[act-ma] UNAC CONFERENCE CALENDAR ANNOUNCEMENT

[Marilyn Levin]

A National Conference to Bring the Troops Home Now! 

July 23-25, 2010 

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, New York 

 

Money for Human Needs; Not for Wars, Occupations, and Bail-Outs!

 

Come to a conference where peace, social justice and environmental activists will come together to discuss the major concerns we face and to hammer out an ambitious program of action.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

NOAM CHOMSKY, Internationally renowned political activist, author, and critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policies, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics 

DONNA DEWITT, President, South Carolina AFL-CIO; Co-Chair, South Carolina Progressive Network; Steering Committee, U.S. Labor Against the War; Administrative Body, National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations 

 

Additional Speakers: Joel Kovel, Dahlia Wasfi, Leila Zand, Cheri Honkala, Medea Benjamin, Pardiss Kebriaei, Kathy Kelly, Michael Ferner, Kevin Martin, Michael McPhearson, Nada Khader, Larry Holmes, David Swanson, Glen Ford, Blanca Missé, Pam Africa, Cindy Sheehan, Fahima Vorgetts, Kathy Black, Debra Sweet (partial list)

 

PANEL ON POLITICAL REPRESSION, GUANTANAMO, MUSLIM POLITICAL PRISONERS

 

WORKSHOPS:

      Afghanistan/Pakistan: Strategy behind US Intervention 

      Afghanistan/Pakistan: Feminist Perspective 

      Impact of Ongoing Occupation on Iraqis 

      Israel/Palestine: Two-States Possible/Desirable? 

      Palestinian resistance to Israeli Apartheid 

      Iran under Threat from US/Israel 

      Bring Our War $$ Home: Resolution/Referendum Campaigns 

      US Foreign Policy, Economic Crisis, & Labor 

      Solidarity with Workers in Countries Targeted by US 

      Poor People's Movements 

      Flash Points in Latin America & Caribbean 

      Global Warming & War

       
     Health Care, Not Warfare 

      Faith Community & Antiwar Movement 

      US Military Expansion into Africa 

      Organizing Veterans & Military Families 

      Counter-Recruitment in High Schools 

      Rise of Right Wing Populism/Tea Party: Do We Need A Right-Left Coalition? 

      Student Organizing: Budget Cuts & Wars 

      Immigration Reform & Militarization of Mexican Border 

      Women & War 

      Defending Muslim Political Prisoners & Guantanamo 

      War, Militarization, Assault on Civil Liberties & Communities of Color 

      Electoral and Legislative Strategy and Tactics
     

 

CO-SPONSORS:

After Downing Street, Arab American Union Members Council, Bailout the People Movement, Black Agenda Report, Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Campus Antiwar Network, Code Pink, International Action Center, Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, National Lawyers Guild, Peace Action, Peace of the Action, Progressive Democrats of America, The Fellowship of Reconciliation, U.S. Labor Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, World Can't Wait

 

United National Antiwar Conference (UNAC)  http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org

 
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