For press inquiries, contact Kevin Martin in the Eastern time zone at [email protected] or at 301-537-8244
or contact Jon Rainwater in the Pacific time zone at [email protected] or at 510-469-2700
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Jon Rainwater Executive DirectorJon Rainwater is Executive Director of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund. For over 30 years, Jon has been active in campaigns on issues of peace, nuclear disarmament, social justice and environmental sustainability. An experienced policy advocate, he has worked on nuclear issues for Greenpeace, advocated for victims of domestic violence for the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence and served as director for the California League of Conservation Voters. Jon has also been involved in the electoral arena in dozens of campaigns for progressive candidates and ballot measures. Jon has worked in the environmental field helping to pass groundbreaking legislation on global warming emissions and environmental justice in California. Prior to becoming executive director of Peace Action, he was executive director of Peace Action West. His writing has appeared in U.S. News and World Report, the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Progressive, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, The San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register and The Golden Gate Law Review among other outlets. Jon now helps lead Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund’s efforts to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons, to end U.S. involvement in the wars in the Middle East and shift spending from the bloated Pentagon budget to human needs.
Jon’s Work:
Common Dreams – A Progressive Alternative to Trump’s Dangerous Venezuela Policy
Truthout – To Stop Bolton’s Fire and Fury, Fire Bolton
U.S. News & World Report – Trump Needs Real Diplomacy with North KoreaContact Information:
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Kevin Martin President
Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund, joined the staff on Sept 4, 2001. Kevin previously served as Director of Project Abolition, a national organizing effort for nuclear disarmament, from August 1999 through August 2001. Kevin came to Project Abolition after ten years in Chicago as Executive Director of Illinois Peace Action. Prior to his decade-long stint in Chicago, Kevin directed the community outreach canvass for Peace Action (then called Sane/Freeze) in Washington, D.C., where he originally started as a door-to-door canvasser with the organization in 1985. Kevin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The Progressive, Z magazine and many other publications. He has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC-TV and radio, and many other local, national and international radio and television outlets. Kevin has traveled abroad representing Peace Action and the U.S. peace movement on delegations and at conferences in Russia, Japan, China, Mexico and Britain.
Kevin’s Work:
Interview: As Opposition to Trump’s Iran War Rises, Pressure Builds on Congress to Invoke War Powers Act
Peace and Planet Conference Speech Preceding the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference
Counterpunch – The War Machine, and the War Budget, Are Out of Control. Let’s Change That.
Counterpunch – There They Go Again in Venezuela
CommonDreams – AIPAC Is Wasting Its Money On Democrats (and That’s a Good Thing)
Contact Information:
301.565.4050 ext. 307
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