Questions to Consider

1. How many countries possess nuclear weapons and how many nuclear bombs does each country possess?
2. What are the key institutions, agencies, and sites in the US nuclear weapons complex?
3. Are you familiar with the argument that it was not necessary for the US to bomb Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan in order to end World War II?
4. What US corporations and universities are involved in the research and production of nuclear weapons?
5. What are the best alternatives to nuclear power?
6. Why is Yucca Mountain significant?
7. How do I talk about nuclear weapons, waste, and energy so people will feel their personal connection to the issues?
8. The recent Live 8 concert series mobilized hundreds of thousands of people in-person and millions more online around relieving poverty in Africa. How have activists working on nuclear issues tapped into the power of arts and culture?
9. What connections exist between nuclear issues and other social justice issues, such as the environment, education, anti-apartheid movement, media reform, anti-corporate globalization? How can recognizing and understanding these connections make me a better leader?
10. How can we not only overcome the often divisive factors of race, class, and religion, but utilize them as assets in our organizing?
11. What are some specific examples of nonviolent organizing tactics?
12. What is social change philanthropy?
13. How do youth and/or student-led organizations fund raise?
14. Do young people and/or students have an authentic voice in the decision-making process of your school and/or community?
15. How has the internet and email changed community organizing efforts?

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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Complex

• Ten Reasons to Abolish Nuclear Weapons by David Krieger. Available online: http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/nuclear-weapons/start/10-reasons-abolish-nw.htm.
• The End of Disarmament and the Arms Race to Come by Jacqueline Cabasso and Andy Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation. 2002. Available online: http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/socialjustice02.pdf.
• Universities and the Military by Fiat Pax. 2005 Online resource: http://www.fiatpax.net/unisandmil.html.

U.S. Nuclear Energy Policy

• Securing the Energy Future of the United States: Oil, Nuclear, and Electricity Vulnerabilities and a Roadmap for Action by Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Available online: http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_10/10-2/energy.html.
• Nuclear Power is Wrong Answer by Michael Mariotte, Nuclear Information and Resource Service. 2005, May. Available online: http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0527-32.htm
• Nuclear Energy: No Solution to Climate Change. An online resource provided by Greenpeace: http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/no.nukes/nenstcc.html.

U.S. Nuclear Waste Storage

• Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste by Public Citizen. 2005, January. Available online:
  http://www.citizen.org/documents/YuccaBackgrounder05.pdf.
• Linking Legacies : Connecting the Cold War Nuclear Weapons Production Processes to Their Environmental Consequences by United States. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management. Washington, D.C., January 1997. Available online: http://legacystory.apps.em.doe.gov/.
• Timeline: Chronology of the Nuclear Age. 2005 Online resource: http://www.nuclearfiles.org/.

Nonviolence

• A Force More Powerful 2000 [6-30 minute video segments]. Written, directed, and produced by Steven York. Narrated by Ben Kingsley. Available in many public libraries or through ordering online: http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/tv/television.htm.

Nurturing Authentic Relationships Across Race, Class and Religion

• The Soul of Environmentalism by Michel Gelobter Michael Dorsey Leslie Fields, Tom Goldtooth, Anuja Mendiratta, Richard Moore, Rachel Morello-Frosch Peggy M. Shepard, and Gerald Torres. 2005. Redefining Progress. Available online: http://www.soulofenvironmentalism.org/.
• Religious Statements by Interfaith Committee for Nuclear Disarmament. 2002 Available online: http://www.zero-nukes.org/religiousstatements1.html.
• The Value of Transcommunal Identity Politics by John Brown Childs. 1994. Available online: http://www.zmag.org/zmag/zarticle.cfm?Url=articles/july94childs.htm.
• Where Was the Color in Seattle? Looking for reasons why the Great Battle was so white by Elizabeth Martinez (2000). Applied Research Center. Available online: http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story3_1_02.html.
• Impacts of Resource Development on Native American Lands: Uranium Mining on the Navajo Nation . 2005. Online resource: http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/nativelands/index.html.

Youth Activism

• Funding for Social Change by and with Young People by The Freechild Project. 2005. Available online: http://www.freechild.org/funds4progress.htm
• A New Generation of Southerners: Youth Organizing in the South by Charles Price and Kim Diehl. September 2004. Available in full online: http://www.fcyo.org/attachments/papers_no6.pdf.

Career Development

• Skills, Networks & Knowledge: Developing a Career in International Peace and Conflict Resolution (2005) by Craig Zelizer and Linda, Johnson. 2005. Published by the Alliance for Conflict Transformation. Available in full online: http://conflicttransformation.org/