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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Hello antiwar friends of UNAC and Supporters of the UNAC Conference,

Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad, May 8-10, Seacaucus, NJ (UNACconference2015.org).

Our national conference is developing nicely with an exciting and Impressive array of speakers, panels and workshops. Be sure to see the latest details on the conference website.

We believe this national gathering of activists from a wide range of antiwar and social justice movements is not only timely, but critical to movement building in the U.S. today. It has been a long time since a conference of this scope has been held. While the U.S. government and military is busily expanding its wars for profit, at home, Washington is targeting communities of color, voting rights, women’s rights, unions, while militarizing the police and enforcing the surveillance state.

By uniting all the struggles at home and abroad, we will connect activists from different movements to forge a common understanding and unity of purpose. As we know through experience, we can’t rely on elections as the vehicle for peace and social change.

Change can happen, but only if we join together as a mighty force and take action

The conference looks good on paper but we will only be effective if large number of activists attend. That is why we need your help and participation.

This is what we ask you to do:

Come to the conference. Register now (whether you are able to pay now or not). Presenters are asked to register as well. If you can’t attend, please make a donation so that we can subsidize those who need financial help.
Publicize the conference widely among your associates and organizations. Ask your organizations to endorse and build the conference. Organize transportation and subsidies.
Put an ad in the Conference Journal. (Details on the website.) Add your name to the list of supporters.
Join UNAC and support our coalition efforts. There is a form to fill out on the UNAC website (UNACpeace.org) or write to us at UNACpeace@gmail.com.

(If you would like to help in the organizing of the conference and learn more about UNAC’s current activities, you are invited to join the UNAC Coordinating Committee conference call on Sunday, March 29, 7:30. Let us know if we should send you the call-in numbers.

Marilyn Levin and Joe Lombardo

Co-Coordinators

Join Hatem Abudayyeh, Susan Abulhawa, Pam Africa, Abayomi Azikiwe, Ajamu Baraka, Media Benjamin, The Cuban 5, Lamis Deek, Steve Downs, Bernadette Ellorin, Glenn Ford, Sara Flounders, Bruce Gagnon, Teresa Gutierrez, Lawrence Hamm, Chris Hedges, Joe Iosbaker, Charles Jenkins, Antonia Juhasz, Chuck Kaufman, Kathy Kelly, Jeff Mackler, Christine Marie, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Michael McPhearson, Malik Mujahid, Lucy Pagoada, Lynn Stewart, David Swanson, Clarence Thomas, Ann Wright, Kevin Zeese & many more at ...

A national conference to connect all the issues:

“Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!”

(to register now, click the link below)

The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) invites you to attend the “Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!” conference, to be held May 8-10, 2015, in Secaucus, N.J, just outside New York City.

More and more, we can see how all the problems of the world are connected. The trillions of dollars being spent on wars-for-profit abroad could be used here at home to rebuild our cities, educate our youth, employ our jobless, repair damage to the environment – and try to make up for the endless suffering the Pentagon is inflicting on people around the world, most of them people of color, the vast majority of whom have nothing to do with threatening us or anyone else.

Some of the connections are even more striking. Some of the very same kinds of military equipment used in Iraq was seen this past summer on the streets of Ferguson, Mo. Surveillance drones developed for use by the military are now being used by domestic police departments. The endless “war on terror” is being used to justify taking away our civil liberties here at home. Wars for oil in the Middle East keep fossil fuels flowing, accelerating the climate change that threatens all humanity.

This conference will be an opportunity to meet and network with activists from across the country and learn about the many struggles going on today, both at home and around the world. Speakers with decades of experience will be joined by members of the new generations of activists who are bringing fresh energy and ideas into the movement. Together, we will learn from and inspire each other.

Most conferences cost many hundreds of dollars to attend, but UNAC organizers are doing their best to keep this one affordable for young activists and working people. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to expand your knowledge, make many new progressive friends and build the movement for fundamental social change.

Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!

For more information and to register for the conference, see:

www.unacconference2015.org

To place an ad in the conference journal, see:

http://www.unacconference2015.org/p/endorsers.html

UNITED NATIONAL ANTIWAR COALITION (UNAC)

P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054 ● Ph: 518-227-6947

Email: UNACpeace@gmail.com ● Web: www.UNACpeace.org

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