Sonya Rapoport, with whom the Fund for Peace Initiatives closely collaborates, will have a show of interactive works exhibited at the Mills College Art Museum. Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport will feature an interactive work Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age produced with support of FFPI’s Les DeWitt and Elena Ilina Nicklasson.
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Mr. Les DeWitt joins the International Science Partnership Advisory Board. The International Science Partnership (ISP) brings together American scientists and engineers with counterparts in countries of security concern to the U.S. to build robust personal and institutional relationships and solve critical social and environmental issues.
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Fund for Peace Initiatives currently supports one of the art projects by Sonya Rapoport, an acknowledged Berkeley artist and an outstanding woman. Sonya is an American conceptual/digital artist and New media artist who has created computer-assisted interactive installations and participatory web-based artworks. To learn more about Sonya and her art, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Rapoport.
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Fund for Peace Initiatives is currently working on a with Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Rhodes to plan and produce a play, Reykjavik, in Stanford, Palo Alto (California) with anticipated date January 2012. Rhodes writes about the play: “my play based on the historic summit meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 11 – 12 October 1986, is receiving staged readings nationwide. Paul Newman advised me on writing Reykjavik; he read the third draft just weeks before his death. He was a warm, modest, decent, generous man; his death on 27 September 2008 carried away one of the good people of the world. Reykjavik is dedicated to him.”
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Elena Ilina Nicklasson, Partner at the Fund for Peace Initiatives, spoke on KPFA about nuclear activism and the role women take in nuclear disarmament. Elena indicated that the young people relate less to the problem of nuclear weapons and security, because most of them grew up in the post-Cold War world. What nuclear future do you envision?
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Les DeWitt, President of the Fund for Peace Initiatives on John F. Kennedy’s speech: JFK’s speech at American University in Washington DC in June1963 was a truly remarkable speech for the USA. If he had lived, I think, he may have taken our Country on a very different course that the military/industrial power based path that we have seemed attached to over the course of my lifetime.
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On August 26, 2010 a former Secretary of State, George Shultz, and a former Secretary of Defense, William Perry, presented a documentary “The Nuclear Tipping Point” and talked about nuclear threats of today at the Intel auditorium. The talk was organized by the Intel’s Beyond the Cube project and the Fund for Peace Initiative. The event was attended by more than 350 Intel employees and it was made accessible for 80,000 employees worldwide via podcast. This is the very first event of such kind. Silicon Valley is known for its technological innovations, forward-looking thinking and beyond the future vision. However, the topic of nuclear disarmament does not usually attract that many people and the interest of leading businesses in technology innovation. The Fund for Peace Initiatives hopes there will be many more events of this kind to help promote peace-building and disarmament.
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May 19, 2010 – business leaders of the Silicon Valley attended a briefing at the Hoover Institution hosted by George Shultz and William Perry. The briefing also involved screening of the film produced by Nuclear Threat Initiative and titled “Nuclear Tipping Point”. An educational short film on the today’s reality of the world with nuclear weapons is shocking, overwhelming and puzzling. The film was followed by a discussion with opinions expressed by top experts on nuclear issues such as Sid Drell, Honorable James Goodby and other Stanford professors. The Fund for Peace Initiatives together with the Citizens to Stop Nuclear Terrorism participated in the initiating and hosting the meeting.
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Napa Opera House
Napa, CA
November 2, 2009
GSI President Jonathan Granoff delivers his presentation
before Grateful Dead Lead Singer, Bob Weir took the stage.
 Jonathan Granoff and former Prime Minister Kim Campbell |
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David Krieger is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and has served as President of the Foundation since 1982. Under his leadership the Foundation has initiated many innovative and important projects for building peace, strengthening international law, abolishing nuclear weapons and empowering a new generation of peace leaders. Dr. Krieger has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on issues of peace, security, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons. He has received many awards for his work for a more peaceful and nuclear weapons-free world. He has been interviewed on CNN Hotline, MSNBC, NPR and many other television and radio shows nationally and internationally.
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Check out this interactive map video that shows how we can eliminate nuclear weapons.
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