Usual Meeting Place
Church of the Holy Trinity
381 Main St
Side door
Middletown, CT
Sunday, January 24th
Break the Siege!! Report back from the Gaza Freedom March
Hear Chris Hutchinson and Johann Rivera, who will both have recently returned from the Gaza Freedom March demonstrations in Cairo, and from a post GFM visit to Israel and the West Bank.
See Hutch’s blog posts at http://www.generalstrikecomics.com/gaza-freedom-blog/.
Sunday, January 24
2 pm.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 381 Main St., side door, Middletown, CT
Regular January meeting of CT United for Peace to follow
Proposed agenda
1. Jan. 30 New England Antiwar Conference
2. March 20 demonstration in DC
3. End the Siege activities
Save the Date!
Please attend, have your organization endorse, and make a contribution!
New England Antiwar Conference
Saturday, January 30 = 10:30 am-6 pm =MIT Bldg. 34-101=50 Vassar St.=Cambridge MA
Explaining the Drive Towards Empire and Endless War
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report & Black is Back; Saadia Toor, Action for a Progressive Pakistan, Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Michael Schwartz, author of War Without End: The Iraq War in Context
Debunking the War on Terror
Salma Abu Ayyash, Palestinian activist; Pardiss Kebriaei, Guantanamo Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights; Danny Schechter, author of Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception; Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, & the Future of America.
Workshops
Costs of War led by Troy NY Labor Council and Nellie Bailey of Harlem Tenants Council, Global Warming and War led by Ted Glick, Maggie Zhou & Joel Kovel; Student Organizing led by Wes Strong; Veterans & Building a Movement around Afghanistan; Covert Operations and 911; Defending Palestine with Salma Abu Ayyash & Sara Roche-Mahdi; War in South America by Omar Sierra, Venezuelan Consulate, & Tito Meza, Proyecto Hondureno; Others in formation
Plenary
Organize regional campaigns to build the March 20 antiwar march on DC and the campaign to End the Siege of Gaza.
Social at a fine Central Square establishment
For more info: David at 508 653-5534; To download a flyer for the conference visit www.NewEnglandUnited.org
Connecticut United For Peace
founded 2003