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MADRE at the US Social Forum

Yifat Susskind, Communications Director, will speak at the opening plenary of the US Social Forum

War, Militarism and the Prison Industrial Complex

When the US government launched the "War on Terror" and established the Department of Homeland Security, this meant an increased use of military might by the government against all critics of US domination - at home and abroad. Today, the United States continues to flex its murderous, military might all around the globe. Meanwhile, under the guise of security, local, state and federal governments pump more money into building more prisons, detention centers, and border walls, and directing an increasing number of police and agents to the streets to conduct raids and to squash the peoples' opposition. As the US government threatens to invade, bomb and sanction more countries, and as more and more people in the United States are thrown into prison or subjected to state violence, we have to answer the question of what it will take to stop the US government's war on the peoples of the world.

Speakers:
Julian Aguon, Nasión Chamoru
Kai Barrows, Critical Resistance
Eli Painted Crow, a new network of Women Iraqi Veterans
Judith LeBlanc, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ)
Julian Moya, SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP)
Yifat Susskind, MADRE
Faleh Abood Umara, Iraqi Federation of Oil Workers' Unions

Moderator:
Linda Burnham, Women of Color Resource Center

Date: June 28, 2007
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Atlanta Civic Center

The US Social Forum is taking place June 27-July 1, 2007.