[Peace-discuss] Fwd:[ANSWER]: Speakers & Schedule for May 17-18 Nat'l Confer

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UPDATED SPEAKER & SCHEDULE INFORMATION
for MAY 17-18 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
in New York City

NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST WAR, COLONIAL OCCUPATION &  IMPERIALISM

Saturday, May 17 - Sunday, May 18
@ 40 Irving Place
b/w 16th and 17th Sts.
(1 block east of Union Square)
New York City
$10 requested donation

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* PLENARY & WORKSHOP SPEAKERS INCLUDE *

- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
- Brenda Stokely, President, District Council 1707 AFSCME;  Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War
- Noeli Pocaterra, Vice President, National Assembly of 
Venezuela, indigenous leader
- Charles Barron, NYC City Council Member
- Mahdi Bray, Executive Director, Muslim American Society  Freedom Foundation
- Representative from Asia Wide Campaign in Japan
- Don Rojas, general manager, Pacifica Radio Station WBAI - Lynne Stewart, radical human rights attorney, targeted  by Attorney General John Ashcroft for prosecution
- Brother Joel Magellan, Director, Association Tepeyac
- Elias Rashmawi, Free Palestine Alliance-U.S.
- Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network
- Caneisha Mills, Howard University, Youth & Student 
A.N.S.W.E.R.
- Joe Navidad, Bayan-USA
- Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network
- Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Carl Messenio, attorneys and  co-founders, Partnership for Civil Justice
- Representatives from International Action Center
- Jennifer Wager, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
- Representatives from Muslim Students Association
- Peta Lindsay, Howard University, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth &  Student Coordinator
- Representative from Friends of Zimbabwe
- Rev. Luis Barrios
- Rev. Herbert Daughtry, National Pastor, House of the 
Lord Pentecostal Church
- Eva Golinger, Venezuela Solidarity Committee
- United American Indians of New England
- Jim Lafferty, Executive Director of the L.A. Chapter of  the National Lawyers Guild and member of the Los Angeles  A.N.S.W.E.R. Steering Committee
- Riva Enteen, Program Director of the Bay Area National  Lawyers Guild
- Charlotte Harris, Philadelphia A.N.S.W.E.R., Avenging 
the Ancestors Coalition (ATAC), National Coalition of 
Blacks for Reparations in America
- Steven Gillis, President-elect, United Steel Workers of  America Local 8751 - Boston school bus drivers and 
monitors union
- Monica Moorehead, Millions for Mumia coordinator, 
managing editor of Workers World newspaper
- Dr. Geert Van Moorter, Belgian physician in Iraq during  the U.S. bombing
- Tod Ensign, Citizen soldier
- Dr. Nadia Marsh, Founder of Doctors and Nurses Against  the War
- Ghanim Khalil, a marine, and refusnik who opposes the  Iraq invasion
- Dr. Hillel Cohen, Asst. Professor of Social Medicine and  Public Health
- Tim Eubanks, NYC Cites for Peace, Queers for Peace and  Justice
- Nathalie Alsop, Committee for a New Colombia
- National Confederation of Indigenous People of Ecuador  and the National Immigrant Workshop of Ecuador
- Prof. George Wright, Calif. State University-Chico

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* SCHEDULE (subject to change) *

SATURDAY, MAY 17

What is the Bush administration planning?
10:30 am - 1:00 pm: Opening Plenary
Featuring a multi-media presentation on imperialism 's 
strategy in the Middle East and South/Central Asia, an 
assessment of the rise of a global movement, the War at  Home, resistance to the occupation of Iraq, and Cuba, 
Korea and the Philippines: The Next Targets?

1:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch break

2:00 - 3:30 pm: Workshops (see topics below)

3:45 - 5:15 pm: Workshops (see topics below)

Where is the movement going?
5:30 - 7:30 pm: Plenary
Featuring a proposals for an Action Plan for the coming  period and distinguished speakers from