Labour Peace Forum June 25 & 26, 2006 VANCOUVER BC CANADA For the most up-to-date program information visit our website at www.vdlc.ca Organized by the Vancouver & District Labour Council as part of the World Peace Forum 2006 The Labour Peace Forum will take place on the University of Campus in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada on June 25 and 26, 2006. It is organized as part of World Peace Forum 2006 which runs from June 23 to 28 in Vancouver

Labour Peace Forum Program Labour Peace Forum Sunday, June 25 9:00–noon Registration Presenters 1:00 pm Opening Plenary Introductory Remarks Ken Georgetti President Barb Byers is Executive Vice President of Jim Sinclair President BC Federation of Labour the Canadian Labour Congress (clc). Now serving a 2nd PART 1 three-year term, she was first The Economics of War versus the Economics of Peace elected Exec. Vice-President of Moderator Carol Phillips – the clc in 2002 after more than a decade as President of 1:30–4:30 A Globalization, Trade Agreements and "Deep Integration" the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour. —Should Workers Be Concerned? Presenter Steve Staples Polaris Institute Manuel Montero is Director of the Responder Seth Klein Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Americas, Department of Foreign Relations of B The Military Industrial Complex: the Cuban Workers Confederation (ctc), the Military Spending and its impact on Social priorities representative body for all trade unions in —evaluating the U.S. experience Cuba. He is a veteran of the Cuban Literacy Campaign teaching literacy to peasants in the Presenter Kent Wong UCLA Labor Centre Mountains of Pinar del Río province beginning Responder Judy Darcy Hospital Employees’ Union in 1961. He worked as a factory machinist for C Alternatives to Militarism—Building a Peaceful, 15 years before joining the Foreign Relations Sustainable Economy and Military Conversion Department of the ctc in 1973. Presenter Phyllis Bennis Fellow Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC Responder Fred Wilson* Communications, Energy and Paperworkers’ Union Paul Moist is National President of the Canadian Union of Public 5:00–6:00 Sponsored by the BC Federation of Labour Reception Employees (cupe). A strong 6:00–10:00 Labour/Peace Cabaret—SUB, Pit Pub advocate for quality public MC: Bill Saunders President Vancouver & District Labour Council services, he has led cupe’s fight ✮ Anne Feeney ✮ Bob Rosen and the Gram Partisans ✮ against privatization. He serves ✮ Dunc Shields and Friends—Story tellers ✮ Tommy Hawkin ✮ as Vice-President of the ✮ Ameena Mayer—Performance Poet ✮ Canadian Labour Congress, is a governor of the Labour Monday, June 26 College of Canada and a board member of the PART 2 Organizing within the Labour Movement for World Peace Canadian Labour Market Productivity Centre. 9:00–10:30 Developing the issue of peace in the movement Jinny Sims is President of the British Moderator Patty Ducharme National Executive VP Public Service Alliance of Canada Columbia Teachers’ Federation Panel Jinny Sims President BC Teachers’ Federation (bctf). Formerly, she served on Paul Moist President Canadian Union of Pulic Employees the executive of her local and a variety of committees, including Ingo Schmidt The European Experience Status of Women and the The Japanese Trade Union Movement representative (TBA) Program Against Racism and 10:30–11:00 BREAK in 1992 she became President of the Nanaimo 11:00–12:30 The Experience of U.S. Labour Against the War District Teachers’ Association. She has served on the provincial executive committee of the Showing of Working for Peace in the U.S. Labor Movement (DVD) bctf since 1998. Moderator Dileep Athaide Secretary-Treasurer Federation of Post Secondary Educators Presenters Nancy Romer and Gene Bruskin Representatives US Labor Against the War Deborah Bourque is National President 12:30 - 2:00 Working Lunch – KEYNOTE SPEAKER TBA of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. She was a PART 3 International Perspectives founder of the September 11 Peace Coalition, esablished in 2:00–3:30 Trade union's struggle for peace in a war environment 2001 to oppose Canada's par- Moderator George Heyman President BC Government & Service Employees’ Union ticipation in military retaliation, Panel Patricia Buritica Peace and Justice Committee in Colombia and the racist attacks resulting from 9/11 Abdullah Muhsin Int’l Rep. Iraqi Federation of Workers’Trade Unions Shaheer Saed President Palestinian General Trade Union Labour Peace Forum is made possible through the generosity 3:30 - 4:00 BREAK of the following: 4:00 - 5:30 Roundtable—Building an International Peace Movement CUPE National • PSAC • BCGEU • BCNU • Moderator Deborah Bourque President Canadian Union of Postal Workers CAW • CEP National • CUPW • CUPE BC • Panel Thulas Nxesi President Education International FPSE • HSA • ILWU 500 • CUPE Metro • Barb Byers Vice President Canadian Labour Congress IUOE 963 • CUPE 402• MWBIU 1 • Manuel Montero Dir. of the Americas, Dept. of Foreign Relations CTC (Cuba) BCNU Shaughnessy Hts • HEU • CAW 2200 • IBEW 258 • IAFF 18 Closing Remarks by Bill Saunders President Vancouver & District Labour Council disarmament, andlaterU.S.waroccupationinIraq. labour solidarityinthePacificRim. Nancy Romer Kent Wong Steven Staples Phyllis Bennis is co-convenor of(EastCoast) issues bythenationalandinternationalnewsmedia. 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