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Of drones, warlords and the Taliban: Ending the U.S./NATO Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Canadian Peace Alliance & Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Chair:
Sonali Kolhatkar - Co-Director, Afghan Women's Mission Executive producer of Uprising, a syndicated radio show produced at KPFK Pacifica Radio
Derrick O'Keefe - Co-chair of the Canadian Peace Alliance; wrote the book "A Woman Among Warlords" with Afghan parliamentarian and activist Malalai Joya.
Adaner Usmani - Labor Party of Pakistan (LPP) and Action for a Progressive Pakistan
The Gaza Freedom March: Lessons and Challenges
Chair: Alan Goodman - Revolution Newspaper, Gaza Freedom March
Diane Harriford
Felice Gelman
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
Chair: Michael Zweig
Chris Vongsawat - confirmed - Iraq Veterans Against the War
Mindy Gershon - confirmed - 1199 SEIU US Labor Against the War
Michael Zweig - Center for Study of Working Class Life SUNY Stony Brook
Confronting the "Museum of Tolerance" and the Mamilla Cemetery
(organization) Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
Chair: Joel Kovel
Michael Steven Smith - Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
Iran: Current State of Affairs
Chair: Reza Ghorashi
Thomas O'Donnell - New School, University og Michigan
Reza Ghorashi - Reza Ghorashi has a Ph.D. in economics from Fordham University and teaches at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His areas of research and interest are international trade, globalization, and the Middle East, particularly Iran. He has published artic
Hamid zangeneh - Profesor of EconomicsWidener University, Editor of JIRA
Afghanistan: Should We Stay or Should We Go? A Critical Conversation
Foreign Policy In Focus
Chair: Mark Engler
David Wildman -
Sunita Viswanath - Women for Afghan Women
Additional panelist TBA
The Left and prospects for democracy in the Middle East: Iraq
Platypus
Chair: Laura Lee Schmidt
Siyaves Azeri - Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI)
Kanan Makiya - Brandeis University
Christopher Cutrone - Platypus Affiliated Society
The Left and prospects for democracy in the Middle East: Iran
Platypus
Chair: Laura Lee Schmidt
Siyaves Azeri - Worker, Communist Party of Iran
Hamid Debashi - Columbia University
Christopher Cutrone - Platypus Affiliated Society
Afghanistan/Pakistan/Yemen: Obama's New War
International Socialist Review
Richard Seymour, Lenin's Tomb
Saadia Toor, Action for a Progressive Pakistan, College of Staten Island
Ashley Smith, International Socialist Review