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 5-7 April 2013
 Baltimore, Maryland
 “The New Faces Of War”A Conference for Historians and Activists
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 Historians Against the War General Plenary Takeaways 
     Solidarity actions with places which are still militarily colonized by the United States, especially areas in Southeast Asia or the Pacific theaterBaltimore Peace Activists: Join a national organization and pledge a local peace groupOutreach through HAW to the visual artist communityCampus organizations for students, professors, and activists which target both peace activism and globalization awareness and protest movementsAlways room for working with the military to build antiwar effortsBlockade arms flows through ports, supply bases as a form of protest, activismRight to Heal campaign: activism for investigation of abuses against both soldiers and those abroad. For more information, please see: http://www.righttoheal.org. Demilitarizing the budget as a way to demilitarize the federal government as a whole, activism during ‘Tax Day’ as a means for this. For more information, please see http://www.demilitarize.org. After Tax Day, please see http://www.peace.action.org. Maryland United for Peace and Justice’s 26th Annual Conference in Hyattsville, Maryland on April 12th (evening) and 13th (all day).Awareness campaigns for student attendance at HAW conferences, need for new generation of peace activistsEdit Wikipedia to help direct the public online narrative toward a more truthful telling of historyBe Bradley Manning, i.e. be angry in a smart way, match intelligence with activismFight the war industries in your hometownGoogle Search: Amnesty International + Kim Rivera: need for letters for her court martial. General amnesty campaign as well as donors needed. For more information, please see: http://www.resisters.ca. Global climate change as another new face of war?Need for a local face against the war, local citizens must understand how real the issues are to themMore and more U.S. military bases are becoming drone ports: need for blockade here as wellJericho Movement: advocating for those who have been political prisoners. For more information, please see http://www.thejerichomovement.com.April 2013: month of activism against drone warfare. For more information, please see: http://www.worldcantwait.net. Also, http://www.warcriminalswatch.org. April 11: day of awareness for the Hunger strike in Guantanamo organized by Center for Constitutional Rights and World Can’t WaitDallas, TX: Protest day at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential LibraryDelegations abroad to show citizens of other countries that war is not the face of the United StatesNeed for an online compiled source list of news sources and resources for research and activismDefending Dissent Foundation: building a ‘civil liberties wikipedia’ for online resources and compendium. For more information, please see http://www.defendingdissent.org.National Security Archive: good source for background information. Sources range from declassified gov docsConference for a cross-discipline social scientists to share resources and ideasAbandon fear and speak truth to power: one of the core pillars of activismWithdraw economic support from repressive institutions as a method for activismVeterans for Peace: Please seek more information at http://www.veteransforpeace.org.Concentration of efforts on the cutting edge of peace movements, target issues like Bradley Manning and Drone WarfareBaltimore caucus for activismNeed for academic research on tabulating the ‘new’ costs of war, including the humanity costsHuman rights Working Group at Johns Hopkins: moratorium on drone researchVote for presidential candidates who support the peace efforthttp://www.Aneta.org Association for Nine Eleven Truth Awareness. Raise consciousness about world peace starting with individual peace, meditation as a method for individual peace. For more information please see: http://www.tm.org. http://www.goldendome.org. website for resources connecting those who meditate simultaneously to raise national consciousness from the population center of the United States in Fairfield, Iowa.http://www.Upstatedroneaction.org. Conference April 26-28 in Syracuse, NY.http://www.rafbaltimore.org. Deadline April 22nd to submit grants for progressive Baltimore organizations up to $2,500List of other website of interest: http://www.psysr.org – psychologists for social responsibility, http://www.mediatorsbeyondborders.org, http://www.transcend.org. 
  Historians Against the War is a network of history teachers, scholars,
   and activists seeking to bring historical analysis to bear on U.S. foreign
   policy and its social/political impact. To find out more, visit the HAW
   website at www.historiansagainstwar.org. The first HAW conference "Empire, Resistance, and the War in Iraq: A Conference for Historians and Activists" was held at the University of Texas, Austin, February 17-19, 2006. The second HAW conference "War And Its Discontents: Understanding Iraq And The U.S. Empire" was co-sponsored with the Peace History Society and held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 11-13, 2008. |