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Join the Teach-In with panels from 8am-12 noon, and 2pm to 5pm.  Panels will include UW faculty presentations and community workshops on labor and other perspectives on events in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A listing of workshops is available at  http://www.wnpj.org/node/3443

 Jennifer Nordstrom of the Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Campaign says NO!  Learn how Wisconsin can achieve a 100% renewable electricity grid by 2050.

THE U.S.-AFGHAN/PAKISTAN WAR: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

This autumn American citizens and the world have been anxiously awaiting President Obama's decision to send 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in addition to the 60,000 already there. There have also been U.S. preparations to step-up drone attacks on the Taliban in NW Pakistan and to increase U.S. aid to the Pakistan military. Many Americans (more than 50% according to some polls) are questioning the risks of deeper and more prolonged U.S. involvement in the conflict and are looking for alternative solutions to massive Vietnam-style U.S. intervention. 

Dr. Adam Schesch, a historian and research-analyst of post-WWII guerrilla wars, will provide an update on the conflict and the prospects for deeper U.S. involvement on TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10th 7PM at the WIL-MAR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER 953 Jenifer St, sponsored by the Madison Area Peace Coalition. Admission is free, although donations to MAPC are appreciated.

Dan Kenney, the peace activist who brought us news of the Blackwater military training camp in northern Illinois, will be in Madison to speak on Military Privatization in the Global South.  In a preview of his talk this coming November at the School of the Americas Vigil in Columbus, Georgia, Dan Kenney will share his thoughts on the growing use of private armies throughout the Global South.  While it is critical that we keep up the pressure
on closing the SOA in Ft. Benning, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Dan will share his perspective on the impact privatization of the military has not only on all of the Americas, but also on the democratic system. Dan Kenney is an educator, activist, and investigative journalist. He is coordinator of the DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace & Justice; co-founder and coordinator of noprivatearmies.org and of the Clearwater Project to stop Blackwater; a founding member of the Illinois Coalition for Peace & Justice; the Illinois state coordinator of Bring the Guard Home;
and the chair of the social justice committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of De Kalb.

Panel discussion and Exhibit opening. This Veterans' Day event will feature a discussion about an exhibit of portraits of Wisconsin Vietnam veterans, a sneak peek of a new WPT documentary on these veterans, and a panel discussion featuring four local Vietnam Veterans. One panelist will be Will Williams, a member of Veterans for Peace. A reception will follow the panel discussion.

Michelle Bahl recently travelled to the West Bank of Palestine, and she compiled a presentation that she gives to various organizations in an effort to help people understand the degree of oppression facing average Palestinians on a daily basis.

View a special Hiroshima-Nagasaki Exhibit of twenty posters-including a chance for you to protest U.S. government plans to spend $150 billion to refurbish 8 nuclear weapons producing facilities and develop new nuclear weapons, followed by main program. "A Crime So Monstrous: Modern Day Slavery & the Struggle for Abolition in our Lifetimes" Talk by Ben Skinner, the author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern-day Slavery [Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2008.] He did research for the book in Haiti, southern Sudan, North India, Romania/Moldova, and the Netherlands. Former US Ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke, wrote the introduction. Ben is the son of UNA-Dane County Chapter members Meg and Neil Skinner, a 1994 graduate of Madison (WI) West High School, and a 1998 graduate of Wesleyan University (CT). He was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations (NYC) with Walter Russell Mead. Fair trade coffee and tea will be served before the meeting. Free parking in the ramp across the street. Free and open to the public.