CAN's Regional Conferences:Iowa City (April 18-20) & Berkeley (April 19): details below
Their War, Our World:
Building a Student Resistance
Campus Antiwar Network
Midwest Regional Conference
April 18-20th in Iowa City
The bloody and unjustU.S. occupations continue, while the majority opposes them. Veteransspeak out against the war and the media is silent. It's time to gettogether and organize a strong student antiwar movement!
Students from campuses across the Midwest will be convening toshare their organizing experiences. Together, through workshops andplenaries, we'll try to address some of the issues facing the antiwarmovement today, educating ourselves, as well as combining efforts tocreate long and short-term strategies to end the war.
Saturday
Talks on: Why We Say Troops Out Now and the Aims of the War on Terror
Workshops include: The Cost of the War, Lessons of the 1960s,Afghanistan: The 'Good' War?, Military-Industrial Complex, TheGovernment of Iraq, Racism against Arabs and Muslims,Counter-Recruitment, The RNC 2008 Protest, Direct Action, Election2008, Media Skillz, and CAN Chapter Building
Sunday
Put the War on Trial!
Members of the Campus Antiwar Network and Iraq Veterans Against the War will bring our case against the war, from it's foundation to its execution.
Registration is $10.
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The War Comes Home:
Campus Antiwar Network Western Regional Conference
University of California Berkeley
April 19, 2008 1PM -6PM
200 Wheeler Hall
Weare now entering our 6th year of the occupation of Iraq with no end insite. Although the mainstream media and major politicians keep toutingprogress and the success of Bush's surge, conditions in the countryremain dreadful as people live without basic necessities and Iraqis dieon a daily basis, adding to the more than a million Iraqis killed inthe last five years. A poll conducted by the British Ministry ofDefense found that 82% of Iraqis are "strongly opposed" to theoccupation, and "less than 1% of the population believes coalitionforces are responsible for any improvement in security." In addition, a Zogby International/Le Moyne College poll taken in February 2006 of troops stationed in Iraq, 72% said the US should withdrawal in 12 months. Of that, 29% thought the USshould leave immediately. This is happening as our future's arebeing mortgaged for a lie and social services and education are beingslashed at home.
Nowis the time to help organize a student antiwar movement that can demand"Troops Out Now!" and support soldiers and veterans resisting theoccupation. Jointhe Campus Antiwar Network for the West Coast spring regionalconference to discuss the effect of the war on the people of Iraq, thesoldiers that are forced to fight and on the American people at home aswell as strategies for building the student antiwar movement.
Schedule:
1PM 1:30PM: Registration
1:30PM- 3:30PM: War Comes Home Panel 3:30-4PM: Break 4:00-6:00PM: Round Table Discussion with Anti-war Activists
War Comes Home: Speakers*: Phil Aliff, Iraq Veterans Against the War Heis an Iraq war veteran who served in 2005 and 2006 near Fallujah andBaghgad, recently discharged from the 10th Mountain Division of theArmy. He is member of the board of directors of Iraq Veterans Againstthe War.
*More speakers to come.
Registration is $5.
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or call 415-335-0953.
Endorsed by:Students Against War- UCSC, Berkeley Stop the War Coalition, StudentsAgainst War- San Francisco State, City College of San Francisco
THEIR WAR, OUR WORLD:
BUILDING THE STUDENT RESISTANCE
April 4-6th 2008
Hunter College, New York City
Come one, come all! As we enter our 6th year in the occupation of Iraq,
our leaders refuse to present an exit strategy or even a truthful
representation of what's happening on the ground. Though we keep being
told violence is down, US air strikes are up, and in 2007 sectarian
killings "ethnically cleansed" Baghdad, turning it from 65% Sunni to 75%
Shia. A poll conducted by the British Ministry of Defense found that 82%
of Iraqis are "strongly opposed" to the occupation, and "less than 1% of
the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any
improvement in security." Resistance to the war has emerged on three
fronts: Iraqi civilians defending their country against foreign invasion
and continued devastation, enlisted US troops refusing to participate in
an illegal and bloodthirsty war, and American civilians (particularly the
student movement, who feel that effect of the war daily-- as military
recruiters continue to haunt our campuses and tuition is raised as the
cost of the war depletes funds for education). As of yet, the US
government has refused to recognize these forces of resistance as
legitimate, but with continued and heightened pressure in the form of
independent, grassroots activism, we can hope to create the change we wish
to see.
Join us, the Campus Antiwar Network's Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions,
for our spring regional conference on the US War on Terror and our student
movement. Students from campuses across the East Coast will be convening
to share their organizing experiences. Together, through workshops and
discussions, we'll try to address some of the issues facing the antiwar
movement today, educating ourselves as well as combining efforts to create
long and short-term strategies to end the war.
Sponsored by: Campus Antiwar Network www.campusantiwar.net
Endorsed by: Iraq Veterans Against The War - NYC, NYC Labor Against the
War, Military Families Speak Out - NY, International Socialist
Organization, Radical Women, and World Can't Wait |
