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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT size=3>NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY TO END THE <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on">IRAQ</st1:country-region> AND <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">AFGHANISTAN</st1:place></st1:country-region> WARS AND
OCCUPATIONS<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">NATIONAL
ANTIWAR CONFERENCE – WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE ANTIWAR
MOVEMENT?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT size=3>KICK OFF
ORGANIZING FOR INTERNATIONAL PROTEST AT G-20 <st1:City
w:st="on">SUMMIT</st1:City> <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">PITTSBURGH</st1:place></st1:City> SEPTEMBER 24-25,
2009<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></LI>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT size=3>INITIATE
PLANNING FOR FIRST NATIONAL ACTIONS TO PROTEST ESCALATION OF <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">AFGHANISTAN</st1:country-region></st1:place> WAR IN
OCTOBER<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></LI>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT size=3>DISCUSS AND
VOTE ON PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE ACTIONS.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>ALL WELCOME, ONE-PERSON ONE-VOTE<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></LI></UL>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">JULY 10-12,
2009<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">La
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Roche</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">Pittsburgh</SPAN></B></st1:City><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">, <st1:State
w:st="on">PA</st1:State></SPAN></B></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT
size=3>Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan-Palestine-Iran<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></LI>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT size=3>Money for
Human Needs, Not for War and Bailouts to Corporations and the
Banks.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></LI></UL>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">End the Wars
and Occupations – Bring the Troops Home Now!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP
PRESENTERS</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">
(Partial List):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Michael Zweig</B> (Economics Prof. SUNY
Stony Brook, Nat’l Steering Comm. US Labor Against War), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Michael Schwartz</B> (author War Without
End: Iraq War in Context), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Col. Ann
Wright </B>(former military protested Iraq war, Code Pink delegation to Gaza),
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Cindy Sheehan</B> Gold Star Mother,
national antiwar leader), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jorge
Mujica</B> (immigrant rights leader), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Zaineb Alani</B> (Iraqi poet/activist), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Saadia Toor</B> (Ass’t Prof., Action for
Progressive Pakistan), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Monadel
Herzallah</B> (Arab American Union Members Council), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Michael Ferner</B> (Nat’l Pres. Vets for
Peace), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elie Domata</B> (Gen’l Sec’y
Union Workers of Guadeloupe), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Finole
Saint Cyr</B> (Gen’l Sec’y Workers Confederation of Haiti), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Michael McPhearson</B> (Exec Director Vets
for Peace, Co-Chair UFPJ), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Chris
Gauvreau </B>(National Assembly to End Iraq and Afghanistan Wars), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Lynne Stewart</B> (human rights attorney
accused of helping terrorists), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Fayyad
Sbaihat</B> (Coord. Palestine Solidarity Movement, Organizer Divestment from
Israel Campaign), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ashley Smith
</B>(Writer Socialist Worker, writer’s union member), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Odile Hugenot Haber</B>, WILPF, Chair
Middle East Comm. Israel and Palestine), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Regina Birchem</B> (WILPF, Code Pink
delegation to Gaza), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jules Lobel</B>
(Law Prof. U of Pittsburgh, US Ctr for Constitutional Rights litigator), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Marilyn Levin </B>(Admin. Body Nat’l
Asembly), Planning Comm Boston United for Justice with Peace, UJP Palestine Task
Force), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Phil Wilayto </B>(Ed. Virginia
Defender, author In Defense of Iran), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sara Flounders </B>(Troops Out Now
Coalition), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">David Swanson </B>(After
Downing Street),<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Manijeh Saba
(</B>Iranian-American activist, Code Pink delegation to Gaza),<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Paul Kawika Martin
</B>(Organizing/Political/PAC Dir. Peace Action), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Brian Becker </B>(ANSWER Coalition), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mary Nichols Rhodes </B>(Progressive Dems
America), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Michael Carano </B>(PDA), <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Greg Coleridge </B>(OH Amer. Friends
Service Comm), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gail Austin </B>(Black
Voices for Peace), and others<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">WORKSHOPS</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"> on the wars and occupations
in Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan, the economy, torture and Guantanamo, immigrant
rights, soldiers/vets/military families, Israeli Occupation and Siege on Gaza,
Iran, women and war, lobbying, student organizing, mass action, organizing for
G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, and more.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">PLENARIES </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'">to discuss and vote on
proposals for upcoming actions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All
welcome, one person one vote.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT size=3>FOR MORE INFO
AND TO REGISTER go to National Assembly website<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><A
href="http://www.natassembly.org/"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">www.natassembly.org</SPAN></A></SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT size=3>FOR <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">BOSTON</st1:City></st1:place> INFO AND LOCAL
ORGANIZING contact National Assembly Organizing
Committee–Boston.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><A
href="mailto:NAOC_Boston@yahoo.com"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
size=3>NAOC_Boston@yahoo.com</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>781-316-2018</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
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