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Back from the Brink New Mexico Hub Kickoff
Join us for the Back from the Brink New Mexico Hub Kickoff on Saturday, July 12, at 6:30 pm at Congregation Nahalat Shalom (3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Albuquerque). This free, community-wide event marks the official launch of New Mexico's involvement in the national Back from the Brink campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. Doors open at 6:00 pm. All are welcome.
The evening will feature compelling speakers dedicated to nuclear disarmament and justice, including:
--Eddie Laiche, co-founder of Students for Nuclear Disarmament, a national, non-partisan, student-led organization seeking to develop the grassroots nuclear abolition movement through high school and college students
--Dr. Ira Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Immediate Past President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize recipients)
--Dr. Myrriah Gomez, UNM Professor and author if Nuclear Nuevo Mexico: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos
--Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and tireless advocate working to secure healthcare coverage and partial restitution for the people of New Mexico who have suffered from the negative health effects of overexposure to radiation since 1945
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Together they will highlight the urgent need for action and the power of communities to create a world free from nuclear threats.
