At a 10AM press conference this morning in Philadelphia, the nation’s leading arms control advocacy organization, Council for a Livable World, announced its endorsement of Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA) for the Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

On June 2, 2009, members, staff, and friends of Council for a Livable World and its sister organization and research center, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, along with several members of Congress came together to honor two peace and human rights advocates with the 2009 Father Robert F. Drinan National Peace and Human Rights Awards.

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Former Senator Gary Hart, chairman of Council for a Livable World, praised Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitriy Medvedev for their commitment to negotiate a new legally-binding treaty to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires in December.

Council for a Livable World today welcomed the commitment by the U.S. and Russian foreign ministers to move forward with negotiations on a successor to the START nuclear arms reduction treaty, which expires in December.