February 15, 2003 - Campus Anti-War Network Benefit at Pier Sixty, NYC
Photos copyright Charlie Jenks, 2003
2/18/03
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Campuses Say No To War!! benefit for students going to the
national Campus Anti-War Network conference in Chicago, February 22-23.

Speakers at the benefit included : Scott Ritter (former weapons inspector), Medea Benjamin (Global Exchange), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now), Anthony Arnove (editor of Iraq Under Siege), Michael Letwin (NYC Labor Against War), Mike Marquesee (British Stop the War Coalition), Rania Masri (Institute for Southern Studies), Dhalia Hashad (ACLU), Ahmed Shawki (editor of International Socialist Review), Marla Brettschneider (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice), Hany Khalil (Racial Justice 9-11), Nelly Bailey (Harlem Tenants Association), Youth Bloc, Minou Arjomand (Campus Antiwar Network), Hamid Dabashi (Professor), Monica Tarazi (Arab Anti-Discrimination Center), David Cline (Veterans for Peace)

Peformers: Def Poetry Jam, Welfare Poets, Alvin Ailey Dancer, VTek, Performers from the Broadway Musical Rent, Stephan Smith, Captain Deathwhistle and the Thumpists

A large and enthusiastic crowd of mostly students attended the event. Many groups tabled, including Democracy Now, Campus Anti-War Network, Code Pink and United for Peace and Justice Student Caucus.