Counter-Summit for Peace & Economic Justice
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PROGRAM
For information on our Plenary Speakers, please click here. For a list of the 28 Workshops to be offered, please click here.
Friday – May 18
8:30 – 9:30 Conference Registration
9:30 Welcomes & Overview
Roger Cole - Irish Peace and Neutrality Alliance
Mary Zerkel – American Friends Service Committee
9:50 Rebel Diaz Performs
10:15 – 12:00 Plenary – Laying the Foundations: NATO, Economic Globalization, and Economic Justice
Vijay Prashad – Trinity College
Tobias Pflüger - Tübingen Militarization Information Association (IMI); Party of the European Left
Sarita Gupta - Jobs with Justice
William McNary - Citizen Action/Illinois; Emergency Network to Save Cook County Health Services
12:00 Lunch & Networking
1:00 – 2:45 Workshop Session 1
7 workshops – available here
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:15 – 5:00 Workshop session 2
7 workshops – available here
5:00 –5:15 Break
5:15 – 6:15 Plenary – Campaigning for Peace and Justice
Suraia Sahar - Afghans for Peace
Tom Hayden – Chicago 8; Peace and Justice Resource Center
John Nichols – The Nation, Free Press
6:15 Adjourn
7:00 Optional Film Screenings: If I Had a Trillion Dollars and The Fruit of Our Labor
Saturday – May 19
8:30 – 10:00 Conference Registration
10:00 – 11:00 Plenary – Vision and Campaigning for the Future
Kathy Kelly - Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Afghanistan Veterans Against the War Speaker TBA
Tania Unzueta - Immigrant Youth Justice League
11:00 – 12:45 Workshop Session 3
7 workshops – available here
12:45 – 1:00 Break
1:00 – 1:45 Lunch & Networking
1:45 – 3:30 Workshop Session 4
7 workshops – available here
3:30 –4:30 Plenary Discussion – Where Do We Go from Here?
4:30 Adjourn
