Nuclear Weapons - From Opposition to Abolition

Monday, August 8, 2022 - 1:00pm
CDT
Tom Rogers

A discussion of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action from it's 45 year opposition to nuclear weapons to its vision for global nuclear weapons disarmament.

Tom Rogers has been a member of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action since 2004. A retired US Navy Captain, he served in various capacities in the US Submarine Force from 1967 to 1998, including command of a nuclear fast attack submarine from 1988 to 1991. Since coming to Ground Zero he has provided a combination of operational experience with nuclear weapons and the willingness to use that expertise as a nuclear weapons abolitionist.

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Monday, November 3, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Joe Belden
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende
This mostly forgotten war led to Mexico losing over half its territory and the United States expanding to the Pacific. The lecture examines the political and economic background of the conflict, what led to it, and the roles of such factors as Texas annexation in 1845, slavery, racism, the Democratic and Whig parties, and Manifest... Read more