The War Comes Home: Campus Antiwar Network Western Regional Conference

The War Comes Home:
Campus Antiwar Network Western Regional Conference
University of California Berkeley
April 19th, 2008 1PM -6PM
200 Wheeler Hall

We are now entering our 6th year of the occupation of Iraq with no end
in site. Although the mainstream media and major politicians keep
touting progress and the success of Bush's surge, conditions in the
country remain dreadful as people live without basic necessities and
Iraqis die on a daily basis, adding to the more than a million Iraqis
killed in the last five years. A poll conducted by the British
Ministry of Defense found that 82% of Iraqis are "strongly opposed" to
the occupation, and "less than 1% of the population believes coalition
forces are responsible for any improvement in security." In addition,
a Zogby International/Le Moyne College poll taken in February 2006 of
troops stationed in Iraq, 72% said the US should withdrawal in 12
months. Of that, 29% thought the US should leave immediately. This is
happening as our future's are being mortgaged for a lie and social
services and education are being slashed at home.

Now is the time to help organize a student antiwar movement that can
demand "Troops Out Now!" and support soldiers and veterans resisting
the occupation. Join the Campus Antiwar Network for the West Coast
spring regional conference to discuss the effect of the war on the
people of Iraq, the soldiers that are forced to fight and on the
American people at home as well as strategies for building the student
antiwar movement.


Schedule:
1PM 1:30PM: Registration
1:30PM- 3:30PM: War Comes Home Panel
3:30-4PM: Break
4:00-6:00PM: Round Table Discussion with Anti-war Activists

War Comes Home:
Speakers*:
Phil Aliff, Iraq Veterans Against the War
He is an Iraq war veteran who served in 2005 and 2006 near Fallujah
and Baghgad, recently discharged from the 10th Mountain Division of
the Army. He is member of the board of directors of Iraq Veterans
Against the War.

Hossam el-Hamalawy
He is a well-known Egyptian journalist and blogger,
www.arabist.net/arabawy. He has written extensively about war, empire,
and activism in Arab countries, most recently, an article for the
Middle East Research and Information Project
(MERIP:http://www.merip.org/mero/mero032507.html). He has also
appeared on the BBC and on numerous mdeia outlets to talk about the
new journalism in Egypt. He is currently a visiting International
Scholar in the graduate school of journalism at UC Berkeley.

*More speakers to come.

Registration is $5.
For more information on CAN, the conference or transportation, email
katrina.yeaw@gmail.com or call 415-335-0953.


Sponsored by: Campus Antiwar Network www.campusantiwar.net

Endorsed by: Students Against War- UCSC, Berkeley Stop the War
Coalition, Students Against War, San Francisco State, City College of
San Francisco