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This is an archived page from the March 5,
2005 conference with pictures added.Workshops
There will be two sets of workshops for people to work together in smaller groups on the aims of the conference: one from 11-12:45, the second from 2-3:45. Facilitators of the workshops are being chosen from the many teacher organizations and student groups participating in the conference. The workshops will explore five threads or questions, so people can choose to follow one thread from morning to afternoon if they choose:
Above left: Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson, Militray Families Speak Out.
Above right: Workshop on Stopping Military Research and Homeland Security Programs on Campus.
Go to:
- Strategies to Stop the War: Organizing in the Teacher Unions.
- Strategies to Stop the War: Organizing on Campuses & in Schools.
- Teaching about the War: Curriculum & Pedagogy.
- What are the Roots of the War?
- Critique of Ideologies that Support the War.
Please note that positions of individual speakers at the conference do not necessarily represent the positions of the sponsoring groups.
- The workshops are still being refined. Below is the list of workshop facilitators and participants as of 2/26/05.
- In addition to the workshops, there will be five videos screened in room 433. Click here for schedule.
A. STRATEGIES TO STOP THE WAR:
ORGANIZING IN THE TEACHER UNIONS
MORNING SESSION, 11-12:45
1. Teacher Unions and Foreign Policy
Manny Ness, PSC, Brooklyn College; Bob Muhlenkamp, USLAW; Sam Pizzigatti, past publisher, NEA Today
2. Antiwar Organizing in Unions: National
Nancy Romer, AFT, Brooklyn College; Rhonda Hanson, NEA Peace & Justice Caucus; John Braxton, AFT, Philadelphia Community College; Fred Mason, Maryland/DC AFL-CIO; USLAW.
3. The War as the Context of Union Contract Struggles
Barbara Bowen, President, AFT Local 2334, PSC; Hector Figueroa, Political Director, SEIU Local 32BJ; Jan Clausen, UAW - New School.
4. Antiwar Struggles in Professional Associations
David Applebaum, Rowan University, Historians against the War; Leo Parascondola, Lehman College, MLA Radical Caucus; Amy Kaplan, U. of Pennsylvania, past president, American Studies Association; Victor Jacarino, Herricks HS, NCTE.
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2-3:45
5. Antiwar Organizing in Union Locals
John Pittman, PSC, John Jay College; Lisa North, UFT; Ivy Leichman, Montgomery County, MD, NEA; Yvonne Baicich, Prince Georges County, MD, NEA: Megan Behrent, UFT.
6. Union Organizing against the Social Costs of the War
Lorraine Cohen, La Guardia Community College, PSC Women’s Committee; Neena Das, Peace Tax Campaign; Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, CUNY; Premilla Nadasen, Queens College.
B. STRATEGIES TO STOP THE WAR:
ORGANIZING SCHOOLS & CAMPUSES
MORNING SESSION, 11-12:45
7. Women, War & Violence
Carol Barton, Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice; Maggie Salas, grad student vet, Brown U.; Christine Ahn, Women of Color Resource Center, Oakland, CA; Ros Petchesky, Hunter College.
8. Repression, Civil & Academic Freedoms, & Attacks on Immigrants
Steve Leberstein, CCNY (ret.), & AAUP Committee A; Derek Pearl,UFT; Madhulika Khandelwal, Queens College; Biju Matheu, Rider College, Taxi Workers Alliance.
9. Creating a Student Antiwar Movement: High School Session
Ashley Bricker & Anne Marie Roderick, Beacon HS, moderators; Martin Haber & student, John Dewey HS; students from Bloomfield, Clara Barton, Hunter College, Kennedy, & Paul Robeson High Schools.10. Creating a Student Antiwar Movement: College Session
Diane Lee Perez, Queens College; Sadegh Robinson, CCNY; Michael Stoll, Hunter College, CAN; Keren Wheeler, Books Not Bombs.
11. Making Alliances with Soldiers, Vets, Resisters, & Military Families: Session 1
Ben Chitty, Queens College, VVAW; Beth Lord, student vet, NYU; Charley Richardson, Military Families Speak Out; Victor Paredes, resister’s brother: IVAW speaker.
12. Stopping Military Research & Homeland Security Programs on Campus
Renate Bridenthal, PSC International Committee; Bill Friedheim, BMCC; Bill Martin, SUNY Binghamton; Joe Dick, SUNY Binghamton.
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2-3:45
13. Recruiters, the Draft, & the Opt-Out Program: High School
Conrad Bennett, Youth Activists Youth Allies Network (YAYA), NYC; Alissa Cherry & Elizabeth Lipschutz, Montclair HS; David Tykulsker, BPFP: Dave Cline, Pres., Veterans For Peace.
14. Recruiters & the Draft: College
Michael Stoll & Chris Dugan (ex-recruiter), Hunter College, Campus Antiwar Network; Sadegh Robinson & Drew Stahl-David, CCNY.
15. Making Alliances with Soldiers, Vets, Resisters, & Military Families: Session 2
Nancy Lessin, Military Families Speak Out; Maggie Salas, grad student vet, Brown; Alex Rybov, IVAW; Susan Mondzak, NY Vets Speak Out on War.
16 The War Budget, Tuition Hikes, & Cuts to Education: A Student-Teacher Alliance
Preston Smith, Mt. Holyoke College, Labor Party; Tony O’Brien, PSC International Committee; Jerry Salak & Shaneeka Fleury, Student Activist Council, Clara Barton HS; Keren Wheeler, Books Not Bombs.
17. Hip Hop to Stop the War
Members of Urban Word.
18. Organizing against Nuclear WeaponsLusmaia Diaz, Beacon HS, & other members of SANITY (Students against Nuclear Insanity and for Tomorrow’s Youth), a project of Educators for Social Responsibility.
19. Countering Campus Right-Wing Attacks: ABOR, the David Project, HR 3077
Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College; Susie Schwartz, student, Columbia Middle Eastern Studies; John Maerhofer, student, Graduate Center, CUNY.
C. TEACHING ABOUT THE WAR:
CURRICULUM & PEDAGOGY
MORNING SESSION, 11-12:45
20. Roundtable 1: Teaching War & Peace, Grades K-6
Tom Roderick, ESR Metro; Paula Rogovin, PS 290; Mary Joan Park, Little Friends for Peace.
21. Teaching 19th & 20th Century British & U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East: A Document-Based Approach, Grades 7-12
Alan Singer, Hofstra U., & social studies teachers.
22. Antiwar Curriculum in Women’s & Gender Studies
Jamie Bianco, Graduate Center, CUNY; Ethel Brooks, Rutgers; Shirley Carrie, graduate student, SUNY Stony Brook.
23. Art to Stop the War: Session 1
Kimiko Hahn, poet, Queens College; Melanie Joseph, director, Foundry Theatre; John O’Hara, U. of Miami; Tami Gold, filmmaker, Hunter College.
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2-3:45
24. Roundtable 2: Teaching War & Peace, Grades 7-12Alan Shapiro, ESR Metro; Janet Gerson, Teachers College Peace Education Center; Jack Gilroy & Barbara Reganspan, STOP THE WAR; Patricia Krueger, Global Kids; Jim Murphy, New York Veterans Speak Out on War; Keith Brooks, UFT; Keith Catone, NYCoRE.
25. Roundtable 3: Teaching War & Peace, College
Greg Maney, Hofstra U., Long Island Teachers for Human Rights; David Applebaum, Rowan U., Historians against the War; Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra.
26. Blood for Oil? Teaching about Economics-Based War, Grades 7-12
Glenn Kissack, Hunter College High School; Sam LeDily, student, Hunter HS; Herb Michael, Clara Barton HS.
27. Teaching Critical Approaches to Media Language and Images of War
Carolyn Birden, Philadelphia Community College, WBAI; Roopali Mukherjee, Queens College; Pat Keeton, Ramapo College of NJ; Danny Schechter, director, WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception.
28. Art to the Stop the War: Session 2
Karen Malpede, playwright, & actors, Iraq: Speaking of War.
D. ROOTS OF THE WAR
MORNING SESSION, 11-12:45
29. Roundtable 1. How to Stop the War: Theories & Strategies
Silvia Federici, Hofstra U., LI Teachers for Human Rights; Damu Smith, Black Voices for Peace, UFPJ: Andy McInerney, Bronx Community College, ANSWER; Medea Benjamin, Code Pink; Jean Anyon, Graduate Center, CUNY. Moderator: Tony O’Brien, PSC International Committee.
30. Iraq Now
Anthony Arnove, author; Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College; Rahul Mahajan, EmpireNotes.org; Alan Benjamin, ILO, USLAW.
31. Middle East Contexts of the War
Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies; Avram Bornstein, John Jay College; Monica Tarazi, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Lauren Langman, Loyola U. of Chicago, Tikkun community; Michael Zweig, SUNY-Stony Brook.
32. Imperial Connections: Iraq & Colombia
Jack Hammond, Hunter College, PSC International Committee; Segundo Pantoja, Borough of Manhattan Community College, PSC International Committee; Helena Ortiz-Stevens, Secondary School for Law.
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2-3:45
33. Roundtable 2. How to Stop the War: Theories & Strategies
Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center, CUNY; Leslie Cagan, UFPJ; Monique Dols, Columbia CAN; Fred Mason, DC/MD AFL-CIO, USLAW. Moderator: Jackie DiSalvo, Baruch College & Graduate Center, CUNY.
34. Iraq & the New Imperialism
David Harvey, Graduate Center, CUNY; Joan Heymont, Boys & Girls HS; Josie Saldaña, Rutgers; Nagesh Rao, Wake Forest U.
35. Globalization, the Permanent War Economy & the War on Terror
Renate Bridenthal, PSC International Committee; Helen Ginsburg, National Jobs for All Coalition; George Caffentzis, U.of So. Maine; Walda Katz-Fishman & Jerome Scott, Project South.
36. Imperial Connections: Iraq & African Wars
Meredeth Turshen, Rutgers U., president, Association of Concerned African Scholars (ACAS); Daniel Volman, Washington DC, ACAS; Asma Abdel Halim, U. of Toledo.
E. CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGIES
THAT SUPPORT THE WAR
MORNING SESSION, 11-12:45
37. Impact of the War on Communities of Color
Cecelia McCall, Baruch College, Secretary, PSC; Joan Beckerman & Tahima Begum, Student Activist Council, Clara Barton HS; Hany Khalil, UFPJ; Michael Dumas, CUNY Grad Ctr.
38. The Politics of Fear & Compulsory Patriotism
Bill Crain, CCNY; Ferentz Lafargue, Eugene Lang College; others: Julissa Reynosa, Columbia U.
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2-3:45
39. Racism & the War
Rod Bush, St. Johns U.; Diane Lee Perez, student, Queens College; Steve Rosenthal, Hampton University; Damu Smith, Black Voices for Peace, UFPJ.
40. American Fascism?
Barbara Foley, Rutgers-Newark; Peter Ranis, PSC International Committee; Kathleen Nolan, student, Graduate Center, CUNY; Rick Maxwell, Queens College.
41. The War on Youth & the War on Terror
Randy Martin, NYU; Rania Jawad, graduate student, NYU; Adam Stevens, UFT.
42. Patriarchy, Masculinity & Torture
Hester Eisenstein, Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY; Jasbir Puar, Rutgers U.; Rhonda Copelon, CUNY Law School; H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers-Newark. Moderator, Wayne Price, UFT.
All screenings in room 433
11 AM - 11:30: "The Ground Truth: The Human Costs of War"
Directed by Patricia Foulkrod, this powerful film includes interviews with soldiers in Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War, as well as parents from Military Families Speak Out.
11:30 AM - 1 PM: "The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terrorism"
Directed by Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy, the documentary goes behind the rhetoric of the Bush administration to explore increasing world competition for energy resources as a key factor in the decision to invade Iraq.
Lunch
2 - 2:50 PM: "Another Brother"
Directed by Tami Gold, CUNY Professor, this is the poignant story of Clarence Fitch, Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist.
2:50 - 3:15 PM: "All That I Can Be"
This is a student-made film on military recruitment.
3:15 - 4 PM: "Weapons of Mass Deception: Inside the Media War You Never Saw"
Directed by Danny Schechter, the film examines how the public was manipulated and taken to war by the Bush administration with the cooperation of the major news networks.
