[Peace-discuss] PEACE CONFERENCE

[Karen Aram]

Invitation to the national "Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!" conference.

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.

One workshop will be presented by David Swanson and Jamani Montague from World Beyond War and RootsAction.

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.

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.

Who’s coming? Nearly 80 organizations. And these are just some of the nationally known speakers:

Ajamu Baraka, 2016 Vice Presidential Green Party candidate; Founder, Black Alliance for Peace
Brian Becker, Director, ANSWER Coalition
Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, CODEPINK
Maurice Carney, Executive Director, Friends of the Congo
Sara Flounders, Co-Coordinator, International Action Center
Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report
Jaribu Hill, Executive Director, Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
Margaret Kimberley, Editor & Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report
Ray LaForest, Director, Haiti Support Network
Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; Co-Founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Charo Mina-Rojas, Afro-Colombian activist with the Colombian Ethnic Commission for Peace
David Swanson, Co-Founder & Director, World Beyond War, Campaign Coordinator RootsAction.org<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRootsAction.org%2F&h=ATP00ZEUfjHmB3hzIgjB6NqWiY7UUCoc_tYEDwcMmfdO9hyLakFlkkqSUaBJ0bQIiDSt5pVDK4QdxOralvFyLv_q5WyP0BCgHmanbdwWko_tI7HXqyM8-sScayEHEiOcEoMRtAokkAjXTFWNCFXK08zTTPv77KhqtNvRNBvp&enc=AZN8dL5MgWMhYDIcHgENF92jsCrKUAu3e8tYGUqPsIE4ziMQrwD2GV9IbsdmrZdLOGjAwBZEuPQxaZDEHfH9wxysjYHn8LYjuJMQUoSQICrKYuqWtXGAsiJRnkhwzb4hwecS8KDPHCNpJBbcF0GVRZBJzuvDZXPtSrAwfz5nj6SQ4A&s=1>
Gail Walker, Executive Director, IFCO / Pastors for Peace
Ann Wright, Ret. U.S. Army Colonel, former diplomat & now active member of Code Pink and Veterans for Peace
Kevin Zeese, Director, Popular Resistance

And we’ll have Virginia activists as well, including:
Adeeb Abed, Founder & President, Arab American Association of Central Virginia
Saba Abed, Co-Founder, Ibn Rushd Cultural Center
Askari Danso, Virginia Prisoner Leader; Co-Host, Sankofa Radio; Columnist, The Virginia Defender
Ana Edwards, Chair, Defenders’ Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project
Micky Alexander Jordan, Southerners On New Ground (SONG)
Rebecca Keel, Southerners On New Ground (SONG)
Lee Robinson, All African People's Revolutionary Party (GC)
Adria Scharf, Director, Richmond Peace Education Center
Carolina Velez, ICE Out of RVA
Whitney Whiting, A leading Community Activist in the campaign to stop the Atlantic Coastal Pipeline
And a Representative from Raise Up Fight for $15

Plus speakers from many other countries, including Canada, Colombia, the Philippines, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and Venezuela.

Sign up at http://unacconference2017.org<http://unacconference2017.org/>

-- The RootsAction.org<http://rootsaction.org/> Team

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.

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