Tuesdays:  Pacific Time 5:00 (sharp) to 7:00 pm October 6, 13, 20, 27

or Saturdays:  Pacific Time 10:00 a.m. (sharp) to 12:00 noon October 10, 17, 24, 31

Sign up now to take it during October (your choice of Tuesdays or Saturdays).

We use Zoom video, so people everywhere can take our course.

The Cold War ended three decades ago, but nuclear weapons remain a threat to the world.  Many recent and current actions by the U.S. government have sharply increased the danger of nuclear war in the “new cold war”, so now the “Doomsday Clock” is the closest to midnight it has ever been, since it was devised in 1953.

However, most Americans do not want to think about nuclear weapons.  This course provides necessary information for people who are new to the issue – and people whose knowledge is out-of-date.  Much has changed recently, and dangers are increasing in several ways, but politicians and mainstream news media are failing to inform the public about what people need to know.  This 4-session course presents the serious information in a supportive environment and also lifts up some positive ways people can solve the problems.  We go far beyond “doom and gloom” to actually empower people to support the solutions.

Four well informed people designed this course and trade off during the sessions so you’ll enjoy a mix of voices and areas of expertise.  We designed this course of four two-hour sessions to help people regardless of how much they have known about nuclear weapons.  Topics include:

• the evolution of science that led to nuclear weapons
• how nuclear weapons – and the policies for using them – have changed over the years
• new dangers since the 2016 election
• impacts of nuclear weapons testing on innocent people
• decades of grassroots organizing to stop the arms race and abolish nuclear weapons
• international efforts to prevent nuclear war, including the very exciting treaty passed by the U.N. General Assembly
• our own feelings and values related to nuclear weapons
• the power of nonviolent resistance

Nuclear weapons are frightening, but ordinary people can indeed learn what they need to know and can take smart actions to reduce the dangers.  Instead of feeling overwhelmed by the difficult, scary realities, this course helps people learn and also empower themselves to support the positive efforts that are happening at the global, national and local levels.

The course is presented by four well-informed persons from the Olympia WA area:

• Glen Anderson is chair of the Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (OCANW)
• Mark Fleming is a leader of the Rachel Corrie Chapter #109 of the Veterans for Peace in  Olympia
• James Manista is a peace activist who recently faced federal charges for resisting the Trident nuclear submarine
• Joanne Dufour has extensive experience with nuclear weapons, international humanitarian law, and other issues

We are volunteers who offer this course for FREE.

à Sign up now for either Tuesdays or Saturdays in October 2020:

The presenters are offering the same course twice during October 2020, so you may choose whichever one is better for you.  If you have a scheduling conflict in any week, you may catch that session on that week’s other day.  Choose either:

• Tuesdays:  Pacific Time 5:00 (sharp) to 7:00 pm October 6, 13, 20, 27
• Saturdays:  Pacific Time 10:00 a.m. (sharp) to 12:00 noon October 10, 17, 24, 31

à    Send an e-mail to Joanne Dufour at jdufourhc@msn.com with OCANW course on Nuclear Weapons in the e-mail SUBJECT line, or you may phone Joanne at (206) 550-1841.

Please provide your name, email address and phone number clearly to register – and specify whether you want Tuesdays or Saturdays.

We will e-mail you the Zoom meeting ID number and password.

Also, we’ll e-mail each participant a number of readings and videos that flesh out the topics of each of the four class sessions.  These are not mandatory (like school assignments were), but we do encourage participants to read at least some of the readings and watch at least some of the videos, because they do provide important information and insights.

We hope you will join us!

I posted this information to my blog also.  Please share my blog link with your friends — http://parallaxperspectives.org/sign-up-now-for-octobers-fascinating-4-session-course-on-nuclear-weapons and/or forward this e-mail to your friends.

“People across the nation and all over the world are taking actions to build a community in which the values of justice, cooperation, and respect for this fragile world are upheld. Almost none of these are actions we will ever hear about.”

—Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)

Glen Anderson (360) 491-9093 glenanderson@integra.net

See much information on my blog, www.parallaxperspectives.org, in the sections on “Nonviolence” and “Organizing” and “Human Rights, etc.