August-October 1995
The International Arms Trade:
Should We Curb Global Gun-Running?
The Mainstream Media Project began organizing its first major campaign on the conventional arms trade on August 7, 1995, timed to coincide with an anticipated Congressional vote on the Hatfield-McKinney Arms Trade Code of Conduct legislation in mid-September. The campaign emphasized budgetary impacts -- including the $7 billion in annual subsidies and loan guarantees the Pentagon spends to induce foreign governments to buy American weapons -- as well as strategic and moral implications of the arms trade.
Twenty specialists on the international arms trade participated in the campaign, which involved 20 guests and generated 78 interviews on such widely syndicated programs as Associated Press Radio Network, the Michael Reagan Show, and the Sun Radio Network. On public radio, syndicated shows included National Public Radio, Monitoradio, and Maryknoll Productions' "Voices of Our World," in addition to WNYC in New York City and WBEZ in Chicago and other major-market flagship stations.
Guest Speakers
Charisse Adamson, Project on Demilitarization and Democracy
Robert Borosage, Director, Campaign for New Priorities
Tom Cardamone, Director, Conventional Arms Transfer Project, Council for a Livable World
Joseph Cirincione, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center
Lloyd Jeffry Dumas, Professor, University of Texas, Dallas
Natalie Goldring, Deputy Director, British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
William Hartung, Senior Research Fellow, World Policy Institute
Victoria Holt, Director, Project on Peacekeeping and the United Nations, Council for a Livable World
John Isaacs, Director, Council for a Livable World
David Isenberg, Senior Research Analyst, Center for Defense Information
Michael Klare, Director, Peace and World Security Studies Program (PAWSS), Hampshire College
Lawrence Korb, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense; Chairman, Campaign for National Security, Brookings Institution
Andrew Krepinevich, Director, Defense Budget Project
Joanne Landy, Executive Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Lora Lumpe, Director, Arms Sales Monitoring Project, Federation of American Scientists
Ann Markusen, Director, Project on Regional and Industrial Economics, Rutgers University
Saul Mendlovitz, Co-Director, World Order Models Project
Sima Osdoby, Former Director of Policy and Program, Womens Action for New Directions (WAND)
John Pike, Director, Space Policy, Federation of American Scientists
Caleb Rossiter, Director, Project on Demilitarization and Democracy
Ira Shorr, Senior Producer, Center for Defense Information
Col. Dan Smith (ret.), Associate Director, Center for Defense Information
Amy Smithson, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center
Paul Walker, Former Lead Staffer, House Armed Services Committee
Jennifer Weeks, Representative for Arms Control and International Security, Union of Concerned Scientists
