New England Antiwar Conference

Explaining the Drive Towards Empire and Endless War

Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report and 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: The Iraq War in Context

Debunking the War on Terror

Salma Abu Ayysh, Palestinian activist
Pardiss Kebriaei, Guantanamo Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Danny Schechter, author of Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception
Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America

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Workshops

War at Home led by Jon Flanders of Troy NY Labor Council and Nellie Bailey of Harlem Tenants Council
International Struggle for World Free of Nuclear Weapons led by Joe Gerson of AFSC
Cutting War Spending 25%: Funding Jobs and Neighborhoods by Mike Prokosch
Global Warming and War led by Ted Glick, Maggie Zhou & Joel Kovel
Student Organizing led by Wes Strong and others from around the region
Veterans led by Priscilla Loundes from March Forward!, IVAW & VfP
Covert Operations and 9/11 led by Paul Zarembka and Barry Zwicker
Defending Palestine with Salma Abu Ayyash & Sarah Roche-Mahdi
War in Latin America by Omar Sierra, Venezuelan Consulate, Antoine del Castro Rio from Colombia Polo Democrático, & Tito Meza, Proyecto Hondureño

Plenary

Organize regional campaigns to build the March 20 antiwar march on DC, to redirect military spending to meet human needs, and to end the siege of Gaza.

Social at a fine Central Square establishment - 6:30pm

Registration

$15 general; $10 students and unemployed; scholarships available.  Lunches (box lunch or pizza) can be ordered in advance when you register.  To register, go to http://newenglandunited.org/   To request a table or volunteer to help on the day of the conference, please fill the volunteer forum at http://newenglandunited.org/.

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