The Irish Anti-War Movement

International Peace Conference War, NATO and the Lisbon Treaty

Saturday 5th of September 2009 Park Inn, Shannon Airport, Co. Clare, Ireland

Speakers:

• Joe Higgins (MEP) Socialist Party
• Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Fein
• Patricia McKenna The People's Movement
• Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett Irish Anti-War Movement
• Ed Horgan Peace & Neutrality Alliance
• Reiner Braun The Anti-NATO Network
• Christophe Ventura Parti De Gauche
• Jeremy Corbyn British Labour Party
• Harry Bommel Dutch Socialist Party
• John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus USA
• Tobias Pfluger Die Linke
• George Karabelias Greek historian and Rixi journal

Time Table:

Registration 9.15 - 10.00

First Session 9.45 - 11.15

War and Shannon .  Two  main speakers of 10 mins each: Ed Horgan and Jan O'Sullivan - local Limerick based TD.  The first to focus on the airport, the troops and implications the second on the responses of the political establishment including her own party....

Chair: Carol Fox (PANA)

Coffee Break 11.15 - 11.30

Second Session 11.30 - 13.15

Lisbon  Speakers: Sinn Fein (Mary Lou McDonald or Theresa  Ferris) , Socialist Party (Joe Higgins), Peoples Movement (Patricia McKenna) and Richard Boyd Barrett  (SWP and People Before Profit) - ten minutes each.

Chair: Michael Youlton  (IAWM).

Lunch Break 13.15 - 14.00 - Sandwiches, coffee/ tea etc from hotel.

Third Session 14.00 - 16.00

The militarisation of Europe and NATO: Speakers Kate Hudson or Jeremy Corbyn (UK CND), Tobias Pfluger (Die - Linke /European Parliament) and Christophe Ventura from the Parti de Gauche  - Fifteen minutes each.

Chair: Roger Cole (PANA).

Fourth Session 16.15 - 18.30.

The new International post- Obama Environment: Speakers John Feiffer (co-director of  Foreign Policy in Focus), Harry Bommel from the Dutch Socialist Party, Reiner Braun of the Network who organised the Strasbourg anti-NATO mobilisation and George Karabelias - from Rixi - Greece.

Chair: Ailbhe Smyth (People Before Profit)

Lunch is available in the hotel restaurant. Accommodation is also available. Contact the Park Hotel, Shannon Airport for accommodation: €80 B&B per room per person sharing, €85 B&B for single. Tel: +353 61 471 122

The Conference is being organised jointly by the Peace & Neutrality Alliance and the Irish Anti-War Movement. For more details contact PANA at: +3531 2351512   Roger Cole, Chair, Peace & Neutrality Alliance, Ireland  www.pana.ie 

A bus will be leaving at 6.00 from Heuston Station returning in the evening - to book a place  contact Michael Youlton  086 815 9487 or myouilton@yahoo.com if interested.