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, August 11, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Vijay Prashad
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal

We surely live in interesting times--from the deepening of U.S.-led militarism to existential ecological and economic crises to shifts in the world order ranging from a significant decline of the Global North along with the rise of the East and Global South. Vijay Prashad, executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social... Read more