PRESS RELEASE From: nuke-freeworld.com

Hiroshima: Stopping Bush’s New Nuclear Arms Race

Santa Barbara, July 31, 2007

Peter G, Cohen, artist, activist and author of nuke-freeworld.com, is presenting a free, public event on August 5th from 4:00 to 6:00 at Plaza Del Mar (opposite SB Banos del Mar). The event will feature short talks by Cohen and student peace activist Ellen McClure, followed by a Love of Life Celebration featuring dancing to the LeGrand, Franks & Dodge band.

In his talk, Cohen will show how the aggressive nuclear policy of the Bush administration is stimulating a dangerous new international nuclear arms race and how to reverse this disasterous policy. Ellen McClure, a nuclear peace activist from UCSB, will talk about her participation in the recent student fast opposing UC participation in management of Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Cohen’s talk will examine the influence of the military corporations on the Congress and our foreign policy, as well as the severe human and monetary costs of maintaining our nuclear weapons and delivery systems rather than working for disarmament, which we are pledged to do by UN membership and the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The Love of Life Celebration is an antidote to the current epidemic of valuing money and power (greed) above life itself. The music and dancing on the grass of this beautiful plaza will express the love of life, the most powerful antidote to the greed disease, and the true foundation of action against this suicidal nuclear policy.

The event is sponsored by Veterans for Peace and Santa Barbara Society of Friends.

Peter G. Cohen was a GI on a troopship bound for Japan when the bomb was exploded over Hiroshima. In the nineteen fifties he worked with Sane Nuclear Policy in New York City to oppose the testing of nuclear weapons. In 1968 he was an independent peace candidate for Congress in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. In 1969-’70 he was executive director of the New Democratic Coalition of Pennsylvania. In ‘72 he was on staff for McGovern. He moved to Santa Barbara in 1999 where he led the first large demonstration opposing the War in Iraq in October 2002.
In 2006 he created nuke-freeworld.com to educate and inspire political organizing against the Bush administration dange nuclear policy.

For more information please call 805-884-0704