[act-ma] 1/30 New England Antiwar Conference (Sat)

[Charlie Welch]

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New England Antiwar Conference
Saturday, January 30 ! 10:30 am-6 pm !MIT Bldg. 34-101!50 Vassar 
St.!Cambridge MA

The Drive Towards Empire and Endless War
• Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report & Black is Back
• Saadia Toor, Action for a Progressive Pakistan,
• Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
• Michael Schwartz, author of War Without End End: The Iraq War in Context

Debunking the War on Terror
• Salma Abu Ayyash, Palestinian activist
• Pardiss Kebriaei, Guantanamo Attorney at the Center for Constitutional 
Rights;
• Danny Schechter, author of Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception;
• Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, & the Future of 
America

Plenary • Organize regional campaigns to build the March 20 antiwar 
march on DC and the campaign to End the Siege of Gaza. !

Workshops
• Domestic Costs of War led by Jon Flanders of Troy NY Labor Council & 
Nellie Bailey of Harlem Tenants Council
• International Struggle for World Free of Nuclear Weapons led by Joe 
Gerson of AFSC
• Global Warming and War led by Ted Glick, Maggie Zhou & Joel Kovel
• Student Organizing led by Wes Strong & others from around the region
• Veterans led by Priscilla Loundes from Move Forward, IVAW, & VFP rom
• Covert Operations and 911 led by Paul Zaremka & Barry Zwicker
• Defending Palestine with Salma Abu Ayyash & Sara Roche Roche-Mahdi
• War in Latin America by Omar Sierra, Venezuelan Consulate, 
Representative from Colombia Polo Democrá Democrático, & Tito Meza, 
Proyecto, Hondureno

Registration: $15 general; $10 students & unemployed; Scholarships 
available.

Visit
www.NewEnglandUnited.org to let us know y you plan to attend ou and to 
order a lunch. For more info: Dav David at 508 653-5534
Flyer available on the website