{"id":1230,"date":"2010-01-29T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2010-01-29T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:45:42","slug":"new-england-antiwar-conference-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2010\/01\/29\/new-england-antiwar-conference-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Antiwar Conference – SATURDAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When:<\/strong> Saturday, January 30, 2010, 10:30 am to 6:00 pm<\/div>\n
Where: <\/strong>MIT Campus \u2022 50 Vassar St. \u2022 Room 34-101 \u2022 Cambridge<\/div>\n

Explaining the Drive Towards Empire and Endless War<\/h2>\n

Glen Ford<\/strong>, Black Agenda Report and Black is Back
\nSaadia Toor<\/strong>, Action for a Progressive Pakistan
\nBruce Gagnon<\/strong>, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
\nMichael Schwartz<\/strong>, author of\u00a0War Without End: The Iraq War in Context<\/em><\/p>\n

Debunking the War on Terror<\/h2>\n

Salma Abu Ayysh<\/strong>, Palestinian activist
\nPardiss Kebriaei<\/strong>, Guantanamo Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
\nDanny Schechter<\/strong>, journalist and Executive Editor of\u00a0mediachannel.org<\/a>
\nPeter Dale Scott<\/strong>,\u00a0The\u00a0Road to 9\/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to see speaker bios<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Workshops<\/h2>\n

Haiti’s Unnatural Disaster: Send Doctors, Not Troops <\/strong>with Jacques-Antoine Jean, Josue Renaud. and Ashley Smith
\nWar at Home<\/strong> led by Jon Flanders of Troy NY Labor Council and Nellie Bailey of Harlem Tenants Council
\nInternational Struggle for World Free of Nuclear Weapon<\/strong>s led by Joe Gerson of AFSC
\nCutting War Spending 25%: Funding Jobs and Neighborhoods<\/strong> by Mike Prokosch
\nGlobal Warming and War<\/strong> led by Ted Glick and Maggie Zhou
\nStudent Organizing<\/strong> led by Wes Strong, Marissa Blaszko and others
\nVeterans<\/strong> led by Priscilla Loundes from March Forward!, IVAW & VfP
\nCovert & False Flag Operations and 9\/11<\/strong> led by Peter Dale Scott, Paul Zarembka and Barry Zwicker
\nIsrael as an Apartheid State<\/strong> with Nancy Murray & Sarah Roche-Mahdi
\nWar in Latin America<\/strong> by Omar Sierra, Venezuelan Consulate, Antoine del Castro Rio from Colombia Polo Democr\u00e1tico, & Tito Meza, Proyecto Hondure\u00f1o<\/p>\n

Plenary<\/h2>\n

Organize regional campaigns to build the March 20 antiwar march on DC, to redirect military spending to meet human needs, and to end the siege of Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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