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UNAC national Conference

Save the Date:

November 11 – 13, 2011

Stamford, Ct

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

TO BRING THE TROOPS

AND WAR DOLLARS HOME NOW!

In the summer of 2010, 800 activists from peace, environmental, economic and social justice groups from around the country gathered in Albany for the largest movement conference held since 9/11 and the initiation of the so-called “War on Terror”. The conference presented a wealth of dynamic speakers and dozens of panels and workshops focusing on analyses, issues and actions in order to organize effectively for ending US wars and for social change. An ambitious action plan was adopted and a new national coalition, UNAC, the United National Antiwar Committee, was formed.

Since then, UNAC has implemented the action program, culminating in large bi-coastal mobilizations on April 9-10, 2011, and responded to the huge events of recent months: the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and other North African countries; the fight backs to union-busting and cuts to social services in Wisconsin and elsewhere; the wars at home on communities of color, rising Islamophobia and racist attacks on Muslims and pre-emptive prosecutions; activists targeted by the FBI; attacks on civil liberties; environmental destruction and global warming; struggles to end the siege of Gaza, threats to Iran and No. Korea; the dangers of nuclear power; and the endless wars continuing in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now expanding in Libya.

As we see in Egypt and throughout history, all critical social change comes through the direct, massive, independent intervention of the people. This does not happen spontaneously.

It is time for a unified movement to meet again to learn, to strategize, to plan and to organize in order to take stock and to move forward collectively. Everyone attending this one-person, one-vote conference has an equal voice and responsibility for the direction of the movement and the development of an action program to carry us through 2012.

UNITED NATIONAL ANTIWAR COMMITTEE (UNAC)