After the Inauguration: Rest Your Feet, Feed Your Head, Stoke Your Fire!

A free conference at American University’s Kay Spiritual Life Center

SUNDAY – JANUARY 22: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Please join featured speakers Phyllis Bennis, Michael McPhearson, Judith LeBlanc, John Feffer, Alli McCracken, maTT DeVlieger, Jackie Cabasso, john Feffer, Raed Jarrar, Joseph Gerson, George Martin, Cole Harrison, Kevin Martin and others in a dialogue on building the peace and social justice movement as we build the resistance needed to overcome the Trump regime’s tyranny.

In addition to panel discussions, we will have small-group strategy sessions.

Our venue is the Kay Spiritual Life Center at American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Campus map – http://www.american.edu/aumaps/upload/Main_Tenley_Vicinity.pdf [http://www.american.edu/aumaps/upload/Main_Tenley_Vicinity.pdf]
Directions – http://www.american.edu/aumaps/index.cfm [http://www.american.edu/aumaps/index.cfm]
Parking is $2 per hour in the garage under the Katzen Arts Center on Massachusetts Ave., north of Ward Circle
Shuttle bus from Metro Red Line – Tenleytown station

Sponsoring organizations (information):

Peace and Planet

American Friends Service Committee

Peace Action Education Fund

United for Peace and Justice

Western States Legal Foundation

 

 

To add your organization as a sponsor, please contact Joseph Gerson at:

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DRAFT AGENDA

Challenging Trumpism, Wars and Militarism – January 22, 2017

American University, Kay Spiritual Life Center – 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

12:30 Registration

12:45 Welcome from Professors David Vine or Peter Kuznick

1:00 Panel #1 – Theme: Big Picture Kevin Martin & Medea Benjamin Chairing

Michael McPhearson – Imperative to defending those most vulnerable

Phyllis Bennis – Continuities and Change in Trump Foreign & Military Policies

Raed Jarrar – Middle East Wars and the Escalation of the “War on Terror”

Jackie –Overview of Imperial Roles U.S. Military Commands w/Nuclear Dimensions

Q & A & Responses

2:15 Panel #2 – Theme: Dangers of wars among nuclear-armed states

John Feffer –  U.S., China, and Rising Tensions in Asia and the Pacific

Joseph Gerson – NATO, Military Tensions U& Uncertainties with Russia

Q & A

2:45 Break

3:00  Panel #3 – Theme: Organizing – Kevin or Jackie chairing – 10 minute each

George Martin – Climate & Militarism

Matt DeVlieger  – Organizing

Alli McCracken – Diversifying Nonviolent Tactics

Cole Harrison or Paul Shannon– GDAMS Organizing and the People’s Budget toward a more issue integrated movement

Judith LeBlanc – Lessons For the Future from Standing Rock

Q & A & Responses

4:00   Small group discussions focused on organizing

5:00    Adjurn