MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
EXPERTS/SPEAKERS LIST
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Ray Acheson
Organiser, activist, and writer. Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament programme of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the world's oldest feminist peace organisation. They served from 2008–2024 on the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to ban nuclear weapons. Author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages.
Contact: [email protected], www.rayacheson.com
Theresa (Isa) Arriola
Our Common Wealth 670, Concordia university
Topics: demilitarization, colonialism, imperialism, Oceania, pacific, Indigeneity, sovereignty, militarism
Contact: [email protected], 680-783-4256
Clare Bayard
Board member, About Face Veterans Against the War; War Resisters International Network
Topics; organizing skills and strategies,dismantling militarism and white supremacy and constructing multiracial democracy, U.S. empire, war, state violence.
Contact: [email protected]
Olivia DiNucci
Anti-Militarism and Climate Justice Organizer based in DC and International Experiential Learning Educator
Contact: [email protected]
Corazon Fabros
Co-President of International Peace Bureau; Lead Convenor, STOP the War Coalition Philippines and Nuclear Free Pilipinas; Asia-Europe Peoples Forum; ASEAN Civil Society Conference-ASEAN Peoples Forum; Philippines focal person at the No Nukes Asia Forum.
Topics: war, Philippines, Asia/Pacific, imperialism, anti-base movements, gender.
Contact: [email protected]
Monaeka Flores
Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian, Guam
Topics: militarization, Guåhan/Guam, Mariana Islands, Asia/Pacific, environmental harms of war.
Contact: [email protected]
Patrick Hiller
Executive Director, War Prevention Initiative of Jubitz Family Foundation
Topics: Militarism, Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflicts Without Violence, Peace and Conflict Research
Contact: [email protected]
Peter Kuznick
Professor of History/Director, Nuclear Studies Institute, American University; Co-author (with Oliver Stone) The Untold History of the United States--12-part documentary film series and books
Topics: History of the American Empire; Current Global Crises; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Nuclear History
Contact: [email protected], (301) 580-4260, www.american.edu/cas/faculty/kuznick
Michél Legendre
Independent consultant
Topics: Climate and militarism, racial justice, corporate accountability
Contact: [email protected]
Kevin Martin
President, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund
Topics: Nuclear Disarmament, Pentagon spending, US wars, US and global weapons trade, Yemen, Korea, Israel-Palestine, NATO, US-Russia and US-China relations, Nonviolence, Building the Peace and Justice Movement, Common Security, Human Security
Contact: [email protected], 301.537.8244 (mobile)
Stephen Semler
Cofounder, Security Policy Reform Institute and Writer, Polygraph newsletter
Topics: Military spending, budget, human security, police militarization, federal authorizations and appropriations, lobbying
Contact: stephen [at] securityreform [dot] org ; www.securityreform.org
David Swanson
Author, activist, journalist, and radio host. Executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include NATO What You Need to Know with Medea Benjamin. He hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and U.S. Peace Prize recipient. Longer bio and photos and videos here
Contact: [email protected]
David Vine
Political anthropologist and author of the books The United States of War, Base Nation, and Island of Shame.
Topics: Military Industrial Complex, dismantling the MIC, US wars and foreign policy, military bases, peace building, Diego Garcia
Contact: [email protected], 1-510-764-8895, davidvine.net