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photo by James Lerager Half Life: Celebrating 30 Years of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament with Special Guests Dennis Kucinich, Daniel Ellsberg, Rose Aguilar, and and Representative Barbara Lee In February, Western States Legal Foundation celebrated its 30th anniversary at the First Congregational Church in Oakland with a reception and an evening of lively discussion about prospects for disarmament in the current global context. For more on the event including full video of talks by Kucinich, Ellsberg, Lee, and WSLF Executive Director Jacqueline Cabasso, click here.

WSLF recognizes that nuclear weapons affect the environment, the economy, the role of violence in society, and democracy itself. Rather than enhancing our "national" security, nuclear weapons threaten our fundamental human security. WSLF seeks to abolish nuclear weapons, compel open public environmental review of nuclear technologies, and ensure appropriate management of nuclear waste. Grounded in nonviolence and rooted in both international and environmental law, the principle guiding WSLF's activities is democratization of decision making affecting nuclear weapons and related technologies.


Program areas:

• Research and analysis on current U.S. nuclear weapons policies, ongoing nuclear weapons research, testing, and production activities, and their impacts on international security.
  
  
• Research and analysis on other high technology weapons programs, such as ballistic missile defense and efforts to further militarize outer space, which threaten international stability and make the elimination of nuclear arsenals more difficult to achieve.
  
  
• Assisting communities affected by the health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons research and production and of other nuclear technologies.
  
  
  

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  Affilations:
  
  WSLF is a founding member of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. WSLF has been a member since 1989 of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, and is affiliated with the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, the International Peace Bureau, and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
  
  Some notes on our site format:
  
  We have tried to keep our site graphically simple so that it will load quickly on older equipment and in regions which do not offer fast internet connections. Many of our longer documents, however, are in acrobat pdf format, and are relatively large files. We have marked these downloads accordingly. Acrobat Reader for pdf files is available for free. You can go to the site where it is available for download by clicking here.
  Contact Information:
  
  Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director
  Western States Legal Foundation
  655 13th Street, Suite 201
  Preservation Park
  Oakland, CA 94612 USA
  phone: (510) 839-5877  
  fax: (510) 839-5397  
  
  wslf(at)earthlink.net
  
  Site updated May 2, 2013 Return to Top