The UNAC Conference is approaching fast
June 16-18, 2017
Greater Richmond Convention Center
403 North 3rd Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Have you registered yet? Register here:
www.unacconference2017.org/p/
This will be the place where the antiwar and social justice movement will come together this spring to discuss, map strategy and organize for the coming period. Antiwar leaders from across the country and across the world will be in attendance.
See the conference web site: www.unacconference2017.org
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To see a report on UNAC’s last conference, please go here:
http://nepajac.org/UNAC_
National Antiwar & Social Justice CONFERENCE
Hundreds of activists from around the United States and many other countries will gather in Richmond, Virginia, June 16-18 for a national conference: “Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad: Building a Movement Against War, Injustice & Repression!”
The conference, to be held at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, is being hosted by the United National Antiwar Coalition, one of the largest progressive coalitions in the country. An all-volunteer organization, UNAC was founded in 2010 on two basic principles: opposition to all U.S. wars and interventions, and support for the right of all oppressed peoples to self-determination.
The conference will consist of three days of panels, workshops, discussions, a Saturday evening rally with cultural performances and a Sunday march to Richmond’s African Burial Ground to declare UNAC’s support for the Community Proposal for a nine-acre Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park.
As of June 6, more than 100 organizations will be represented, with more than 60 speakers, including:
- Adeeb Abed, Founder & President, Arab American Assoc.
of Central Virginia - Abayomi Azikiwe – Editor, Pan African News Wire (Detroit, MI)
- Ajamu Baraka, 2016 Vice Pres. Green Party candidate; Founder, Black Alliance for Peace
- Brian Becker, Director, ANSWER Coalition
- Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, CODE PINK
- Matyas Benyik, Chair, ATTAC-Hungary (Budapest, Hungary)
- Maurice Carney, Executive Director, Friends of the Congo
- Ana Edwards, Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project
- Sara Flounders, Co-Coordinator, International Action Center
- Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report
- Ewa Groszewska – Co-Organizer, Social Forum of Eastern Europe? & Coop. Bet. East & South? (Wroclaw, Poland)
- Tamara Hansen, Mobilization Against War & Occupation
(Vancouver, Canada) - Jaribu Hill, Executive Director, Mississippi Workers Center
for Human Rights - Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons
& Nuclear Power in Space - Rebecca Wooden Keel, Southerners On New Ground (SONG) (Richmond, VA)
- Margaret Kimberley, Editor & Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report
- Ray LaForest, Director, Haiti Support Network
- Hyun Lee, Zoom in Korea
- Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
- Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; Co-Founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
- Charo Mina-Rojas, Afro-Colombian activist with the Colombian
Ethnic Commission for Peace (Colombia) - Prigarin Alexandr, Professor, Odessa National University (Ukraine)
- Adria Scharf, Director, Richmond Peace Education Center
- Malcolm Suber, Take Em Down NOLA; New Orleans Workers Group
- David Swanson, Co-Founder & Director, World Beyond War (Charlottesville, VA)
- Clarence Thomas, International Longshore & Warehouse Union (Oakland, CA)
- Carolina Velez, ICE Out of RVA (Richmond, VA)
- Gail Walker, Executive Director, IFCO / Pastors for Peace
- Whitney Whiting, Community Activist campaign to stop the Atlantic Coastal Pipeline (Richmond, VA)
- Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender (Richmond, VA)
- Ann Wright, Ret. U.S. Army Colonel, former diplomat
& active in CODE PINK and Veterans for Peace - Kevin Zeese, Director, Popular Resistance
- And a Representative from Raise Up Fight for $15
- Plus speakers are from many other countries, including Canada, Colombia, the Philippines, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine and Venezuela, as well as participants from Burundi, Nepal and Nigeria.
The admission fee for the conference is $35, or $15 for youth and low-income workers. Those with more means are encouraged to contribute more. People will be able to register at the conference, but space is limited, so those planning to attend are encouraged to register as soon as possible on the conference website: www.unacconference2017.org.
For more information: www.unacconference2017.org,
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