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the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) held its second annual conference, March 23-25 in Stamford, Conn. Five hundred and seventy-five activists regis tered for the conference, a central goal of which was the building of the May 20 mass protest in Chicago against the wars carried out or planned by NATO.
Joe Iosbaker and Pat Hunt, leaders of the CANG8 co alition organizing the permitted march on the Chicago NATO summit, opened the conference by asking peo ple to stand who were going to be present in Chicago or who were going to help raise funds to get others to the May 20 protest. A sizable proportion of the people in the room rose to their feet.
UNAC’s program of antiwar activity, dubbed the Ac tion Plan, was presented to the conference by Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford. This plan, Ford said, “does not shy away from condemning wars that are still acceptable to half of the population be Wisconsin recall effort — 2 NYPD spying — 3 UNAC Action Plan — 4 Fukushima nuke disaster — 6 Scapegoat: Kevin Cooper — 8 Canada: Mulcair and NDP — 9 ‘Kony 2012’ campaign — 10 Film: Coriolanus — 11 UNAC conference.
the history and purposes of the U.S-led NATO military alliance. The UN Security Council, whose resolutions authorize NATO war-making, Professor Vijay Prashad reminded the crowd, meets under a mural with scenes of everyday life in Northern Europe at the top, and a scene at the bottom in which veiled women and tur baned men are targeted by a field artillery gun. This image, he suggested, revealed much about the UN Se curity Council’s role.
Prashad explained that during the last 20 years the U.S. and its allies have worked to codify a new public relations and legal framework for imperialist inter vention. This same UN Security Council, he pointed out, has adopted a mandate boosting so-called hu manitarian intervention called “The Right to Protect”