Dear Friends, With regard to the conference next month, there are more topics and speakers than are listed below. If your group receives this message, this is because the issue of focus of your group is scheduled to be covered at this event, either in a workshop, speech, or panel. This looks like it's going to be an exciting event - and, in all likelihood, a quite "lively" one - whereby the traditional "left" is going to be meeting up with some more creative minds who, shall we say, are no longer thinking inside the box! For list of speakers, look at February 2 entry
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Professors, be sure to inform your departments and students of this historic event!
Organizers, be sure to alert your members, and sister organizations of this historic event!
Journalists and writers, be sure to attend this event, for it will provide you with countless lines of profound insight into the state of our world today! | | | Dear Friends, As most of you are aware by now, from earlier announcements, the upcoming "Building a New
World" Conference, is right around the corner!
May 22nd through the 25th, leaders from many of the major efforts for peace, justice, and green economy solutions to our future will be presenting intensive workshops to further our goals for a liveable world.
Join us on May 22-25, 2008 In 2008 many of us understand that our nation - and even the entire planet - are in a state of crisis. The deep longing for positive, lasting change is the bedrock upon which this conference is based. How do we fix our country and our world? And how can we form one mass movement to address the
crisis?
At Radford University, in Radford, Virginia, on May 22-25, thousands of activists, academics, journalists, poets, musicians and policymakers will converge at the 2008 "Building a New World" Conference. If you want to participate in building a new world, sign up now. Hotel and dorm rooms are limited.
Speakers include: Cindy Sheehan, (Code Pink Founder) Medea Benjamin, Gary Corseri, William Blum, Kathy Kelly, Mike Whitney, Michael Parenti, Alice Lovelace, David Swanson, Gareth Porter, Farid Bitar, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Robert Jensen, Kevin Zeese, Antonia Juhasz, Adam Kokesh and
(Iraq Veterans Against the War), Father Roy Bourgeois and many more leaders and luminaries will join thousands of people from across the country and from other lands as well, for a conference to lay the foundations for building a new world now. PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR
RESPECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS. We are living in urgent times. | | Major Session Topics Include: - Iraq Vets Against War - Torture, Genocide, - Climate Change - The Right to Health Care, - Civil Liberties / Constitutional Rights, - Womens Liberation - Secession, Parallel Government, - Economic Exploitation
- The Fight for Economic Democracy, Alternative Models to Capitalism, - Indigenous People Speak Out, - Palestine, - Cooperatives and Localization, - Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution, - Global Warming and Water Crisis, - Sustainability, - Academic Freedom, - Homelessness and Survival during Economic Depression, - Civilian Democratic Earth Federation, - Witnesses and Victims of Oppression Speak Out. . . . and many more
workshops on critically important issues of the day.
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Again, we also request that you notify your universities, respective organizations and sister group contacts about THIS HISTORIC CONFERENCE !! | | Nationally Renowned Speaker Line Up Includes Cindy Sheehan (Gold Star Mother, who founded Camp Casey outside of Bush's Texas ranch, and began a national movement demanding an end to the Iraq War) Code Pink Founder, Medea Benjamin
Adam Kokesh and (Iraq Veterans Against the War; Co-Organizer of "Winter Soldier" )
David Rubinson (Co-founder, Stop-LossCongress.org, Music and film producer: Produced music for "Apocalypse
Now")
William Blum (Author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II; Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, and many more profound works.) Gary Corseri (poet, teacher, dramatist, novelist, editor, journalist, activist) Daniel Sunjata (Tony Nominated star of "Rescue Me"
television series - Actor / Activist)
Kathy Kelly (Author of Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison, and more)
Mike Whitney (Author)
Michael Parenti (Author of To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia; The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome; Super Patriotism; Democracy for the Few)
Alice Lovelace (Author of A Voice in the Wilderness: Poems; The Kitchen Survival Almanac; Remembering My Birth; What Price Freedom - What Price Life; On the Streets of Durham: Poetry)
David Swanson (Author of Politics, Media, and Modern Democracy: An International Study of Innovations; New Directions in Political Communication: A Resource
Book)
Gareth Porter (Author of Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam; Global Environmental Politics)
Farid Bitar (Author of Treasury of Arabic Love Poems, Quotations, & Proverbs)
Rev. Lennox Yearwood (Minister, activist, and President of the Hip Hop Caucus, served as a White House intern under President Bill Clinton)
Robert Jensen (Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas; author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity)
Kevin Zeese (2006 US Senate Candidate for Maryland; President of Common Sense for Drug Policy; Director of Democracy Rising; Founder of TrueVoteMD.org and VoteTrustUSA.org - fighting for voter verified paper trails for
electronic voting)
Antonia Juhasz (Fellow at Oil Change International and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies; author of The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (HarperCollins, April, 2006))
Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder of the human rights group SOA Watch (School of the America's Watch); Presented with the Pax Christi USA Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award - 1997; and the Thomas Merton Award - 2005) David Ray Griffin (Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology; Religion and Scientific Naturalism; Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection
and Action; 9/11 Contradictions)
Steve Alten (New York Times best selling author, author of the historical-fiction, The Shell Game) . . . and many more leaders and luminaries will join thousands of people from across the country and from other lands as well, for a conference to lay the foundations for building a new world now. | | | -- Garda Ghista http://www.worldproutassembly.orghttp://www.radford.edu/conf-serv/Email: wpaeditor@...Tel: 859 781-4979 Skype: garda.ghista Help the US become Radiation Free by 2033! Cathy Garger
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