[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Building a New World Conference Update

Thu May 1 21:57:40 CDT 2008

I wish I could attend this.

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> From: Building a New World Conference <wpaeditor at gmail.com>
> Date: May 1, 2008 9:03:58 PM CDT
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Building a New World Conference Update
> Reply-To: wpaeditor at gmail.com
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>
> Building a New World: Radical Visions
> Cindy Sheehan, William Blum, David Swanson, Mike Whitney, Alice  
> Lovelace, Steve Alten,  Robert Jensen,  Kevin Zeese, and more ...
> First Summit of the World Prout Assembly	May 22-25, 2008
> In This Issue
> Join this Historic Making Event!
> Major Sessions Include ...
> Nationally Renowned Speakers Include ...
> Featured Article
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> Professors, be sure to inform your departments and students of this  
> historic event!
>
> Organizers, be sure to alert your members and sister organizations  
> to attend this conference!
>
> Journalists and writers, be sure to attend this conference, for it  
> will provide you with countless lines of profound insight into the  
> state of our world today!
>
> Evolution is gradual change. Revolution is accelerated change. We  
> are meeting to discuss moving from evolution to revolution.
>
> Our Sponsors
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> We welcome people from all walks of life to come and discuss  
> forming one mass movement to create radical change in America and  
> the world.
>
> Please join us!
> Dear Friends,
>
> The "Building a New World" Conference is right around the corner!   
> May 22nd through 25th leaders from many walks of life who are  
> engaged in the fight for justice will be converging to Radford  
> University to discuss radical solutions to the crisis facing our  
> nation and world.
>
> Please join us in three weeks on May 22-25, 2008 in Radford, Virginia.
>
>
> Join us on May 22-25 at Radford!
>
> In 2008 many of us understand that our nation and our planet are in  
> a state of crisis. The deep longing for positive, lasting change is  
> the bedrock upon which this conference is based. How do we fix our  
> country and our world? And how can we form one mass movement to  
> address the crisis?
>
> At Radford University in Radford, Virginia, thousands of activists,  
> academics, journalists, poets, musicians and policy-makers will  
> converge at the 2008 "Building a New World" Conference.  If you  
> want to participate in building a new world, sign up now. Hotel and  
> dorm rooms are limited.
>
> Speakers include: Anti-war leader Cindy Sheehan, journalist William  
> Blum, peace activist Kathy Kelly, economist Mike Whitney, USSF  
> organizer and poet Alice Lovelace, impeachment and anti-war leader  
> David Swanson, professor Robert Jensen, senate candidate Kevin  
> Zeese, SOA Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois, IVAW and "Winter  
> Soldier" co-leader Adam Kokesh, Iranian blogger Kianoosh Sanjari,  
> radio broadcaster Meria Heller, "After Capitalism" author and  
> professor David Schweickart, Iraqi MD and anti-war activist Dahlia  
> Wasfi, Tony Award-winning "Rescue Me" star Daniel Sunjata, World  
> Can't Wait leader Sunsara Taylor and many more leaders and  
> luminaries will join thousands of people from across the country  
> for a conference that will lay down the foundations for building a  
> new world now.
>
> Learn more at http://www.wpaconference.org/
>
> PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR RESPECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS  
> AND LIST SERVES. _________________________________________
>
> Major Session Topics Include:
>
> - End of Empire
> - Iraq Vets Speak Out Against War, Torture, Genocide
> - Climate Change and Water Crisis
> - Taking Back th e Media
> - Right to Health Care
> - Civil Liberties / Constitutional Rights
> - Domestic Violence
> - Sustainable Communities
> - Facing Fundamentalism
> - Undoing Racism
> - The Fight for Economic Democracy
> - Immigrant Rights
> - Palestine
> - Indigenous People Speak Out
> - Cooperatives and Localization
> -  Economic Exploitation
> - Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution
> - Animal Rights
> - Academic Freedom
> - Homelessness and Survival in Economic Depression
> - Monetary Policy
> - Civilian Democratic Earth Federation
> - Victims of Oppression Speak Out
> - Electoral Fraud and Reform
>
>
>
> Nationally Renowned Speaker Lineup Includes
>
> Cindy Sheehan (Writer and activist; anti-war leader known as the  
> "Peace Mom")
>
> William Blum (Blogger of "The Anti-Empire Report"; author of "Rogue  
> State" and "Killing Hope")
>
> Ramzy Baroud (Author of "The Second Palestinian Intifada" and  
> editor, Palestine Chronicle)
>
> Kathy Kelly (Co-ordinator of Voices in the Wilderness & Voices for  
> Creative Non-violence; author of "Other Lands Have Dreams: From  
> Baghdad to Pekin Prison")
>
> David Swanson (Creator of ImpeachCheney.org, Washington Director of  
> Democrats.com, Co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition,  
> Board member of Progressive Democrats of America, Backbone Campaign  
> and Voters for Peace. Former Press Secretaray for Dennis Kucinich's  
> 2004 presidential campaign)
>
> Mike Whitney (economist and freelance writer)
>
> Adam Kokesh (Leader of Iraq Veterans Against War and Co-organizer,  
> "Winter Soldier")
>
> Alice Lovelace (Poet, playwright, essayist, author of "Remembering  
> my Birth: This is for Family; The Kitchen Survival Almanac;" Editor  
> of CRUS: a conversation in words and images South Africa to South  
> USA; Chief organizer of the 2007 US Social Forum)
>
> Kianoosh Sanjari (Iranian blogger and political activist)
>
> Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder/Director, SOA Waatch)
>
> Kevin Zeese (Green candidate for Maryland's US Senate seate, 2006)
>
> Sunsara Taylor (Writer, Revolution Newspaper; Advisory Board, The  
> World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime!)
>
> Steve Alten (New York Times best-selling American science fiction  
> novelist and author of  "The Shell Game")
>
> Daniel Sunjata (Toni Award-nominated actor and star in FOX's hit TV  
> show "Rescue Me"; outspoken activist and public advocate)
>
> Fareed Bitar ("The Fatoosh Ensemble of Eclectic, Activist and  
> Spiritual Music, with Fareed Bitar (Palestinian-American), Miriam  
> Stanley (Jewish-American), Diana Gitesha Hernandez (Puerto Rican  
> Jazz-Spiritualist) and Brant Lyon (Anglo-American Protestant)
>
> Reggie Cervantes (WTC Survivo Rescue Worker; nurse in Michael  
> Moore's "Sicko")
>
> David Schweickart (Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University and  
> author of "After Capitalism" and "Against Capitalism")
>
> Freeman Wicklund (Founder, Mercy for Animals)
>
> Meria Heller (Producer/Host of the Meria Show, entering its ninth  
> year on the Net)
>
> Ravi Batra (Professor of Economics, Southern Methodsit University,  
> author of more tehan 20 books, including "The Crash of the  
> Millenium: Surviving the Coming inflationary Depression," "The Myth  
> of Free Trade" and "Greenspan's Fraud")
>
> Gareth Porter (journalist for IPS; Huffington Post blogger; author  
> of "Perils of Dominance")
>
> Erin Williams (US Humane Society and author of Why Animals Matter:  
> The Case for Animal Protection")
>
> Robert Jensen (Professor, University of Texas at Austin; author of  
> "Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity" and  
> "The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White  
> Privilege")
>
> Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi American M.D. and anti-war activist)
>
> David Rubinson (Political activist and co-founder, Stop- 
> LossCongress.org, Music and film producer: produced music for  
> "Apocalypse Now"; produced the film "Sugihara: Conspiracy of  
> Kindness")
>
> Ian MacPherson (Professor and Director, British Columbia Institute  
> for Co-operative Studies, University of Victoria, BC)
>
> Ellen Brown (attorney and author of 11 books including "Web of Debt."
>
> Adam Engel (Poet and web author)
>
> Olivia Burlingame Goumbri (of the Venezuela Information Office,  
> Washington, D.C.)
>
> Michael Richards (Founder of Sustainable Economic Development  
> (SEED); author of "Sustainable Operating Systems/The Post Petrol  
> Paradigm")
>
> William Douglas (Columnist and author of "The Amateur Parent - A  
> Book on Life, Death, War and Peace")
>
> Cathy Garger (Freelance writer, anti-war activist, and anti- 
> Depleted Uranium activist)
>
> Gordon Soderberg (Founding member of New Orleans Voices for Peace)
>
> Bruce Gagnon (Co-founder and Coordinator of the Global Network  
> Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space)
>
> Gary Corseri (Poet, teacher, dramatist, novelist, editor,  
> journalist, activist)
>
> Susan Thomas (Professor political science and Women's Studies,  
> Hollins University; animal rights activist)
>
> J.W. Smith (Director, Institute for Economic Democracy; author of  
> "Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-first  
> Century" and "Money: A Mirror Image of the Economy")
>
> Keith McHenry (Co-founder of Food Not bombs and coordinator of the  
> national food relief effort for survivors of Katrina)
>
> Sara Thomsen (Singer-songwriter, activist, composer of "Is it for  
> Freedom")
>
> George Wallace (Activist, poet; editor, www.poetry.com; essayist,  
> "John Reed and the Poetry of Protest and Praise")
>
> William Woodward (Professor of psychology; Quaker peace activist,  
> Co-editor of "B.F. Sinner and behaviorism in American Culture")
>
> Timothy Gatto (Former Chairman, Liberal Party of America,  
> Progresive writer, Activist, US Army (Ret.)
>
> Jennifer Lowenstein (Professor and Associate Director, Middle East  
> Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
>
> Stephen Zarlenga (Director, American Monetary Institute)
>
> Glen Martin (Profesor of Philosophy and Peace Studies, Radford  
> University)
>
>
> We face critical times that demand critical action.
>
> This is about forming one mass movement to change our country and  
> our world.
> Please do not miss this conference.
>
> Registration is $110.00
>
> Dorm rooms from $26.00 - $36.00
>
> Optional buffet meal tickets are $23.00 per day.
>
> Find out more and register now at www.wpaconference.org.
>
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