United National

Peace Conference
July 23 – 25, 2010, Albany, NY

Unac2010@aol.com or UNAC at P.O. Box 21675, Cleveland, OH 44121

518-227-6947  www.nationalpeaceconference.org

WORKSHOPS SCHEDULED FOR UNITED NATIONAL ANTIWAR

CONFERENCE (UNAC)
 
The Human Costs of Targeting Iraq
Zaineb Alani - Iraqi writer, poet, activist living in US has large extended family in Iraq
Elaine Hills - epidemiologist/lecturer Dept of Anthropology SUNY Albany, writer on impact of war on Iraqi
health, Coordinating Committee Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace
Ali Hossaini, M.D. - Iranian-Iraqi-American physician recently returned from Baghdad working with
Health Dept. to establish health care facilities to train personnel in latest blood transfusion and blood
banking techniques, led several humanitarian efforts to assist peoples of Iraq, Palestine, & Jordan
Dahlia Wasfi, M.D. - Iraqi American activist, speaker, writer on effects of occupation on Iraqis, visited Iraq
twice since invasion
 
Afghanistan/Pakistan: What Is the Strategy Behind US Intervention?
Charlotte Dennett - public interest attorney, investigative journalist on role of Big Oil in US policy in
Mideast and Latin America, author “The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President
to Justice and the Nationwide Grassroots Movement She's Encountered Along the Way”
Fahima Vorgetts - Women for Afghan Women
Michael Zweig - showing film excerpt “Why Are We in Afghanistan?” Professor of Economics and
Director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at SUNY Stony Brook. Author “What's Class Got To
Do With It?” and “The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret”, union officer United
University Professions (Local 2190, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO), Steering Committee US
Labor Against the War
 
The Social Impact of US Military Intervention in Afghanistan & Pakistan
Kathy Kelly - Co-Coordinator Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Co-Founder Voices in the Wilderness
defied sanctions to carry medicine to Iraq, served time in jail for non-violent actions,  visited Iraq,
Pakistan, Gaza & recently returned from Afghanistan
Fahima Vorgetts - Women for Afghan Women
Representative – Action for A Progressive Pakistan
 
Resistance to Israeli Apartheid in Palestine: Gaza, BDS, Nonviolent Resistance in
the W. Bank & E. Jerusalem
Fadi Kanaan - Palestinian leader Palestine student support group at SUNY Albany
Nada Khader - Exec. Dir. WESPAC Foundation, Westchester peace and justice organization
Col. Ann Wright - Code Pink, just returned from Gaza Flotilla
Representative - Al-Awda NY
 
Israel & the Palestinian Struggle: Is a Two-State Solution Possible or Desirable?
Noura Erakat - Palestinian American Human Rights Attorney and activist, adjunct professor of
international human rights law in the Middle East at Georgetown University, helped launch the Palestinian
equal rights lobby: the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights, former National Grassroots
Organizer and Legal Advocate U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Joel Kovel - author “Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
Representative - Al-Awda NY
 
Iran Under Threat from the US and Israel
Gareth Porter - historian, investigative journalist, policy analyst on US foreign & military policy
Phil Wilayto - Editor, The Virginia Defender, author “In Defense of Iran: Notes from a U.S. Peace
Delegation's Journey through the Islamic Republic”
Leila Zand - Fellowship of Reconciliation
 
US Economic & Military Expansion into Africa
Abayomi Azikiwe - Editor, Pan-African News Wire
 
The Truth of US Occupation of Haiti
Nellie Bailey - Harlem Tenants Council, just returned from Haiti
Marty Goodman - active in Haiti solidarity for 20 years
Ray Laforest - Haitian American labor leader (AFSCME) and Haitian community organizer, elected
member of Pacifica National Board
Tony Savino - Award-winning photographer will present an eye-opening and critical slideshow on
earthquake relief
David Wilson - US-based immigrant rights activist who was in Haiti during the earthquake
 
Closing Guantanamo
Pardiss Kebriaei - Staff Att’y Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative at Center for Constitutional Rights
 
Colombia: No U.S. Military Bases
Antoine Castro del Rio - Colombia Polo Democratico
Natalia Fajardo –
 
End US Support for the Honduran Coup Government
Joe Callahan - Honduras Solidarity Network
Alexy Lanza - Honduran, La Voz de los de Abajo & Casa Morazan in Chicago
 
Defending Muslim Political Prisoners
Mongi Dhaoudi - Executive Director, CT Chapter, CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Representative - Muslim Solidarity Committee from Albany
Representative - Project Salam
 
Organizing Veterans & Military Families
Chantelle Bateman - NE Regional Field Organizer Iraq Veterans Against the War
Ryan Henowitz - Iraq veteran
Patrick McCann - Board of Directors/DC-Area Chapter (016) President Veterans For Peace, Board of
Directors, Montgomery County (MD) Education Association
Nikki Morse – Organizer, Military Families Speak Out
 
Organizing Active Duty GI’s & GI Resistance
Christine Beckermann or Michelle Roubidoux - members Toronto War Resisters Support Campaign
GI resisters living in Canada
Tod Ensign - Director Citizen Soldier GI/veterans rights advocacy group
Jimmy Massey - founding member of IVAW, founder Peace It Together
 
War, Militarization, & the Assault on Civil Liberties & Communities of Color
Pam Africa - Chair, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Abayomi Azikiwe - Editor Pan-African News Wire, Co-Founder Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality,
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice, Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop
Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs
Lillie "Ms K" Branch-Kennedy - Virginia prisoner advocacy group R.I.H.D. - Resource Information Help
for the Disadvantaged
Shahid Buttar - Executive Director National Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Representative - New York State Prisoner Justice Network
 
Poor People’s Movements & the Triple Evils of Racism, Economic Exploitation &
Militarism
Ana Edwards - Founding Member (Virginia) Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality; Chair Sacred
Ground Historical Reclamation Project; host radio program DefendersLIVE!
Cheri Honkala - Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign/March to US Social Forum
 
Immigration Reform & the Militarization of the US/Mexico Border
Cristobal Cavazos - DuPage, IL Immigrants Rights & Grassroots Immigrant Justice Network
Jaime Gonzalez - Mexico border wars, drugs, Grassroots Immigrant Justice Network
Monami Maulik Executive DirectorDRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving
Dennis Wilson - co-author of “The Politics of Immigration”, produces Weekly News update on the
Americas published by Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York
 
Women Against War
Maria Butler - Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peacewomen Project Associate
Connie Frisbee Houde - Albany Women Against War group
Col. Ann Wright - Code Pink, just returned from Gaza flotilla
 
US Foreign Policy & the Economic Crisis: A Vital Labor Concern
Kathy Black - Co-Convenor, U.S. Labor Against the War; President Philadelphia Coalition of Labor Union
Women; AFSCME District Council 47
Doug Bullock - 1st VP Albany Central Labor Council, Albany County Legislator
Michael Eisenscher - National Coordinator, U.S. Labor Against the War
Barry Weisleder - lifelong Canadian antiwar and union activist, leader of the Socialist Caucus in the
Labour Party, leader of Workers Solidarity & Union Democracy Coalition within the Ontario and Canadian
Labor Councils. 
 
Building Solidarity with Unions & Workers in Countries Targeted by US
Imperialism
Amjad Ali - North American representative Iraq Freedom Congress and General Federation of Workers
Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI)
Michael Eisenscher - National Coordinator, U.S. Labor Against the War
 
Bring Our War Dollars Home: City Council, Town & State Legislature Meeting
Resolutions & Voter Referendum Campaigns
Chris Hellman - Communications Liaison National Priorities Project, former military policy analyst for the
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, frequent media commentator on military planning, policy,
and budgetary issues
Mark Roman - Vietnam war resister, founding member Waterville Area Bridges For Peace And Justice,
one of the organizers of the Bring Our War Dollars Home campaign in Maine
Paki Wieland – Lifelong peace activist, organizer Bring Our War Dollars Home campaign in
Northampton, MA
Representative - Cut War Budget 25%
 
Electoral & Legislative Strategies against Militarism, War and Empire
Cole Harrison - Co-Convenor, UFPJ's Afghanistan Working Group; Convenor, Boston United for Justice
with Peace Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force, Co-Convenor of its Legislative Action task force
Howie Hawkins - NY Green Party candidate for Governor
Christopher Hutchinson - Socialist Action candidate for US Congress in CT
Kevin Martin - Executive Director, Peace Action
Mary-Nichols Rhodes - Ohio Congressional District Organizer, Progressive Democrats of America
 
Student Organizing: Budget Cuts & U.S. Wars
Ross Caputi - Iraq War Veteran, participated in the Second Battle of Fallujah, President Boston
University Anti-War Coalition
Jackie Hayes/Colin Donnaruma - SUNY Albany Students Against the War
Pat Korte – student at the New School, organizer with International Solidarity Initiative
Blanca Misse - Berkeley student leader March 4 demos; shop steward, UAW Local 2865
 
Counter-Recruitment in High Schools
Jim Murphy - Coordinator NY Vets Speak Out & International Veterans Fellowship of Reconciliation
Dayl S. Wise Vietnam/Cambodia veteran, member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War & Veterans for
Peace Presentation Fellowship of Reconciliation Youth and Militarism program
 
Global Warming & War: Breaking the Consumption-Fossil Fuel Cycle
Joel Kovel - academic, writer, eco-socialist, Editor-in-Chief journal “Capitalism Nature Socialism”
Maggie Zhou, Ph.D. - MA Coalition for Healthy Communities & Committee for a Secure Green Future
 
Health Care, Not Warfare
Andrew D. Coates, MD - secretary, Capital District chapter, Physicians for a National Health Program,
teaches at Albany Medical College and practices internal medicine in Albany, NY, member Public
Employees Federation, AFL-CIO.
Margaret Flowers, MD - Maryland chapter, Physicians for a National Health Program
Mary Nichols-Rhodes - Ohio Congressional District Organizer, Progressive Democrats of America
 
The Faith Community & the Antiwar Movement
Shamshad Ahmad
Mark Johnson - Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Sybil Stock - Social Justice Committee at the Unitarian Universalist Association in Albany
 
Spiritual Approaches to Creating Peace
Blasé Bonpane - Executive Director, Office of the Americas
Kathy Kelly - Co-Coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Co-Founder, Voices in the Wilderness
defied sanctions to carry medicine to Iraq, served time in jail for non-violent actions, visited Iraq, Pakistan,
Gaza & recently returned from Afghanistan
Rev. Sam Trumbore
Paki Wieland
 
The Rise of Right Wing Populism & the Tea Party: Do We Need a Right-Left
Coalition?
Medea Benjamin - Code Pink
Chris Gauvreau - CT United Against the War; Administrative Body, National Assembly to End the Iraq
and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations
Glen Ford - Black Agenda
Kevin Zeese - Co-Founder, Voters for Peace
 
Deepening the Base & Building Bridges between the Climate Change, Peace &
Economic Justice Movements
Suren Moodliar - Majority Agenda Project organizing team, coordinator Mass. Global Action and
Encuentro 5
Weimin Tchen - Majority Agenda Project organizing team, member Boston United for Justice with Peace
 
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