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Security Without Empire -- National Organizing Conference on Foreign Military Bases
Date:
February 27, 2009 -March 2, 2009
Location:
American University, Washington, D.C.
Ward Building Room 1, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Full Description:
featuring . . .
- Walden Bello - Focus on Global South
- Cynthia Enloe - Clark University
- Bruce Gagnon - Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
- Joseph Gerson - American Friends Service Committee
- Jana Glivicka - Czech Republic, No Bases Initiative
- Raed Jarrar - Iraq & American Friends Service Committee
- John Lindsay-Poland - Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Zia Mian - Princeton University
- Lisa Natividad - Guam
- Dr. Wafula Okumu - Pretoria, South Africa
- Miriam Pemberton - Institute for Policy Studies
- Suzuyo Takazato - Okinawa
- Wilbert van der Zeijden - International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases
- Ann Wright - Retired Army Reserve Colonel and Diplomat
Join Us at the Security Without Empire Conference
There is a sense of relief that many here in the U.S. feel after the presidential election, but we understand this is a time to step up our organizing for peace and economic justice - including the growing movement to close and withdraw the nearly 1,000 U.S. military bases located in foreign nations.
From Okinawa and Guam to Honduras, Germany, Iraq, and beyond people who have suffered from the abuses inherent to foreign military bases have been calling for their withdrawal. People in the U.S. have joined this call, outraged by the damage done by U.S. bases abroad and by their expense, which diverts $138 billion a year from addressing human needs and revitalizing our economy. Representatives of 13 organizations have come together to organize a national conference or the closing and withdrawal of military bases. The goals of the conference are:
* Share information about U.S. foreign mlitary bases and resistance;
* Develop new strategies and expand the U.S. anti-bases movement;
* Integrate anti-bases organizing into a more coherent movement;
* Raise the visibility of the U.S. and international anti-bases movements;
* Apply pressure on Congress;
* Close and reduce the number of foreign bases.
The conference will feature base opponents from many host nations and will include leading activists as keynote speakers, panelists and workshop facilitators.
Monday, March 2, will be a lobbying day on Capitol Hill, in which we encourage as many conference attendees as possible to participate. We'll provide talking points and group leaders.
Additional Information:
For more information, see:
http://afsc.org/cambridge/ht/d/sp/i/72158/pid/72158
Areas of Focus:
Afghanistan (Bring The Guard Home),
Defense Reform (Bring The Guard Home),
Democratizing Defense,
Global Democracy,
Iraq (Bring The Guard Home)
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