WORLD PEACE Is A Local Issue

About this film

WORLD PEACE is a Local Issue opens with these words: "In a democracy, the most important office is that of the private citizen ." Justice Louis Brandeis. The film documents how local efforts can impact national issues. The story begins in 1983 showing actions, worldwide, toward reining in escalation of the nuclear arms race. In a suburban community, 300 people show up, petitioning their City Council to pass a Nuclear Freeze. Their impassioned pleas overcome Council resistance, resulting in a Freeze Resolution! Highlights include statements from Paul Newman, Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator Ed Markey, who introduced the original Freeze Resolution to Congress. Today, thirty years later, with the nuclear issue still relevant, we watch Markey re-introduce similar legislation: the SANE Act (Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures).

Directors & creators

Dorothy Fadiman

Subjects

Activism; anti-nuclear; anti-war; citizen activists; citizen lobbyists; cold war era; democracy; demonstations; disarmament; Dorothy Fadiman; Dwight Eisenhower; Ed Markey; Edward Kennedy; grassroots; Hiroshima; jurisdiction; Laurence Rosenthal; Nagasaki; nuclear arms race; nuclear bomb; nuclear disarmament; nuclear freeze movement; nuclear freeze rally; Nuclear Freeze Resolution; nuclear reductions; nuclear stockpiling; nuclear testing ban; nuclear weapons testing; Palo Alto City Council; Palo Alto; Paul Newman; peace action; peace; Peter Coyote; Randall Forsberg; SANE; Ted Kennedy; world peace, Dorothy Fadiman, Palo Alto City Council, Palo Alto, Anti-Nuclear, nuclear arms race, nuclear stockpiling, cold war era, citizen activists, Paul Newman, Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Ed Markey, nuclear freeze rally, peace action, nuclear weapons testing, nuclear freeze movement, world peace, peace, nuclear testing ban, SANE

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