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[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

UPDATED SPEAKER & SCHEDULE INFORMATION
for MAY 17-18 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
in New York City
NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST WAR, COLONIAL OCCUPATION & IMPERIALISM
Saturday, May 17 - Sunday, May 18
@ 40 Irving Place
b/w 16th and 17th Sts.
(1 block east of Union Square)
New York City
$10 requested donation

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* PLENARY & WORKSHOP SPEAKERS INCLUDE *
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
- Brenda Stokely, President, District Council 1707 AFSCME; Co-Convener, New
York City Labor Against the War
- Noeli Pocaterra, Vice President, National Assembly of Venezuela,
indigenous leader
- Charles Barron, NYC City Council Member
- Mahdi Bray, Executive Director, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
- Representative from Asia Wide Campaign in Japan
- Don Rojas, general manager, Pacifica Radio Station WBAI
- Lynne Stewart, radical human rights attorney, targeted by Attorney
General John Ashcroft for prosecution
- Brother Joel Magellan, Director, Association Tepeyac
- Elias Rashmawi, Free Palestine Alliance-U.S.
- Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network
- Caneisha Mills, Howard University, Youth & Student A.N.S.W.E.R.
- Joe Navidad, Bayan-USA
- Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network
- Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Carl Messenio, attorneys and co-founders,
Partnership for Civil Justice
- Representatives from International Action Center
- Jennifer Wager, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
- Representatives from Muslim Students Association
- Peta Lindsay, Howard University, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth & Student Coordinator
- Representative from Friends of Zimbabwe
- Rev. Luis Barrios
- Rev. Herbert Daughtry, National Pastor, House of the Lord Pentecostal Church
- Eva Golinger, Venezuela Solidarity Committee
- United American Indians of New England
- Jim Lafferty, Executive Director of the L.A. Chapter of the National
Lawyers Guild and member of the Los Angeles A.N.S.W.E.R. Steering Committee
- Riva Enteen, Program Director of the Bay Area National Lawyers Guild
- Charlotte Harris, Philadelphia A.N.S.W.E.R., Avenging the Ancestors
Coalition (ATAC), National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
- Steven Gillis, President-elect, United Steel Workers of America Local
8751 - Boston school bus drivers and monitors union
- Monica Moorehead, Millions for Mumia coordinator, managing editor of
Workers World newspaper
- Dr. Geert Van Moorter, Belgian physician in Iraq during the U.S. bombing
- Tod Ensign, Citizen soldier
- Dr. Nadia Marsh, Founder of Doctors and Nurses Against the War
- Ghanim Khalil, a marine, and refusnik who opposes the Iraq invasion
- Dr. Hillel Cohen, Asst. Professor of Social Medicine and Public Health
- Tim Eubanks, NYC Cites for Peace, Queers for Peace and Justice
- Nathalie Alsop, Committee for a New Colombia
- National Confederation of Indigenous People of Ecuador and the National
Immigrant Workshop of Ecuador
- Prof. George Wright, Calif. State University-Chico

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* SCHEDULE (subject to change) *
SATURDAY, MAY 17
What is the Bush administration planning?
10:30 am - 1:00 pm: Opening Plenary
Featuring a multi-media presentation on imperialism 's strategy in the
Middle East and South/Central Asia, an assessment of the rise of a global
movement, the War at Home, resistance to the occupation of Iraq, and Cuba,
Korea and the Philippines: The Next Targets?
1:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch break
2:00 - 3:30 pm: Workshops (see topics below)
3:45 - 5:15 pm: Workshops (see topics below)
Where is the movement going?
5:30 - 7:30 pm: Plenary
Featuring a proposals for an Action Plan for the coming period and
distinguished speakers from several sectors of the movement.
SUNDAY, MAY 18
9:30 - 10:00 am: Plenary
10:15 am - 12:00 pm: Discussion groups
Breakdown groups to discuss where the movement is going
12:00 - 12:45 pm: Lunch break
1:00 - 3:00 pm: Closing plenary
Including reports from the breakdown discussion groups and distinguished
speakers from several sectors of the movement.

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* WORKSHOP TOPICS WILL INCLUDE *
- The U.S. in the Middle East: A Historical, Geo-Political and Strategic
Analysis
- Iraq: The Crime of the Occupation
- War and intervention in Asia: From the Philippines to Korea to
Afghanistan and the Caspian Sea
- Latin America: Resistance to U.S. Hegemony
- The War at Home: figtback against cutbacks, racism, and attacks on
women's rights - Defending workers ' and union rights
- Restructuring the State: The Patriot Act (I and II) and the Government's
Assault on Civil Liberties and Immigrant Rights
- The Strategy and Tactics of Empire: from invasions to the World Bank
- Palestine: In the context of Empire and the global anti-war movement
- The Driving Forces behind the U.S. Foreign Policy: who profits from war?
- David and Goliath: Confronting the New U.S. Imperialist War on Cuba
- Reparations, the struggle for sovereignty and building anti-racist
solidarity
- Battling the Giant Squid - Breaking Through the Strangle hold of the
Corporate Media
- Doctors and Nurses Organize from Baghdad to Brooklyn
- Exposing the Military Recruiters Myths
- Queers for Peace and Justice: Anti-War Organizing at Lesbian, Gay, Bi,
Trans Pride and in our communities
- U.S./NATO expansion in Eurasia

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* ONLINE REGISTRATION *
An online registration form is now available for those interested in
attending the conference. If you and/or your group plan to attend, please
fill out the form at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m3/index.html#reg
* TRANSPORTATION FROM ACROSS THE U.S. *
Organizers and activists will be attending the National Conference from
across the East Coast, South, Midwest and West Coast. People are coming by
bus, van, car, train and plane. To get in touch with people organizing from
your area, go to
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m3/may17transp.html
* LOGISTICAL INFORMATION *
The logistics page for the conference is now available at
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m3/logistics.html
This page contains information about HOUSING for the conference, directions
and public transportation in New York and more. Please check this page
regularly for more information.
* DOWNLOADABLE FLYER *
A NEW downloadable flyer (with schedule information) is available at
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