source: Cleveland Peace Action
"Ira Helfand offers the clearest and most concise explanation I've ever heard, of the threat of nuclear holocaust and what we can do about it......Francis Chiappa (Cleveland Peace Action Board of Trustees)
Back from the Brink: Preventing a Nuclear Holocaust
Presenter: Dr Ira Helfand, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, past president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
As the world faces an out-of-control diversion of energy and human resources into war-making, and with the US planning a large and costly upgrade to its nuclear arsenal, Dr. Helfand will outline the work of Back from the Brink. This organization brings communities together to prevent the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to human health, environment, and all that we hold dear. May we transmute our fears and anxieties over the threat of nuclear annihilation into meaningful action.
Location: Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2592 W 14th St., Cleveland. This is a watch party (Dr. Helfand will be presenting virtually)
Online option: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/chwImmyRSF6BgTS6laWPUg#/registration
More about Dr. Ira Helfand:
-Past president, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
-Co-founder and past president, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), the US affiliate of IPPNW
-Member, International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
-Dr. Helfand has represented ICAN at historic intergovernmental meetings to address the humanitarian impacts of nuclear war and at key United Nations assemblies that led to the successful negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
-The recipient of numerous leadership awards, Dr. Helfand has published studies on the medical consequences of nuclear war in the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, the Lancet and the World Medical Journal, and has delivered countless lectures around the world on the health effects of nuclear weapons. He represented PSR and IPPNW at the Nobel ceremonies in Oslo in December 2009 honoring President Obama, and presented their new report, Nuclear Famine: One Billion People at Risk, at the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in Chicago in April of 2012.
-Dr. Helfand was educated at Harvard College and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a former chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and president of the medical staff at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. He is a retired internist and urgent care physician at the Family Care Medical Center in western Massachusetts.
More info:
clevelandpeaceaction@gmail.com
440.703.0215
