Where “Good Thinking” Went in 2016
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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 (continued) !3 of !24 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