John Lindsay PolandResearch and advocacy director of Fellowship of Reconciliation and founder of Colombia's Peace Team. Mr. Poland will host the workshop entitled, The Pentagon in Latin America and the Caribbean.
PSA text:
Veterans For Peace invites you to attend its 27th annual national
convention August 8 - 11 at the Miami Marriott - Biscayne Bay (1633
North Bayshore Drive, Miami). The convention features Pulitzer
Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker and Father Roy Bourgeois (initiator
of the School of the Americas Watch at Fort Benning, GA) at the
culminating Saturday night banquet with steel pan entertainment provided
by pannist David DeSousa. Phil Donahue hosts Body of War, his
film about Iraq veteran Tomas Young on opening night Wednesday. Marleine
Bastien, Leah Bolger, DeAnne Graham and Camilo Mejia present at the
opening plenary Thursday morning, and Medea Benjamin, Max Rameau, Dr.
Jill Stein, and Rep. Frederica Wilson speak at the "Veterans Meet the
Community" program Friday evening at Trinity Episcopal Catherdral, next
door to the Marriott.
Movies (free and open to the public) are
featured each day at lunch and in the evening. All activities except
Friday night's event will be in the 3rd floor ballroom of the Marriott.
Banquet tickets are $60, 4 for $200, or a table of 10 for $450. Exciting
and informative workshops and plenaries take place all day Thursday and
Friday (War Trauma/PTSD, Agent Orange, No War on Iran, Close Down the
School of the Americas, Active-Duty GI Resistance, etc). A one-day pass
is $25. For more information (including a schedule of events, workshops,
and plenaries) visit http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org, or contact Patrick
McCann at 240-271-2246 or Email address removed .
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Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985 and has approximately 5,000 members in 150 chapters located in every U.S. state and several countries. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization recognized as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) by the United Nations, and is the only national veterans' organization calling for the abolishment of war.
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