International Conference: Confronting War Ten Years On
9 February 2013 10.30 - 5pm Registration 9.30am Friends House 173 Euston Road London NW1 2BJPlease note changed times for the conference from those previously announced.
LATEST NEWS: Noam Chomsky will be speaking at the conference by live video link. Latest article...
Ten years after the biggest demonstrations in history on February 2003, this conference will discuss and plan opposition to continuing and further wars.
As millions around the world predicted, the war on terror has caused catastrophe from Afghanistan and Pakistan through Iraq and the Middle East to Libya, Somalia and beyond.
The Conference will bring together leading activists and commentators from across the world -- including from Europe, USA, Middle East, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Canada -- to analyse continuing Western aggression and how to confront it.
Speakers include:
Noam Chomsky (by live video link), Tariq Ali, Owen Jones, Tony Benn, Jemima Khan, Mitra Qayoom, Phyllis Bennis, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Salma Yaqoob, Rafeef Ziadah, Sami Ramadani, Manuel Hassassian, Andrew Murray, Seumas Milne, Kate Hudson, Saieb Khalil, Victoria Brittain, Chris Cole, Derrick O'Keefe
For more details see the Confronting War Ten Years On website...ADVANCE BOOKING NOW CLOSED. TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR FROM 9.30AM
Confronting War Today: Timetable
- Plenary 1: The consequences of war (10.30 - 11.45am)
- Parallel Sessions (12.00 - 1.15pm)
- Palestine and the Middle East crisis
- Drones and remote control imperialism
- Art and war
- The new scramble for Africa
- Islamophobia: challenging the new racism
- Lunch (1.15 - 2.15pm)
- Plenary 2: The war on terror today (2.15 - 3.30pm)
- Plenary 3: The international movement (3.45 - 5pm)
