Antiwar conference set for Twin Cities
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8 SOCIALIST ACTION JUNE 1985 The weekend of June 21-23 is the date for the Second Emergency National Conference Against U.S. Military Intervention in Central America/ The Caribbean. The conference will be held in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota, East Bank Campus.
The Second Emergency Conference follows on the heels of the successful April 20 national actions for peace, jobs and justice. The First Emergency Conference held last Sept. 14-16 in Cleveland, Ohio, had voted to call upon the entire peace and anti-intervention movements to unite and sponsor massive demonstrations on April 20.
The demands of the Emergency Conference are:
End U.S. Military Intervention in Central America/the Caribbean;
Money for Jobs and Human NeedsNot War;
End U.S. Support for the Apartheid Regime in South Africa;
End the Arms Race.
A very wide array of individuals and organizations have endorsed the conference, with labor union representatives figuring prominently.
The call to the Emergency Conference states in its conclusion:
"Increasing the involvement of the ranks of labor in the anti-intervention struggle is of decisive importance....The struggle of working people in the United States for jobs, a decent standard of living and protection of our unions cannot be separated from the fight against U.S. interventionist policies abroad and runaway military spending at home."
Conference coordinator Jerry Gordon, in a recent declaration, stated, "The U.S. government has sharply escalated its actions against Nicaragua. A clear emergency exists. People in the movement must get together on a national basis to assure a massive response to this threat, on a top priority basis. The Minneapolis conference is the place for this to happen."
The agenda of the conference starts with a Friday night rally to "End the U.S. War on Nicaragua and Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean."
Speakers include Roberto Vargas of the Nicaraguan Embassy; Vernon Bellecourt of the American Indian Movement; lone Biggs of the National CounSociAlist Action