There will be a number of speakers at the conference most from UNAC member groups, friends of UNAC and important people in the movement. However, the conference is for all of us and there will be ample opportunity for all who attend to speak in the workshop and panels and to network with other people and groups.
Some of the speakers will include:
Mnar Adley – Award-winning journalist and editor and founder and director of Mint Press
Nick Estes – Lakota organizer, journalist and historian at the University of Minnesota. He is the cofounder of the Red Nation.
Ajamu Baraka – National Organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace, former Green Party Vice President candidate, UNAC Administrative Committee
Lautaro Sandino – Nicaraguan Ambassador: Currently Head of Mission at the Nicaraguan embassy in Washington DC
Bruce Gagnon – Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Margaret Kimberley – Editor & Senior Columnist for Black Agenda Report, Coordinating Committee of Black Alliance for Peace, UNAC Admin Committee
Omali Yeshitela – Chair of African People’s Party, Founder Uhuru Movement and defendant against government political attacks
Jeff Mackler – Socialist Action, West Coast UNAC, UNAC Administrative Committee
Danaka Katovich – National Co-Director of Code Pink, Coordinates CodePink Middle East campaigns and the Peace Collective
Rhonda Ramiro – Spokesperson of BAYAN, USA, Chair, International League of Peoples’ Struggle, US, UNAC Administrative Committee
Joe Lombardo – UNAC Coordinator
Sara Flounders – International Actions Center, Workers World Party, SanctionsKill Campaign, UNAC Administrative Committee
Bahman Azad – Coordinator US Peace Council, UNAC Administrative Committee
Wyatt Miller – Minnesota Antiwar Committee, UNAC Administrative Committee
Olga Sanabria Davila – Puerto Rican Independista activist, organizer for presence at annual UN Decolonization Committee
John LaForge – Nukewatch Wisconsin
Lee Siu Hin – China-US Solidarity Network, National Immigrant Solidarity Network and
Michael Wong – Vice President Veterans For Peace, Co-Coordinator VFP China Working Group
Richie Merino – Bronx Antiwar Coalition
John Philpot – John Philpot, International Defense Attorney and Just Peace Advocates, Canada
Efia Nwangaza – Exec. Director at Malcolm X Center for Self Determination and Black Alliance for Peace
Pippa Bartolotti – Global Women for Peace United Against NATO and UNAC
Taher Herzallah – Director of Outreach and Grassroots Organizing, American Muslims for Palestine
Husam Marajda – Co-Chair of US Palestinian Communities Network Chicago.
Rania Salem – member of US Palestinian Communities Network-Chicago
Meredith Aby – Minnesota Anti-War Committee
Janine Solanki – Chair of Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO)
Yasmin Hirsi – Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment – RISE
Erica Caines – Black Alliance for Peace – Haiti/Americas Team
Brianna Tomci – Black Alliance for Peace – Americas Zone of Peace
Alison Bodine – The Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice
John Parker – Struggle LaLucha, Peace and Freedom Party 37th District congressional candidate
Phil Wilayto – Editor, The Virginia Defender; Coordinator, Odessa Solidarity Campaign
Mick Kelly – Editor Fight Back News, Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Tom Burke– Organizational secretary, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Free Alex Saab Support Committee, Simon Trinidad Campaign
William Camacaro – Venezuelan-U.S. Coordinator of Alex Saab Support Committee, Staff member, Alliance for Global Justice
Gerry Condon – Task Force on the Americas, past President of Veterans For Peace
Arjae Red – Worker organizer with Starbucks Workers United in Buffalo, Exec Committee Workers World Party
David Paul – DSA San Francisco, Embassy Protection Collective, SanctionsKill Campaign
Roger Harris – Task Force on the Americas, SanctionsKill Campaign, U.S. Peace Council
Colleen Rowley – Twin Cities Assange Defense, FBI Whistleblower
Dee Knight – DSA International Committee, Author of A Realistic Path to Peace
Tom Baker – President of Ontario New Democratic Party, Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, Socialist Action Canada Central Committee
Sarah Martin – Retired Nurse, Board Member of Women Against Military Madness (WAMM)
Mel Underbakke – Deputy Executive Director of Coalition for Civil Freedoms focused on abuses of the U.S. domestic “War on Terror.”
Ambassador Dr. Sidi Omar, Representative of the Frente POLISARIO at the United Nations and Coordinator with MINURSO
and more…