Join us for food, presentations on our 2008 programs, speakers and our Annual Peacemaker Awards

Keynote Speaker: Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan is Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. Previously, she served for eight years as Deputy Director and Senior Research Associate at the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City. She has also worked as a researcher at The Nation magazine.

Ms. Berrigan is a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus and a contributing editor of In These Times magazine. She is the author of reports on arms trade and human rights, U.S. nuclear weapons policy, and the domestic politics of U.S. missile defense and space weapons policies. She has been a featured expert on national and regional radio outlets, and regularly speaks on national security issues to citizen’s organizations and at major conferences throughout the United States.

2008 Peacemaker Awards:

Individuals:

Cassie Sears, The New School
Hannah Johnson, Catherine McCauley HS

Groups:

Maine Campaign to Ban Cluster Bombs
Friends of Merry Meeting Bay

Locally grown food will be provided by Local Sprouts Cooperative Catering.