At the International Conference on May 1st, War Resisters League will be hosting a panel with the South Asia Solidarity Initiative entitled:

“The Nuclear Cycle: The Negative Effects From Mining to Militarism.”

10:00AM to 12 PM at Riverside Church (490 Riverside Drive, NY)

The panelists include:

Joanne Sheehan (moderator) works with War Resisters League/New England and War Resisters International, and has been involved in nonviolent campaigns against nuclear weapons and for economic conversion.

Tejaswini Madabhushi is a grad student at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and resolution and a grassroots activist against uranium mining in India and member of JOAR- Jharkhandi Organization against Radiation, CNDP- Coalition of Nuclear Disarmament and Peace.

Biju Mathew is a member of the South Asia Solidarity Initiative and the New York Taxi Workers Alliance Organizing Committee.

Jim Haber is the Coordinator of Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), based in Las Vegas which organizes interfaith resistance to nuclear weapons and war, and he has been on the War Resisters League National Committee
since 2002.

Anabel Dwyer, JD, Board of Directors, The Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy, co-editor, This is my Homeland, Stories of the effects of nuclear industries by people of Serpent River First Nation and the north shore of lake Huron.