University of California, Berkeley (map)
MCC-Heller Lounge- MLK Student Union
Lower Sproul Plaza, Bancroft and Telegraph
(Wheelchair Accessible)
9am-6:30pm

Organized by: 
Critical Response and Intervention for a Sustainable Ethnic Studies (CRISES), UC Berkeley, Historians against the War, and War Times/Tiempo de Guerras

UCB Co-Sponsors:  Arab Student Union, Cross-cultural Student Development, Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC), Students for Justice in Palestine, Visuality and Alternity Working Group, Xinaxtli de UCB

PROGRAM

9-9:30 AM: Welcome and Introductions by sponsors

9:30-10: Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers: Secrets and Lies in the Vietnam War and the Iraq War 

Introduced by Daphne Taylor-García, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicana/o Studies, UC Santa Barbara

10—11 AM: Panel on Torture, Aggressive War & Presidential Power: The Constitutional Crisis

•  Anne Weills, Civil Rights Attorney
•  Dennis Cunningham, Civil Rights Attorney
•  Tom Reifer, University of San Diego, Associate Fellow of Transnational Institute

Moderator: John Hayakawa Torok, Critical Race Theorist, Ethnic Studies, UCB; UCSB

11AM-noon: U.S. interventionism

•  Sami Kitmitto, Arab Resource and Organizing Center
•  Paco Ignacio Taibo III, activist, writer: Mexico 1968 and after
•  Andrej Grubacic, Global Commons: "humanitarian intervention" in the Balkans
•  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historians against the War

Moderator: Neda Atanasoski, Assistant Professor, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

12-1:30 PM: "A Time to Stir" Film clips and discussion with Director Paul Cronin
The film is a work in progress that documents the Columbia student revolts of '68

Moderator: Eddie Yuen, Sociologist, Author, Associate Producer of "Against the Grain" KPFA Brown Bag Lunch

1:30: Tom Hayden, Founder SDS, Author of Port Huron Statement, anti-Vietnam War leader

2–3:00 PM: From the Vietnam War to the Iraq War

•  Carlos Muñoz, Vietnam Vet, Veterans for Peace, Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
•  Antonia Juhasz, Author, The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time; and The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry -- and What We Must Do To Stop It
•  Forrest, Iraq Veterans Against the War
•  Cleavon Gilman, UCB student, Iraq veteran
•  Tom Hayden

Moderator: Roberto Hernández, Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

3:00-4:30PM: Stopping US wars of aggression.

•  Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar, Yale University; Fernand Braudel Center
•    Dunya Alwan, Iraqi American, Co-founder of Birthright Unplugged and International Women’s Peace Service
•    Keiko Schnelle, Code Pink, UC Santa Cruz student
•    Roberto Hernández, CRISES, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Annie Fukushima, Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnic Studies/DEWGS, UC Berkeley

4:30-5PM: Questions, Comments, Discussion       

Moderators: Dalida María Benfield, Ethnic Studies/DEWGS, UCB and Daphne Taylor-García

5-6 PM:Closing Remarks, Reception, and "Politicized Media/Mediatized Politics" Exhibition of video clips and music.

Hosted by Visuality & Alterity Working Group

Max Elbaum, WarTimes:  maxie@igc.org

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historians against the War:  rdunbaro@pacbell.net

Roberto Hernandez, Ethnic Studies, UCB: tochtli@berkeley.edu
Daphne Taylor-GarcÌa, Ethnic Studies, UCB; UCSB: dtgarcia@berkeley.edu
Dalida Maria Benfield, Ethnic Studies, UCB:dalidamariabenfield@berkeley.edu
Rick Ayers, educator, UCB graduate student:
rick-ayers@earthlink.net
Tom Reifer, University of San Diego Associate Fellow of the Transnational Institute: Consolecb@aol.com
Carole Travis, community organizer: travisce@aol.com
Steve Tappis, Sixties activist in Chicago: tappis@yahoo.com