[Northampton-GP] teach-in on Sat

[Jackie J Jaffe]

What's Happening in Iraq?
Come find out!

Teach-in on War and Occupation
Saturday, March 6th, 9:30am-6pm
Herter Hall, Room 227, UMass-Amherst
9:30 coffee and bagels 

10:00-11:30 First Plenary Session, Herter 227 

Bill Fletcher, TransAfrica Forum
Peta Lindsey, student activist, Howard University and International Answer
Fernando Suarez del Solar, father of a U.S. soldier slain in Iraq

11:45-1:00  Workshops 

Workshop A: Veterans and Military Families Speak Out
Workshop B: Voices from the Front Line (Palestine, Colombia, and Iraq)
Workshop C: Racism at Home/Civil Liberties

1-2 Lunch

2:00-3:30 Second Plenary Session, Herter, 227

Rania Masri, Iraq Action Coalition and Institute for Southern Studies
Sut Jhally, Media Education Foundation and UMass Dept. of Communications

3:45-5:00 Workshops

Workshop D: War and the Economy
Workshop E: Imperialism
Workshop F: Palestine

5:15 -6:00 Closing event

Workshop speakers include: Vijay Prashad (Trinity College), Claudia Lefko (Northampton Committee to Lift the Sanctions and Stop the Bombing in Iraq) , Nancy Talanian (Bill of Rights Defense Committee), Adam Shapiro (International Solidarity Movement), Alisa Klein (Israeli-American anti-Zionist Palestine solidarity activist), Mazin Qumsiyeh (Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition), Kevin Noonan (Western Mass Food Bank), Diane Scherrer (Veterans for Peace), Kate Harris (Solidaridad Colombia), and others.

All events are free and open to the public.
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