L.A. Artists for Survival (Group of artists)

L.A. Artists for Survival (LAAFS) was formed when David Lumian, the president of the Alliance for Survival, approached the political artist Lee Waisler to encourage artists' engagement in the nuclear disarmament movement. In January 1982, LAAFS held their first meeting and received an overwhelming response with over 100 artists in attendance. In the ensuing months, LAAFS' network expanded to over 300 artists. In addition to coordinating the anti-nuclear artists' group Sisters of Survival's performance "Shovel Defense" in May 1982, LAAFS collaborated with the Asian Pacific Americans for Nuclear Awareness and Asian Americans for Nuclear Disarmament to produce the two-day art and music festival Target L.A.: The Art of Survival, held on the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.