International Peace & Planet Conference for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just, and Sustainable World

Watch video footage here.

Friday, April 24
Cooper Union – 7 East 7th Street at Cooper Square, New York City

5pm Registration Opens

6:30pm Opening Ceremony and Messages – Texts and video available

• Angela Kane (United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs)
• Sumiteru Taniguchi (Nihon Hidankyo, 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee)
• Setsuko Thurlow (2015 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee)
• Daniel Ellsberg (Whistleblower, Publisher of the Pentagon Papers)

7:30 Opening Plenary – Connecting the Struggles for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just, and Sustainable World – Video available here

• Walden Bello (Founding and Executive Director of Focus on the Global South; Professor at University of the Philippines)
• Jo Comerford (Campaign Director for MoveOn.org)
• Zia Mian (Director of the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia at the Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University)
• Manuel Pino (Professor at Scottsdale College; Co-Founder of the Acoma-Laguna Coalition for A Safe Environment; Board President of the Indigenous Environmental Network)
• Reverend Osagyefo Sekou (Freeman Fellow with the Fellowship of Reconciliation)

Friday’s program will end at 9:15pm

Saturday, April 25

8am Late Registration (Cooper Union – 7 East 7th Street at Cooper Square)

9am Second Plenary 2 – Governmental & U.N. Figures (Cooper Union) – Video available

• Kim Bong Dae
• Tony de Brum (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Marshall Islands)
• Inge Höger (German Bundestag Member)
• Bill Kidd (Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Anniesland)
• Yoshiko Kira (Japanese Diet Member)
• Shim Jin Tae (Korean A-Bomb Survivor) – Text available here
• Thore Vestby (Mayor of Frogn, Norway; Deputy Member of Parliament for the Akershus region; Vice-President of Mayors for Peace)

11am Workshop Session One (Information and Locations available here)

1-2pm Book Talk and Signing of African Americans Against the Bomb with Vincent Intondi (Outside the Great Hall at Cooper Union)

2pm Workshop Session Two (Information and Locations available here)

4:30pm Closing Plenary – Looking Forward: Movement-Building and Actions for the Future (Cooper Union – 7 East 7th Street at Cooper Square) – Video available here

• Reiner Braun (Executive Director of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms; Co-Chair of the International Peace Bureau)
• Thomas de Toledo (General Secretary of Cebrapaz (Brazilian Centre of Solidarity with Peoples and Struggle for Peace); Professor of International Relations of University Paulista)
• Michael McPhearson (Executive Director, Veterans for Peace)
• Kyoko Nishikawa (Vice President and Central Executive Committee member of Shinfujin, New Japan Women’s Association) – Text available here
• Jürgen Scheffran (University of Hamburg/ INES, Germany)
• Sofia Wolman (Disarmament Associate for the American Friends Service Committee)

Saturday’s program will likely end at 7pm