The Military Industrial Complex at 50: Charlottesville, Va.

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The Military Industrial Complex at 50: Charlottesville, Va.
A Conference on Moving Money from the Military to Human Needs
http://micat50cville.org (http://micat50cville.org/)

WHEN:
September 16-18, 2011

WHERE:
Friday, September 16, 2011, at the Haven (http://www.thehavenatfirstandmarket.org/the-haven/), 112 W Market Street, Charlottesville, Va. Map (http://mapq.st/p1oqRt).
Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18, 2011, at The Dickinson Fine and Performing Arts Center at Piedmont Virginia Community College (http://www.pvcc.edu/), 501 County Road 338, Charlottesville, Va. 22902-7589. Map (http://mapq.st/pfEYBn).

The Military Industrial Complex at 50: Charlottesville, Va.
A Conference on Moving Money from the Military to Human Needs
http://micat50cville.org

WHEN:
September 16-18, 2011

WHERE:
Friday, September 16, 2011, at the Haven, 112 W Market Street, Charlottesville, Va. Map.
Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18, 2011, at The Dickinson Fine and Performing Arts Center at Piedmont Virginia Community College, 501 County Road 338, Charlottesville, Va. 22902-7589.

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AGENDA

Friday, September 16, 2011, at the Haven (http://www.thehavenatfirstandmarket.org/the-haven/), 112 W Market Street, Charlottesville, Va. Map (http://mapq.st/p1oqRt).

FRIDAY SEPT 16
6:00 dinner
6:30 MIC in Cville and VA - David Swanson
7:00 Dramatic dialogue with Eisenhower, Jefferson, and Martin Luther King Jr.
7:30 Voices of Conscience - Ann Wright

Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18, 2011, at The Dickinson Fine and Performing Arts Center at Piedmont Virginia Community College (http://www.pvcc.edu/), 501 County Road 338, Charlottesville, Va. 22902-7589. Map (http://mapq.st/pfEYBn).

SATURDAY SEPT 17
8:30 - 9:45
Federal Budget - ___________
Impact of MIC on the Economy - Dave Shreve

9:45-10:30 Budget Activity

BREAK

10:45-12:30
Are Weapons Corporations People? - George Friday
MIC and Civil Liberties - Shahid Buttar
What War Does to Law - Ben Davis

LUNCH

1:15-2:00 War Media - Robert Jensen
2:00-2:45 MIC and the environment - Claire Hanrahan and Coleman Smith
2:45-3:30 Extra Casualties: The Human Cost of War - Mia Austin Scoggins

BREAK

3:45-4:30 MIC and weapons proliferation, global hostility - Bruce Gagnon
4:30-5:15 Whistleblowing - Karen Kwiatkowski
5:15-6:00 Why Peace is Possible and How We Can Achieve It - Paul Chappell

Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18, 2011, at The Dickinson Fine and Performing Arts Center at Piedmont Virginia Community College (http://www.pvcc.edu/), 501 County Road 338, Charlottesville, Va. 22902-7589. Map (http://mapq.st/pfEYBn).

SUNDAY
9:30 - 11:30
Conversion to a Peace Economy - Mary Beth Sullivan
What Needs Changing - Judith LeBlanc

LUNCH

12:15-1:45
Activism - Ray McGovern, Helena Cobban, Lisa Savage

BREAK

2:00 - 3:00 Action Planning

3:00-4:00 Panel With All Conference Speakers Together

4:00-4:30 Anti-Authoritarian Activism - Bruce Levine

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This conference will propose that Charlottesville City Council pass a resolution asking Congress to bring the war $ home.