PEACE ACTION - Key Persons
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- Senior Director, Outreach & Organizing Campaigns
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- Phone Campaign Assistant Director
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- Senior Director, Digital Strategies & Campaigns
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- Deputy Director, Major Gifts
Jon Rainwater is Executive Director of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund. For over 30 years, Jon has been active in campaigns on issues of peace, nuclear disarmament, social justice and environmental sustainability. An experienced policy advocate, he has worked on nuclear issues for Greenpeace, advocated for victims of domestic violence for the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence and served as director for the California League of Conservation Voters. Jon has also been involved in the electoral arena in dozens of campaigns for progressive candidates and ballot measures. Jon has worked in the environmental field helping to pass groundbreaking legislation on global warming emissions and environmental justice in California. Prior to becoming executive director of Peace Action, he was executive director of Peace Action West. His writing has appeared in U.S. News and World Report, the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Progressive, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, The San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register and The Golden Gate Law Review among other outlets. Jon now helps lead Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund's efforts to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons, to end U.S. involvement in the wars in the Middle East and shift spending from the bloated Pentagon budget to human needs.
Jon's Work:
Common Dreams - A Progressive Alternative to Trump's Dangerous Venezuela Policy
Truthout - To Stop Bolton's Fire and Fury, Fire Bolton
U.S. News & World Report - Trump Needs Real Diplomacy with North Korea
Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund, joined the staff on Sept 4, 2001. Kevin previously served as Director of Project Abolition, a national organizing effort for nuclear disarmament, from August 1999 through August 2001. Kevin came to Project Abolition after ten years in Chicago as Executive Director of Illinois Peace Action. Prior to his decade-long stint in Chicago, Kevin directed the community outreach canvass for Peace Action (then called Sane/Freeze) in Washington, D.C., where he originally started as a door-to-door canvasser with the organization in 1985. Kevin's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The Progressive, Z magazine and many other publications. He has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC-TV and radio, and many other local, national and international radio and television outlets. Kevin has traveled abroad representing Peace Action and the U.S. peace movement on delegations and at conferences in Russia, Japan, China, Mexico and Britain. He is married, with two children, and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Kevin's Work:
The Virginian-Pilot - U.S. Should End Role in Yemen's Civil War
USA Today - Experienced Diplomats Badly Needed
Democracy Now - Obama to Make History With Hiroshima Visit, As U.S. Quietly Upgrades Nuclear Arsenal
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- National Engagement and Campaigns Manager
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- Senior Director, Policy & Political Affairs
Since 1993, Paul Kawika (CA VEE CA) Martin, Peace Action's Senior Director for Policy and Political Affairs, has worked with numerous environmental, peace, animal rights and human rights organizations including the Rainforest Action Network and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Paul worked with a Clinton Presidential Commission and spent a year campaigning in twenty countries on Greenpeace ships including the Rainbow Warrior. His extensive travels include Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran and Lebanon.
His work or writing has appeared in all major U.S. newspapers, on all the major TV and radio networks, and many international outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Nightline and Democracy Now!
Paul uses his expertise on nuclear weapons, international relations and U.S. foreign policy to mobilize Peace Action's 200,000 supporters and lobby Congress for social change. Peace Action is the largest grassroots peace organization in the U.S.
Paul's Work:
The Hill - End America's Unauthorized War in Yemen
The Hill - Trump's North Korea Strategy Requires an Intervention from Congress
ThinkProgress - Conservative Forces in Washington Are Trying to Eliminate the Iran Deal
For 24 years, Paul Kawika (ca vee' ca) Martin, Peace Action's senior director for policy and political affairs has helped change policy with numerous environmental, peace, animal rights and human rights organizations including Greenpeace and the Nobel prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility. Mr. Martin worked with a Clinton Presidential Commission and spent a year campaigning in twenty countries in the coveted position of radio officer on Greenpeace ships including the Rainbow Warrior.
Mr. Martin uses his expertise on nuclear weapons and U.S. foreign policy to lobby Congress and to mobilize Peace Action's 240,000 paid members and supporters and 100 chapters around social change. Peace Action is the largest grassroots peace organization in the U.S. The White House, NGOs, Members of Congress and their staff consult with him on legislation and political strategy around the issues of abolishing nuclear weapons, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, ISIS and reducing the Pentagon budget. Former Rep. Barney Frank asked him to join the Sustainable Defense Task Force which released the influential report, Debt, Deficits, and Defense: A Way Forward, on reducing the U.S. military budget. Mr. Martin founded several influential coalitions working on Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan policy. As Peace Action's PAC director, he uses his electoral expertise to fund, endorse and help elect progressive candidates.
His work has appeared in countless international, national and local television, radio and print media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Politico, Nightline, CNN, MSNBC and Democracy Now! Mr. Martin served on the Community Advisory Board of a Washington, DC television station. He is currently on the board of the National Priorities Project, PeacePAC and the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship.
Mr. Martin has traveled to 35 countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Lebanon and Cuba. He received his bachelors at the University of California at Santa Barbara in Environmental Studies and Global Peace and Security and currently lives in Washington, DC where he enjoys his passions of Italian motorcycles, the arts and the outdoors.
Paul's Work:
The Hill - End America's Unauthorized War in Yemen
The Hill - Trump's North Korea Strategy Requires an Intervention from Congress
ThinkProgress - Conservative Forces in Washington Are Trying to Eliminate the Iran Deal
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- Senior Director, Membership & Strategic Giving
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- Senior Director, Finance & Administration
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- Senior Director, Development & Major Gifts