Lifting the Shadow: Toward a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World. A conference to address the political, moral, and cultural dimensions of the growing nuclear threat and to help mobilize for its elimination.

May 2, 2005: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.), City University of New York.

The conference will be followed by an open reception in honor of atomic bomb survivors and an evening of music, political satire, poetry, and survivor testimony.

Conference speakers include Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, Gar Alperovitz, John Burroughs, Helen Caldicott, James Carroll, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, Ariel Dorfman, Dan Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Michael Flynn, Shingo Fukuyama, Amy Goodman, Susannah Heschel, Peter Kuznick, Robert Jay Lifton, Arjun Makhijani, Zia Mian, Jonathan Schell, Mark Selden, Paul Shambroom, Martin Sherwin, Jennifer Simons, Hiroshi Taka, Mordechai Vanunu, Kurt Vonnegut, Christopher Weeramantry. Participants for the reception and evening event include Barry Crimmins, Carolyn Forché, Marilyn Hacker, Yusef Komunyakaa, Satoru Konishi, David Krieger, Stephan Smith, Terumi Tanaka, Sumiteru Taniguchi, Quincy Troupe, C. K. Williams.

Rattapallax is a co-sponsor. More info at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/nuclearconference/index.htm