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As of June 6, more than 100 organizations will be represented, with more than 60 speakers, including:
- Adeeb Abed, Founder & President, Arab American Assoc.
of Central Virginia
- Abayomi Azikiwe – Editor, Pan African News Wire (Detroit, MI)
- Bahman Azad – Organization Secretary of US Peace Councel
- Ajamu Baraka, 2016 Vice Pres. Green Party candidate; Founder, Black Alliance for Peace
- Brian Becker, Director, ANSWER Coalition
- Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, CODE PINK
- Matyas Benyik, Chair, ATTAC-Hungary (Budapest, Hungary)
- Maurice Carney, Executive Director, Friends of the Congo
- Ana Edwards, Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project
- Sara Flounders, Co-Coordinator, International Action Center
- Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report
- Ewa Groszewska – Co-Organizer, Social Forum of Eastern Europe? & Coop. Bet. East & South? (Wroclaw, Poland)
- Tamara Hansen, Mobilization Against War & Occupation
(Vancouver, Canada)
- Jaribu Hill, Executive Director, Mississippi Workers Center
for Human Rights
- Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons
& Nuclear Power in Space
- Rebecca Wooden Keel, Southerners On New Ground (SONG) (Richmond, VA)
- Margaret Kimberley, Editor & Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report
- Ray LaForest, Director, Haiti Support Network
- Hyun Lee, Zoom in Korea
- Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
- Raoph Poynter, Organizer, Lynne Stewart Defense Cmty
- Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; Co-Founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
- Charo Mina-Rojas, Afro-Colombian activist with the Colombian
Ethnic Commission for Peace (Colombia)
- Prigarin Alexandr, Professor, Odessa National University (Ukraine)
- Adria Scharf, Director, Richmond Peace Education Center
- Malcolm Suber, Take Em Down NOLA; New Orleans Workers Group
- David Swanson, Co-Founder & Director, World Beyond War (Charlottesville, VA)
- Clarence Thomas, International Longshore & Warehouse Union (Oakland, CA)
- Carolina Velez, ICE Out of RVA (Richmond, VA)
- Gail Walker, Executive Director, IFCO / Pastors for Peace
- Whitney Whiting, Community Activist campaign to stop the Atlantic Coastal Pipeline (Richmond, VA)
- Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender (Richmond, VA)
- Ann Wright, Ret. U.S. Army Colonel, former diplomat
& active in CODE PINK and Veterans for Peace
- Kevin Zeese, Director, Popular Resistance
- And a Representative from Raise Up Fight for $15
- Plus speakers are from many other countries, including Canada, Colombia, the Philippines, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine and Venezuela, as well as participants from Burundi, Nepal and Nigeria.
For more information: www.unacconference2017.org,
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