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David Cortright speaking on Nuclear Disarmament
Talk will be followed by a Q & A discussion time. Pat Beetle will be presented with a lifetime achievement award. A desert Bar and tea will be provided, there will be a silent auction, a short singalong led by Elizabeth Meehan, and a peace book swap. This is a fundraiser with a $20 admission, more if you can, less if you can’t. Let’s take care of each other by wearing masks.
Cortright is a scholar and activist for peace, currently serving as University Lecturer and fellow of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Cortright is the author or editor of 22 books, including most recently A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement (New Village Press, 2023).
As an enlisted soldier from 1968 to 1971 Cortright spoke out against the Vietnam War and organized petitions and protests as part of the GI peace movement. In 1970 he filed a federal lawsuit against the Army to defend the right of dissent against unjust war.
From 1978 to 1988 he was the executive director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and then co-director of SANE/Freeze. In 2002 he was a co-founder of Win Without War, which opposed the US invasion of Iraq and remains an active voice today in promoting progressive foreign policy.
