WILPF Nuclear-Free Future Tour 2017 Itinerary and
Resource Materials
Map and "Nuclear Free Future Tour" Blog on Facebook
April 2-3 - Johnson City, TN
- Linda Modica
- April 2 - 6 pm, St. Mary’s Church, 2211 East Lakeview Drive, Johnson City, TN 37601
- April 3 - interview with Park Overall and Linda Modica in Erwin, TN, re Nuclear Fuel Services
April 7-9 - Huntsville, AL - Keep
Space for Peace "Pivot Toward War: US Missile Defense & the
Weaponization of Space"
- Mary & Newell Witherspoon,
hosts
- Bruce Gagnon interview - 4/9/17 by et
April 20 - The Farm, Summertown, TN - Elizabeth Barger
- April 21 - 8:30-8:45 am, telephone interview David Lile, Columbia MO Radio
April 21-23 - St Louis MO
- April 22 - Earth
Day WILPF Booth 10 am to 5 pm
- April 23 – 5 pm Annual Meeting, St. Louis WILPF, 7 pm program - “Let’s
End the Whole Nuclear Era” -
St. Louis Ethical Society, 9001 Clayton Rd., Saint Louis,
MO 63117
- contact Joan Brannigan - 314-997-7698 - for
reservations
- April 24 - 11 am to noon - morning meeting Representative Lacy Clay’s aide Brian Williams
April 24-25 - Columbia MO
- Linda Green
- Julie Donnelly & Tom Lata (hosts)
- (April 21, 8:45
am David Lile radio show by phone
from Tennessee)
- April 25 - 5:45-7 pm - Mark Haim Radio
Show
- 7:30 pm - Talk at the Boone County Government Center, 801 E. Walnut
- Bill Wickersham also speaking, author
of “Confronting Nuclear War”
April 26-27 - Kansas City KS
- Ann Suellentrop
- April 26 – dinner with Peace Works, including Spencer Graves, Henry and Jane Stoever, Debbie Wallin, Donald
Faust, Sharon Lockhart, Daniel Karam
- April 27 – 1:30 pm – Meeting with Ethan Patterson, aide to Rep.
Kevin Yoder, 3rd District Kansas,
- 7:00 to 8:00pm - KKFI 90.1 FM Radio radio talk show, Mike Murphy
- April 28 – Interview Maurice Copeland and Ann Suellentrop after meeting at Centerpoint
Properties, 1301 Burlington St, N Kansas City, MO – Kevin Breslin,
lawyer, re Bannister Federal Complex
April 28-30 - DesMoines IA
- Jan Corderman
- April 29 - noon - Iowa State Capitol, Climate Change March and Rally -
evening reception
- May 1 – morning lobbying?
May 1-2 - Madison
WI
- Eleanor White, hostess
- Karen Pope
- organizer
- May 2 - 8:00-10 a.m. - Gather the Women Breakfast, at Threshold, 2717 Atwood Ave.
Madison, WI
– “Ending the
Whole Nuclear Era”
- May 3 - morning lobbying
- Mary Sanderson
- Dace A. Zeps
- Susan Freiss
- David Soumis
May 3-4 - Milwaukee
WI
- Pamela Richard
- May 4 – 6:30 pm - First
Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, Ogden and Aster Streets
- May 5 – morning lobbying?
May 5-6 - Minneapolis
MN
- Elizabeth Shippee
- Regina Birchem
- Zehra Key
- May 6 - 10:00 am to noon, “Coffee with Ellen Thomas” for a Nuclear-Free Future, Van Cleve Community Center, 901 15th Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN
- May 7 – 11 am to ?? - banners at 43rd annual May Day festivities.
May 9-10 - Chicago
IL
- Mary Dean - marymdean16@gmail.com,
872-223-4463;
4515 N Beacon, #1, Chicago, IL
- Kathy Kelly, hostess – kathy@vcnv.org – 773-878-3815; 773-619-2418c – 1249 W Argyle St #2, Chicago IL 60640
- 3 pm – meet with Rep Jan Schakowski’s aide, 5533 N Boardway, Chicago IL 60640
- May 10 – morning meetings with legislators
- 9 am – Dick Durbin’s office, 230 S Dearborn, Suite 3892, Chicago
- 10 am – Tammy Duckworth’s office, 230 S Dearborn, Suite 3900, Chicago
- 6-7:30 pm – Chicago Public Library, 6907 N Clark St, South Community Room – “Ending the Nuclear Nightmare”
- Hal Chaffee, 773-230-8987c, 702. Burton Place, Chicago
May 11 – Lansing MI
- Evening - Red Cedar Friends Meeting House 1400 Turner Street in Lansing (Old Town).
- Terry Link - Co-chair, Peace Education Center - http://possibilitator.blogspot.com
- Sheila Taylor, hostess
- Quality Inn, 3121 E Grand River Ave, Lansing, MI 48912
May 12-15 - Ann Arbor, Detroit, Port Huron, MI
- Odile Hugonot-Haber
- May 13 – 3-5 pm – event 310 S. Ashley, Ann Arbor MI
- May 14 – 9-10 am - Hosted by Women Walking Woodward for Peace, UU DETROIT, 4605 Cass Ave
Kay Cumbow – May 15 - 7 pm – Port Huron, MI - Donald Dodge Auditorium / St. Clair County Administration Building 200 Grand River Ave., Port Huron, MI 48060 (map with more street detail) – spend the night with Laura Dewey
May 15-16 - Cleveland
OH
- Linda Park –
- May 16 – 7 pm program with Peace Action, 2592 W. 14th St., Suite 109 - Cleveland, OH 44113 - 216-264-3955
- May 17 –Drive to Pittsburgh
May 17-19 - Pittsburgh
PA
- Edith Bell
- Eva Havlicsek - hostess
- Thursday, May 18, 7:30 pm, Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Ave, Pittsburgh, “Let’s End the Whole Nuclear Era”
- also speaking: Patricia DeMarco - "The Nuclear Option- Ethical Issues and Obligations"
May 19-26 – Washington DC
- Megan Rice
- May 20 – Lafayette Park, noon to 5
pm - Celebrating the White
House Peace Vigilers
- May 21 – 24 - DC Days
May 26-28 - Philadelphia
PA
- Tina Shelton
- Marlena Santoya, hostess
- May 27, noon – WILPF annual luncheon – asking for updates from DC and plans for action at UN in June
May 30-Jun 3 - NYC Left Forum
- Alice Slater
June 3-16 –
Massachusetts
- Boston
- Joan Ecklein
- Cape Cod
- Jan Kubiac
& Vermont
- Robin Lloyd
- Crystal Zevon
& Maine
June 17 - NYC March to Ban the Bomb
- Ray Acheson
July 27 – evening – WILPF Triennial Congress, “Nuclear-Free Future” plenary
August 5 – PM – Chicago, IL, Peace and Democracy Conference, Democracy Convention - “World Beyond War – Ending the Nuclear Nightmare”
October 6-8 - World Beyond War Conference, American University, Washington, DC “Ending the Nuclear Nightmare”
Ellen Thomas plans to speak about the genesis and essence of Eleanor Holmes Norton's nuclear weapons abolition and energy conversion bill, introduced each session of Congress since 1994; about the UN Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty negotiations, and the Women's March to Ban the Bomb in New York June 17; the unnecessary and extremely hazardous shipments of highly radioactive liquid waste from Chalk River, Canada to Savannah River Site, South Carolina; the uranium mining moratorium and cleanup bill promoted by the Lakota Sioux at Pine Ridge Reservation that still hasn’t been introduced and needs to be; about our experience using voter initiatives as a tool for education and change. She'll ask people to sign World Beyond War’s pledge to end war and the petition to their legislators to co-sponsor Eleanor Holmes Norton's "Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act" again in 2017.
Ellen would like to go with members of the community to meet with Representatives or their staff, to ask for co-sponsorship of Norton's bill, which supports a nuclear weapons ban treaty and much else.
Here are some resources Ellen will share:
Foldover Flyer, “Let’s End the Whole Nuclear Era”
Roots Action petition supporting nuclear weapons abolition bill
Reaching Critical Will's reports on Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
ICAN live updates on Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
Carol Urner’s Resource List from 2016 NFF tours (updated April 2017)
Facebook pages maintained by Ellen Thomas:
Nuclear Free Future Tour on Facebook
Contact: Ellen
Thomas
WILPF Disarm/End Wars Co-Chair
202-210-3886 (cell and text)
et@prop1.org and
etprop1@me.com (iPhone – travel email, 4/20-6/30/17)