Call Number:

DG.225

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

15.5 linear ft. (15.5 linear ft.)

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item], in the Alice Slater Papers (DG 225), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Date:

1993-2005 (bulk)

Creator:

Slater, Alice

Abstract:

Alice Slater is a nuclear policy expert involved in nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and elimination of weapons issues. She has served as a founder or officer of several major organizations, including Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, Abolition 2000, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and Stand for Truth About Radiation. Slater is internationally known for her expertise and work on disarmament issues.

Alice Slater is a nuclear policy expert involved in nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and elimination of weapons issues. Slater graduated from Cardozo Law School in 1984. She has been the president of Global Resource Action Center for the Environment. GRACE was a not-for-profit corporation which "formed new links between people and organizations engaged in research policy, and grassroots community work in order to promote and find solutions to preserve the future of the planet and protect the quality of the environment."* Slater has also served as a founder or officer of several other major grass roots organizations, including Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, Abolition 2000, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and Stand for Truth About Radiation. Slater is internationally known for her expertise and work on disarmament issues.

*Taken from a description written by Alice Slater.

This collection contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, and other documents that reflect Alice Slater's work in several grassroots anti-nuclear organizations throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. In addition,there is information about many national and international conferences on envirionmental and nuclear non-proliferation which Slater attended. The collection also contains reference material on U.S. government policy on nuclear issues during this period.

This collection is not fully processed. The original arrangement has been retained. The donor/creator arranged material in folders by subject matter, rather than by records of organizations. Newspaper clippings and other reference material easily available from other sources has been removed and discarded. Reference material about topics with which Alice Slater or the organizations she represented have been retained.