Organizer's Conference for Active Duty Military War Resistance

BRIDGING THE GAP: MAKING IT HAPPEN
An Organizers Conference

April 5, 2008, 10 AM
Middle Collegiate Church
50 East 7th St.,
New York, New York

http://thewarstopshere.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/bridging-the-gap-making-...

POLITICIANS CAN’T BE COUNTED ON TO HALT THE BLOODSHED
THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE WAR

THIS IS AN ORGANIZERS CONFERENCE FOR PEOPLE WHO WISH TO ACT TOGETHER TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN CIVILIANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES BY DIRECT CONTACT

Speakers In Alphabetical Order [Partial List]
Thomas Barton, The Military Project & GI Special
Daniel Joseph Black, Iraq Veterans Against The War
Richard Boyle, Vietnam War Reporter; Author, Flower Of The Dragon
Elaine Brower, The Military Project & Traveling Soldier & Military Families Speak Out
Fabian Bouthillette, Iraq Veterans Against The War & The Military Project
J.D. Englehart, Iraq Veterans Against The War & The Military Project & Traveling Soldier
Mike Hastie, Photographer, Vietnam Veteran
Al Jacoma, Vietnam Veterans Against The War
Michael Letwin, New York City Labor Against The War & The Military Project
Garett Reppenhagen, Iraq Veterans Against The War
Dennis Serdel, Poet, Vietnam Veteran
Clarence Thomas, Local 10, The International Longshore and Warehouse Union

Program:
10 AM - NOON: FIRST HAND REPORTS ON SENTIMENT AGAINST THE WARS IN THE ARMED FORCES & OUTREACH TO THE TROOPS [Organizing Tactics In The Real World]
1:00 - 1:30 PM: RESISTANCE THROUGH EVOCATION: PHOTOGRAPHS, POEMS; Mike Hastie & Dennis Serdel, Vietnam Veterans
1:30 - 3 PM: TROOPS RESIST WAR; VIETNAM AND IRAQ: EYEWITNESSES: Richard Boyle, Vietnam War Reporter; Garett Reppenhagen & J.D. Englehart, Iraq Veterans Against The War; Al Jacoma, Vietnam Veterans Against The War
3:30 – 5 PM: ON GUARD: “WE NEVER SWORE TO OBEY; WE SWORE TO DEFEND” Daniel Joseph Black, Iraq Veterans Against The War
5 - 6:30 PM: IRAQ VETERANS + UNION WORKERS = HISTORY IN MOTION: Michael Letwin & Clarence Thomas
10 AM: OUTREACH TO THE TROOPS

[Organizing Tactics In The Real World]
Fabian Bouthillette, Iraq Veterans Against The War & The Military Project

1:30PM: TROOPS RESIST WAR; VIETNAM AND IRAQ: EYEWITNESSES
Richard Boyle, Vietnam War Reporter; Author; Flower Of The Dragon
Garett Reppenhagen & J.D. Englehart, Iraq Veterans Against The War

5 PM: IRAQ VETERANS + UNION WORKERS = HISTORY IN MOTION
Clarence Thomas, Local 10, The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, San Francisco

Vietnam Soldiers: Their Resistance Stopped An Imperial War

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY:
The Military Project: contact@militaryproject.org
[With the assistance of Traveling Soldier & GI Special]

OCCUPATION ISN’T LIBERATION ALL TROOPS HOME NOW!