The National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations (NA) is dedicated to organizing a broad, independent antiwar/peace movement with mass mobilizations as a central strategy and "Out Now" as our demand. We are a large network of various national, regional, and local organizations and activists/individuals working to reverse the current war dynamic and redirect current tax dollars to the economic, environmental, and social needs of the people of our nation.
Our PMA, Building the Anti-War/Peace Movement to End Wars and Occupations: Redirect Tax Dollars to Meet Human Needs,is being organized by many of the leading national and regional antiwar forces:
National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, 11th Hour for Peace, ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, Columbus Campaign for Arms Control, Global Exchange, International Socialist Organization, Military Families Speak Out, Movement for a Democratic Society, New England United, National Priorities Project, Peace and Freedom Party of California, Peace of the Action, Pittsburgh Thomas Merton Center, Progressive Democrats of America, US Labor Against the War, Veterans for Peace, War Resisters League, Washington Peace Center, & World Can’t Wait
These collaborators on the Antiwar PMA in Detroit are working to further expand the participants in this PMA.
The four hour PMA will be on Thursday, June 24th, 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM and held in Cobo Hall, RM: D3-28. The PMA will be broken into two, two hour sessions, each including noted national and international speakers. The first session will focus on the state of the antiwar movement, the economic consequences of our war funding, and the international background of these wars. The second will focus specifically on what we need to do to rebuild the antiwar movement. Both panels involve Q&A and audience participation with the purpose of uniting forces and developing future unified actions.
Our panel speakers are: 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
Being dedicated to peaceful solutions rather than continuing down the fruitless, dead-end path of policies implemented from a confrontational mindset, we seek collaboration with all hurt by the continuing social and economic downward and the great imbalance of tax dollars spent for war and militarization rather than the needs of the citizens.
As Martin Luther King so eloquently stated, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." Thus, we strive to revive our nation's health by bringing together the diverse antiwar forces and issue groups to end the occupations and stop the unsustainable military industrial complex drain on our nation’s resources.
Join us in Detroit for our People's Movement Assembly, and together we’ll build the foundation to effect real change. Our diverse goals can be met if we connect the incontrovertible link between war spending and the lack of monies for social needs both here and abroad. The underlying core of our problem is the same, and unity is central to reshaping the present for a better future.