Friday, March 23, 2012
Registration—4:30 pm to 9:00 pm
8:00 pm – 9:45 pm--Opening Panel: The Shifting Strategies of Empire
Chair: Joe Lombardo, Co-Chair UNAC
David Swanson, War is a Crime.org
Col. Ann Wright, Dissent: Voices of Conscience
Andrew Murray, UK Trade Unions Congress General Council
Bernadette Ellorin, BAYAN (Philippines)
Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan Africa Newswire
Kazem Azin; Solidarity Iran
Adaner Usmani, Labor Party of Pakistan
Ahmed Shawki, Egypt Solidarity Campaign
Xiomara de Zelaya, Presidential candidate, Honduras.
UNAC CC meeting: 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Meeting Rooms available for groups preparing workshops, formulating resolution, etc. until 11:00 pm
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Registration opens at 7:00 am.
8:30 am – 9:00 pm—Welcome: International Greetings, UNAC Report and Conference Process
Marilyn Levin, UNAC Co-Chair.
9:00 am - 10:00 am—Panel: The NATO/G8 Summits: Our Response to their Agenda of War and Austerity
Chair: Pat Hunt, Chicago Peace Action, Chicago CANG8
Joe Iosbaker, Chicago United National Antiwar Coalition
Ashley Smith, UNAC Administrative Committee
Margaret Kimberly, Black Agenda Report
Leah Bolger, Veterans for Peace
Monami Maulik, Desis Rising Up and Moving
Medea Benjamin, Code Pink
Leili Kashani, Center for Constitutional Rights
Sara Flounders, International Action Center.
10:00 am – 10:30 am—Voting on Conference Rules; Introduction of Action Plan and Major Resolutions
Marilyn Levin, UNAC Co-Chair
Jeff Mackler, Northern California UNAC.
Raging Grannies Perform
10: 45 am -12:15 pm—Workshop Series One (See Below)
12: 30 pm – 1:45 pm—Lunch with Panel: The War at Home on the Black Community: Mass Incarceration, Unemployment, Stop and Frisk
Chair: Ana Edwards, Virginia Defenders
Jack Bryant, President Stamford CT NAACP
Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean, author, Once Convicted, Forever Doomed: Race, Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement, and Fractured Citizenship
Glen Ford, Executive Director of Black Agenda Report
Nellie Bailey, Occupy Harlem
Bruce A. Dixon, Managing Editor, Black Agenda Report; State Committee member; Georgia Green Party
Larry Holmes, Occupy 4 Jobs
Jasiri X, Hip Hop artist.
1:45 pm – 3:45 pm—Plenary Session
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm—Workshop Series Two (See Below)
5:45 pm – 7:15 pm—Workshop Series Three (See Below)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm—Dinner with Panel: Islamophobia, the Attack on Civil Liberties, and the War on Workers
Chair: Chris Gauvreau, UNAC Administrative Committee
Anthony Arnove, Co-editor with Howard Zinn, Voices of a People’s History of the United States
Imam Talib Abdurrashid, President of Muslim Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York
Meredith Aby, Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Teresa Gutierrez, May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights
Clarence Thomas, Oakland ILWU Local 10
Mike Fuqua, Longview Striker, member of ILWU Local 21
Scott Olsen, Iraq Veteran’s Against the War, injured by police at Occupy Oakland
Jeff Mackler, Northern California UNAC
Lamis Deek, Al-Awda New York
Gamelyn Oduardo, a leader of Puerto Rican Student Strike
George Friday, National Field Organizer, Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Cyrus McGoldrick, NYC Council on American Islamic Relations
James Yee, former chaplain at Guantanamo
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, Muslim Peace Coalition.
After Dinner Performances: Chris Nauman, Jasiri X
Sunday, March 25, 2012
9:00 am – 11:00 am—Plenary Session.
11:00 am – 11:40 am—Victims of Political Repression Speakout
Chair: Judy Bello, Hancock 38
Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Ralph Poynter, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Nathan Fuller, Bradley Manning Support Network
Mariano Cordoso, Central Connecticut State University
Representative, Yale Muslim Student Association
Sarah Martin, Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Steve Downs, Project SALAM
11: 40 am. Break for picking up bag lunches.
12:00 pm -1:15 pm—Plenary Panel: Global Economic Meltdown, Warming, and War.
Chair: Nada Khader, WESPAC
Bill McKibben, editor, The Global Warming Reader and architect of the successful XL pipeline campaign
Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
Richard Wolff, author, Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.
1: 30 pm – 3:00 pm—Workshop Series Four
3: 15 pm - 4:15 pm—NATO G8 Protest Organizing Session
Chair: Pete Shell, UNAC Administrative Committee
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm—Closing Remarks
Joe Lombardo, Co-Chair UNAC
WORKSHOPS UNAC CONFERENCE 2012 – MARCH 23-25
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
SESSION 1 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
1 ~ All Out for May 1st Mobilization
2 ~ Antiwar Strategies in Black Community Organizations
3 ~ Crisis in Asia: US Geopolitical Strategy & Intervention in the Asia-Pacific Region
4 ~ Democratizing Money: Banking in the Public Interest
5 ~ Faith-Based Organizing for Nonviolent Resistance
6 ~ Honduran Immigrants Chat with Xiomara De Zela. Topic: Election in 2013! (Private Session)
7 ~ MuslimPeace Coalition Meeting (Private)
8 ~ NATO & G-8: Two Arms of American Empire
9 ~ Negotiating Peace: What US Might Do for Colombia
10 ~ Occupying the Military Industrial Complex
11 ~ Prisons: The New Torture Machines
12 ~ U.S. Geopolitical Nuclear Weapons in Europe & Outer Space & Campaigns for Withdrawal
13 ~ Women, Peace, and Security
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
SESSION 2 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
1 ~ Afghanistan After Ten Years of Occupation
2 ~ Defeating Africom and NATO: Building Solidarity with Africa in the Struggle Against Imperialism
3 ~ Honduras: The Struggle for Land, Democracy & Sovereignty
4 ~ Iran: Solidarity, Not Intervention
5 ~ Linking Endless War & Econ. Crisis: Bring Our War $$ Home
6 ~ No Torture! No Indefinite Detention
7 ~ Occupy Movement, Labor & Community Struggles: A Fruitful Collaboration
8 ~ Palestine: Strategies for Liberation
9 ~ Search for Human Rights & Justice in South Asia
10 ~ Taking Back Our Schools - Guide for H.S. Counter-Recruitment
11 ~ The Economy, Unemployment & the Military: Alternatives to Save Our Country & the Jobless
12 ~ What War? US Turns from War on Iraq to Permanent Occupation
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
SESSION 3 5:45 PM-7:15 PM
1 ~ Egypt, One Year After the Revolution: Where is the Struggle Headed?
2 ~ End the Occupation of Haiti
3 ~ From Egypt to NYC: “Anti-Radicalization” Laws, Surveillance, the War on Terror Industrial Complex, NDAA & How We Fight Back
4 ~ Influencing the Electoral Conversation from a Peace & Justice Perspective
5 ~ Music & Songs to Move the Movement
6 ~ No Nukes: Nuclear Power, Weapons & War
7 ~ Propaganda & Communications on Permanent War
8 ~ Social Struggles in Colombia: Analyzing the Role of Colombian Student Strike & Union Movement
9 ~ Targeting Iran: The Truth Behind the Hype
10 ~ Understanding & Organizing Against Expanding Wars & Repression in Yemen, Pakistan, Bahrain
11 ~ Veterans Peace Teams - Defending Occupations
12 ~ We Are Not Your Soldiers: Stop Militarization of Our H.S. Campuses
SUNDAY, MARCH 25
SESSION 4 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
1 ~ A Criminal Assault: Hydrofracking
2 ~ Border Militarization, War, and Resistance in the U.S. & Europe: Migrant Workers Rising Globally
3 ~ Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions – Join Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance to Occupation
4 ~ Campus Fightback: International Student Resistance to the Economic Crisis and War
5 ~ Climate Change Related Conflicts in South Asia
6 ~ Confronting Robotic (Drone) Warfare at Hancock AFNG Base
7 ~ Contradictions of the Imperialists' Agenda for Full Spectrum Dominance
8 ~ Iran: Analyzing the West's Politico-Economic Warfare
9 ~ Labor Against Austerity & War
10 ~ Law as a Weapon of War
11 ~ Lessons from the Past & Now: Activist Strategies for Ending Warfare & Converting from a War Economy
12 ~ Rethinking Pakistan: People's Struggle & War on Terror
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