A public forum called "Missile Defense System ? No Path to Security" will be held with Assemblywoman Lynn C. Woolsey, (6th Congressional District) and Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CARE's, (Livermore National Laboratories Nuclear Watchdog) on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 7:15 p.m. at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park.
The forum will be held in The Cooperage "B" Auditorium with parking in Lot J near the corner of West Redwood and South Redwood Drives.
Professor Peter Phillips, Director of Project Censored, will be host of the program. The forum, intended to spur public debate, was organized by the Sonoma County Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and is sponsored by the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County and Project Censored.
This forum comes at a time when the Bush Administration?s request for $8.3 billion to fund the controversial Missile Defense System for the coming year is about to be considered by the U.S. Congress.
Forum organizers say there has been no national public debate on whether this defense system is needed, whether it will spark a new global arms race, and whether there are alternatives ways to achieve security and build a more stable world.
For information, call (707) 575-8902.
