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5/20/2005 12:39:00 PM

To: Assignment Desk

Contact: Paul Kawika Martin of Peace Action, 951-217-7285 (cell) or pmartin@peace-action.org

News Advisory:

Peace Action executive director, an expert on foreign policy, (Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) will be available for in-studio interviews in Chicago.

Kevin Martin, executive director of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund, will be available this Tuesday, May 24, or Wednesday, May 25 or Thursday, May 26. (cell: 202-246-3040)

With the Congress voting on new nuclear weapons on Wednesday, May 25, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference at the U.N. ending the same week, the American public becoming increasingly dissatisfied with U.S. occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and Iran and North Korea rattling their nuclear sabers, the public shows deep concern around security issues and yearns for smart dialogue.

Martin has worked in the peace movement for over 20 years and is an expert on foreign policy, nuclear weapons and security issues.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Reader, 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 Martin became executive director of Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund Sept. 4, 2001. Martin previously served as Director of Project Abolition from August 1999 through August 2001. Project Abolition was a national organizing effort for nuclear disarmament initiated by the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana, with Peace Action, Physicians "

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