The Georgia WAND crew held 14 meetings (the entire ANA delegation held a total of 87 meetings), where we educated members of Congress and agency officials about the public health crisis in East Georgia and the huge cost of continuing to invest in nuclear weapons modernization. We asked for support …
This year’s MD4P featured a Speakers Salon, entitled “Bold Peace: From Here to Where?” and it was stupendous. We continue to received many compliments about the quality of the speakers and the dialogue. People walked away from this year’s event more knowledgeable about the current status of the federal budget …
Our deep gratitude goes out to everyone who supported Mother’s Day for Peace 2014 and helped us celebrate inspiring organizers, activists, artists and musicians in the community. Scroll down for a photo gallery and special videos for our award honorees. To learn more about the keynote speaker, artists, award honorees, …
Seven members of Georgia WAND visited Washington, DC May 18 to 21 to bring a strong message to Capitol Hill that it’s time to cut funding for nuclear weapons buildup and allocate enough for nuclear cleanup, protecting the US from the community level to national threats. While there, Georgia WAND …
By Bernice Johnson-Howard, Georgia WAND Board Member I attended the NRDC sponsored Safecast bGeige workshop on April 21 and 22 which was held at the NRDC building in Washington DC. It was a wonderful experience. I expected to gain important and useful information and to learn new skills. I also …
About 100 guests gathered at 7 Stages Sunday, February 16, 2014 for The REAL State of the Union. Jay Bookman, author and Atlanta Journal Constitution columnist and blogger gave the keynote, addressing income inequality and Janice Mathis, local attorney, Vice President of the Citizenship Education Fund component of the Rainbow …
