WPA Administrator: February 2008 Archives
Save the Date! May 22-25, 2008 –
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All participants along with workshop and paper presenters need to register, either on-line at the Radford University website or on arrival, and reserve their dorm rooms. If coming in a group, any number of persons can fit in one dorm room. If desired, participants can purchase daily meal tickets which include three buffet meals.
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In 2008 many of us understand that our nation - and even the entire planet - are in a state of crisis. The deep longing for positive, lasting change is the bedrock upon which this conference is based. How do we fix our country and our world? And how can we form one mass movement to address the crisis?
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Cindy Sheehan, William Blum, Kathy Kelly, Mike Whitney, Alice Lovelace, David Swanson, Gareth Porter, Daniel Sunjata, Lynne Stewart, Bob Fitrakis, Gary Corseri, Mitchel Cohen, Farid Bitar, Robert Jensen, Sunsara Taylor, Kevin Zeese, Richard Cook, Ravi Batra, Brian Tokar, Adam Kokesh and IVAW, Ellen Brown, Father Roy Bourgeois and many more leaders and luminaries will join thousands of people from across the country and from other lands as well, for a conference to lay the foundations for building a new world now.
Major Session topics include End of Empire, Right to Health Care, Facing Fundamentalism, Immigrant Rights, Economic Exploitation, Fight for Economic Democracy, Palestine, Cooperatives and Localization, Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution, Civil Liberties / Constitutional Rights, Secession and Sustainbility, Animal Rights, Climate Change and Water Crisis, Academic Freedom, Women's Liberation, Taking Back the Media, Iraq Vets Against War, Homelessness and Survival during Economic Depression, Monetary Theory, Civilian Democratic Earth Federation, Victims of Oppression Speak Out
Let’s brainstorm together in Radford to create concrete solutions.
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The World Prout Assembly is a non profit organization dedicated to seeking justice in all spheres of life and to transferring economic power from corporations to the common people.
Present speakers confirmed as of February 2, 2008 Cindy Sheehan (Writer and activist; anti-war leader known as the "Peace Mom") William Blum (Blogger of "The Anti-Empire Report; author of "Rogue State" and "Killing Hope") Kathy Kelly (Co-ordinator of Voices in the Wilderness & Voices for Creative Non-Violence; author of "Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison") Richard Cook (former federal government analyst, whistleblower, leading scholar of monetary theory and economic reform, and author of "Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age") Daniel Sunjata (Tony Award Nominated Actor, who stars as the Firefighter, Franco Rivera, on FOX's hit TV show "Rescue Me," and outspoken activist and public advocate) Lynne Stewart (30-year veteran civil rights and criminal defense lawyer. Now fighting US government false conviction for work done on behalf of Islamist client.) Gareth Porter (Journalist for I.P.S.; Huffington Post blogger; author, "Perils of Dominance") Alice Lovelace (Poet, playwright, essayist, Author of "Remembering my Birth; This is for Family; The Kitchen Survival Almanac"; Editor of CRUS: a conversation in words and images South Africa to South USA; Co-editor at In Motion Magazine) Mike Whitney (Progressive economics web journalist) David Schweickart (Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University' author of "After Capitalism" and "Against Capitalism") Kevin Zeese (Green candidate for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, 2006) Reggie Cervantes (WTC Survivor Rescue Worker; nurse in Michael Moore's "Sicko") David Rubinson (Political activist and co-founder, Stop-LossCongress.org, Music and film producer: Produced music for "Apocalypse Now," produced the film "Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness") Robert Jensen (professor; University of Texas at Austin; author of "Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity" and "The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege") Steve Alten (New York Times best-selling American novelist and author of "The Shell Game") Guy Prouty (professor of anthropology, Oregon State University; Associate Director, Prout Institute) Michael Richards (founder of Sustainable Ecological Economic Development (S.E.E.D.) author of "Sustainable Operating Systems/The Post Petrol Paradigm") Olivia Burlingame Goumbri (of the Venezuela Information Office, Washington, D.C.) David Swanson (Creator of ImpeachCheney.org, Washington Director of Democrats.com, Co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, Board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace. Former Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign. Website is www.davidswanson.org. Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi American M.D. and anti-war activist) Jim Fetzer (Radio Co-host, American philosopher and Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, author of numerous books including "American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone" and "Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science") Gary Corseri (poet, teacher, dramatist, novelist, editor, journalist, activist) Ian MacPherson (Director, British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies, University of Victoria, BC) Ellen Brown (attorney and author of eleven books, including "Web of Debt") Jason Schreiner (professor of philosophy, Oregon State University; Associate Director, Prout Institute) Gordon Soderberg (founding member of New Orleans Voices for Peace) Sunsara Taylor (Writer, Revolution Newspaper; Advisory Board, The World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime!) Bruce Gagnon (Co-founder and Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space) Timothy V. Gatto (Former Chairman Liberal Party of America, Progressive writer, Activist, US Army (Ret.) Adam Kokesh (IVAW Board Member and co-organizer of Winter Soldier) Karen Davis (Ph.D., President, United Poultry Concerns, www.upc-online.org) Ravi Batra (Professor of Economics, Southern Methodist University; author of more than 20 books, including "The Crash of the Millennium: Surviving the Coming Inflationary Depression," "The Myth of Free Trade" and "Greenspan's Fraud." Fareed Bitar ("THE FATOOSH" Ensemble of Eclectic, Activist & Spiritual Music, with Fareed Bitar (Palestinian-American), Miriam Stanley (Jewish-American), Diana Gitesha Hernandez (Puerto Rican Jazz-Spiritualist) and Brant Lyon (Anglo-American Protestant). Bob Fitrakis (Editor of Columbus FreePress.org, election fraud attorney, professor, speaker) Richard Hayes Phillips (author of Witness to a Crime" - proof of the stolen '04 election in Ohio) Victoria Parks (singer / songwriter (W. Begins with Duh), researher, patriot connecting election fraud witih other fascist signs) Carl Gunther (Writer promoting integrity vs. top-down control)
Mike Rivage-Seul (Professor and Director of the Peace and Social Justice Studies program at Berea College, Kentucky) J.W. Smith (Director, Institute for Economic Democracy; author of "Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-first Century" and "Money: A Mirror Image of the Economy") Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder / Director, SOA Watch) George Wallace (Poet; editor, poetrybay.com; essayist, "John Reed and the Poetry of Protest and Praise"; activist) Susan Thomas (Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Hollins University; animal rights activist. Freeman Wicklund (Founder, Mercy for Animals) Ramzy Baroud (Author of "The Second Palestinian Intifada" and Editor, Palestine Chronicle. Gideon Levy (Israeli journalist for "Ha'aretz" and other publications) Max Kantar (Freelance writer and public advocate) Erin Williams (U.S. Humane Society and author) Sara Thomsen (Singer-songwriter, activist, community song rouser, composer of "Is It For Freedom") Adam Engel (Poet and web author) Wyn Achenbaum (Tax Reform activist; webster for wealthandwant.com) William Woodward (Professor of psychology; Co-editor of "B. F. Skinner and behaviorism in American culture," Quaker peace activist) Geraldine Perry (Librarian/researcher turned natural health and small farm advocate, author of The Two Faces of Money) Lindy Davies (Writer, educator, Program Director, Henry George Institute) Mike Curtis (long-time teacher: Henry George theory; Trustee: Single Tax Village of Arden) Bob Griss (Executive Director of the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health, health care policy researcher and advocate at the state and federal levels) Glen Martin (Professor of Philosophy, Radford University; Secretary-General of World Constitution and Parliament Association; author of "World Revolution Through World Law") Garda Ghista (freelance journalist, author of "The Gujarat Genocide: A Case Study in Fundamentalist Cleansing" and Founding President, World Prout Assembly) And more to come!
Meria Heller (Producer/Host of the Meria Show, Entering its 9th Year on the Net)
William E. Douglas (Columnist & Author of "The Amateur Parent–A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace")
Jeannie Dean (Election investigation videographer in
Marj Creech (ElectionDefenseAlliance.org Coordinator, organizer of citizen exit polls)
