, including as a result of ionizing radiation,

Acknowledging the ethical imperatives for nuclear disarmament and the urgency of achieving and maintaining a nuclear-weapon-free world, which is a global public good of the highest order, serving both national and collective security interests,

Mindful of the unacceptable suffering of and harm caused to the victims of the use of nuclear weapons (hibakusha), as well as of those affected by the testing of nuclear weapons, 

Recognizing the disproportionate impact of nuclear-weapon activities on indigenous peoples,

Reaffirming the need for all States at all times to comply with applicable international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law,

Basing themselves on the principles and rules of international humanitarian law, in particular the principle that the right of parties to an armed conflict to choose methods or means of warfare is not unlimited, the rule of distinction, the prohibition against indiscriminate attacks, the rules on proportionality and precautions in attack, the prohibition on the use of weapons of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering, and the rules for the protection of the natural environment, 

Considering that any use of nuclear weapons would be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, in particular the principles and rules of international humanitarian law, 

Reaffirming that any use of nuclear weapons would also be abhorrent to the principles of humanity and the dictates of public conscience,

Recalling that, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, States must refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations, and that the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security are to be promoted with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources,

Recalling also the first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations, adopted on 24 January 1946, and subsequent resolutions which call for the elimination of nuclear weapons,

Concerned by the slow pace of nuclear disarmament, the continued reliance on nuclear weapons in military and security concepts, doctrines and policies, and the waste of economic and human resources on programmes for the production, maintenance and modernization of nuclear weapons,

Recognizing that a legally binding prohibition of nuclear weapons constitutes an important contribution towards the achievement and maintenance of a world free of nuclear weapons, including the irreversible, verifiable and transparent elimination of nuclear weapons, and determined to act towards that end, Determined to act with a view to achieving effective progress towards general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, Reaffirming that there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control,

Reaffirming also that the full and effective implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which serves as the cornerstone of the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, has a vital role to play in promoting international peace and security, 

Recognizing the vital importance of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and its verification regime as a core element of the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, 

Reaffirming the conviction that the establishment of the internationally recognized nuclear-weapon-free zones on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned enhances global and regional peace and security, strengthens the nuclear non-proliferation regime and contributes towards realizing the objective of nuclear disarmament, Emphasizing that nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of its States Parties to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination,

Recognizing that the equal, full and effective participation of both women and men is an essential factor for the promotion and attainment of sustainable peace and security, and committed to supporting and strengthening the effective participation of women in nuclear disarmament, Recognizing also the importance of peace and disarmament education in all its aspects and of raising awareness of the risks and consequences of nuclear weapons for current and future generations, and committed to the dissemination of the principles and norms of this Treaty,

Stressing the role of public conscience in the furthering of the principles of humanity as evidenced by the call for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, and recognizing the efforts to that end undertaken by the United Nations, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, other international and regional organizations, non-governmental organizations, religious leaders, parliamentarians, academics and the hibakusha,    

Have agreed as follows: “   (end of Preamble, Article One, the vital core of the document continued below)

The Meditation room designed and built by Dag Hammarskjold at the UN 1957, a place oft visited of specific guidance and profound inspiration for me on this issue since 1982.

This one photo by Ralf Schlessener of Germany... a full Conf. Rm B, I’m honored here (far right of table) in conversation with the team.

President of the Conference H.E. Ambassador Whyte-Gomez of Costa Rica guiding us, Conference Room One

(Treaty Continued from Preamble)

“Have agreed as follows:

Article 1    Prohibitions

1. Each State Party undertakes never under any circumstances to:

(a) Develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;

(b) Transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices directly or indirectly;

(c) Receive the transfer of or control over nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices directly or indirectly;

(d) Use or threaten to use nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; (e) Assist, encourage or induce, in any way, anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Treaty;

(f) Seek or receive any assistance, in any way, from anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Treaty;

(g) Allow any stationing, installation or deployment of any nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices in its territory or at any place under its jurisdiction or control.”

It’s now time to educate citizens of the world on the facts, intellegently discuss the issue, identify the profiteers and the misinformation, an industry outside any semblance of democracy.   Let people know of this Treaty, boycotted by weapons states and our media.     

Time for us to join together and work hard for the true deterrents of war... trust, team and community building.    Each of you count.  Onward, together.   Thank you very much.     

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fyi:  Good Thinking has been segmented into short clips, primarily by topic or person, for easier accessibility and sharing.   

Each on Vimeo, and beginning now on You Tube as well.

**  I will be participating in the Unitied Nations Conference June 15th thru July 7th (2017), of the majority of countries and numerous NGO’s trying to create an international instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons.   This is the year!   The vast resources wasted, the great danger continuing to build, for no good reason, or thought.    

The USA, China, Russian, UK, and other close allies are boycotting the conference.  Please stand with the vast humanity hoping to see a ban, despite the profiteering of this wasteful, dangerous industry.    I hope to give a personal report during or after the event.   Am pushing for urgency, and comon sense as much as possible.

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Where Good Thinking Went in 2016

List of where and to whom DVDs were given in 2016, with a letter and online link to film.   To all below, many hand delivered, most mailed with followup phone calls and emails.    

We, along with those below, are responsible for these weapons:  

-   President Barak Obama, White House  (form letter of thanks received)

-  Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (White House)

-  Pentagon, Marine Corps. Gen. Joe Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

-  Pentagon, Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Ray Mabus (Letter of thanks received)

-  U. S. Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter

-  DoD (Dept. of Defense) Office of Public Affairs

-  DOE (Dept. of Energy) Office of Public Affairs

-  U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research

-   U. S. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency

-   U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, U.S. Dept. of State

West Point U.S. Military Academy (to each separately): Brigadier General Cindy Jebb, Dean Diana Holland, Brigadier General, 76th Commandment of Cadets Command Sergeant Major David Clark West Point USMA Library and Archives, Audio Visual Dept. Dept. of Physics and Nuclear Engineering Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Military Academy

-  U.S. Dept. of Army, Navy and Air (Along with Pentagon and White House) were each telephoned and emailed with requests for interviews in 2012 for this film.   They were all informed of it’s completion and website to view.

-  U.S. Presidential Campaign Hqts 2016 of: Sen. Bernie Sanders Frm. Sec. State Hillary Clinton Donald Trump (President Donald Trump to be sent again upon assuming office)

-  U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Powers

-  U.S. Ambassador to Japan, H.E. Caroline Kennedy

-  U.S. House Office of the Armed Services Committee -  U.S. Senate Committee of Armed Services -  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

-   Senate Appropriations Committee, Sub-Committee on Defense Spending

-  Congressional Budget Office

-  Jimmy Carter Presidential Library -  John Kennedy Presidential Library -  LBJ Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library -  Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum -  Harry Truman Presidential Library and Museum -  Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum -  Library of Congress

-  U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress One full week, from morning to eve, walking the long hallways, physically went into each of below offices, spoke with those whose area was defense or energy matters.  I chose first all the Representatives who sit on the Armed Service Committees, or Appropriation Committee’s that are responsible for the funding of these weapons.   Included were a few other Representatives who are influential, and naturally my own reps.  Each were handed DVDs, and written material on Good Thinking, with the online link to share, and a request for feedback.  Each were spoke to about the upcoming resolution being discussed by some 150 nations trying to make these illegal in 2017-18.   I must admit it was sobering that the vast majority of office staff had little to know idea of the cost of these weapons, nor the capacity for destruction of one of them, nor the numbers that we have, nor knew anything about the International movements against them.   Truly, a dangerous bubble.   Most were very polite, and listened, for which I’m thankful.   If any watched or spread the word?  I followed up with all visits with a letter, call and/or email.  

Senator Ed Markey Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Senator Chuck Schumer Senator Bernie Sanders Senator Jeff Sessions Senator Joe Donnelly

Senator Elizabeth Warren Senator James Inhofe Senator Bill Nelson Senator Fischer Senator Joe Manchin Senator Mike Lee Senator Angus King Senator Lindsey Graham Senator Martin Heinrich Senator Ted Cruz Senator Tom Cotton Senator Claire McCaskill Senator Richard Blumenthal Senator Mazie Horono Senator Roger Wicker Senator Michael Rounds Senator Joni Ernst Senator Tim Kaine Senator Jeanne Shaheen Senator Kelly Ayotte Senator Thom Tillis Senator Dick Durban Senator Patrick Leahy Senator Diane Feinstein Senator Barbara Mikulski Senator Jack Reed Senator Pat Murray Senator Jon Tester Senator Tom Udall Senator Brian Shatz Senator Mitch McConnell Senator Richard Shelby Senator Lamar Alexander Senator Roy Blunt Senator Steve Daines Senator Jerry Moran Senator Thad Cochan Senator John McCain Senator Cory Booker Senator Michael Enzi Senator Dan Sullivan Senator Dean Heller Senator John Boozman Senator Al Franken Senator Mark Warner Senator John Hoeven Senator Cory Gardner

U. S. Representatives of Congress

Representative Dutch Ruppersberger Representative John Lewis Representative Tulsi Gabbard Representative Rick Larsen Representative Jerrold Nadler Representative Mac Thornberry Representative Carolyn Maloney Representative James Langevin Representative John Conyers, Jr. Representative John Garamendi Representative Ben Ray Lujan Representative John Sarbanes Representative Madeleine Bordallo Representative Steve Israel Representative Adrian Smith Representative Joe Courtney Representative Jeff Sessions Representative Louise Slaughter Representative Jackie Speier Representative Adam Smith Representative Juan Castro Representative Susan Davis Representative Loyd Doggett Representative Scott Peters Representative Hand Johnson Representative Loretta Sanchez Representative Tammy Duckworth Representative Scott Peters Representative Robert Brady Representative Susan Davis Representative Rick Larsen Representative Jim Cooper Representative Niki Tsongas Representative Gwen Graham Representative Sam Graves Representative Pete Aquilar Representative Randy Forbes

-  Some of the Media “Good Thinking” was given to:

Moyers and Company New York Times Science at NY Times Washington Post NPR WNYC Brian Lehrer Show Leonard Lopate Show Democracy Now Amy Goodman The Guardian Huffington Post WGBH, American Experience, and Frontline PBS, WNET The News Hour POV The New Yorker Al Jezerra The Villager (NY) The Daily Beast The Real News Network,  IWT  (Baltimore, Toronto) The Nuclear Resistor TruthDig New York City Independent Media Center ABC News TheIntercept .com Revista San Francesco, Assisi

-  Netflix, Hulu, GooglePlay, ITunes

and other online global media platforms were contacted via agents “Agregators” to help spread Good Thinking to the wider world.  The film was offered to them for free, without a % of profits they would make on views, but as of the end of the year, they all want money upfront, more than I have.  

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United Nations

U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Mr. Kim Won-soo, High Representative U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Director and Deputy to the H. Rep. U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch (several) U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Info and Outreach Branch U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Support To the Committee U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Reference Library U.N. Committee on Nuclear Weapons IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Office at the United Nations The U.N Dag Hammarskjold Library NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security

U.N. Mission of Israel U.N. Mission of India U.N. Mission of Pakistan U.N. Mission of Russian Federalist Republic U.N. Mission of Cyprus U.N. Mission of China U.N. Mission of USA U.N. Mission of Mexico U.N. Mission of Japan U.N. Mission of Iran U.N. Mission of South Africa U.N. Mission of the Republic of Korea U.N. Mission of Germany U.N. Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See U.N. Mission of Sweden U.N. Mission of Jordan U.N. Mission of France

Also personally hand delivered in Washington, D.C.

Embassy of The Republic of the Marshall Islands Embassy of South Africa Embassy of India

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Organizations

whom received the Good Thinking DVD and link Some large, some very small, some seasoned for many decades, some new, some local oriented, some global in outreach, some on the way out, some growing.  This is not a complete list, I know I’m missing several.  Here placed in no particular order:

Institute for Advanced Research,  Princeton The Catholic Worker (NY and DC, etc) War Resistors League  (WRL) The Carter Center Kofi Annan Foundation Mayors For Peace (International) Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, and The Peace Promotion Office Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Reaching Critical Will Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Historical Studies-Social Sciences Library, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) Ben and Jerrys,  Vermont Nukewatch Nuclear Watch New Mexico   Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Greenpeace, DC, NY, San Fran. and Rome Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (NY) NTI, Nuclear Threat Initiative,  Nuclear Security Project  (includes Sen. Sam Nunn, Frm Sec. of State Shultz, etc) Gorbachev Foundation,  Russia Arms Control Association (DC) UNfold Zero James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) (DC and Monterrey offices) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Physicians for Social Responsibility (chapters: DC, NY, Boston, Austin, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Madison, Seattle, Santa Fe) Student Physicians for Social Responsibility (DC) Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy American Friends Service Committee Dr. Helen Caldicott Foundation The Hoover Institution, The Johnson Center (DC) Eisenhower Institute, Gettysburg College (Gettysburg and DC) Union of Concerned Scientists (chapters: DC, Boston, Chicago,  Cambridge, Oakland,  ) Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)  (NY and other chapters) Fellowship of Reconciliations (FOR, Western States) Ploughshares Fund  (DC and San Francisco offices) WAND Education Fund,   WAND and Will  (DC, Atlanta and NY) Pax Christi, National DC and NY, and Pax Christi International Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)  (DC and NY) ICAN,  International Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons The Sierra Club  (DC and Oakland) The Sierra Club, Legislative Office Common Cause  (DC) Global Zero  (DC) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (DC) Citizens for Global Solutions (DC) Council For a Livable World, The Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation   (DC) The Brookings Institution Pugwash Council and Conferences  (DC) Natural Resource Defense Council  (NRCD)  (DC, Chicago and NY) International Institute for Strategic Studies,  IISS - DC British American Security Information Council,  (BASIC) (DC) Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, International Peace Bureau, (Berlin, and Geneva) International Atomic Energy Agency,  Vienna U.N. General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy & Environment Program (DC) Alliance for Peacebuilding, Melanie Greenberg, CEO  (DC) Johns Hopkins School For Advanced International Studies  (DC) Creating a Culture of Peace Org. Jonah House Common Dreams New York Public Library Selections Office Nuclear Age Peace Foundation  (NAPF) ISORDARCO, International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, Rome Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament & Environmental Protection (IIPDEP) National Association of Atomic Veterans (U.S.) Gensuikyo, (Japan Council against A and H Bombs) Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Nuclear Information and Resource Service,  NIRS - WISE Network (several chapters worldwide) The Nobel Foundation, Nobel Peace Prize Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Nobel Committee for Physics Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Lutheran Peace Fellowship Nevada Desert Experience National Science Foundation Mohonk Consultations Abolition 2000, Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Western states Legal Foundation Vietnam Veterans Against the War Veterans For Peace  (several chapters) The Golden Rule Project National Atomic Testing Museum, Nevada Nuclear Watch Nuclear Watch New Mexico Tibet House 350.org Peace and planet.org Peace Action, Campaign for a Nuclear Free World, Coalition for Peace Action  (to several locations) Albert Schweitzer Institute Working Families Washington Peace Center Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA) World Fellowship Center United National Anti-War Coalition Brooklyn For Peace Yitzhak Rabin Center, Israel Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development British American Security Information Council Global Watch River Watch Ground Zero for Nonviolent Action U.S. Peace Council Gray Panthers Raging Grannies Code Pink  (LA, DC, NY) Environmentalists Against War Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace Earth Action Roots Action .org Brandywine Peace Community Association of World Citizens Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility Unitarian Church of All Souls ReThink,  Peace and Security Team Action For A Better World World Beyond War / AFGJ CounterPunch Buddhist Peace Fellowship Peace Boat (International, and NY) The Ford Foundation,  Office of the President, and a few other offices Rockefeller Brothers Fund,  Program Impact, and Peacebuilding Carnegie Corporation of New York, International Peace and Security Team Brookings Institution,  Arms Control, Nuclear Weapon Policy group Council For a Livable World,  Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation United Religions Unitied Vandenberg Witness Tri-Valley CAREs,  Communities Against a Radioactive Environment The Peace Farm Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship Project For Nuclear Awareness Beyond Nuclear Los Alamos Study Group N Square, Flipping the Script Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions Daisy Alliance Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Food Not Bombs Business Executives For National Security   Federation of American Scientists   National Academy of Sciences,  Keck Center of the National Academies International Peace Institute U.S. Institute of Peace (DC and NY) Lawyers Alliance for World Security Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Institute for Science and International Security Stimson Center,  re: Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security World Policy Institute,  Arms and Security Project Women in International Security Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) Nonproliferation Policy Education Center Nuclear Control Institute Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) Disarm Education Fund (Global Health Partners) Peace and Security Funders Group Citizen Awareness Network,  (CAN) Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, Levy Institute Georgians Against Nuclear Energy Science for Democratic Action,  (IEER) International Association of Educators for World Peace International Nuclear Societies Council,  American Nuclear Societies International Philosophers for Peace,  (IPPONO) Peace Resource Center of San Diego Public Citizen Quaker United Nations Office Resolve,  Institute of World Affairs Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (no longer?) Presbyterian Peacemakers Committee of East Tennessee Alliance for Peacebuilding The Atom Project Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO),  Vienna Tibet House (NY) The International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, DC, Bahrain, and Singapore offices) The King Hussein Foundation and The Noor Al Hussein Foundation Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Hague Appeal For Peace The Hindu Temple, Queens, NY Middle Collegiate Church, NY Russian Orthodox Cathedral of The Most Holy Virgin Protection Japan Society, NY The National Science Foundation Transform Now Ploughshares The Nation Institute The Interfaith Center of NY Kezialain Farm Socialtees Office of the Americas National Association of Atomic Veterans, Inc.  (NAAV) Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Green Newton Global Security Institute EarthAction Roots Action .org Citizens Awareness Network  (CAN) Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER),  Science for Democratic Action Sam Adams Associates for Integrity Intelligence, SAAII (DC) The German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice in Ann Arbor

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Universities:

Harvard University: - Harvard Divinity School - Harvard Dept. of History, Chair - Harvard Dept. of International Law - Harvard Dept. of Public Health - Harvard Dept. of Government, office of the Chair - Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center For Science and International Affairs - Harvard Center for Public Leadership, Office of exec and co director - The Forum, J.F.K School of Gov.

MIT,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology -   Security Studies Program

Stanford University -  Frm Sec. of Defense William Perry -  Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation -  The Hoover Institution -  Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Columbia University -  School of International and Public Affairs, SIPRI, Dean’s Office

Northeastern University -  The Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Bellarmine University  -  The Merton Center (Thomas Merton) -  Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust

Smith College -  Sophia Smith Collection

Swarthmore College -  The Peace Collection

Oregon State University -  Special Collections & Archives Research Center

George Washington University  (GWU) -   Elliot School of International Affairs, Dean’s Office

Marquette University -  University Archives  

Hampshire College -  Peace and World Security Program

University of San Francisco   -  Nautilus Institute, Center for the Pacific Rim

John Hopkins University -  School for Advanced International Studies

New York University -  Dean’s Office, and the Dept. of Public Health

University of Maryland - The Anwar Sadat Chair For Peace and Development

Gettysburg College - The Eisenhower Institute

The Elliott School of International Affairs - Security Policy Studies, Dean’s Office

University of Notre Dame - Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Hesburgh Center for International Studies

University of Rome -  International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts,     ISORDARCO

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Film Festivals Good Thinking was disqualified by most the larger film fests because of my decision to make it public online in March, for free to those organizations concerned with this topic.  I felt this information should not wait a year for consideration.   Besides, I didn’t think most fests would take a 3.5 hr film.   But to my surprise these festivals did in 2016 (several awards yet to be announced, and several more coming in 2017, not listed here):

**  Won "Best Documentary" at the Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival

Won "Award of Excellence" at the Headline International Film Festival

Won  "Winner, Award of Recognition" at the IndieFest Film Awards

Won "Merit Award" at the Awareness Film Festival (Los Angeles)

"Official Selection"   AAB International Film Festival, N. India

"Official Selection"  Miami Independent Film Festival

"Official Selection"  Docs Withour Borders Film Festival

"Official Selection" Lake View International Film Festival (India)

"Official Selection"  WIPE Film Festival (Berlin)

"Official Selection"  Planet Film Festival, Barcelona

"Official Selection"  ArtHouse Film Festival, Hong Kong

"Official Selection"  Near Nazareth Film Festival, Israel

Others in the pipeline

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Best Documentary, 2016

Wow, a surprise and great honor for the millions.  We can stop this unnecessary horror and threat, together.   Lets.   Thank you Montreal!!   

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http://theindiefest.com/past-winners/award-of-recognition-october-2016/

Awarded Winner, Award of Recognition.     All those good souls in this work who’ve given their lives and efforts on behalf of humanity thank you IndieFest.  Please share the film, free, here online