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Host Mylo Roze interviews two organizers of the Bloomington Peace Action Coalition (BPAC). Timothy Baer starts off with some background of the inception of the organization & details the types of activities, campaigns & action events BPAC has engaged in up to the present. Christine Glaser expresses her own motivations for becoming involved with the peace movement & then both members outline the policies & current activities of the Coalition.Addressed in this episode are matters of morality & public policy, as well as strategies of affecting change. Topics discussed include activism which both educates & involves the general public, engaging government officials & institutions, civil disobedience, the best way to address terrorism, political diplomacy, economic & social policy (both foreign & domestic) & the backlash created by American & western militarism & imperialism.