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The deadly Israeli attack May 30 on a humanitarian flotilla delivering aid to blockaded Gaza has aroused the condemnation of the world, further isolated Israel's intransigent regime, and challenged the U.S. to review its Middle East policy lest it, too, face isolation. There is a new situation and new opportunities to build the movement to end the siege of Gaza and US support for the occupation of Palestine. Three speakers will lead off our discussion:
• Ann Wright was a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats in the Gaza flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31, and will give us an eyewitness report. She is a retired U.S. army colonel who also served as a State Department diplomat. She resigned her State Department post in 2003 to protest the war in Iraq. (After the conference Saturday night, Ann will also give an in-depth presentation at the Palestinian Cultural Center - NOT on Friday night as previously posted).
• Gaza-born Palestinian scholar and diplomat Husam Zomlot served as a PLO diplomat to the UK from 2003 to 2008. He is a specialist in the political economy of conflict, has a PhD in economics from the University of London, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
• Dorchester People for Peace activist Jeff Klein will put the current crisis into perspective and kick off our discussion of what UJP and the peace movement can do.
The conference will also address peace movement strategy, which will be up for discussion this summer. UJP will be presenting a workshop at the US Social Forum in Detroit June 22-26. The Unified National Antiwar Conference will meet in Albany July 23-25, and One Nation One Dream will march on Washington in October. Our strategy conference will review these and other initiatives and discuss UJP's response to, and participation in, them.
In the last section of the conference we will hear reports from the Nuclear Abolition, Afghanistan, 25% Solution, and Majority Agenda task forces and give feedback on those campaigns.
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