Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action hosted a live, online event for its annual Mothers Day event on Saturday, May 9th.
Lilly Adams, a nuclear weapons outreach consultant for the Cambridge, MA-based Union of Concerned Scientists and formerly with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, delivered the keynote address, and then answered people’s questions.
You can watch the webinar at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/
Lilly Adams
Lilly, who received a grant from the Ploughshares Fund Women’s Initiative for a project to build connections with nuclear frontline communities and amplify issues of nuclear justice, spoke about building the nuclear weapons movement for the next generation, as well as on the human impacts of nuclear weapons and connections to social justice.
Slides from the webinar, Nuclear Voices: Centering Justice in the Fight for Nuclear Abolition are available at: https://docs.google.
Lilly recently authored an article: “The human cost of nuclear weapons is not only a “feminine” concern”, published by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: [https://thebulletin.org/2019/11/the-human-cost-of-nuclear-weapons-is-not-only-a-feminine-concern/].
Her website, Nuclear Voices, hosts a database and other resources for working with nuclear frontline communities: www.nuclear-voices.org
You can read her interview with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility here: https://www.psr.org/interview-with-lilly-adams/
Read Lily’s blog on nuclear frontline communities + COVID-19 at https://
Read the letter with 126 organizations signed on: https://act.ucsusa.org/
More information about The Hanford Plaintiffs – a great book about the health + policy issues around Hanford: https://kansaspress.
You can email Lilly at lilly.ucs@gmail.com.
