July 23-25 meeting in Albany will unite broad sections of the antiwar movement
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By THE EDITORS Thirty national organizations are co-sponsoring an open conference of antiwar and social justice activists on July 23-25 in Albany, N.Y. Hundreds of activists across the country are expected to attend the United National Antiwar Conference. The central objective is to re-mobilize and expand the U.S. antiwar movement to challenge the irrational and bipartisan government policies of never-ending wars and interventions abroad and economic and social wars against working people at home.
“Bring the troops and military dollars home now!” and “Money for human needs—for jobs, education, housing, pensions, health care, and the environment—not war!” are the central demands of this unprecedented national gathering. Some 30 plenary and 95 workshop speakers are scheduled to make the connection between the trillions expended for war and corporate profits abroad and the trillions lost to U.S. workers and gifted to the corporate elite and their banking and financial institutions.
The Albany conference aims to unite the broadest range of antiwar groups in many a year. While initiated by the National Assembly Against U.S. Wars and Occupations, a network including representatives of some 40 local, regional and national groups, the conference Planning Committee consists of one representative from each of the 30 co-sponsoring national organizations. These include the National Assembly, US Labor Against the War, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace Action, Arab American Union Members Council, Bailout the People Movement, Black Agenda Report, Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Campus Antiwar Network, Code Pink, International Action Center, Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Lawyers Guild, Peace of the Action, Progressive Democrats of America, The Fellowship of Reconciliation, Veterans for Peace, Voices for Creative Non-violence, Women’s International League for Peace and Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Andrew Harre / Bloomberg (Above) Protest at Senate hearing to confirm Gen. David Petraeus as commander in Afghanistan war.
Freedom, and World Can’t Wait.
After months of deliberations, this leadership core is proposing a nine-point Draft Action Plan for the consideration of all conference participants. The Action (continued on page 5, in “Labor’s fight against war, racism and unemployment”)