{news} Fw: Workshops at the Nov. 5 anti-war-conference

[Justine McCabe]

Dear Greens,

Here is the list of workshops for Saturday's (11/5) anti-war conference at Central CT State University (CCSU).
Please note that Green Party congressional candidate Bill C. Davis will participate in the morning workshop "Electoral Strategy and the Anti-War Movement"

BE THERE!

Justine  



Dear Activists,

Here is the schedule and description of the workshops that will be held at Taking the Antiwar Movement to the Next Level, Mobilizing the Majority to Bring the Troops Home Now! Registration and tabling will begin at 8 am and the Opening will start PROMPTLY at 9am. The morning workshop sessions will begin right at 9:15 am. If you are scheduled for an am workshop session, PLEASE BE THERE ON TIME as we have a day full to brimming with speakers and a plenary. If you are not planning to buy a hot lunch on campus for $7, please bring a bag lunch, as there will not be time to go off campus. There has been a technical problem with uploading resolutions and directions on the CT United for Peace website, but they can be viewed now at <www.TheStruggle.org>. Thanks to Stan for providing this alternative posting. 

If there is a problem with the description of your workshop, send corrections to <chris_gauvreau at comcast.net.>.

The resolutions committee met Saturday and we will be posting the proposed Plenary rules and agenda shortly.

REMINDER: Reception for international guests Gilbert Achcar and Angela Golstein, Friday, November 4, 7- 9 pm at the home of Aniana Gerardo, 42 Buckingham, top floor, Hartford, 06106-1793.

In Solidarity,
Chris Gauvreau
860-478-5300



Workshop Schedule & Descriptions for the Nov. 5 conference:

Morning Session:

1. No Nukes! No War! 

2. Campus Anti-War Network: Report-back from the national CAN organizing conference held in October in San Francisco.

3. US Out of Guantanamo!

4. Electoral Strategy and the Anti-War Movement.

5. After the Gaza Pullout: The Ugly Reality

6. Columbia: The Other War

7. Clash Collective

8. The Impact of the War on the Latino Community, Latinos Against the War.

9. Banner-making (continuous over both sessions) with JoAnn Moran of rePublicart.org.



Afternoon Session:

10. Waking Up from the American Dream, poet, Michael Brownstein

11. Iranians for Peace

12. Defending the Civil Liberties of Arab-Americans and Muslims

13. Let the People Vote on War!

14. A Medic's View of the War and Occupation

15. High School Counter-Recruitment

16. Depleted Uranium

(9.) Banner-making (continuous over both sessions) with JoAnn Moran of rePublicart.org.

Workshop Descriptions

1. No Nukes! No War! Facilitators: Al Marder, Joe Wasserman, and Mims Butterworth. A workshop on nuclear weapon abolition. Review of the Mayor's for Peace Campaign and the Hiroshima Conference. Discussion of next steps, which may include a campaign to divest from companies involved with nuclear weapons and support for the Woolsey resolution on nuclear disarmament.

2. College Not Combat! Facilitator: Todd Dewey. A report-back from the recent national organizing conference of the Campus Antiwar Network a review of current campus efforts to drive the recruiters off campus.

3. US Out of Guantanamo! Facilitators: Greater Hartford Committee on Cuba. This workshop will explore the relationship between the US threats against Cuba, the use of Guantanamo as a concentration camp, and the war and occupation of Iraq.

4. Electoral Strategy and the Anti-War Movement: a Panel Discussion. Facilitator: Stan Heller. Panelists include Bert Garskof from the Progressive Democrats of America, Bill C. Davis from the Green Party, and Naveen Jaganathan from the International Socialist Organization.

5. After the Gaza Pullout: The Ugly Reality. A panel discussion featuring Angela Goldstein, an Israeli representative of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of Sharing the Land of Canaan.

6. The Forgotten War: The Effects and Failure of Plan Colombia. Presenter: John Jairo Since the United States established Plan Colombia, more than $4 billion of tax payer dollars have been pumped into this plan and Colombia is being used as the front of the attack against Venezuela and other Latin American Countries.   

7. Creating Autonomy and Solidarity in Hartford. Facilitator: Matt McLaughlin, CLASH Collective. This workshop will discuss the week of autonomous actions that CLASH has proposed for April 2006. 

8. The Effect of the War on The Latino Community. Facilitator: Marela Zacarias, Latinos Contra La Guerra. This workshop will discuss the cost of the war and its impact on funding for the human needs of the Latino community, as well as the effect of the Patriot Act on immigrants from the South.

9. Banner-Making. Learn some skills and Make Some Art with JoAnn Moran of rePublicart.org. This workshop will continue over both morning and afterrnoon workshop sessions.

10. "Waking Up From the American Dream." Presenter: poet, Michael Brownstein. 
--By means of distraction and denial, corporate globalization reinforces a trance state which has led, worldwide, to destruction of the environment, the disappearance of indigenous peoples, and the insistence on a paranoid model for interpersonal behavior. Reading from his book World on Fire, Michael Brownstein will discuss how to wake up from that trance state through becoming aware of the internal and external factors which conspire to keep us asleep.

11. US Middle East Policy toward Iran and International Solidarity. Facilitator: Farid Farahmand, member, Iranians for Peace. This workshop will explore the history of US intervention into Iran and the ways that activists can show solidarity with the broad opposition movements inside Iran today.

12.Status and Protections for Arab-Americans and Muslims Post 9-11. Presenter: Dr. Elaine Hagopian. Elaine C. Hagopian is a Syrian-American sociologist. She is a professor emeritus of sociology at Simmons College in Boston and a former chairperson of the department. She is also the editor of the award-winning Haymarket book, Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims (2004).

13. Let the People Vote on War! Facilitator: Marilyn Levin, Greater Boston United for Peace in Justice. Marilyn is the chief organizer for the upcoming Massachusetts antiwar ballot initiative and will lead a discussion about using referenda campaigns to build the antiwar movement. 

14. A Medic's View of War and Occupation. Presenter: Pat Resta of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This is a workshop designed for veterans and all activists who aspire to organize veterans and soldiers into the antiwar movement.

15. High School Counter-recrutiment. Facilitators: Latinos Contra La Guerra and the American Friends Service Committee. This workshop will provide useful information for those who want to counter-recruit in the high schools.  We will discuss what recruiters tell youths to convince them to join.  We will discuss the legislation created to support military recruitment goals and the tools the military uses to recruit.  Information will be provided on how to approach schools.  There will be role playing to give attendees an idea of how to handle situations Counter Recruiters have encountered.  Pamphlets will be provided to workshop attendees. 

16. The Secret Horror of Depleted Uranium. Presenter: Traprock Peace Center. Traprock Peace Center has been in the lead in exposing the effect of depleted uranium on soldiers and Iraqi citizens. Workshop attendees will receive information packets and see a visual presentation of the effects of this stealth weapon.


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/private/ctgp-news/attachments/20051031/06f9dea0/attachment.html>