Thursday, March 13

3:00PM: Check In at Registration

5:00PM: Welcoming brief for IVAW and testifiers

6:00PM: Dinner

7:00PM-9:00PM Winter Soldier and the legacy of GI Resistance

This panel will examine the history of GI resistance during wartime, focusing on lessons from the Vietnam conflict. (Speakers: Barry Romo, Vietnam Veterans Against the War; David Cortright, author of Soldiers in Revolt; Tod Ensign, Director of Citizen Soldier and author of America’s Military Today; Kelly Dougherty, executive director of IVAW)

Friday, March 14

7:00-8:30AM: Breakfast

8:00AM: Check In at Registration

9:00AM – 10:45AM Rules of Engagement: Part One

This panel will cover the killing and injuring of innocent civilians and unarmed combatants, as well as the destruction of the property, infrastructure and natural resources of Iraq and Afghanistan.  (Speakers: Adam Kokesh, James Morriss, Jason Lemieux, Jason Hurd, Clifton Hicks, Steve Mortillo, Jose Vasquez, Michael Leduc, Jesse Hamilton)

11:00AM – 12:30PM The Crisis in Veterans' Heathcare

This panel will look at neglect and abuse of veterans and service members with regards to their mental and physical health.  Testimonies will include accounts about the impact of an under-funded Veterans Administration, injured soldiers being forced back into combat without fully recovering from their wounds, cases of the military’s denial of mental healthcare for those suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome and exposure of service members to depleted uranium munitions and other hazardous materials.
(Speakers: Martin Smith; Adrienne Kinne, IVAW member and worker in Veterans Administration; Eugene Martin, national organizer with American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO; Joyce & Kevin Lucey, parents of a son who committed suicide after being denied treatment for post traumatic stress syndrome; Zollie Goodman; Tod Ensign)

1-2PM: Lunch

2:00PM - 3:30PM Corporate Pillaging and Military Contractors

This panel will examine the government’s use of private contractors to replace soldiers in U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Testimonies will include the role of corporations in the management of the occupations, and instances of waste, fraud and abuse involving private corporations.  The panel will also examine the implications of U.S. tax dollars supporting private security forces, which are not bound by the rules of engagement. (Speakers: Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater; Antonia Juhasz, author of A Game As Old As Empire and The Tyranny of Oil, Luis Montalvan, Jason Lemieux, Kelly Dougherty)

4:00PM - 6:00PM Rules of Engagement: Part Two

(Speakers: Logan Laituri, Hart Viges, Vincent Emanuele, Jason Washburn, Garret Reppenhagen, Sergio Kochergin, James Gilligan)

6:00-7:00PM: Dinner

7:00PM - 8:30PM Aims of the Global War on Terror: the Political, Legal, and Economic Context of Iraq and Afghanistan

This panel will explore the history of U.S. policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, the current strategic and economic goals of the occupations and the impact of both domestic and foreign policies associated with the “Global War on Terror.” (Speakers: Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal; Michael Schwartz, author of forthcoming War Without End: The Iraq War in Context; Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now radio and television show; Anita Foster)

8:45PM: Daily debriefing

9:00PM: Press Briefing

9:30PM: Entertainment

Warrior Writer, Sean Toure (Baltimore, Hip-Hop), Ryan Harvey (Baltimore, Folk), Son of Nun (Baltimore, Hip-Hop)

Saturday, March 15

7-8:30AM: Breakfast

8:00AM: Check In at Registration

9:00AM – 10:30AM Divide To Conquer: Gender and Sexuality in the Military

This panel will explore institutional policies of discrimination in the military and its impact on service members both on and off the battlefield.  Testimonies will include the real impact of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy; the effect of women’s engagement on the front lines for the first time; and the perpetuation of racism within the military. (Speakers: Patty McCann, Jen Hogg, Nathan Peld, Abby Hiser, Margaret Martin, Tanya Austin, Chris Arendt)

11:00AM - 1:00PM Racism and War: the Dehumanization of the Enemy: Part One

This panel will expose torture, abuse, mishandling and mutilation of the dead, and other derogatory treatment of Iraqi and Afghan civilians. (Speakers: Mike Totten, Matthew Childers, Camilo Mejia, Jabbar MacGruder, Bryan Casler, Sam Lynch, Jeffrey Smith, Scott Ewing)

1:00-2:00PM: Lunch

2:00PM - 3:30PM Racism and War: the Dehumanization of the Enemy: Part Two

(Speakers: Dahlia Wasfi, Iraqi-American lecturer on Iraq; Christian Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides; Geoff Millard, Andrew Duffy, Mike Prysner, Liam Madden, Chris Arendt, Domingo Rosas)

4:00PM - 6PM Civilian Testimony: The Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan

This panel will combine prerecorded and in-person testimony presented by Afghan and Iraqi civilians. (Moderator: Dahr Jamail, photojournalist un-embedded in Iraq, Fernando Braga, Nesreen, Fahima Voergetz, Rahid Jarrar)

6:00-7:00PM: Dinner

7:00PM - 8:30PM The Cost of the War at Home

This panel will explore the impact of the war on the families of our troops.  Testimonies will include the loss of jobs by our National Guard members and Reservists, and the overall social and economic impact of a new generation of thousands of war veterans on American life.  (Speakers: Catherine Lutz, author of Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century; Fernando Suarez del Solar, Gold Star Families for Peace; Nancy Lessin, Military Families Speak Out; representative from U.S. Labor Against the War; Carlos Arredondo; Margaret Stevens; Brooks Sunket; Adrienne Kinne)

9PM: Press Briefing

9:30PM: Entertainment

Warrior Writer, Head-Roc, Tom Morello

Sunday, March 16

7:00-8:30AM: Breakfast

9AM: Check In at Registration

10:00AM - 1:00PM The Breakdown of the Military

This panel will cover how war policy in Iraq and Afghanistan has led to a weakening of the U.S. military.  Testimonies will include the lack of training and equipment for the troops, overuse of military personnel in multiple deployments and the record number of officer resignations. (Speakers: Kristofer Goldsmith, Daniel Fanning, Lars Ekstrom, Selena Coppa, Steve Mortillo, Luis Montalvan, Matt Howard)

1:00-2:00PM: Lunch

2:00PM - 3:15PM The Future of GI Resistance

This panel will analyze the spectrum of resistance within the military today and lay out IVAW’s program to build a GI resistance movement. (Speakers: Camilo Mejia, conscientious objector and Board Chair of IVAW; Kelly Dougherty, Executive Director of IVAW; Phil Aliff, Ft. Drum IVAW chapter and Board member of IVAW; Jeff Englehardt; Ronn Cantu; Garret Reppenhagen; Jason Wallace)

3:30PM: Closing