Nuclear abolition conference begins at UCSB

BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER

The third annual Think Outside the Bomb conference kicked off yesterday at UC Santa Barbara, where nearly 100 young people from around the country gathered to discuss their goals for nuclear abolition.
The four-day conference is organized by the locally founded Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, which regularly stages protests and other outreach efforts to push their goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

The motto of the conference is according to its web site is: “Inspiring Action for Nuclear Abolition.”
Andrew Culp, research and advocacy director for the foundation, said a grant made it possible to pay for the transportation of nearly every person attending the four-day conference.
Culp said the attendees are a diverse group that includes college students as well as high school students.
“We’re really excited because it’s going to be action oriented,” Culp said. “This is to try and reinvigorate the youth in the grass roots anti nuclear movement.”
Culp said several workshops, classes and meetings will occur throughout the duration of the conference.
“We’re really moving from education and advocacy to power and resistance,” Culp said. “I think we’re really on the precipice of something that can be really big.”