United National Antiwar Conference -- Albany, NY - July 23 to July 25; July 25: Demonstration in Albany in solidarity with the Muslim community there

Panels, workshops, action plans and demonstration

From Friday, July 23 to Sunday July 25 the International Action Center will be joining hundreds of other anti-war and community activists at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany, NY for a National Conference to Bring the Troops Home Now. This United National Antiwar Conference will be an intense weekend of plenary sessions, workshops, education, resolutions and networking.

The weekend comes as casualties among NATO and especially U.S. troops are rapidly increasing, and when the disarray in the U.S. command following Gen. McChrystal’s “resignation” highlight the disintegration of the U.S. war strategy.

The conference’s action proposal demands an immediate end to the illegal occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and calls on the movement to be prepared to respond to an attack on Iran. It also joins those essential anti-war demands with others that call attention to the enormous waste of human resources to feed the war machine. The conference will take up actions for the coming Fall and next Spring.

Workshops will take up issues from Palestine, the U.S. occupation of Haiti, U.S. intervention in Colombia, global warming and the environment, the role of poor people’s movement’s and developments in the GI resistance movement.

The conference’s ending on Sunday, July 25, will lead directly into a public demonstration in Albany in solidarity with the Muslim community there, that has been subject to discrimination and persecution by the U.S. political police. The Muslim Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM (Support And Legal Advocacy for Muslims) have called on conference participants to meet at east steps of the Capitol, Washington & State Streets, at 1 p.m. for a march to Masjid As-Salam at 278 Central Avenue. They will also participate in a luncheon panel on political repression and closing Guantanamo. (See www.projectsalam.org)

The IAC is committed to determined activism and resistance to U.S. militarism, racism and corporate greed. We want to link international solidarity to fighting oppression in the U.S. We are interested in meeting up with other revolutionary activists and militant community organizations at this conference.

Along with 30 other antiwar, peace and justice national organizations, the International Action Center is a co-sponsor of this conference.

A look at the schedule for the weekend indicates that there will be opportunities for anti-imperialists to intervene and fight for their positions within the context of building the broadest possible anti-war actions.

(See nationalpeaceconference.org for more details of Conference registration, schedule of speakers, workshops, panels and housing)