UPDATE: Roughly 375 people attended the conference from across the region–well beyond organizers’ expectations! Thanks to everyone who attended and to New England United for an excellent movement-building event!
30 Jan 2010 – 10:30AMMIT Building 34-101
50 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by New England United
From the Providence, RI train station: 8:35AM commuter rail to Boston’s South Station; Red Line to Kendall/MIT (for schedules and fares, see the MBTA website)
Panel 1: The Drive Towards Empire and Endless War (10:30 AM to Noon)
- Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report & 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
Concurrent Workshops 1 (12:05 to 1:20 PM)
- Domestic Costs of War led by Jon Flanders of Troy NY Labor Council and Nellie Bailey of Harlem Tenants Council
- In Our Lifetimes! Obama, the NPT and the International Struggle for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons led by Joe Gerson of AFSC
- Resistance within the Military: The Renewed Struggles Against U.S. Imperialism led by Priscilla Loundes from March Forward!, IVAW, & VFP
- Covert Operations and 911 led by Paul Zarembka, Professor of Political Economy SUNY Buffalo, and Barry Zwicker, Editor of Global Outlook
- War on Latin America led by Omar Sierra, Venezuelan Consulate; Antoine del Castro Rio, Colombia Polo Democrático; & Tito Meza, Proyecto Hondureno
Panel 2: Debunking the War on Terror (1:35 to 3:05 PM)
- Salma Abu Ayyash, Palestinian activist
- Pardiss Kebriaei, Guantanamo Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights
- Danny Schechter, author of Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception
- Peter Dale Scott, author of The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, & the Future of America
Concurrent Workshops 2 (3:10 to 4:25 PM)
- Cutting War Spending 25%, Funding Jobs and Neighborhoods led by Mike Prokosch of Dorchester People for Peace
- Global Warming and War led by Ted Glick, Maggie Zhou & Joel Kovel
- Student Organizing led by Wes Strong of CT Students Against the War
- Defending Palestine led Salma Abu Ayyash & Sarah Roche-Mahdi
- Crisis in Haiti with Jacques-Antoine Jean and Ashley Smith
Organizing Session (4:45 to 6:15 PM)
Organize regional campaigns to build the March 20 antiwar march on DC, to end the siege of Gaza, and to redirect military spending to human needs.
Social (starting at 6:30 PM)
To be held at a fine Central Square restaurant in Cambridge.
Registration Information
ADVANCE REGISTRATION NOW ONLINE!
Registration: $15 general; $10 students & unemployed; Scholarships available. Lunches (box lunch or pizza) can be ordered in advance when you register on the website. Advance registration is helpful but not required. Registration period at conference, including payment of registration fee, starts at 9:30 AM.
Please click here to register a display table.
Endorsers
AFSC Maine; AFSC New England; AFSC SE New England; ANSWER Boston; ANSWER Connecticut; Augusta Women in Black; Cape Codders for P&J; Code Pink Greater Boston; Code Pink Maine; CT Students Against War; CT United for Peace; Dorchester People for Peace; Global Network Against Nuclear Power & Weapons in Space; Grassroots International; Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth & Justice; Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition; Greater Boston United for Justice with Peace Coalition; International Socialist Organization; Island P&J group; Maine Peace Works; Mass Peace Action; Middle East Crisis Committee; Northeast CT Coalition for Peace and Justice; Peace Action Maine; PeaceWorks of Greater Brunswick (ME); Radio Free Maine; RI Mobilization Committee to Stop War and Occupation; Socialist Alternative; Socialist Party of CT; Southeastern CT War Moratorium; Veterans for 9/11 Truth; Waterville Area Bridges for Peace & Justice; We Refuse to be Enemies (CT); West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice; Women’s Int’l League for Peace & Freedom/Maine branch; and others