William Sloane Coffin

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (born June 1, 1924) is a radical clergyman and long time peace activist with international stature. He was Chaplain of Yale University, Senior Minister at Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE/Freeze, a nuclear disarmament group, and has prominently opposed U.S. policy from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War.

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• merged with the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign in 1987 and was renamed SANE/FREEZE; it was renamed Peace Action in 1993.