[Peace] Campus Antiwar Network Announces National Conference

[Brian Dolinar]

This from the Camus Antiwar Network. BD


For Immediate Release: January 12, 2010

CAMPUS ANTIWAR NETWORK ANNOUNCES NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Disappointment with Obama Administration reinvigorates national student
antiwar movement.
The Campus Anti-war Network invites faculty and students from all schools in
the U.S., and their supporters, to its winter conference on February 27th
and 28th.  Hear speakers give context to the history and motivations of U.S.
foreign policy, and activists engaged in ongoing struggles against the wars
relate their experiences.  Participate in workshops on war and the
environment, divestment campaigns, the situation in Gaza, the AfPak
conflict, and more. Discuss how to build a democratic anti-war movement in
this country from the grassroots, one focused on mass action to force
politicians regardless of party to accede to the demand for an end to
illegal U.S. backed occupations.

In November of 2006 and 2008 the U.S. electorate clearly repudiated the
previous administration's foreign policy of endless war, first by ousting
the Republicans from the Congress, and then the White House.  Voters' hopes
for change have been crushed by the new administration, which has faithfully
continued and entrenched the occupation of Iraq and has expanded the
occupation of Afghanistan with a surge of 40,000 troops.

The Obama administration has simply ignored that solid majorities of
Americans are now opposed to both occupations, which have killed millions in
Iraq and Afghanistan and are the main obstacles to Iraqis and Afghanis
rebuilding their societies and establishing democracy.  They have cost the
lives of thousands of U.S. soldiers and created epidemics of suicide and
disability among veterans, conditions ignored by military brass and the
Veterans Administration.  Says regional coordinator Sarah Jaine Szekeresh,
“CAN is still working to dispel the myth that Obama's presidency is a
victory for the peace movement. It is not. Obama's presidency will be a
victory for corporations like KBR who will continue to be paid billions of
dollars for creating military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

Despite being in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great
Depression, Obama's government budgets billions for these wars as well as
for Israeli apartheid in Palestine, and these requests are approved by a
pliant Congress.  To fund these imperialist adventures, money for education,
infrastructure, and healthcare are cut, to the detriment of working
Americans and the environment.  We feel the end these disasters will have to
come from outside the political establishment.

Who: Campus Antiwar Network
What: National Conference: “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Hope Only Goes So
Far”
When: February 26 – February 28
    (call contact for more specifics)
Where: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Why: To build a grassroots student movement to fight imperialism and stand
for human rights

Contact: Sarah Jaine Szekeresh
    sarahjaine.sz at gmail.com
    (513) 652-6524

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Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
303 W. Locust St.
Urbana, IL 61801
briandolinar at gmail.com

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