Need help researching Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (Vanity)

I and a couple of other Ventura County Freepers are going back to school next week. We are taking some political science classes and starting up a chapter of David Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom. I know some of the professors at the local community college are involved with a Santa Barbara peace group called Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. I'm trying to get some background information on them - I read their material and it is very anti-Bush and very pro-U.N.

As stated on their website "The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan international education and advocacy organization. It has consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is recognized by the UN as a Peace Messenger Organization."

I know there is a communistic pony in here somewhere but can't seem to find it! I've tried several google searches on the organization and some of the key staff people and have also done a FreeRepublic forum search. They do stuff with our local Veterans for Peace people. They most recently gave their annual award to Walter Conkrite so that should give you some idea of where they are coming from. They call him an "eminent broadcast journalist".

FWIW This group has been active in the Santa Barbara area since 1983. You can see from the list of involved persons and their associations that they have an interlocking directorate. It would take months of research to untangle the relationships of all of the affiliated organizations.

You will frequently see them in the Santa Barbara News-Press presenting awards to each other. They also regularly appear on the Letters-to-the-Editor page. During political campaigns, you will see them along with the other local "Usual Suspects", in adds endorsing Democrat candidates.

You may have seen this already. Krieger wrote the cover article for the March/April 2001 edition of The Humanist on the topic of “Stopping the New Nuclear Arms Race.” Within the article he said the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is a founding member of the Abolition 2000 Global Network. I went to their Web site where they have a list of member organizations by country. Perhaps you can see if an abundance of those are Communist organizations.

In October, 1994, he wrote an article for Social Alternatives in which he stated, “It was Mikhail Gorbachev who called for an end to the nuclear arms race, and who proposed a nuclear-weapons-free world by the year 2000. Gorbachev no longer has the power to see this vision realized, and perhaps it cannot be realized in the time frame he proposed. But the vision can be realized if the citizens of our country press for it.”

There are certainly links to left of center organizations. The Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions sponsored a speaker in Ventura County a couple of years ago by the name of Leah Wells, who is a writer and education coordinator for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. On their Web site (http://www.c-p-r.net/neopro.htm), this group speaks negatively of conservative values.

Krieger is a columnist for the Progressive Media Project, whose goal is to “bring about a more just and equitable society, establish a fair international economic order, preserve the natural environment, democratize the media, end discrimination, and promote peace and human rights.” They distribute op-eds to newspapers and teach liberal groups how to write them as well.

Like another poster said, this organization appears to be entangled with many diverse groups.

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