Teach-In Schedule

9:30-10:
Set up for lit tables

10-10:30:
Refreshments and Lit Tables ready

10:30-11:
Welcome, Opening Remarks, Framing the day's events

11-11:55:
Session A:
Lessons of the Vietnam Anti-War Movement and Iraq
Peter Solenburger and Arney Stieber of Vietnam Vets Against the War

Session B:
The War on Terror and US Foreign Policy
Judy Kullberg, EMU Professor and Activist

12-12:55:
Session A:
The Politics of Oil: The Reality of Imperialism
Charles Simmons, EMU Professor and Activist

Session B:
The War at Home, The War on the Poor, and Hurricane Katrina
Karen Schaumann, EMU professor and Activist

1-2:30:
Session A: Film: Tragedy in the Holy Land
An Introduction to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict;
Hosted by Henry Herskovitz and Shirley Zimple
of the Jewish Witnesses for Peace and
The Middle East Film Society

Session B:
(1-1:40): International Solidarity and the Labor Movement
Ron Lare

Session C:
(1:45-2:30): The Counter Recruitment Movement"

2:30-3:
Break

3-3:55:
Session A:
The Democrats and War: A History
Matt Siegfried, Writer for Z Magazine, Counterpunch,
and the Irishi Republican journal Fourthwrite

Session B:
Exit Strategies, the united Nations, and Self-Determination
David Finkel, editor of Against the Current Magazine"

4-4:45:
Speak-Out led by Deisha Miles, Local Anti-War Poet

5-5:55:
Lila Lipscomb: Goldstar Mother For Peace
on her road to activism and the New anti-war movement Halle Auditorium

6-7:30:
Panel: Which Way Forward for the Anti-War Movement: Strategies of Resistance
Includes: Giselle Gerolomi of Solidarity,
Phil Caroll of Ann Arbor Coalition Against the War,
Phillis Engelbert of Peaceworks,
Eric Van De Vort of Vets for Peace, and others"

EMU Teach-in Against the Occupation

[Download Teach-in Flyer]

What: Teach-In Against the Occupation
When: Monday September 26th, 10 am to 7pm
Where: Eastern Michigan University: The Halle Library and McKinney Union
Who: All campus and community members and activists are welcomed, invited and encouraged to come join in this day of education and activism

As leaders in our community, it is our responsibility to inform our families, neighbors, and friends of the lies and horrors of the occupation. It is our duty to connect the dots between wanton military spending and the lack of educational resources and healthcare in our communities. It is our duty to connect the dots between US imperialism's policies and racism, sexism, and religious intolerance around the globe. It is our duty to recognize, raise our voices in opposition, and change the problems in our community, country and world. We are leaders in our community. We form the anti-war movement for Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. We are the anti-war movement: You are the anti-war movement and I am the anti-war movement. We need to move, we need to step-up, we need act. If we don't, who will?

As more and more people have begun to question, to oppose and become active against the US occupation in Iraq a new anti-war movement is taking shape across the country. Join students, faculty, members of the community and activists for a day-long speak out and teach-in on the occupation of Iraq. September 26th, 10am-7pm at the Bruyce T. Halle library at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Workshops, pleneries, and discussions on the many aspects of US policy in the Middle East and the wider "War on Terrorism" including the terrible costs of the war at home. Discussions on GI resistance, the economy of war, women in the "New" Iraq, civil liberties and the burgeoining counter-recruitment movement across the country.

Speakers include local and national activists:

• Lila Lipscomb, the Gold Star Mother whose story was chronicled in the movie Farenheit 911
  
• US Labor Against the War (USLAW)
  
• Matt Siegfried, writer for Counterpunch, Z Magazine and the Irish Republican journal Fourthwrite
  
• David Finkle, editor of Against the Current Magazine
• Karen Schaumann, EMU professor and activist speaking on The War at Home: The War on the Poor
  

Some of the long-term goals for the teach-in include :

• To connect the dots between imperialist policies to inform our families, neighbors, and friends of the lies and horrors of the occupation
• To connect the dots between wanton military spending and the lack of educational, healthcare and other resources in our communities
• To connect the dots between US imperialism's policies and racism, sexism, and religious intolerance around the globe
• To recognize, raise our voices in opposition, and change the problems in our community, country and world
• To act in solidarity with the many college and university campuses holding student strikes against university military and weapons research and spending
• To build stronger ties among labor, welfare rights, anti-war, minority, anti-racist, and other progressive groups in our community
• To build a strong local anti-war movement

Join us in building the movement!

Update: Its vastly important that working class families be heard and that organizers enable their participation in events such as these. To do our part, we are providing free childcare for those who need it. Please call in ahead of time if you need childcare, or have questions about any other assistance. 1 (734) 709-0520