Marion Küpker, German Nuclear Abolitionist, in Berkeley CA with John LaForge
Channel: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE HEART OF BERKELEY
Date: 12/04/2017

Marion Küpker, Gewaltfreie Aktion Atomwaffen Abschaffen (Nonviolent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Speaking in Berkeley with John LaForge of Nukewatch. (German: "Nuclear Heartland USA - NukeWatch Book Update" in Kalifornien mit John LaForge von NukeWatch und Marion Küpker von GAAA in Deutschland. Dieses 6-minütige Segment mit dem Titel "Ingrid Kepler-May Q & A Nuclear Heartland USA mit John LaForge" wurde aus dem kompletten 58-minütigen Video von Vic Sadot wird kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt Creative Commons Download für gemeinnützige pädagogische Nutzung.)

Marion Küpker was traveling with John LaForge on the “Nuclear Heartland” book tour. The entire video of the speakers and the Q&A on 10-13-16 at Fellowship Hall in Berkeley, CA is 58 minutes long. 

This 6 minute segment of Marion Küpker speaking is near the end of the full video. Marion Küpker spoke about the peace movement in Germany, and addressed the ongoing crisis in Syria, and NATO’s expansion in violation of a 1990 deal that had been made by NATO to secure the re-unification of Germany and the withdrawal of the army of the Soviet Union. 

Like John LaForge, Marion Küpker is a fellow life-long nuclear disarmament abolitionist activist. She is German and she works for GAAA, Gewaltfreie Aktion Atomwaffen Abschaffen (GAAA, Nonviolent Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons). It is a German organisation dedicated to the total abolition of nuclear weapons. See GAAA http://www.gaaa.org

John LaForge of NukeWatchInfo.org presented an engaging power-point lecture about stories related to publishing the original 1988 edition of “Nuclear Heartland”, and the revised 2015 edition. John spoke in Historic Fellowship Hall in Berkeley, CA on October 13, 2016. The videos were created by BFUU SJC activist Vic Sadot from an audio recording by BFUU Sound Engineer David Yandle.

“Nuclear Heartland” was published in 1988 to let Americans know where the land-based nuclear weapons silos are located, and to educate the public to the fact that they make you less secure, which is in contradiction of the stated nuclear deterrence goal. John and fellow activists at Nukewatch updated published a revised edition in 2015. See “Nuclear Heartland, Revised Edition: A guide to the 450 land-based missiles of the United States”. (Paperback) December 1, 2015 by Bonnie Urfer (Afterword), Nukewatch (Author), Jr. Samuel H. Day (Contributor), John M. LaForge (Editor), Arianne S. Peterson (Editor), Matthew Rothschild (Foreword) http://nukewatchinfo.org/nuclear-heartland-book 

The UN General Assembly of Oct 27, 2016 vote was presaged by John LaForge on Oct 13, 2016 in Berkeley. We include that information with the advantage of releasing the "Nuclear Heartland USA" video in late March 2017 as the US, UK, and other nuclear powers were actually boycotting the March 2017 talks. The General Assembly vote was 123 In Favor; 38 Against, 16 Abstentions. It was somewhat of an act of defiance of both the Security Council and the current nuclear powers for the General Assembly to vote so overwhelmingly in favor of pushing forward on nuclear disarmament treaty signatory obligations with a view towards complete abolition and a nuclear free Middle East.

Did your media even cover the crucial vote to hold talks to ban nuclear weapons from the Earth? Next round is in July! Make your country attend and negotiate nuclear disarmament like they were doing before GW unilaterally withdrew the US from the ABM Treaty with Russia! Making the Middle East a “Nuclear Weapons Free Zone” must be a priority goal of nuclear abolition activists.

The event was sponsored by BFUU Social Justice Committee. This video is a Creative Commons Copyright free download for non-profit educational use. We request your help in getting the full 58 minute video used on your local Public Access Cable TV. Can you make that happen in your town?