[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Building a New World
Conference Update
C. G. Estabrook
galliher at uiuc.edu
Thu May 1 22:09:27 CDT 2008
Might be worth a road trip. I haven't been in Radford in years, but Virginia's
lovely in the spring (tho' it's already hot at the end of May). And the list is
impressive. --CGE
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>Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 21:57:40 -0500
>From: "Brussel Morton K." <mkbrussel at comcast.net>
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Building a New World Conference Update
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> I wish I could attend this.
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> Subject: Building a New World Conference Update
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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 Dear Friends,
> Join this
>Historic Making The "Building a New World" Conference is
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>Major Sessions through 25th leaders from many walks of
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>
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> with senate candidate Kevin Zeese, SOA Watch
> countless founder Father Roy Bourgeois, IVAW and
> lines of "Winter Soldier" co-leader Adam Kokesh,
> profound Iranian blogger Kianoosh Sanjari, radio
> insight into broadcaster Meria Heller, "After
> the state of Capitalism" author and professor David
> our world Schweickart, Iraqi MD and anti-war
> today! activist Dahlia Wasfi, Tony Award-winning
> "Rescue Me" star Daniel Sunjata, World
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> 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
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