Really Late Notice, but a really good Anti-War Conference this Saturday

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I meant to post this sooner, but hopefully maybe some of you can make this.

There is a Conference on Iraq going on this Saturday, March 4th. It's at the University of Minnesota, in the Carlson Building (which is on the west Bank).

Workshops:
Sovereignty, Oil and War – US Empire versus Iraqi Independence; Resistance Movements in Iraq; "Democracy" Under Occupation; Getting Away with Torture; Life Under Occupation – From Palestine to Iraq; Iraq, Oil Dependency and Global Warming; iRAQ Up for sale?; The War on Terror Across the Globe; The War At Home; If Iraq is Issue #1, the Media is Issue #2; The Faces and Frontiers of Activism: Youth and student organizing against the war.

Speakers include:
Sami Rasouli, Arthur Henson, Mick Kelly, Ismail Khalidi, Ashley Dresser, Tsione Wolde-Michael, members of Youth Against War and Racism, Fouzi Slisli, Anh Pham, Jess Sundin, Tracy Molm, Gerardo Cajamarca, Alondra Espejel, Dave Bicking, Hatem Younis, Marie Braun, Elizabeth Dickinson, Lynne Mayo, Jeff Nygaard, Karah Ferguson, Richard Dechert.

Register On-Line
Payment amount is $5-20 sliding scale. Free with a student ID.

Put on by the Anti-War Committee and the Anti-War Organizing League

Endorsers: AFSCME Local 3800, Campus Greens, Counter-Propaganda Coalition, Equal Access Coalition, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Hard Times, La Raza Student Cultural Center, Minnesota Veterans for Peace, North Country Coop, Socialist Alternative, Tackling Torture at the Top, Welfare Rights Committee, Women's Student Activist Collective.

edit: spelling

[katinmn]

1. Thanks. Sami Rasouli is back from Iraq.

Would love to hear his report.

Are you going?

[Spike from MN]

2. Time please?

I won't be able to make it but it might be helpful for others if you can post the time that this event will be held.

[secretdj]

3. Yes, Time plz

much appreciated

[katinmn]

4. Time: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Schedule Speakers Endorsers Workshops Main Saturday, March 4, 2006 10am
to
5pm University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Bldg, West
Bank, Mpls. Cost $5-20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Students attend free with student ID.

Keynote address by Sami Rasouli Long-time Twin Cities peace activist
who returned home to Iraq, to try to rebuild peace, in the face of U.S.
occupation. Local experts will lead workshops on various topics and
include discussion of strategies for building the anti-war movement.

Event will include lunch, cultural work by local artists and concrete
ways to get involved building a local movement against the war.

Workshops:
Sovereignty, Oil and War;
US Empire versus Iraqi Independence;
Resistance Movements in Iraq;
"Democracy" Under Occupation;
Getting Away with Torture;
Life Under Occupation;
From Palestine to Iraq;
Iraq, Oil Dependency and Global Warming;
Iraq up for sale?;
The War on Terror Across the Globe;
The War At Home;
If Iraq is Issue #1, the Media is Issue #2;
The Faces and Frontiers of Activism:
Youth and student organizing against the war.

Speakers include: Sami Rasouli, Arthur Henson, Mick Kelly, Ismail
Khalidi, Ashley Dresser, Tsione Wolde-Michael, members of Youth Against War and
Racism, Fouzi Slisli, Anh Pham, Jess Sundin, Tracy Molm, Gerardo
Cajamarca, Alondra Espejel, Dave Bicking, Hatem Younis, Marie Braun,
Elizabeth Dickinson, Lynne Mayo, Jeff Nygaard, Karah Ferguson, Richard
Dechert.

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5. sorry, time would have been good.

thanks kat.

you can come by whenever you want between 10 and 5, though.