UNAC Conference - Register Now

[John Kirkland]

see below for lists of speakers and workshops

(please forward widely) Register Now! Extremely Reasonable Air Fare & Hotel Rooms Now Available!   United National Antiwar Coalition National Conference March 23-25, 2012 at the Stamford CT Hilton (one stop from Harlem/125th St. on Metro North commuter line)   Say No to the NATO/G8 Wars & Poverty Agenda A Conference to Challenge the Wars of the 1% Against the 99% at Home and Abroad     The U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the G-8 world economic powers will meet in Chicago, May 19-22, to plan their financial and military strategies for the coming period. These elites, who serve the 1% at home and abroad, impose austerity--often by the use of drones, armies, and the police--on the 99% to expand their profits.   Join activists from the antiwar, occupy, environmental, immigrant rights, labor, and other movements at a conference from March 23-25, 2012 to learn more, to plan a May 19 “No to NATO/G8” demonstration in Chicago, and to democratically develop a program of action for the months to follow.   Special guest speakers include:   –Xiomara de Zelaya is currently a presidential candidate in Honduras and the partner of Manuel de Zelaya, the former president displaced by a U.S.-backed coup in 2009.   –Bill McKibben is the founder of the grassroots global warming group 350.org and the architect of the successful campaign to defeat the XL pipeline.   –Glen Ford is the executive editor of Black Agenda Report, a ground breaking site that covers U.S. wars abroad and wars at home from the perspective of the African American community.   –Richard Wolff is the author Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It   –Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid is the founder of the Muslim Peace Coalition   –Vijay Prashad is the author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World   –Andrew Murray is a member of the UK Trades Union Congress General Council and head of UK Stop the War coalition from 2001-2011   –Col. Ann Wright was a central Gaza Boat organizer and the editor of Dissent: Voices of Conscience   –Medea Benjamin is the founder of Code Pink   --Jared Ball is the author of I Mix What I Like.   –Clarence Thomas is an Oakland ILWU activist with Longview WA Longshore fight   –Scott Olsen is an Iraq war veteran and Occupy victim of Oakland police violence   –David Swanson is author and editor of War is a Crime.org   –Pat Hunt is a founding member of the Coalition Against NATO/G8 Wars & Poverty Agenda   --Fignole St. Cyr is a leader of the Haitian Autonomous Workers Confederation     ∞     How to Register?—Where to Stay?—Transportation?—Submitting Resolutions? Visit www.UNACPEACE.org and click on UNAC conference. Email: UNAC...@gmail.com Phone: 518- 227-6947.   ∞   We urge attendees to take advantage of the double rooms (2 double beds) at the convention site that are now only $119 a night.  There is nothing less expensive in the tri-state area and we had to guarantee the hotel room reservations in return for the use of space for the convention. By staying at the hotel, you are contributing to the overall success of the conference.    Also, registration covers two Saturday meals, and there will be key plenary panels going on in the dining room during these meals.   ∞   Conference Schedule and Workshops   Conference Schedule   Friday Night, March 23, 2012             4:30 p.m. Registration Opens 8:00 pm--Opening Panel:  Shifting Strategies of Empire: Analyzing the Military and Economic Plans of the 1%.   Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:00 am Registration Opens 8:30 am—Plenary 10:45 am Workshop Series One 12: 30 pm. Lunch with Panel: The War at Home on the Black Community: Mass Incarceration, Unemployment, Stop and Frisk 1:45 pm Plenary 4:00 pm Workshop Series Two 5:45 pm Workshop Series Three 7: 30 pm Dinner with Panel: Islamophobia, the Attack on Civil Liberties, & the War on Workers   Sunday, March 25, 2012 9:00 am Plenary Noon Plenary Panel: Global Economic Meltdown, Warming, and War: Why the 1% Will Not Retreat without a Fight and the Kind of Fight It Must Be. 1: 30 pm Workshop Series Four               3:00-4:30 pm NATO/G8 Protest Organizing Session & Closing Remarks     ∞ Workshops-in formation US Geopolitical Strategy and Intervention in the Asia-Pacific Region. Bernadette Ellorin, Juyeon Rhee.   End the Occupation of Haiti! Ray Laforest & Kim Ives.   Haiti: Analysis from Trade Unionists on the Ground. Fignole St. Cyr & others.   Egypt: Will the People Rule? Ayman El Sawa, Ahmed Shawki, others Law as a weapon of war. Steve Downs, Marlene Jenkins, Shamshad Ahmad, Kathy Manley   Defeating AFRICOM & NATO: Bldg Solidarity with Africa in the Struggle  Against Imperialism. Abayomi Azikiwe In formation.   Targeting Iran: The Truth Behind the Hype:  Ana Edwards, Sara Flounders, Ken Stone, Mansoureh Tajik & Phil Wilayto.   Iran: Solidarity, Not Intervention. Raha Iranian Feminist Collective.   The West's Politico-Economic Warfare on Iran. Eleanor & Ardeshir Ommani.   Antiwar Strategies in Black Community Organizations. Ana Edwards, Abayomi Azikiwe, others.   Contradictions of the Imperialists' Agenda for Full Spectrum Dominance. Glen Ford, Nellie Bailey, Margaret Kimberly, Bruce Dixon, Tony Montiero.   Propaganda and Communications on Permanent War. Peter Hart & David Swanson.   Building Resistance at the Democratic National Convention. Ben Carroll. In formation.   No to NATO/G8: Teaching Resistance—Anti-Imperialist Curriculum and Methods. June C. Terpstra, Cris Toffolo.   U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe and the Campaign for Withdrawal: John LaForge, Marion Keupker, Alice Dressman   Veterans Peace Teams. Tarak Kauff, Eric Lobo, Mike Tork, Fred Nagel, Ellen Barfield.   What War? US Turns from War on Iraq to Permanent Occupation. Invitees: Debra Sweet, Siman Antoon, Wafaa Bilal, Larry Everest, Raed Jarrar, and Michael Otterman   Taking Back Our Schools: Counter-Recruiting in upstate NY and Chelsea MA. Jim Murphy, Lyn Meza   “We are Not Your Soldiers”: Stop the Militarization of our High School Campuses. Elaine Brower, Ethan McCord, Matthis Chiroux,, James Brower.   Corporate War Against the Planet: The Hydrofracking Front. Mary Finneran, Joan Walker, video of Richard Grossman   Democratizing Money: Banking in the Public Interest: Susan Harman, Mike Krauss, Tom Sgouros   Labor Against Austerity and War:  Andrew Murray, Clarence Thomas, Border Militarization/Migrant Workers Rising Globally. Monami Maulik, Rafael Samanez, Amanda Flores, Ayesha Mahmooda, Roksana Mun, Mustafa Sullivan, Derechos Humanos, Carol Barton   All Out for the May 1 mobilization! Teresa Gutierrez, Victor Toro, others.   From Egypt to New York City: “Anti-Radicalization” Laws, Surveillance, the War on Terror Industrial Complex, & NDAA. Monami Maulik, Fahd Ahmed, Shasheena Parveen, Shahid Buttar; Osman Chowdhury, Sam Anderson, Suzanne Adely Confronting Robotic (Drone) Warfare at the Hancock AFNG Base/Hancock 38. Carol Baum, Judy Bello, Ed Kinane.   Rethinking Pakistan: People’s Struggle and the War on Terror. Saadia Toor, Adaner Usmani, Madiha Tahir, Zohra Ahmed.   Negotiating Peace—What the U.S. Might Do for Colombia. John Jairo Lugo & Stephen Kobasa.   Honduras: The Struggle for Land, Democracy, & Sovereignty. Xiomara de Zelaya, Lucy Pagoada, others.   The Economy, Unemployment & the Military: Alternatives to Save Our Country & the Jobless: Marguerite Rosenthal, Gertrude Schaffner, Shelia Collins.   Linking Endless War and Economic Crisis: Bring Our War $$ Home. Bruce Gagnon, Lisa Savage, Paki Wieland, Mary Beth Sullivan   Occupying the Military Industrial Complex: David Swanson, Brian Kwoba, others   Occupy, Community, & Labor Collaboration: Notes from the field. In formation.   Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions—Join Palestinian Non-violent Resistance to Occupation. Ethan Heitner, Nancy Krikorian, SJP.   No Nukes: Nuclear Power, Weapons, & War. Hattie Nestel, Alice Slater, Henry Rosenberg How Do You End Student Debt? End the War! Tax the Rich!  Daniel Alley, Christopher Hutchinson, others   Search for Human Rights & Justice in South Asia. Muslim Peace Coalition. Kannan Srinivasan, Toby Caman, Junaid Ahmad, Haley Duschinski.   Resource Wars in South Asia. Muslim Peace Coalition. Hares Sayed, Akhtar Assad, Shafat Ahmad.   Influencing Electoral Conversation from a Peace & Justice Perspective. Muslim Peace Coalition. Shaik Ubaid, Seemi Ahmed, Imam Talib Abdurrashid.   Prisons: The New Torture Machine. Steve Downs, Faisel Hashmi, Ayesha Hoda, Kathy Manley.   Faith-Based Organizing. Fellowship of Reconcilation & others.   Activist Lessons from the Past: Changing Our Society & Pressuring Our Gov’t to End War. David Swanson. In formation   Honduras Resistencia.  Xiomara de Zelaya, Lucy Pagoada, and others.   Women, Peace & Security. Laura Rosko. In formation.   click here to donate to UNAC Click here for the Facebook UNAC group.    To remove yourself from the UNAC listserv, please send an email to:      UNAC-uns...@lists.riseup.net   To add yourself to the UNAC listserv, please send an email to:       UNAC-su...@lists.riseup.net