Dr. Joseph Gerson

Dr. Joseph Gerson has served the American Friends Service committee since 1976 and is currently Director of Programs and Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program for the AFSC in New England. His program work focuses on challenging and overcoming U.S. global hegemony: its preparations for and threats to initiate nuclear war, and its military domination of the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has been involved in the U.S. justice and peace movements since the mid-1960s. His work with AFSC has included helping to launch the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, preventing New England harbors from being transformed into nuclear weapons bases, helping to build the U.S. and global anti-bases and nuclear weapons abolition movements, and helping to create peace and anti-war coalitions in the Boston area and across New England. His books include The Sun Never Sets, With Hiroshima Eyes and, most recently, Empire and the Bomb. Tel: 617-661-6130 / Email:jgerson@afsc.org.

The New England Peace and Economic Security Program is a program of AFSC. http://afsc.org/newengland/nepeace.htm