A three part session, featuring:

Part I: A panel focusing on analysis of the War/Occupation in Iraq, its pillars, and how it relates to other movements.
A. Current analysis of the on-the-ground situation in Iraq: Raed Jarrar, Iraqi-American working with the Iraq Program at American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
B. Current analysis of the anti-war movement in the US: Ken Butigan, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service/Declaration of Peace campaign
C. Pillars of War/Sectors of Struggle:
i. Immigrants Struggles: Alicia Pantoja and Monica Gomery, Latina Immigration organizers/educators with English for Action/Ingles en Accion, a popular education-based organization that uses language as a tool for community involvement (Providence, RI)
ii. War Profiteering: Joanne Sheehan, War Resisters League/Bite the Bullet: War Profiteering Education and Action Network (Norwich, CT)
iii. Labor: Liana Molina, Chicana Labor Activist from the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE--Oakland, CA)
iv. Anti-Oppression Work: Clare Bayard, Catalyst Project (Bay Area, CA)
v. Participants input: What movements are you in? How does war impact your movement?

Part II: A Case Study of the Declaration of Peace (DoP), a nonviolent direct action campaign to end the US occupation in Iraq --> analysis and critique of the campaign as a framework for a national direct action initiative, using Bill Moyer's Eight Stages of a Successful Social Movement model

Part III: Skills-sharing: How to strengthen the anti-war movement and mainstream nonviolent initiatives across all movements working against the myriad forms of violence of our age, including Nonviolent Direct Action --> skills and tools sharing including an exploration of the multi-movement Nonviolent Direct Action Working Group (NVDAWG), the Nonviolence Training Initiative (a nationwide network of nonviolence trainers for all movements), other initiatives as brought forth by the participants

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Our goal is to encourage analysis of violence and nonviolence and connect war with other struggles.
A principle challenge of all movements is the splintering and polarization which occurs. There is a great deal of existent infrastructure and energy among various movements--the potential for bridging gaps and working together will be more possible when connections can be made within our analysis about the ways that the Immigrant Industrial Complex, for example, supports the war, and the war machine exploits and propels the Immigrant Industrial complex. These are the connections we hope to help make possible for folks from different movements.

--Participants will take away an understanding of the ways that war impacts, relates to, and impedes other struggles.
--Participants will take away information about social movement analysis and Strategic Nonviolence, especially Nonviolent Direct Action, and the viability for its use among and between all movements working to transform violence.
--Participants will be engaged and invited to contribute the perspectives from their movements in terms of how war affects their work, and how analysis of social movements and Strategic Nonviolence can contribute to their work.
--Great networking opportunities will be possible for folks from many movements.
--Some presenters have the capacity to present in either English of Spanish (but we do not have the resources to provide translation equipment--if it were available, we would certainly use it!)
--Our strategies for cross-movement building include making information and tools of analysis available to folks, as well as providing a physical space in which folks from movements can gather, meet each other, share information/resources/contacts, etc.
--This workshop features folks from a variety of geographic locations, making networking possibilities even greater.