Readers and activists in Ellensburg, WA are invited to an author extravaganza, Saturday, December 14, 2019, 1-4 pm. Betsy Bell ‘s Open Borders: A personal story of love, loss, and anti – war activism will appear as one of the featured authors. Learn about Citizen Diplomacy in the 1980 and the idea of travel across …
Betsy Bell will read and sign books at the Village Books lower level author presentation room, Sunday afternoon, Sept 22nd at 4 p.m. Come early to get a seat. Wear your anti-nuclear, anti-war shirts. Get inspired to take action to stop the New Cold War. Learn about current efforts in Washington state to curb the …
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Washington Against Nuclear Weapons coalition of organizations and individuals working to end the threat of nuclear weapons meets every 3rd Thursday at La Casa de La Raza, from 2 to 3:30. Please contact Carly Brook for updated information if you would like to participate. Carly@wpsr.org. JOIN US to help end the threat of nuclear war.
With three presentations of Open Borders behind me and one more to go (Wednesday, Nov. 14th, 6 p.m. Homestreet Bank in West Seattle), it is clear these book signing are a wake up call to the nuclear war threat. Members of the audiences who are old enough to remember the doomsday predictions at the height …
October 23rd, 6 – 8 p.m. University of Washington Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Meet the author, Betsy Bell, and engage in a conversation about Citizen Diplomacy in the face of nuclear war in the 1980s. Joining her on a panel will be Prof. Eric Johnson of the UW history department and …
Take a listen to this MyNorthwest story from late fall last year. You get my voice as Felix Banel interviews me about Target Seattle and Citizen Diplomacy in the 80’s. Here’s a picture of Don Bell, chair of Target Seattle: Preventing Nuclear War, in 1982-1984. I’m getting involved with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, one …
Dear One, You may ask, why Citizen Diplomacy in 1980s? In the opening sessions of spring quarter 2018 at the University of Washington, Dr. Eric Johnson will introduce a couple of octogenarians to talk to his history students about what we hoped to achieve by engaging in citizen diplomany initiatives during the Cold War. Rosanne …
If you google Target Seattle today, what you get is the location of the Target department store nearest you. In 1982-1984 Target Seattle had another meaning altogether. Try to imagine just how frightened US citizens were of the possibility of nuclear war and of the Soviets from the McCarthy communist witch hunt, the Cuban missile …