A Day-Long Educational Teach-in: What the Media Won't Tell You.....

What the Media Won't Tell You: The Case Against the War
A Day-Long Educational Teach-in
Saturday, December 8, 10:00am - 7:00pm
San Francisco State University
19th Avenue and Holloway
Burk Hall (behind Student Center)
(Accessible by M Muni Streetcar or #26 Valencia bus, or go to the Balboa BART station and take the free #28 bus)
Sponsored by: Town Hall Committee to Stop War & Hate
For more info: http://www.sftownhall.org, or call 415-970-3890 or 510-268-9429



Teach-in schedule:

10:00am Registration

10:30am Workshops
*Effects of 9/11 on People of Color RIVA ENTEEN, Bay Area Director, National Lawyers Guild
*Anti-war activism in the Vietnam Era TOM CONDIT, Peace & Freedom Party
*Lay-offs, Bailouts: The Price of War at Home JACK RASMUS, Ph.D. in Political Economy; MICHAEL EISENCHER, Director of Organizational Development University Council AFT, co-coordinator of Labor for Peace and Justice
*Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan STEVEN TOBIN, Acting in Solidarity with Afghan People (ASAP); DEBORAH JAMES, Global Exchange, member of recent Human Rights Fact-finding Mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan
*How the Media Sell the War SAM LAYMOUN, media analyst; JESS GHANNAM, Professor of Psychology at UCSF; GEORGE AZAR, photojournalist formerly with the Philadelphia Inquirer; ALISON WEIR, freelance journalist
*History of Afghanistan HATEM BAZIAN, lecturer in UC Berkeley's Center on the Middle East;
JOHN TRUE, former Peace Corp Director in Afghanistan
*US Militarism in Latin America and How It Has Increased Since 9/11 DEBORAH SANTANA, Ethnic Studies at Mills College/Puerto Rican Activist; LAWRENCE REICHARD, Rural Economic Alternative Program (REAP) and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); RAMON ACEVEDO, Comite por una Nueva Colombia
*Slideshow:"The Face of Occupation" PENNY ROSENWASSAR, Jews for Justice

12:00pm Lunch
*Multi-media room: various short vidoes presented

1:00pm Panels

*Alternatives to War
LETICIA ARELLANO, SFSU student and International Socialist Organization member
PROFESSOR ANN FAGAN GINGER, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
EYAD KASHOWI, Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee

*Why the U.S. was Targeted
PHIL GASPAR, Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame de Namur University
CRISTINA VASQUEZ, speaking on issues of U.S. in Latin America
NOURA ERAKAT, Students for Justice in Palestine/ADC

*Video presentation
PAUL GEORGE, Director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Presenting a video of a recent speech by Hans Von Sponeck, former UN Assistant Secretary General

3:00pm Workshops
*The United States, The Cold War, Islam, and Terrorism in the Middle East JOEL BEININ, Professor, Middle East History at Stanford University
*Escalation of War TODD CHRIETIAN, Town Hall Committee and International Socialist Organization
*Palestine, the Current Crisis, and the Alleged Clash of Civilizations MOHAMMAD SIDDIQ, Professor at UC Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies; JESS GHANNAM, Professor at UCSF and head of San Francisco Al-Awda; ALISON WEIR, journalist
*Women and War NANCY REIKO KATO, National Radical Women Organizer and SF Examiner columnist; DENISE ALVARADO, Comite 98 por un Puerto Rico Libre; THERESE MUGANNAM, long-time Palestinian activist
*Oil, Drugs and Geopolitics CARWILL JAMES, Project Underground; PHIL GASPAR, Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame de Namur University; Representative from Lindesmith Center on Drug Policy Reform
*Corporate Globalization and War JEFF MACKLER, Socialist Action and the Mobilization to Free Mumia; Representative from International Forum on Globalization
*Vietnam: Lessons from the first successful anti-war movement against an American war
CAROLE SELIGMAN, Town Hall Committee
*Slide Show: The Economy, pre- and post-9/11 RICHARD WALKER, Professor, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley

4:45pm Poetry Reading
SHAILJA PATEL, performance poet, reading new pieces

5:00pm Panels

*Defending Civil Liberties
DAVEY D, fired DJ from KMEL and host of KPFA’s “Hard Knock Radio”
ELLIOTT GROSSMAN, Attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal

*Building the Anti-war Movement: Where Do We Go from Here?
ANDREA DEHLENDORF, Organizing Director SEIU 1877, co-coordinator of Labor For Peace
JEFF PATERSON, Marine who refused to fight in the Gulf War
VIVIAN SCOTT, Organizer with Berkeley Students against the War




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JESS GHANNAM

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415 726 3951 (Tel)

415 921 8095 (Fax)