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SPAN National Summit 2004
April 10 - 11
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

The SPAN National Summit will be held on April 9th - 11th at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL and is hosted by Action Towards Peace.

This year's summit works to promote students' resistance to militarism through education, training and action. The main days, Saturday and Sunday, will be filled with workshops, speakers, panels, film screenings and roundtable discussions, as well as SPAN strategic planning for the upcoming year. Action Towards Peace invites students and youth from throughout Chicago and the midwest to join us together as we discuss how to broaden, strengthen and sustain the resistance to war and occupations!

Registration forms and flyers can be downloaded from the SPAN website at
www.StudentPeaceAction.org/summit.html. Contact SPAN Coordinator Tracy DiMambro at span (at) peace-action.org or at 301-565-4050 x322 for more information.

Keynote address by world renowned peace educator and journalist Colman McCarthy.

All workshops in Cobb Hall unless otherwise noted
5811 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago for directions see: maps.uchicago.edu

SATURDAY APRIL 10th
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Session 1.
10:00 - 11:30
Anti-racism Training – National Coalition Building Institute

Session 2.
11:40 - 1:10
*Nonviolent civil disobedience
-Danny Muller (VitW)

Strategic Campaign Planning
-US Student Assn
*Avoiding burnout & fearmongering
-Jeff Brooks
Messaging your message
- Tom Gradel
Pacifism and anarchy
- Colman McCarthy

Session 3.
2:30 - 4:00
KEYNOTE
Colman McCarthy
“How to Radicalize your life”

Session 4.
4:10 - 5:40
Film screening:
Hiding in Plain sight* (71 min)
Arts & Activism
-Beth Fitzgerald
*Nuclear War Survivor:
- Hideko Tamura Snider
Palestine in the Anti-war movement
- U of C Students for Justice in Palestine & Danielle Frank


Session 5
6:10 – 7:40
Iraq Under Occupation Panel discussion (KENT 107)
-John Farell VitW
-Tim Goodrich
-Sui Hin Lee
-Michigan Peace Team


SUNDAY APRIL 11th
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Session 1.
10:00-11:30
Roundtable groups
A, B, C
PATRIOT Act & civil liberties
-ACLU, NLG & Sui Hin Lee
Roundtable groups
G, H, I
*Combatting burnout & fearmongering
-Jeff Brooks
*Nuclear War Survivor:
Hideko Tamura Snider
SPAN strategic planning session 1


Session 2.
11:40-1:10
*Roundtable
Groups
D,E, F
*Connection local issues to the Peace Movement
- Sui Hin Lee, Action LA
*Countering recruitment
-Angela Garcia VitW
- Students for Social Justice
*Film screening:
Hidden in Plain sight* (71 min)
SPAN strategic planning session 2


3:00 pm SUNDAY APRIL 11th
RALLY AT THE A-BOMB Statue on campus!
Guess who really has the weapons of mass destruction??????????