April 16th 12 – 4pm
Speakers include:
- Isobel Lindsay, Scottish SND
- Lindsey German, Convenor of Stop the War Coalition
- Tariq Ali, Author and broadcaster
- Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
- Bill Ramsay, SNP CND Group
- Rob Ferguson, Stop the War Coalition Steering Group
- Pinar Aksu, Refugee rights campaigner
- Professor Radhika Desai, Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba
- Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, Lecturer in Central & East European Studies at Glasgow University
- Russian Peacebuilding Initiative Group
- Speaker from the Ukrainian peace movement
- Anja Ilic, Serbian based activist with Marks21
- Mohammad Asif, Scottish Afghan Human Rights Foundation
Many more TBA…watch this space.
12- 12:45pm | Opening Rally
Building an international anti-war movement in an era of crisis
12:45-2pm | Workshops Round 1
- Understanding imperialism today: War and the global state system
- Resisting Putin: The rise of the Russian anti-war movement
- A brief history of NATO: Where it comes from and where it’s going
2-2:30pm | Break
2:30 – 3:15 | Workshops Round 2
- Workers united: Oligarchs, the cost-of-living crisis and war
- Scotland, Trident, and NATO: Building the movement at home
- From Afghanistan and Iraq to Yemen and Ukraine: Why we say refugees are welcome
3:15-4pm | Closing plenary
Stop the War Coalition Scotland: The Next steps
Stop the War Coalition Scotland 