January 30, 2010 10:00 AM - 3 attended

NEW ENGLAND UNITED REGIONAL CONFERENCE

New England Antiwar Conference
Saturday, January 30 - 10:30 am-6 pm - MIT Bldg. 34-101 - 50 Vassar St., Cambridge MA

The Drive Towards Empire and Endless War
• 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

Debunking the War on Terror
• 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, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, & the Future of America

Plenary • Organize regional campaigns to build the March 20 antiwar march on DC and the campaign to End the Siege of Gaza. !

Workshops
• Domestic Costs of War led by Jon Flanders of Troy NY Labor Council & Nellie Bailey of Harlem Tenants Council
• International Struggle for World Free of Nuclear Weapons led by Joe Gerson of AFSC
• Global Warming and War led by Ted Glick, Maggie Zhou & Joel Kovel
• Student Organizing led by Wes Strong & others from around the region
• Veterans led by Priscilla Loundes from Move Forward, IVAW, & VFP rom
• Covert Operations and 911 led by Paul Zaremka & Barry Zwicker
• Defending Palestine with Salma Abu Ayyash & Sara Roche Roche-Mahdi
• War in Latin America by Omar Sierra, Venezuelan Consulate, Representative from Colombia Polo Democrá Democrático, & Tito Meza, Proyecto, Hondureno

Registration: $15 general; $10 students & unemployed; Scholarships available.

Visit www.NewEnglandUnited.org to let us know you plan to attend and to order a lunch.
For more info: call David at [masked]
Flyer available on the website

  • David Schaich
    David Schaich

    A registration form for the New England United conference on January 30 is now available on the NEU website at
    http://www.newenglandunited.org/register

    Registration at the conference is $15 general; $10 students & unemployed; Scholarships available. Lunches (box lunch or pizza) can be ordered in advance.

    Posted January 10, 2010 at 2:36 AM
  • David Schaich
    David Schaich

    The January 30th New England United antiwar conference is fast approaching.

    Please check out the map below indicating the meeting site (Building 34) and two parking lots. One lot is smaller, close to the meeting, at the intersection of Mass Ave and Vassar Street. The other parking lot is near Kendall Square T Stop on Hayward Street, right off Main Street.

    http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=34&go=P16&go=P5&zo...

    Posted January 25, 2010 at 11:39 PM
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