Schedule of Activities for UNAC Conference 2015
End the Wars at Home and Abroad
End the Wars at Home and Abroad
Friday 4:00 pm, Check-in Begins
- 4:00 pm: Check-in Begins
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm, CC Meeting
- 6:30 pm: Opening Plenary
- Co-Chairs: Monica Aguilar, Judy Bello
- Open: Poem by Raymond Nat Turner of Black Agenda Report
- Welcome: Marilyn Levin, Co-Coordinator of UNAC
- Greetings
- Larry Adams, Peoples Organization for Progress
- Erik Anders Neilson, Jersey City Peace Movement
- Madelyn Hoffman, New Jersey Peace Action
- Narciso Castillo, New Jersey 21
- Panel #1: The War is At Home and Abroad
- 8:30 pm, Music & Culture
- Rebel Diaz, HipHop Duo
- Rebel Diaz and Friends: Which Side Are You On?
- Potri Ranka Manis, Filippino Dance
- Avin Dirki, Syrian Poet
Saturday: 8:30 am, Check-in Begins
- 9:00 - 10:30 am, Panel #2: Endless Imperial War
- 10:25, Journal Announcement, Kaylee Knowles
- 10:45, pm, Breakout Session 1 (Workshops)
- 12:00 pm, LUNCH
- Short video presentations will be shown during lunch
- 1:00 pm, Panel #3: Free Political Prisoners
- 2:15 pm, Raging Grannies
- 2:30 - 4:00 pm, Panel #4: The Cost of Endless War and Austerity
- 3:45, Building a National Antiwar Movement, Malik Mujahid & Jeff Mackler
- 4:15-5:30 pm, Breakout Session 2 (Workshops)
- 5:30 pm, DINNER
- 7:00- 9:00 pm, Tribunal on the Militarization of Police and Structural Racism
Sunday 9:00 am, Check-in Begins
- 9:30am, VFP Breakfast with Ann Wright, Michael McPhearson, Michael Kramer & Gerry Condon
- 9:30 am, Breakout Session 3 (Workshops)
- 11:30 am, Final Plenary
- Co-Chairs: Joe Lombardo, Mari Matsuo
- Panel #6: Their Power vs. Ours, Challenging the Warfare State
- 1:00 pm Greetings from International Guests and Others
- Greg Butterfield, Video message from Lugansk, Ukraine
- Elizabeth Byce, New Democratic Party of Canada, Socialist Caucus
- Tamara Hansen, Co-Founder Communities in Solidarity with Cuba, Vancouver
- Cheri Honkala, Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, Social Forum
- Chris Nineham, Vice-Chair, UK Stop the Wars Coalition
- Elsa Rassbach, Co-Founder of the National Drone Campaign in Germany
- 1:30 pm, Action Proposals
- 2:30 - 3:00 pm, Closing
- CC Meeting
- 4:00, Fini
