Sasha Mitchell

my name is Sasha Mitchell, I am a student at LREI in NYC. My topic is Nuclear distruction and proliferation. I chose this topic because of current issues and wars going on and because it is a topic that is really interesting to me.

Interview With Mathew Bolton

Today we interviewed Matthew Bolton a professor at Pace University working on weapons disarmament especially concerning Nuclear Weapons. It was so interesting to hear what he had to say about our topic and how much he had witnessed himself. He talked about how, during a kid he grew up in a city that was a…

Visiting The Intrepid

Today our social justice group visited the Intrepid, in particular Submarine Growler. Submarine Growler was a submarine in use during the Cold War. It served with the US Navy from 1958 to 1964. It was an early effort by the US to use submarines as launch platforms for Nuclear missiles And carried four regulus one…

THE CENTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD

Today we went on a tour of the United Nations. On our tour, we saw the General Assembly, the Security Council meeting room, and the economics and sustainability. I personally found it fascinating to see these meeting rooms where world leaders meet and discuss real problems, on our visit I saw some amazing things such as gifts that were given to the U.N by other countries such as one from Italy called Sphere within a sphere, and one commemorating the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the middle passage.