Where “Good Thinking” went in 2016
List of where and to whom DVDs were given in 2016, with a letter and online link to film to all below, many hand delivered, most mailed with followup phone calls and emails.
* We, along with those below, are responsible for these weapons.
- President Barak Obama, White House (form letter of thanks received)
- Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (White House)
- Pentagon, Marine Corps. Gen. Joe Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Pentagon, Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Ray Mabus (Letter of thanks received)
- U. S. Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter
- DoD (Dept. of Defense) Office of Public Affairs
- DOE (Dept. of Energy) Office of Public Affairs
- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- U. S. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency
- U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, U.S. Dept. of State
- West Point U.S. Military Academy (to each separately): Brigadier General Cindy Jebb, Dean Diana Holland, Brigadier General, 76th Commandment of Cadets Command Sergeant Major David Clark West Point USMA Library and Archives, Audio Visual Dept. Dept. of Physics and Nuclear Engineering Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Military Academy
- U.S. Dept. of Army, Navy and Air (Along with Pentagon and White House) were each telephoned and emailed with requests for interviews in 2012 for this film. They were all informed of it’s completion and website to view.
- U.S. Presidential Campaign Hqts 2016 of: Sen. Bernie Sanders Frm. Sec. State Hillary Clinton 2 of 24 Donald Trump (President Donald Trump to be sent again upon assuming office)
- U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Powers
- U.S. Ambassador to Japan, H.E. Caroline Kennedy
- U.S. House Office of the Armed Services Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee of Armed Services
- Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
- Senate Appropriations Committee, Sub-Committee on Defense Spending
- Congressional Budget Office
- Library of Congress
- Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
- JFK, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
- LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library
- Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
- Harry Truman Presidential Library and Museum
- Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
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U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress One full week, from morning to eve, walking the long hallways, physically went into each of below offices, spoke with those whose area was defense or energy matters. I chose first all the Representatives who sit on the Armed Service Committees, or Appropriation Committee’s that are responsible for the funding of these weapons. Included were a few other Representatives who are influential, and naturally my own reps. Each were handed DVDs, and written material on Good Thinking, with the online link to share, and a request for feedback. Each were spoke to about the upcoming resolution being discussed by some 150 nations trying to make these illegal in 2017-18. I must admit it was sobering that the vast majority of office staff had little to no idea of the real cost of these weapons, nor the capacity for destruction of one of them, nor the numbers that we have, nor that we’re building new facilities, nor knew anything about the International movements against them. Truly, a dangerous bubble. Most were very polite, and listened, for which I’m thankful. If any watched or spread the word? I followed up with all visits with a letter, call and/or email.
Senator Ed Markey Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Senator Chuck Schumer Senator Bernie Sanders Senator Jeff Sessions Senator Joe Donnelly
Senator Elizabeth Warren Senator James Inhofe Senator Bill Nelson Senator Fischer Senator Joe Manchin Senator Mike Lee Senator Angus King Senator Lindsey Graham Senator Martin Heinrich Senator Ted Cruz Senator Tom Cotton Senator Claire McCaskill Senator Richard Blumenthal Senator Mazie Horono Senator Roger Wicker Senator Michael Rounds Senator Joni Ernst Senator Tim Kaine Senator Jeanne Shaheen Senator Kelly Ayotte 4 of 24 Senator Thom Tillis Senator Dick Durban Senator Patrick Leahy Senator Diane Feinstein Senator Barbara Mikulski Senator Jack Reed Senator Pat Murray Senator Jon Tester Senator Tom Udall Senator Brian Shatz Senator Mitch McConnell Senator Richard Shelby Senator Lamar Alexander Senator Roy Blunt Senator Steve Daines Senator Jerry Moran Senator Thad Cochan Senator John McCain Senator Cory Booker Senator Michael Enzi Senator Dan Sullivan Senator Dean Heller Senator John Boozman Senator Al Franken Senator Mark Warner Senator John Hoeven Senator Cory Gardner
U. S. Representatives Congress
Representative Dutch Ruppersberger Representative John Lewis Representative Tulsi Gabbard Representative Rick Larsen Representative Jerrold Nadler Representative Mac Thornberry Representative Carolyn Maloney Representative James Langevin Representative John Conyers, Jr. Representative John Garamendi Representative Ben Ray Lujan Representative John Sarbanes Representative Madeleine Bordallo Representative Steve Israel 5 of 24 Representative Adrian Smith Representative Joe Courtney Representative Jeff Sessions Representative Louise Slaughter Representative Jackie Speier Representative Adam Smith Representative Juan Castro Representative Susan Davis Representative Loyd Doggett Representative Scott Peters Representative Hand Johnson Representative Loretta Sanchez Representative Tammy Duckworth Representative Scott Peters Representative Robert Brady Representative Susan Davis Representative Rick Larsen Representative Jim Cooper Representative Niki Tsongas Representative Gwen Graham Representative Sam Graves Representative Pete Aquilar Representative Randy Forbes 6 of 24
Some of the Media “Good Thinking” was given to:
Moyers and Company New York Times Science at NY Times Washington Post NPR WNYC Brian Lehrer Show Leonard Lopate Show Democracy Now Amy Goodman The Guardian Huffington Post WGBH, American Experience, and Frontline PBS, WNET The News Hour POV The New Yorker Al Jezerra The Villager (NY) The Daily Beast The Real News Network, IWT (Baltimore, Toronto) The Nuclear Resistor TruthDig New York City Independent Media Center ABC News TheIntercept .com Revista San Francesco, Assisi
Netflix, Hulu, GooglePlay, ITunes and other online global media platforms were contacted via agents “Agregators” to help spread Good Thinking to the wider world. The film was offered to them for free, without a % of profits they would make on views, but as of the end of the year, they all want money upfront, more than I have. 7 of 24
United Nations
U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Mr. Kim Won-soo, High Representative U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Director and Deputy to the H. Rep. U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch (several) U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Info and Outreach Branch U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Support To the Committee U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Reference Library U.N. Committee on Nuclear Weapons IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Office at the United Nations The U.N Dag Hammarskjold Library NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security
U.N. Mission of Israel U.N. Mission of India U.N. Mission of Pakistan U.N. Mission of Russian Federalist Republic U.N. Mission of Cyprus U.N. Mission of China U.N. Mission of USA U.N. Mission of Mexico U.N. Mission of Japan U.N. Mission of Iran U.N. Mission of South Africa U.N. Mission of the Republic of Korea U.N. Mission of Germany U.N. Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See U.N. Mission of Sweden U.N. Mission of Jordan U.N. Mission of France
Also personally hand delivered in Washington, D.C.
Embassy of The Republic of the Marshall Islands Embassy of South Africa Embassy of India 8 of 24
Organizations whom received the Good Thinking DVD and link (some large, some very small, some seasoned for many decades, some new, some local oriented, some global in outreach, some on the way out, some growing. This is not a complete list, I know I’m missing several. Here placed in no particular order):
- Institute for Advanced Research, Princeton
- The Catholic Worker (NY and DC, etc)
- War Resistors League (WRL)
- The Carter Center
- Kofi Annan Foundation
- Mayors For Peace (International and National)
- Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, and The Peace Promotion Office
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
- Reaching Critical Will
- Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Historical Studies-Social Sciences Library, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
- National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR)
- Ben and Jerrys, Vermont
- Nukewatch 9 of 24
- Nuclear Watch New Mexico
- Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
- Greenpeace, DC, NY, San Fran. and Rome
- Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (NY)
- NTI, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Nuclear Security Project (includes Sen. Sam Nunn, Frm Sec. of State Shultz, etc)
- Gorbachev Foundation, Russia
- Arms Control Association (DC)
- UNfold Zero
- James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) (DC and Monterrey offices)
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Physicians for Social Responsibility (chapters: DC, NY, Boston, Austin, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Madison, Seattle, Santa Fe)
- Student Physicians for Social Responsibility (DC)
- Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
- American Friends Service Committee
- Dr. Helen Caldicott Foundation 10 of 24 - The Hoover Institution, The Johnson Center (DC)
- Eisenhower Institute, Gettysburg College (Gettysburg and DC)
- Union of Concerned Scientists (chapters: DC, Boston, Chicago, Cambridge, Oakland, )
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) (NY and other chapters)
- Fellowship of Reconciliations (FOR, Western States)
- Ploughshares Fund (DC and San Francisco offices)
- WAND Education Fund, WAND and Will (DC, Atlanta and NY)
- Pax Christi, National DC and NY, and Pax Christi International
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) (DC and NY)
- ICAN, International Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- The Sierra Club (DC and Oakland)
- The Sierra Club, Legislative Office
- Common Cause (DC)
- Global Zero (DC)
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (DC)
- Citizens for Global Solutions (DC) 11 of 24 - Council For a Livable World, The Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation (DC)
- The Brookings Institution
- Pugwash Council and Conferences (DC)
- Natural Resource Defense Council (NRCD) (DC, Chicago and NY)
- International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS - DC
- British American Security Information Council, (BASIC) (DC)
- Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
- International Peace Bureau, (Berlin, and Geneva)
- International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna
- U.N. General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)
- Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy & Environment Program (DC)
- Alliance for Peacebuilding, Melanie Greenberg, CEO (DC)
- Johns Hopkins School For Advanced International Studies (DC)
- Creating a Culture of Peace Org.
- Jonah House
- Common Dreams 12 of 24 - New York Public Library Selections Office
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) - ISORDARCO, International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, Rome
- Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament & Environmental Protection (IIPDEP)
- National Association of Atomic Veterans (U.S.)
- Gensuikyo, (Japan Council against A and H Bombs)
- Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service, NIRS - WISE Network (several chapters worldwide)
- The Nobel Foundation, Nobel Peace Prize
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Nobel Committee for Physics
- Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship
- National Science Foundation
- Mohonk Consultations
- Abolition 2000, Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons 13 of 24
- Western states Legal Foundation
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War
- Veterans For Peace (several chapters)
- The Golden Rule Project
- National Atomic Testing Museum, Nevada
- Nuclear Watch
- Nuclear Watch New Mexico
- Tibet House
- 350.org
- Peace and planet.org
- Peace Action, Campaign for a Nuclear Free World, Coalition for Peace Action (to several locations)
- Albert Schweitzer Institute
- Working Families
- Washington Peace Center
- Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA)
- World Fellowship Center
- United National Anti-War Coalition
- Brooklyn For Peace
- Yitzhak Rabin Center, Israel
- Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development 14 of 24 - British American Security Information Council
- Global Watch
- River Watch
- Ground Zero for Nonviolent Action
- U.S. Peace Council
- Gray Panthers
- Raging Grannies
- Code Pink (LA, DC, NY)
- Environmentalists Against War
- Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace
- Earth Action
- Roots Action .org
- Brandywine Peace Community
- Association of World Citizens
- Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility
- Unitarian Church of All Souls
- ReThink, Peace and Security Team
- Action For A Better World
- World Beyond War / AFGJ
- CounterPunch
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship 15 of 24 - Peace Boat (International, and NY)
- The Ford Foundation, Office of the President, and a few other offices
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Program Impact, and Peacebuilding
- Carnegie Corporation of New York, International Peace and Security Team
- Brookings Institution, Arms Control, Nuclear Weapon Policy group
- Council For a Livable World, Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation
- United Religions Unitied
- Vandenberg Witness
- Tri-Valley CAREs, Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
- The Peace Farm
- Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship
- Project For Nuclear Awareness
- Beyond Nuclear
- Los Alamos Study Group
- N Square, Flipping the Script
- Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions
- Daisy Alliance
- Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
- Food Not Bombs 16 of 24
- Business Executives For National Security
- Federation of American Scientists
- National Academy of Sciences, Keck Center of the National Academies
- International Peace Institute
- U.S. Institute of Peace (DC and NY)
- Lawyers Alliance for World Security
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Institute for Science and International Security
- Stimson Center, re: Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security
- World Policy Institute, Arms and Security Project
- Women in International Security
- Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
- Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
- Nuclear Control Institute
- Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
- World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP)
- Disarm Education Fund (Global Health Partners)
- Peace and Security Funders Group 17 of 24
- Citizen Awareness Network, (CAN)
- Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, Levy Institute
- Georgians Against Nuclear Energy
- Science for Democratic Action, (IEER)
- International Association of Educators for World Peace
- International Nuclear Societies Council, American Nuclear Societies
- International Philosophers for Peace, (IPPONO)
- Peace Resource Center of San Diego
- Public Citizen
- Quaker United Nations Office
- Resolve, Institute of World Affairs
- Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (no longer?)
- Presbyterian Peacemakers Committee of East Tennessee
- Alliance for Peacebuilding
- The Atom Project
- Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Vienna
- Tibet House (NY) 18 of 24 - The International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, DC, Bahrain, and Singapore offices)
- The King Hussein Foundation and The Noor Al Hussein Foundation
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- Hague Appeal For Peace
- The Hindu Temple, Queens, NY
- Middle Collegiate Church, NY
- Russian Orthodox Cathedral of The Most Holy Virgin Protection
- Japan Society, NY
- The National Science Foundation
- Transform Now Ploughshares
- The Nation Institute
- The Interfaith Center of NY
- Kezialain Farm
- Social Tees
- Office of the Americas
- National Association of Atomic Veterans, Inc. (NAAV)
- Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
- Green Newton 19 of 24
- Global Security Institute
- EarthAction
- Roots Action .org
- Citizens Awareness Network (CAN)
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), Science for Democratic Action
- Sam Adams Associates for Integrity Intelligence, SAAII (DC)
- The German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin
- Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice in Ann Arbor 20 of 24 Universities:
Harvard University: - Harvard Divinity School - Harvard Dept. of History, Chair - Harvard Dept. of International Law - Harvard Dept. of Public Health - Harvard Dept. of Government, office of the Chair - Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center For Science and International Affairs - Harvard Center for Public Leadership, Office of exec and co director - The Forum, J.F.K School of Gov.
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Security Studies Program
Stanford University - Frm Sec. of Defense William Perry - Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation - The Hoover Institution - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs, SIPRI, Dean’s Office
Northeastern University - The Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
Bellarmine University, - The Merton Center (Thomas Merton) - Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust
Smith College - Sophia Smith Collection
Swarthmore College - The Peace Collection 21 of 24
Oregon State University - Special Collections & Archives Research Center
George Washington University (GWU) - Elliot School of International Affairs, Dean’s Office
Marquette University - University Archives
Hampshire College - Peace and World Security Program
University of San Francisco - Nautilus Institute, Center for the Pacific Rim
John Hopkins University - School for Advanced International Studies
New York University - Dean’s Office, and the Dept. of Public Health
University of Maryland - The Anwar Sadat Chair For Peace and Development
Gettysburg College - The Eisenhower Institute
The Elliott School of International Affairs - Security Policy Studies, Dean’s Office
University of Notre Dame - Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Hesburgh Center for International Studies
University of Rome - International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, ISORDARCO 22 of 24
Some of the Individuals given or sent (besides all listed in credits in the film, but several listed again here):
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama Pope Francis Prof. Freeman Dyson Prof. Kurt Gottfried Dr. Ira Helfand Gov. Gerry Brown, Jr. Mrs. Frances Crowe The Pete Seeger Family Jonathan Schell Family Sr. Megan Rice Elliot Adams Ed Hedemann David McReynolds Tomiko Morimoto West Ramsey Clark Noam Chomsky H.E. Ambassador Gomez Camacho, Mexico Christer Ahlstrom, Generaldirektor, Sweden Craig Murray, former British Amb. to Uzbekistan Larry Wilderson, (ret) Chief of Staff to Sec. of State Colin Powell Larry Johnson, (ret) CIA and State Dept. Philip Giraldi, (ret) CIA Operations Elizabeth Murray (ret) CIA political analyst, Deputy National Intel Officer for the Near East, National Intelligence Council Fmr Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands Tony de Brum Dana Priest, reporter for Washington Post Dan Zak, author: Almighty: Courage, Resistance and Existential Peril in a Nuclear Age Willam Perry, Fmr. Sec. of Defense Fmr Govenor Michael Dukakis Dr. Seirgei Kruschev (son of Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev) Her Majesty Queen Noor Al Hussein Dick Gregory Gwen Ifill Judy Woodruff Bill Moyers Mark Shields George Stephanopoulos Eric Schlosser Dan Ellsberg 23 of 24 John LaForge Freda Berrigan Liz McAlister Bud Courtney Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan’s wife) Rev. Dr. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki Jack Cooper Tom Chess Federico Vegas Robert Shapiro Prof. Rob Hollander Ed Hedemann Emae Lain Robert Kennedy, Jr.
(many others not listed)
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Film Festivals Good Thinking was disqualified by most the larger film fests because of my decision to make it public online in March, for free to those organizations concerned with this topic. I felt this information should not wait a year for consideration. Besides, I didn’t think most fests would take a 3.5 hr film. But to my surprise these festivals did in 2016 (several awards yet to be announced, and several more coming in 2017, not listed here):
** Won "Best Documentary" at the Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival
Won "Award of Excellence" at the Headline International Film Festival
Won "Winner, Award of Recognition" at the IndieFest Film Awards
Won "Merit Award" at the Awareness Film Festival (Los Angeles)
"Official Selection" AAB International Film Festival, N. India
"Official Selection" Miami Independent Film Festival
"Official Selection" Docs Withour Borders Film Festival
"Official Selection" Lake View International Film Festival (India)
"Official Selection" WIPE Film Festival (Berlin)
"Official Selection" Planet Film Festival, Barcelona
"Official Selection" ArtHouse Film Festival, Hong Kong
"Official Selection" Near Nazareth Film Festival, Israel
Others in the pipeline
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