W. Pitt in the Bay Area soon?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

Am I on crack or do I remmeber reading awhile ago that our very own WR Pitt would be making a local appearance around this time?

Help me out here folks!

[GOPisEvil]

1. He's speaking the Veterans for Peace convention...

...I think that is 2nd week in August...don't know about any more than that.

[Aristus]

2. Who cares? (Sorry, San Franciscans)

When is he coming to Seattle!?!

[Tinoire]

3. Here's the info

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/2003conv.htm

Veterans For Peace is offering a one-year membership, Associate for non-vets or Full for vets, to non-members who sign up for the convention only at $100.00. Alternatively, we can offer attendance to one workshop and lunch for $25. (Lunch will require registration by no later than August 6.)

AUGUST 8:

8:00 am: Opening Ceremony at the Horseshoe garden

Breakout Sessions: Five sessions at 9, 10:30, 1, 2:30, 4:00 (Lunch provided from 12-1). Each workshop will be 1 hour 15 minutes with a 15-minute break. Possible breakouts sessions include (in no particular order):

Economic Costs of Modern War - Joseph Farah

Deadly Litter: Dep
Nuclear Issues (Proliferation, First-use, Tactical) - Charles Sheehan-Miles, Tara Dorabji

Domestic Repression & Constitutional rights - Sanjeev Bery, Sonya Kaleel

Countering Recruitment of Youth - Veterans Speaking in Schools - Howard Welsh, Ken Kayers, Rick Jankow, Frank Houde, John Amidon

G.I. Rights Hotline - Steve Morse, Teresa Panepinto, Marc Liggin, Tom Kerlin

Joining Anti-War Activism with Struggles for Justice - Making Alliances (Building a Multi-racial Veterans Movement) - Betita Martinez, Van Jones, Ricky Saucedo

Veterans' Projects in Asia - Jhai Project (Laos), Vietnam Friendship Village - Lee thone, Becky Luening

Standing up to Militarism, from the DR Congo to Here - Jacques Depelchin

Current US Interventions: Afghanistan, Colombia, the Phillipines - Alex Their, John Lindsay Poland

Palestine/Israel - Hatem Basian,UCB, Barbara Lubin

Korea - John Kim, Laul Liem, Brian Willson

Non-violent Direct Action - Jonah House, SOAW - McGregor Eddy, Ellen Barfield, Elizabeth McAllister

Indigenous People and Military Nuclear and Uranium issues - Samuel Heredia

The Iraq War/Veterasn In Iraq - Ward Hudson, Ted Sexauer, Hatem Basian, UCB

Veterans Needs and Support for Veterans - Kym Valadez

Legal Overview of Veterans Issues - Elinor Roberts

Lessons of Recent Veterans' Anti-War Actions/Working Out Strategies

Opposing Militarism - David Cline, Michael Uhl, Woody Powell

We Showered Together - Gay Veterans and Gays in the Military -Michael Job, Eric Johansson, Rene Puletti, Michael Felker, Dunwel

Veterans and Anti-War Labor - Ben Holgate, John Cunninghom

Relating to Traditional Veterans Groups and Issues of Veterans' Buildings - Paul Cox, Brooks

Using the Web for Social Change - Seth Pollack

Getting Your Writings Published and Marketed - William Lloyd Roller, Woody Powell

Successes and Experiences of VFP Chapter Development - Sharon Kufeldt, Dave Cline

Writers' Workshops (for both experienced and prospective writers)

Veterans' Writers' Project - Maxine Hong Kingston, Claire Morris

Department of Peace - O'Kelly McCluskey

The Lessons of GI and Veterans Organizing During the Vietnam War Era - Gerry Nicosia

Writer's Workshops

Writers’ Workshop (for both experienced and prospective writers) Veterans' Writers' Project

Getting Your Writings Published and Marketed .

Banquet at Cathedral Hill Hotel
5:30p No host bar
6:30p Dinner. Keynote speaker:
Congressman Jim McDermott WA - see Fear Factory
William Rivers Pitt – columnist on Truthout.org


Will is on the 8th. If all we want to see is Will, then we can sign up for just the banquet at $30. Use the same registration on the web-site they say... Register through web-site for one banquet only...

Will Pitt and Jim McDermott... And will be broadcast by C-Span .

I'm not going unless Will agrees to go out for a drink with us! :)

Peace