PROGRAM
Saturday, March 7th
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM Eastern time
CINDY SHEEHAN:
WELCOME: WOMEN, MOTHERS AND US IMPERIALISM
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| Cindy Sheehan at March on the Pentagon 2018 |
Cindy is the Gold Star Mother of Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq
on April 4th 2004. Cindy has been involved in the peace and social
justice movement ever since. She is currently on the board of Directors
of Women's March on the Pentagon and Producer/Host of Cindy Sheehan's
Soapbox. In 2005, Cindy set up camp outside of President George W.
Bush's Texas ranch, demanding a meeting with the president in hopes of
receiving an explanation for her son's death. Cindy was also a vocal
critic of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. Cindy lives near her
surviving children and is the proud "Gigi" of her five grandchildren.
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RANDI NORD:
WOMEN OF YEMEN AND SYRIA UNDER US IMPERIALISM
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| Randi Nord |
Randi Nord is a MintPress News staff writer. She is also co-founder of
Geopolitics Alert where she covers U.S. foreign policy in the Middle
East with a special focus on Yemen.
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MADELYN HOFFMAN AND DIANE MOXLEY:
WOMEN AND ALTERNATIVE ELECTORAL POLITICS UNDER US IMPERIALISM
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| Madelyn Hoffman |
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Madelyn was Executive Director of the Grass Roots Environmental
Organization (GREO) from 1983-98 where she worked with grassroots
citizen groups and communities in New Jersey to clean toxic chemical
pollution and oppose new polluting facilities. From 2000-18, she
was Executive Director of a now 61 year old grassroots peace
organization, working to end and prevent war and to move money from the
war budget into needed programs. Since June, Madelyn has worked with the
Green Party of New Jersey on an agenda that combines work for a clean
environment with work for peace.
Madelyn is on the Board of Women March on the Pentagon; member of
the US Peace Council. and also a member of the Green Council for the
Green Party of NJ.
She is an adjunct professor of political science and public speaking and has traveled as a peacemaker to:
Afghanistan
Palestine
Tunisia
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Syria
Colombia
Venezuela
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| Diane Moxley |
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Diane is an activist and an attorney. As a member of the Green Party of New Jersey, she is in a
state leadership capacity on the Green Council. She embraces the Green Party platform of people,
planet, and peace over profit. Diane was a legal services attorney in Newark, NJ for over 14
years. She has been involved with activism in New Jersey and across the country, including getting
money out of politics, fighting pipelines and fossil fuels, advocating for healthcare for all, fighting for
immigrants’ rights and economic justice. She has stood against racism, imperialism, the military
industrial complex, mass incarceration, and more. Diane currently organizes with Extinction
Rebellion (with a focus on environmental justice communities) and The Peace Congress in NJ. She
is on the Board of Directors of the March on the Pentagon. She is also a member of the U.S. Peace
Council, as well as member of Socialist Party.
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LISA DAVIS:
WOMEN AND BLACK LIBERATION UNDER US IMPERIALISM
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| Lisa Davis |
Lisa Davis is a long time strong community activist in NJ who has been passionately committed to the
Black Liberation Struggle for over 30 years. She started out at the age of 19 being the youngest person
ever elected to serve on the Democratic County committee in her hometown, but soon found a stronger
and truer voice in the grassroots movement of the people’s struggles and has made a conscientious
choice to stand with the people ever since. From being actively involved in the struggle to end
apartheid, to fighting to end police brutality and stop and frisk, Lisa vows to remain committed to the
struggles of oppressed people everywhere.
Today she is a member of the People's Organization for Progress, the vice-chair of the Black is Back
Coalition (BIBC) and chair of its Healthcare Working Group, which is tasked with the mission of
establishing an advocacy network of revolutionary people who are involved in healthcare, be it
naturopathic or allopathic, and who are committed to challenging the paradigm of this current racist, for
profit, medical system. And whereas she commends the Black Liberation Struggle for being on the
forefront of fighting against the abuses of a racist judicial and law enforcement society, she is adamant
that we must become equally as vocal about the devastating effects of structural racism in medicine.
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EMMA (FIALA) SRON:
WOMEN AND THE COMMUNITY UNDER US IMPERIALISM
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| Emma at March on the Pentagon in 2018 |
Emma is an activist, documentary photographer, mom of two, and
independent journalist. She is on the board of Women Against Military
Madness. Emma is an editorial assistant at MintPress News and a
journalist and editor at The Mind Unleashed. Her articles have been
featured on MintPress, the Anti-Media, Zero Hedge, the Mind Unleashed
and Media Roots. She previously interned with Empire Files with Abby
Martin, visited Standing Rock, and organized a grassroots rescue effort
in Texas after Hurricane Harvey. Emma lives in Minnesota where she
frequently participates in and photographs local protests and actions.
She is MOP's webmaster and social media guru as well as on the Executive Board.
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SUE ANN MARTINSON:
WOMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT UNDER US IMPERIALISM
Sue Ann
Sue Ann Martinson has participated in antiwar/pro-peace activity over
the years with the Honeywell Project, Alliant Action, Veterans for Peace
and as a long-time member of Women Against Military Madness. In she was
part of Stop the Reroute (of Highway 55) and Save Coldwater Springs,
organized with young activists and the Mendota Dakota Mdewakanton
Community. A writer and editor, her latest peace and justice activities
center around publishing a blog, Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and
Peace, that focuses on the media and militarism, while posting timely
news analysis about climate crisis and the environment, racism, and the
many current issues that require activism in this Rise Up Times. While
RiseUpTimes.org focuses on in-depth articles and commentary, on her
personal Facebook page she posts local events and petitions about many
issues. Her interest in the environment goes back many years to before
we understood the effects of climate change, when she published an
article in the WAMM Newsletter about the devastation of the environment
being as great a threat to the future of the planet as nuclear war.
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MNAR MUHAWESH:
WOMEN IN PALESTINE UNDER US IMPERIALISM and ISRAELI COLONIALISM
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| Mnar Muhawesh |
Mnar is founder, CEO and editor in chief of MintPress News, and is also a
regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, and
neoconservativism within the media. Mnar spent time living in Palestine
as a child. She began her career as an independent multimedia journalist
covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil
liberties and social justice issues. In 2009, Mnar became the first
American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American
media.
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LUCY PAGOADA-QUESADA:
WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA UNDER US IMPERIALISM and SANCTIONS
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| Lucy Pagoada-Quesada |
Lucy Pagoada-Quesada, is
the mother of a teenage son, a New York City Department of Education
High School Teacher, Human Rights defender, political and social
activist. She is also the official Coordinator
of The LIBRE Party, USA-Canada, which is the political Arm of the
Honduran Resistance, coordinated in Honduras by President Manuel Zelaya,
overthrown from power via a US military backed coup in 2009, under the
administration of president Barack Obama and his
Secretary of State of State Hillary Clinton. Lucy is a host of the
Radio Program "Voices of Resistance" at WBAI, 99.5 FM, NY.
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JESSICA SWIM:
WOMEN AND ORGANIZING AGAINST US IMEPRIALISM
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| Jessica Swim |
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F.U.R.I.E.
Jessica
lives in Chicago where she organizes with local political group and
Women's March on the Pentagon sponsor, Feminist Uprising to Resist
Inequality and Exploitation (FURIE). Jessica is also a head editor and
contributor to FURIE's literary journal, The PanWomanist.
Final thoughts, questions, announcements?
(Cindy)
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