Local Approaches to World Peace - Frank Cownie
Channel: eon3
Date: 2014-11-05

Frank Cownie is Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, a member of Mayors for Peace and a Board Member of ICLEI USA (Local Governments for Sustainability USA).
He gave this talk in "Acting Locally and Globally to Pressure the Capitals," Part 2 of a workshop series held ahead of the New York Climate Convergence on Saturday, September 20, 2014 at St. John's University  - New York City. The series was titled "Deadly Connections: Challenging Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, and Climate Change."

Moderator: Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, UFPJ National Co-convener.

Other Speakers:
Tony DeBrum, Foreign Minister, Republic of the Marshall Islands 
John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, member of the international legal team representing the Marshall Islands in their historic World Court case holding the nuclear-armed states to account for non-compliance with their disarmament obligations.
Judith LeBlanc, Field Director, Peace Action.

The workshops were sponsored by Western States Legal Foundation, the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and the American Friends Service Committee with support from the Jane Addams Peace Association. 
For more info: WSLFweb.org, AFSC.org.