Panel Discussion
Natural Bliss - Hip-Hop Artist
Mia Campbell - Politicin' with the Sisters, Women's Fightback Network, FIST
Jon Regis - Justice for Hector Rivas Committee
Tyneisha Bowens - National FIST organizer
School Auditorium - 127 East 22nd Street - New York City
9:00 a.m. Registration
10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Conference Sessions
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Conference Sessions

The U.S. Congress is preparing to recess. The White House moves to Texas. The puppet Iraqi Congress is set to take the month of August off. But the occupation, the war, the murder of Iraqis and the dying of U.S. troops goes on, and more money goes to the U.S. military-industrial complex....
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Ahmad Kawash - Palestine American Congress, Palestine American Congress and long-time Palestinian activist; Ahmad has just returned after spending a month in Lebanon and Jordan.\\
Update on the Organizing for the September 22-29 Anti-War Encampment in Front of Congress and the September 29 National March on Washington DC
A major lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) anti-war coalition—AskTellAct (www.asktellact.org)—dominated this year’s LGBT Pride march in Boston on June 9. It was the biggest anti-war contingent in Boston LGBT history—and the single biggest group in this year’s march....
Featuring:
Monica Moorehead - Workers World Party leader, managing editor of WWP newspaper, coordinator of Millions for Mumia & editor of "Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle"
Larry Hales - Larry is a national leader of F.I.S.T. (Fight Imperialism Stand Together). Larry has written extensively on the historical role of culture in resistance movements for Workers World newspaper
Dorothea Peacock - Women's Fightback Network
Update on the recent victorious struggle to reopen the South Side Boys & Girls Club in Providence, RI
New World View Forum book on African American history and resistance.
Essays cover the meaning of the ongoing Katrina catastrophe; and
building Black-Brown unity and solidarity against oppression.
These essays, from a variety of folks working on a number of Black struggles, testify to the central truth that Black History is the epic saga of resistance, rebellion and revolt. These struggles show us all that true freedom is still an objective to be attained, rather than a reality. What, pray tell, did Katrina show us? — Mumia Abu-Jamal, author, We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party; political prisoner
Other races or people have received reparations for crimes committed against them, such as Japanese people and Jewish people. Slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade were crimes against humanity. Reparations for African Americans are long overdue. The issue of reparations has always led me to think more and more about my right to ‘forty acres and a mule.’ When people in the Black community read this book they will be motivated to fight back. — Robert Traynham, USWA Local 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers; former Black Panther Party member
This powerfully—and passionately—written book reveals how descendants of those who got rich from enslaving African peoples grow ever wealthier today with that capital in their vaults. Within these pages is fl esh-and-blood understanding that the demand for reparations— justice, delayed and denied—is a component of a dynamic struggle for national liberation that has raged since mass kidnap pings of millions of people from Africa, the holocaust of the Middle Passage and enslavement. No justice? No peace! — Leslie Feinberg, award-winning author, Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors, Trans Liberation, & Drag King Dreams; activist