CT United for Peace

MAY-JUNE EDUCATIONAL FORUMS

ctup — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:21:58 +0000

CT United for Peace Educational Forums May-June, 2011

Hear Vijay Prashad, Assistant Professor of International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Title: The Arab Spring and the Libyan Storm

Friday, May 6, 7p.m., Marcus White Living Room, Marcus White Hall, Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain

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Hear Carol Miller: The Militarization of New Mexico and its Impact on the Rural Poor.

Carol Miller is a public health activist who has been living in a frontier mountain village in northern New Mexico downwind from the Bechtel Los Alamos nuclear bomb factory.

Miller is a longtime peace activist and nuclear abolitionist who opposes the ongoing militarization of New Mexico and the US and calls for the conversion to a peace economy. She is a founder and Co-Chair of the Peaceful Skies Coalition of northern New Mexico and Colorado, which is currently fighting the US Air Force and its plans to turn 94,000 square miles of the Rocky Mountains into a low altitude flight training area.

Sunday, May 15, 2:30 p.m., Church of the Holy Trinity, 381 Main St., Side Door, Middletown, CT, upstairs room

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Hear Glen Ford, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report

Title: The Other Wars: U.S. Proxy Wars in Africa and their relationship to the War on the Black Community Here at Home

Sunday, June 19,th, 2 p.m., at the Hartford Community Center, 461 Farmington Ave, Hartford, CT 06105

Holiday Fundraiser for Activists Facing Grand Jury Repression

wcstrong — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:37:51 +0000

Holiday Fundraiser for Activists Facing Grand Jury Repression

Sat. December 18, 2010 – 8:00pm

The Peoples Center

37 Howe St. New Haven, CT

$15 at the door – no one turned away for lack of funds

Live Music by Classical Ensemble Duo Orfeo to open the evening! Latino Dance Music to Follow Program

Holiday Buffet Dinner and Cash Bar!

Auction – Framed Political Defense Artwork, Gift Certificates,

Literature, and More!

Featuring Chicago FBI Raids Victim Stephanie Weiner!

Stephanie Weiner has taught English in the Chicago City Colleges for 25 years. She is a founding member of AFSCME 3506 in Chicago, a member of the Palestine Solidarity, the police brutality group Committee Exigimos Justicia, and antiwar organizations. She is married to well-known Chicago activists Joe Iosbaker and the mother of two sons.

On September 24, 2010 the FBI raided the homes of seven anti-war and international solidarity activists, seizing literature, laptops, and even their children’s artwork.

Subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury were handed to fourteen activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. These activists are involved in many groups, including the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Colombia Action Network, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. These activists and many others came together to organize the 2008 anti-war marches during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

In the wake of the raids, over sixty demonstrations were held across the country in defense of the activists, alongside a spirited call in campaign to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.

The Department of Justice later dropped the subpoenas when all fourteen activists invoked their 5th amendment rights and refused to appear in court.

Now the Department of Justice has re-subpoenaed three activists to appear before a Chicago grand jury, where if they refuse to take part in the government’s fishing expedition they will likely be cited for contempt and serve lengthy prison terms. Similar cases have led to 20-year sentences. And in the last week, they have handed out FIVE new subpoenas in Chicago, most of them to youth from a Palestine solidarity group.

The anti-war and international solidarity movement is on trial. Our freedom of speech, our right to assemble, and our ability to legally challenge current and future wars and occupations by the U.S. military are under attack. The need to defend these activists and our movement has never been greater.

Civil liberties lawyers involved in the defense of these activists have cautioned that it could take a million dollars to defend them in what will most likely be a lengthy legal fight. The movement itself must rise to meet this challenge, and we in Connecticut must join the national effort of fundraising activities to defend our own.

Join us around the holidays in the spirit of solidarity for a night of fundraising, live music, food, and entertainment!

Korea in Crisis…Background You Won’t Get from the Media

wcstrong — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:25:40 +0000

Korea in Crisis…Background You Won’t Get from the Media

Hear:

Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut (Storrs) who specializes in Korean and Japanese history

Sahr Conway-Lanz, author Collateral Damage which is in part about U.S. methods in fighting the Korean War.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

New Haven Free Public Library

133 Elm St. (corner Temple), New Haven

Performing Arts area on the lower level

6 p.m.

sponsor: Connecticut United for Peace

a coalition of peace groups formed in 2003

ctup.wordpress.com 203-934-2761

United National Antiwar Committee Statement on FBI Raids

ctup — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:07:20 +0000

United National Antiwar Committee

http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org

UNAC, P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054; Ph. 518-281-1968
or 518-227-6947 UNACpeace@gmail.com
Antiwar movement under attack!
Defend victims of FBI/government raids, seizures and subpoenas!
– Statement and Call to Action

On the morning of Sept. 24, FBI agents armed with Grand Jury subpoenas raided the homes of several antiwar and social justice activists in Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. As we write reports are coming in that FBI agents have been contacting other activists in Wisconsin, North Carolina and California.
Among those subpoenaed and/or whose organizations are under attack are supporters of the United National Antiwar Committee (UNAC). They attended our founding July 23-25, 2010, Albany, New York founding national conference of 800 activists from 35 states. The UNAC conference approved a 28-point Action Plan culminating in bi-coastal San Francisco/New York mass demonstrations demanding that the U.S. government immediately withdraw of all U.S. troops, mercenaries and war contractors from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other conference –approved demands were “End U.S. aid to Israel – military, economic and diplomatic. End U.S. support to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and the siege of Gaza!”
Using the pretext of investigating “terrorism,” and with “possibly providing material aid to terrorists,” the FBI agents – 20 in the Twin Cities and 12 in Chicago – were armed with search and seizure warrants signed by U.S. Magistrate Judges and/or representatives of the U.S. Attorney’s office. They seized computers, cell phones, political leaflets and other printed materials. In Minnesota agents worked for 12 hours confiscating material including 30 boxes of literature, photographs of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and pictures drawn by their children.

The individuals targeted included leaders of organizations like the Minneapolis Antiwar Committee, whose office was raided, the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Colombia Action Network and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

The activists were ordered to appear before Grand Juries in various cities investigating criminal activity and possible association with “terrorist” organizations. The earliest subpoena dates were October 5 and 7.

The FBI also has also served or harassed activists in North Carolina and Wisconsin as part of the same “investigation.”
The government’s subpoenas “commanded” the recipients to bring with them to the Grand Jury proceedings:
“(1) all pictures and videos relating to any trip to Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, or Israel;
(2) all items relating to any trip to Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, or Israel;
(3) all correspondence, including but not limited to emails and letters, with anyone residing in Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, or Israel;
(4) all records of any payment provided directly or indirectly to Hatem Abudayyeh, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (“PFLP”) or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (“FARC”);
(5) all records of any telephonic or electronic communications with anyone in Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, or Israel; and
(6) any item related to any support provided to any designated terrorist organization, including the PFLP or the FARC.”
All those subpoenaed have refused to discuss their political work and views with FBI agents, as is their right. They have publicly denounced these raids as an attempt by the government to intimidate and repress opposition to U.S. wars of intervention and occupation.

The United National Antiwar Committee denounces the government’s raids, seizures and subpoena as an attack on the entire antiwar movement and all organizations seeking social justice and an end to U.S. wars of intervention around the world. We stand in full solidarity with all those who now face government persecution and possible imprisonment.

The United National Antiwar Committee demands:
• Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists.
• Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc.
End the Grand Jury proceedings and FBI raids against all anti-war activists.

We call on all antiwar and social justice organization across the country to organize protest demonstrations in the coming days at Federal Buildings or FBI offices.

Demonstrations have already been called in the following cities:
Minneapolis MN, Mon: 4:30, FBI Office Monday, 111 Washington Ave. S.

Chicago, IL, Monday: 4:30 FBI Building, 2111 W. Roosevelt Rd.

NYC, Tues. 4:30 to 6pm Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza,

Newark, NJ Tues 5 to 6pm Federal Building Broad Street

Washington DC, Tues 4:30 – 5:30 FBI Building 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW.

Detroit MI Tuesday 4:30 McNamara Federal Building

Buffalo, NY 4:30 at FBI Building – Corner of So. Elmwood Ave. & Niagara St.

Durham NC on Monday, 12 noon Federal Building, 323 E Chapel Hill St

Raleigh NC. Tuesday 9 am. Federal Building, 310 New Bern Ave
Asheville, NC Tuesday

Atlanta, GA, Tues Noon, FBI Building

Gainesville, FL on Monday, 4:30 PM at FBI Building

Salt Lake City, Utah, 9 AM on Monday at Federal Building

Albany, NY, 5 – 6 PM, Wednesday at the Federal Buildkng

Add your voice to denounce the attacks on antiwar and social justice activists. Call the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at 202-353-1555 or write an email to: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov .
Send copies of all communications to UNAC at the above email address. Affiliate your organization to UNAC now! Join our National Coordinating Committee of antiwar and social justice organizations across the county to immediately end all U.S. wars, interventions. Trillions for jobs, education and human needs not war!

Joe Lombardo and Marilyn Levin,
Co-coordinators, United National Antiwar Committee

Endorse Emergency Protest Against FBI Raids

ctup — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:21:04 +0000

Dear Activists,

As you all probably know, Friday morning the FBI raided the homes of more than six Midwestern antiwar activists. (See Twin Cities and Chicago Indymedia for full details.) They issued subpoenas to them for a grand jury investigating their ties to “Foreign Terrorist Organizations,” a charge the FBI suggests is justified because some of them were engaged in international solidarity work in Palestine and Colombia. They seized computers, videos, cellphones, financial records, and drawings made by their children. These activists are guilty of no crime. I (Chris) personally have friends who have worked with many of them for forty years in antiwar and labor union activity. The raids are an attempt to harass and silence the antiwar movement and must be protested. The first subpoena is a for a grand jury session on October 5, just a week or away. We in CT must be part of an emergency national response to this assault on our free speech and right to organize without harassment against US military intervention abroad. There is a national call for demonstrations at Federal Buildings during rush hour on Monday or Tuesday.

Mongi Dhaoudi of CT CAIR and I, of CT United for Peace urge you to join the call for a picket at the Hartford, CT Federal Building from 4:30pm to 6:30 pm on Tuesday, September 28 with the demands suggested by the national defense campaign:

**Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists.

**Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc.

**End the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists.

If you would like to add your name and organizations for id purposes, please reply to this email by 9 am Monday, September 27, We will vet a press release from those who choose to endorse online and send it to the media on Tuesday morning.

In solidarity,

Chris Gauvreau, CTUP Organizing Committee
Mongi Dhaouadi, CT CAIR

Chris-860 478 5300
Mongi-860514-8038

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Background materials:

This is a listing of actions called so far on Monday and Tuesday, Sept 28 and 29.

It is in response to the Minneapolis Antiwar Committee’s Call for Emergency Actions to Support Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists & Stop FBI Raids and Harassment at Federal Buildings and FBI Offices.

It is 13 cities so far.

Minneapolis MN, Monday: 4:30, FBI Office Monday, 111 Washington Ave. S.

Chicago, IL, Monday: 4:30 FBI Building, 2111 W. Roosevelt Rd.

NYC, Tues. 4:30 to 6pm Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza,

Newark, NJ Tues 5 to 6pm Federal Building Broad Street

Washington DC, Tues 4:30 – 5:30 FBI Building 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW.

Detroit MI Tuesday 4:30 McNamara Federal Building

Buffalo, NY 4:30 at FBI Building – Corner of So. Elmwood Ave. & Niagara St.

Durham NC on Monday, 12 noon Federal Building, 323 E Chapel Hill St

Raleigh NC. Tuesday 9 am. Federal Building, 310 New Bern Ave

Asheville, NC Tuesday

Atlanta, GA, Tues Noon, FBI Building

Gainesville, FL on Monday, 4:30 PM at FBI Building

Salt Lake City, Utah, 9 AM on Monday at Federal Building

From: “Steff Yorek”
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 3:25:46 PM
Subject: Emergency Actions to Support Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists: Stop FBI Raids and Harassment

Emergency Actions to Support Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists

Stop FBI Raids and Harassment

A call for action at Federal Buildings and FBI Offices.

We denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war and solidarity activists. The FBI raided seven houses and an office in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday, September 24, 2010. The FBI handed subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury to eleven activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. The FBI also attempted to intimidate activists in California and North Carolina.

This suppression of civil rights is aimed at those who dedicate their time and energy to supporting the struggles of the Palestinian and Colombian peoples against U.S. funded occupation and war. The FBI has indicated that the grand jury is investigating the activists for possible material support of terrorism charges.

The activists involved have done nothing wrong and are refusing to be pulled into conversations with the FBI about their political views or organizing against war and occupation. The activists are involved with many groups, including: the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Colombia Action Network, Students for a Democratic Society, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization. These activists came together with many others to organize the 2008 anti-war marches on the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

We ask people of conscience to join us in fighting this political repression, as we continue working to build the movements against US war and occupation.

Take Action:

Call the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at 202-353-1555 or write an email to: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.

Demand:

**Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists.

**Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc.

**End the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists.

Plan and Support national days of protest at FBI offices or Federal Buildings, September 27 and 28th.

A demonstration has been called at the Minneapolis FBI Office Monday, 4:30, September 27th(111 Washington Ave. S.).

In Solidarity, the Anti-War Committee – www.antiwarcommittee.org

National Peace Conference

wcstrong — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:10:08 +0000

National Peace Conference

After Downing Street, Arab American Union Members Council, Black Agenda Report, Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Campus Antiwar Network, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, Peace of the Action, Progressive Democrats of America, U.S. Labor Against the War, The Fellowship of Reconciliation, Veterans for Peace, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom [list in formation]

TO BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

July 23-25, 2010, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, New York

The purpose of this conference is to bring together antiwar and social justice activists from across the country to discuss and decide what we can do together to end the wars, occupations, bombing attacks, threats and interventions that are taking place in the Middle East and beyond, which the U.S. government is conducting and promoting. Attend and voice your opinion on where the antiwar movement is today and where we go from here.
In these deeply troubled times, Washington’s two wars and occupations rage on, resulting in an ever increasing number of dead and wounded; more and more civilians killed in drone bombing attacks; misery, deprivation, dislocation and shattered lives for millions; and a suicide rate for U.S. service members soaring to unprecedented heights. At the same time, trillions are spent on these seemingly endless Pentagon conflicts waged in pursuit of profits and global domination while trillions more are lost by working people in the value of their homes, in the loss of their jobs, pensions and health care, and in cuts for public services and vitally needed social programs.

We are witness to the massive bailout of banks and corporations while union contracts are shredded, work is outsourced, jobs are shipped off-shore, workers are evicted from their homes, and our youth and students face a bleak future of rising tuition costs, an ever-declining quality of education, and diminishing employment opportunities. They are offered instead the opportunity to become cannon fodder as the military serves as the employer of last resort while prison awaits many others.

The poor and working people in the U.S. suffer the horrors of unemployment, foreclosures, homelessness, untreated illnesses and unavailable health insurance, crumbling infrastructure, and temporary and part time work at starvation wages. These multiple crises impact communities of color with disproportionate severity. Meanwhile people in a growing number of countries around the world are subjected to death and destruction by the world’s most powerful military machine.

There is another dimension to this tragedy. The U.S. is at war to control and plunder the very fossil fuel resources whose continued use threatens the future of the human race.

We demand the immediate and total withdrawal of U.S. military forces, mercenaries and contractors from Afghanistan and Iraq. Moreover, we recognize that the Middle East cauldron today also encompasses Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Palestine and Israel, while Haiti, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries in Latin America are targeted for intervention, subversion, occupation and control as a consequence of a militarized U.S. foreign policy. Our challenge is not only to end wars and occupations, but to fundamentally change the aggressive policies that inevitably lead our country to militarism and war.

The fight for better times, for a world of peace, justice and freedom, requires that we join together to make it happen, that we fight for the broad unity within the antiwar movement and across all the movements for social justice that has to date escaped us and that we collaborate to engage the American people in massive and united mobilizations against the warmakers and for the justice we deserve.

We have not forgotten the lessons of the civil rights movement, the struggle against the Vietnam War, the feminist and gay rights movements, and the monumental struggles that paved the way to the organization of American trade unions. History has demonstrated time and again that all critical social change is a product of the direct and massive intervention of the people.

We seek an inclusive conference where antiwar individuals and organizations come together to democratically discuss, debate and approve a plan of action aimed at winning the support and allegiance of the majority who have the power to compel a fundamental re-ordering of priorities.

We announce in advance that our goal is to develop strategies that unite us in action – for mass mobilizations and a variety of other tactics that suit the agendas of the constituent groups and individuals who participate in the conference proceedings. Our method is democracy. One person one vote! Our goal is unity in action while respecting our diversity and differences in political program and orientation.

Join us in Albany, New York, July 23-25, 2010!

Issued by the United National Antiwar Conference (UNAC) Planning Committee

For more information, write UNAC2010@aol.com or UNAC at P.O. Box 21675, Cleveland, OH 44121 or call 518-227-6947 518-227-6947 518-227-6947 518-227-6947 518-227-6947 518-227-6947 518-227-6947 518-227-6947 or visit our website at www.nationalpeaceconference.org

CT United for Peace: Next Meeting

ctup — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:31:04 +0000

What: Meeting of CT United for Peace

Why: Discuss our position on the Action Proposal (see just below) being proposed to the Albany antiwar conference; Develop amendments or new resolutions via our two month process (see additional proposed agenda items below.)

When: Sunday, May 16, 2-4 p.m. during our normal monthly meeting time.

Where: Church of the Holy Trinity, 381 Main St., side door, upstairs room, Middletown, CT

On July 23-25, there will be a national and united antiwar conference in Albany, NY. ( http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org/Home_Page.html). The twenty national cosponsors of the conference say in their call: We announce in advance that our goal is to develop strategies that unite us in action – for mass mobilizations and a variety of other tactics that suit the agendas of the constituent groups and individuals who participate in the conference proceedings. Our method is democracy. One person one vote! Our goal is unity in action while respecting our diversity and differences in political program and orientation. So, CT activists, like others nationally, are charged with considering and weighing in on just what kind of calls we would like to see come out of this conference. We will begin such a discussion this Sunday at the CTUP meeting and urge you to join us.

United National Antiwar Conference
Action Proposal Submitted by Conference Co-Sponsors
http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org/Action_Proposal.html

Part 1: Preface

The prerequisites for ending the U.S. wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and re-orienting the nation’s priorities from empire building to solving the pressing needs at home are unity in action, massive mobilizations, inclusion of the broadest popular sectors of society, democratic functioning, and the construction of a mass social movement that operates independently of all political parties while seeking to influence their rank and file. .

History has demonstrated time and again that the combination of these qualities coupled with an inclusive, collaborative and representative leadership can change the course of history.

This was the case with the massive social movements that were constructed to end the Vietnam War, win formal civil rights for excluded races and peoples, advance the cause of women’s equality, and challenge the prejudice and discrimination against LGBT people. It was the same unity in action that brought into being a massive trade union movement that challenged the previously dominant forces of the corporate elite and wrested unprecedented victories in the quality of life and culture for working people

Today we face the challenge of perpetual wars abroad becoming part of our national culture as are unceasing attacks on the quality of life and the standard of living at home. We are witness to multi-trillion dollar bailouts of the same institutions that have brought grief and pain to countless millions and obliterated hard won social and economic gains that were a century and longer in the making.

Our youth are subject to an economic draft that places them in harm’s way around the world where poor people fight for their right to self-determination and resist interventions for profit and plunder. Education budgets are slashed while pensions, health care, wages, union rights and civil liberties are under siege.

Trillions are expended to fund increasingly privatized wars fought in large part with mercenary armies and to maintain 865 military bases around the world. Meanwhile veterans — first place in the statistics of the homeless and unemployed — are compelled to fight for denied benefits to treat horrific diseases caused by U.S. biological and now radiation-emitting weapons of war while the people of destroyed nations suffer the same, but magnified, and long-term horrors. Moreover, they are subjected to successive incidents of grotesque and inhuman torture.

We are confronted with imperial wars over control of the very fossil fuel resources whose continued use threatens the future of all humankind.

Our love of humanity, opposition to expanding wars and occupations unleashed by the Pentagon, and respect for the right of self-determination for all peoples require that we demand of the U.S. government:

The allocation of the trillions spent on wars and corporate bailouts to massive programs for jobs, education, health care, housing and the environment. Compensation to be paid to the peoples whose countries the U.S. attacked and occupied for the loss of lives and massive destruction they suffered.

The immediate, total and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. military bases from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Bring all the Troops and War Dollars Home Now!

Reverse and end all foreclosures. Stop the government attacks on trade unions, civil and democratic rights, and immigrant communities.

[Additional demands, amendments and resolutions will be discussed, debated and voted upon during the July 23-25, 2010 United National Antiwar Conference. See the Call to the conference or visit UNAC’s website at www.nationalpeaceconference.org for instructions on how to submit any of the above.]

Part 2: Proposals for United Actions

October 6 to 16, 2010 a period of local and regional protests across the country to mark the ninth year of the U.S. war on Afghanistan. Actions to include demonstrations, marches, vigils, teach-ins, solidarity, etc.

Draft antiwar resolutions for city councils, town and village meetings and voter referendum ballot questions linking astronomical war spending to denial of essential public services at home. Form broad local coalitions and/or networks to organize support for such resolutions and referendum campaigns. Model resolutions and ballot questions will be circulated for consideration of local groups.

Mid-March, 2011 nationally coordinated teach-ins to mark the eighth year of the Iraq War and to prepare for bi-coastal spring demonstrations the following month.

Bi-coastal mass spring mobilizations in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles on April 9, 2011. These will be accompanied by distinct and separate non-violent direct actions on the same day. A prime component of these mobilizations will be major efforts to include broad new forces from youth to veterans to trade unionists to civil and human rights groups to the Arab, Muslim and other oppressed communities to environmental organizations, social justice and faith-based groups. Veterans and military families will be key to these mobilizations with special efforts to organize this community to be the lead contingent.

Select a week prior to or after the April actions for local lobbying of elected officials at a time when Congress is not in session. Lobbying to take multiple forms from meeting with local officials to protests at their offices and homes.

National tours. Organize over a series of months nationally-coordinated tours of prominent speakers and local activists that link the demands for immediate withdrawal to the demands for funding social programs, as outlined above.

In the event of an imminent U.S. government attack on Iran or such an attack, or a U.S.-backed Israeli attack against Iran, or any other major international crisis triggered by U.S. military action, UNAC will mount a rapid, broad and nationally coordinated protest by antiwar and social justice activists.

Support actions aimed at dismantling the Cold War nuclear, biological and chemical delivery systems.

Support actions, educational efforts and lobbying campaign to promote a transition to a sustainable peace economy.
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Any organization or individual attending the conference may submit either a proposal amendment to the text of the co-sponsors’ action proposal; propose demands for the fall actions that go beyond calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. military forces, mercenaries and contractors from Iraq and Afghanistan (which are already in the co-sponsors’ proposal); or resolutions, which, if adopted, would reflect the body’s opinion on issues of concern relevant to the purpose of the conference. A copy of all such submissions must be submitted to unac2010@aol.com no later than July 20, three days before the conference convenes, in order to be placed before it. In drafting submissions, please keep in mind that the primary purpose of the conference is to plan actions for the period ahead to advance its ‘Out Now’ demands. Resolutions that go beyond the stated purpose of the conference, however worthwhile and important, cannot possibly be considered in the limited time available.

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CTUP Proposed Agenda

Action Proposal
Building the Albany conference
Transportation to the conference
Palestine
Muslim-American civil liberties work

March 20 Antiwar Demonstration

ctup — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:39:25 +0000

March20National

Download a flyer to build the demonstration on your campus, in your union, or in your neighborhood. Call CTUP at 860 478 5300 for a speaker who can explain what is behind Washington’s endless wars and occupations.

NEU Antiwar Conference Draws Large Numbers

ctup — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:33:42 +0000

Feb. 6, 2010 www.NewEnglandUnited.org <http://www.newenglandunited.org/>

NEU Antiwar Conference Draws Large Numbers

An overflow crowd of 400 antiwar activists from New England and New York attended the second annual New England United Antiwar Conference on Saturday, January 30 in Cambridge. The conference featured highly qualified speakers and workshop presenters on a wide range of topics, drawing participants from all age groups and a broad range of activist organizations.

Numerous reports from activists who attended indicate the conference was a huge success, a sign that the antiwar movement is entering a resurgence of momentum and enthusiasm. This reflects increasing awareness about the steadily expanding scope of endless wars and foreign occupations, and the use of the “War on Terror” to discourage dissent, and to justify the growing presence of American troops around the world.

The first panel started at 11:00 AM with the auditorium filled to capacity. “The Drive Towards Empire and Endless War,” facilitated by Chris Gauvreau from Connecticut United for Peace, featured speakers Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report and Black is Back; Adaner Usmani, Action for a Progressive Pakistan; Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space; and Ashley Smith, Editorial Board, International Socialist Review.

Conference participants then attended one of five packed workshops:

* War in Latin America led by Omar Sierra of the Venezuelan Consulate; Antoine del Castro Rio of Colombia Polo Democrático; members of Proyecto Hondureno
* 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 American Friends Service Committee
* Resistance within the Military: The Renewed Struggles Against U.S. Imperialism led by Priscilla Loundes of March Forward!, Ryan Henowitz, vet; Herb Hoffman of Maine VFP
* Student Organizing led by Wes Strong of CT Students Against the War

After a short break for lunch, the conference resumed with a panel on “Debunking the War on Terror.” Facilitated by Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine Local Coordinator, the panel featured Salma Abu Ayyash, Palestinian activist; Pardiss Kebriaei, Guantanamo Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights; Danny Schechter, , Journalist and Executive Editor of MediaChannel.org; and Peter Dale Scott, author of The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, & the Future of America speaking via teleconference from California.

Workshops in the second round were also packed. Both Latin America in the first session and Haiti in the second overflowed their rooms and were relocated to the auditorium.

* Aid Not Occupation: Who’s Killing Haiti? led by Ashley Smith; Joseue Renaud, psychologist and Chair, New England Human Rights Org. Over $400 was raised to help send a team of Haitian psychologists and social workers from Boston to help traumatized children.
* Global Warming and War led by Ted Glick of Climate Crisis Coalition; Maggie Zhou of Secure Green Future, a project of Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities
* Israel as Apartheid State with Nancy Murray, Gaza Freedom March, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights & Sarah Roche-Mahdi, CODEPINK
* Covert and False Flag Operations and 9/11: Pretext for the Continuing War on Terror led by Paul Zarembka, Professor of Political Economy SUNY Buffalo; and Barrie Zwicker, editor of Global Outlook
* Cutting War Spending 25%, Funding Jobs and Neighborhoods led by Mike Prokosch of Dorchester People for Peace

The last session of the conference was an organizing session facilitated by Mark Stahl from the RI Mobilization Committee to Stop War and Occupation. The March 20 antiwar action in DC was addressed by Marilyn Levin, a national co-coordinator for the National Assembly and member of Boston United for Justice with Peace and the Palestine Task Force; Emily Macmillan, organizer for the ANSWER coalition and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation; Chris Garaffa, organizer for the ANSWER coalition and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation; and Chris Gauvreau, of the administrative committee of the National Assembly and Connecticut United for Peace.

The second campaign, ending the siege of Gaza, featured remarks by Sarah Roche-Mahdi, a coordinator of Code Pink Greater Boston who has participated in several Code Pink peace delegations including the Gaza Freedom March. The third campaign, redirecting military spending in support of human needs, featured Mike Prokosch, a member of Dorchester People for Peace and United for Justice with Peace’s 25% task force; and Mark Roman, from BringOurWarDollarsHome.org in Maine.

There was a social following the conference at Bertucci’s restaurant in Cambridge.

Here is a link to a set of photographs of the conference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lsavage3/sets/72157623239684885/

NEW ENGLAND UNITED – Regional Antiwar Network General Meeting

wcstrong — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:11:21 +0000

NEW ENGLAND UNITED
Regional Antiwar Network General Meeting

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1-5 PM
Round Top Center at Beneficent Church
300 Weybosset Street, Downtown Providence RI

OPENING DISCUSSION ON
Pirates of the Caribbean:
A Brief History of US Intervention in the Region

Free & Open to the Public | Light Refreshments Will Be Served

PLUS AN ANTIWAR ORGANIZING SESSION ON

Strengthening our regional network
United National Antiwar Conference this summer
…and more!

www.NewEnglandUnited.org <http://www.newenglandunited.org/>
NewEnglandUnitedOutreach@gmail.com | 508-653-5534

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