World Conference: Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Resist & Reverse Climate Change, For Social & Economic Justice (1/16/20 edition)
April 24, 2020
5-6 p.m. Registration
6-9 Opening
Japanese choir and First Nation Welcome
Formal welcome & conference framing – Joseph Gerson – (CPDCS/USA –confirmed)
Official Greetings
Plenary
Setsuko Thurlow (Hibakusha of Hiroshima/Canada – confirmed)
Mayors Matsui and Taue (Hiroshima & Nagasaki/Japan – invited)
Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez (Costa Rica – invited)
Noam Chomsky (Video) (Renowned Scholar/USA – confirmed)
Michael Klare (Five College Peace & World Security Studies/USA – confirmed)
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (Poet/Marshall Islands – confirmed)
Xiye Bastida – (Sunrise Movement/USA &Mexico – invited)
Phillip Jennings (International Trade Union Confederation & Int’l Peace Bureau/Britain – confirmed)
Rep. Barbara Lee – (U.S. Congress/USA – invited)
April 25, 2020
8-9 Registration
9:00
Plenary speeches – organized by panels (9:00 – noon)
Section 1 (reporting & analysis)
Hibakusha Panel: Hidankyo, Korean A-bomb survivors and Leona Morgan (Nuclear Issues Study Group, Navajo/ – confirmed)
Bill McKibben (350.Org/USA – invited)
Youth speaker – TBD
Rev. Barber or Rev. Theoharris – (Poor People’s Campaign/USA – invited)
Walden Bello – (Focus on the Global South/Philippines – confirmed)
Oleg Bodrov (Coalition for a Clean Baltic/Russia – confirmed)
Binalakshmi Nepram – (Control Arms Foundation /India – confirmed)
Section 2 Actions & Strategies
Emad Kiyaei (IGD Group/Iran – confirmed)
Sharon Dolev – (Israeli Disarmament Movement/Israel – confirmed)
Youngdae Ko – (SPARK/Korea – confirmed)
Arielle Denis – (International Peace Bureau/France –confirmed)
Tadatoshi Akiba – (Gensuikin/Japan- Confirmed)
Andrew Lichterman – (Western States Legal Foundation/USA – confirmed)
Sharan Burrow – (International Trade Union Confederation/Australia -Confirmed)
Sophia (Soda) Garcia – (Pax Christi/Philippines -confirmed)
Noon- 1 Lunch Break
1-2:30 Workshops/Forums Session
2:30 – 4 Second Workshop/Forums Session
4-5 Closing Plenary
Secretary General António Guterres (United Nations – invited)
Beatrice Finn – (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons/Sweden confirmed)
Gensuikyo speaker (Japan – confirmed)
Jackie Cabasso – (United for Peace & Justice and WSLF/USA – confirmed)
Reiner Braun (International Peace Bureau)
Reading & Distribution of conference organizers’ statement
Closing
*Order of speakers subject to change