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Alice Slater Papers
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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.
Gift of Alice Slater, 2007 [Acc. 07A-024].
Processed by Wendy E. Chmielewski in June, 2007.
People
Organization
- Global Resource Action Center for the Environment
- Abolition 2000
- STAR Foundation
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- United Nations
Subject
- Nuclear Disarmament -- History -- Sources
- Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Environmentalism -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources
- Nuclear nonproliferation -- International law -- History -- Sources
- Nuclear arms control -- History -- Sources
- Nuclear weapons (International law) -- History -- Sources
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
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All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Use Restrictions
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None.