EMERGENCY NATIONAL ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE IN NYC
Saturday, June 1
9 am - 7:30 pm
27th St. and 8th Ave., Building A at F.I.T., 6th floor
Full schedule of the day (click for details)
- Opening plenary: 9-10:30 am
- Workshops: 10:45-12:30 am
- Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm
- Panel: Palestine - The Fight for Freedom: 1:30-2:45 pm
- Strategy Discussions: Building the Movement: 3-5 pm
- Closing plenary: 5:15-7:30 pm
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OPENING PLENARY: 9-10:30 amThis session will present a framework
Featuring:
- Elias Rashmawi, Free Palestine Alliance
- Larry Adams, President, Mailhandlers Local 300, New York
City Labor Against the War
- Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney and co-founder,
Partnership for Civil Justice
- Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network
- Larry Holmes, International Action Center
- Yoomi Jeong, Korea Truth Commission
- Richard Becker, member of A.N.S.W.E.R. delegation to
Palestine
- Teresa Gutierrez, Committee to Stop the U.S. War in
Colombia
- Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network
- Jennifer Wager, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
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WORKSHOPS: 10:45am-12:30 pm
1) Fighting corporate globalization & U.S. economic
intervention
Including discussions on Argentina, Cuba, the Philippines,
Haiti, Central America and more.
2) We say no! Opposing U.S. military intervention
Including discussion on Korea, Latin America, the
expansion of NATO, the School of the Americas and more.
3) Labor against the war at home and abroad
Featuring union leaders and immigrants rights activists
who have been organizing against the war and for workers
rights around the U.S.
4) Resisting repression: The Patriot Act, civil rights and
civil liberties
Featuring civil rights attorneys and activists fighting
racial and religious profiling.
5) U.S. strategy in the Middle East, N. Africa and Central
Asia
Including discussions on Iraq, Palestine, Sudan and
Afghanistan.
6) Community organizing against the war
Including a discussion on how activists around the country
are linking the community issues of cutbacks, racism, and
layoffs, to actions and slogans against the war.
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PALESTINE PLENARY: 1:30-2:45 pmFeaturing:
- Elias Rashmawi, Free Palestine Alliance
- Carl Messineo, attorney and co-founder, Partnership for
Civil Justice*
- Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action
Center*
- Dr. Hillel Cohen, public health doctor, epidemeologist,
delegate for 1199 Health and Hospital Workers Union*
- Randa Jamal, Free Palestine Alliance
*Members of recent A.N.S.W.E.R. delegation to the Occupied
Territories of Palestine. Panel will include recent video
footage.
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WORKSHOPS: 3 pm - 5 pm
1) Strategy Discussion Sessions: Building the Movement (4
sessions)
These sessions will be an opportunity to discuss past and
upcoming organizing, and to strategize about building the
movement against the war at home and abroad.
2) Organizing Commissions of Inquiry to Investigate
U.S.-backed Israeli War Crimes in Palestine
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CLOSING PLENARY: 5:15-7:30 pmFeaturing:
- Reportbacks from workshop discussions
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
- Williams Camacaro, member, Venezuela Civic Center, NYC
- Ben Dupuy, Co-Director, Haiti Progres; Secretary
General, National Popular Party in Haiti
- Representative, Bayan
- Brenda Stokely, AFSCME District Council 1707, New York
City Labor Against the War
- Gloria La Riva, National Committee to Free the Five
Cuban Political Prisoners Held in the U.S.
- Leslie Feinberg, author and lesbian/gay/bi/trans rights
activist
- Brian Becker, Co-Director, International Action Center
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