Our Collaborators: US Labor Against the War, Veterans for Peace, International Socialist Organization, World Can't Wait, Code Pink, PDA, ANSWER Coalition, Military Families Speak Out, Movement for a Democratic Society, Pittsburgh Thomas Merton Center, 11th Hour for Peace, Peace of the Action, Washington Peace Center, New England United, National Priorities Project, War Resisters League. Columbus ARMS Control
Speakers: Antonia Juhasz, Col. Ann Wright, Retired, Medea Benjamin (Code Pink), Michael McPhearson (VFP & UFPJ), Darlene Gramigna (AFSC), Elaine Brower (WCW), Pete Shell (National Assembly), Gilbert Achcar, and Ahmed Shawki
Two panels, Q&A and discussion. 1st panel: current worldview of U.S. wars/occupations, the unsustainable economic affects of militarization, meeting human needs at home.
2nd panel: specific strategies to rebuild & expand the movement to end U.S. wars by emphasizing mass mobilization and Out Now, reaching out to all constituencies affected by war funding, militarism and the national security state. Working to build a mass movement demanding redirection of funds for jobs, education, comprehensive universal health care, green energy, public mass transit, infrastructure…
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