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Invitation to the national "Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!" conference.</p>
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This is an invitation to join with hundreds of other activists from around the United States and many other countries for a conference called “Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad: Building a Movement Against War, Injustice & Repression!” - June 16-18 at the Greater
Richmond Convention Center in Richmond, Virginia.</p>
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One workshop will be presented by David Swanson and Jamani Montague from World Beyond War and RootsAction.</p>
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The conference is being hosted by the United National Antiwar Coalition. UNAC’s two basic principles are opposition to all U.S. wars and interventions and support for the right of all oppressed peoples to self-determination.</p>
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The conference will be three days of panels, workshops, discussions, a Saturday evening rally with cultural performances and a Sunday march to Richmond’s African Burial Ground to declare UNAC’s support for the Community Proposal for a nine-acre Shockoe Bottom
Memorial Park.</p>
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Who’s coming? Nearly 80 organizations. And these are just some of the nationally known speakers:</p>
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Ajamu Baraka, 2016 Vice Presidential Green Party candidate; Founder, Black Alliance for Peace<br class="">
Brian Becker, Director, ANSWER Coalition<br class="">
Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, CODEPINK<br class="">
Maurice Carney, Executive Director, Friends of the Congo<br class="">
Sara Flounders, Co-Coordinator, International Action Center<br class="">
Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report<br class="">
Jaribu Hill, Executive Director, Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights<br class="">
Margaret Kimberley, Editor & Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report<br class="">
Ray LaForest, Director, Haiti Support Network<br class="">
Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)<br class="">
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; Co-Founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity<br class="">
Charo Mina-Rojas, Afro-Colombian activist with the Colombian Ethnic Commission for Peace<br class="">
David Swanson, Co-Founder & Director, World Beyond War, Campaign Coordinator <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRootsAction.org%2F&h=ATP00ZEUfjHmB3hzIgjB6NqWiY7UUCoc_tYEDwcMmfdO9hyLakFlkkqSUaBJ0bQIiDSt5pVDK4QdxOralvFyLv_q5WyP0BCgHmanbdwWko_tI7HXqyM8-sScayEHEiOcEoMRtAokkAjXTFWNCFXK08zTTPv77KhqtNvRNBvp&enc=AZN8dL5MgWMhYDIcHgENF92jsCrKUAu3e8tYGUqPsIE4ziMQrwD2GV9IbsdmrZdLOGjAwBZEuPQxaZDEHfH9wxysjYHn8LYjuJMQUoSQICrKYuqWtXGAsiJRnkhwzb4hwecS8KDPHCNpJBbcF0GVRZBJzuvDZXPtSrAwfz5nj6SQ4A&s=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: inherit;" class="">RootsAction.org</a><br class="">
Gail Walker, Executive Director, IFCO / Pastors for Peace<br class="">
Ann Wright, Ret. U.S. Army Colonel, former diplomat & now active member of Code Pink and Veterans for Peace<br class="">
Kevin Zeese, Director, Popular Resistance</p>
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And we’ll have Virginia activists as well, including:<br class="">
Adeeb Abed, Founder & President, Arab American Association of Central Virginia<br class="">
Saba Abed, Co-Founder, Ibn Rushd Cultural Center<br class="">
Askari Danso, Virginia Prisoner Leader; Co-Host, Sankofa Radio; Columnist, The Virginia Defender<br class="">
Ana Edwards, Chair, Defenders’ Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project<br class="">
Micky Alexander Jordan, Southerners On New Ground (SONG)<br class="">
Rebecca Keel, Southerners On New Ground (SONG)<br class="">
Lee Robinson, All African People's Revolutionary Party (GC)<br class="">
Adria Scharf, Director, Richmond Peace Education Center<br class="">
Carolina Velez, ICE Out of RVA<br class="">
Whitney Whiting, A leading Community Activist in the campaign to stop the Atlantic Coastal Pipeline<br class="">
And a Representative from Raise Up Fight for $15</p>
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Plus speakers from many other countries, including Canada, Colombia, the Philippines, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and Venezuela.</p>
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Sign up at <a href="http://unacconference2017.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: inherit;" class="">http://unacconference2017.org</a></p>
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-- The <a href="http://rootsaction.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: inherit;" class="">RootsAction.org</a> Team</p>
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P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett,
Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others.</p>
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