Newsweek.com--Hundreds of anti-war activists are expected to attend the United National Antiwar Coalitions National Conference in Stamford, Conn., March 23-25.
UNAC established itself as a major anti-war coalition in the summer of 2010 when 800 people gathered for a conference in Albany, N.Y. At that meeing, a large majority voted to support UNACs anti-imperialist positions opposing U.S. intervention against Iran and condemning U.S. support for the Israeli settler-state.
The group held major anti-war demonstrations, a march of 10,000 people from Union Square to downtown Manhattan on April 9 and a march of 3,000 people in San Francisco on April 10. Demonstrations were also held on the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
UNAC says this will be a conference to challenge the wars of the 1% against the 99% abroad and at home and to say NO! to the NATO/G8 wars and poverty agenda. (unacpeace.org) One of the main tasks of the conference will be to plan protest activities in Chicago when both NATO and the G8 are holding summits May 15-22.
A series of workshops and plenaries at the March 23-25 conference will take up questions including the Occupy Wall Street movement, the global economic crisis, anti-Islam bigotry, the movements that sprang up in Tunisia and Egypt and spread throughout the Middle East, and U.S. intervention in many parts of the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as Latin America and Africa.
UNAC says its conference will highlight ¡Zthe relationship between the wars abroad and the racist war at home on the Black Community and the way in which mobilizing around these issues is central to effective movement building.
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Sunday, February 5th 2012 at 3:42PM
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