Peace & Justice Conversation: War and Peace Prospects Post-Elections

Whatever the outcome of November's elections, movements for peace and justice will have a lot of work to do. Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund, joins us with a post-election analysis to discuss our work for peace going forward.

Kevin Martin has worked with Peace Action in its various iterations for over four decades. He joined the national Peace Action/Peace Action Education Fund staff as Executive Director on Sept 4, 2001, and became President of the organization in 2017 . Kevin previously served as Director of Project Abolition, a national organizing effort for nuclear disarmament, 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. Kevin has traveled abroad representing Peace Action and the U.S. peace movement on delegations and at conferences in Russia, Japan, China, Mexico, Britain, Germany and France. His writing has been widely published in the US and beyond, and he has appeared on countless radio and television news programs. He also convenes the national CeaseFire Now Grassroots Network focused on ending the genocide in Gaza and US military support for Israel.