Pam Solo (born 1946) is an arms control analyst, and Founder and President of the Civil Society Institute.
Life
She co-founded the Rocky Flats campaign. In 1978 she was co-director the national Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force. She was one of the founders and leaders of the national Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. She signed a letter in support of eight Czechoslovak protestors who were arrested in 1989.
She was the campaign director for Pat Schroeder and managed Schroeder's Presidential exploratory campaign. She worked for the Armed Services Committee staff.
She was active in the Nuclear Weapons Freeze movement, and helped to found Freeze Voter. In 1992, she founded the Civil Society Institute.
Awards
Works
- From Protest to Policy: Beyond the Freeze to Common Security, Ballinger, 1988, ISBN 978-0-88730-112-4
- The Promise and Politics of Stem Cell Research, Authors Pam Solo, Gail Pressberg, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 978-0-275-99038-1
- "A Nation of Learners", Letters to the next president: what we can do about the real crisis in public education, Editor Carl D. Glickman, Teachers College Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8077-4427-7
- "Beyond Theory: Civil Society in Action", Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America, Editor E. J. Dionne, Brookings Institution Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8157-1867-3
References
- "Who We Are - Civil Society Institute". Archived from the original on 2010-04-25. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West, Len Ackland, UNM Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8263-2798-7
- Stone, I. F.; et al. "Crackdown in Prague | by Neal Ascherson | the New York Review of Books".
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - "Civil Warrior" Sun Sentinel, Paul Langner, April 20, 1997
- "Freeze Voter Records (DG 156), Swarthmore College Peace Collection".
- "SOLO SUCCESS PAM SOLO'S QUIET WORK FOR PEACE EARNS A MACARTHUR FOUNDATION GRANT", The Boston Globe, August 3, 1989, Susan Trausch