
VETERANS FOR PEACE
CONVENTION
2025 Schedule
SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE
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3:00 - 4:15 PM
Checkin/Registration​
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4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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6:00 PM - 9:00
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5:30 AM
Leave UNLV for Nellis AFB
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6:15AM - 7:45 AM
Nellis Air Force Base Demonstration
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8:30am
Return to UNLV
7:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Checkin/Registration​
Breakfast
AA Meeting
10:00 AM
Opening Plenary
12:00 PM/Noon
Lunch
1:30 PM
Session #1: New Colonialism: First Nations and the Nuclear Weapons Industry
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3:00 PM
Session #2: Wars RAGE As the World BURNS
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4:30 PM
Dinner
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6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
Film: Palestine Exception
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7:00 AM
aAA
Meditation
Breakfast
AA Meeting
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8:30 - 10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Session #3: The Borderlands: Militarization, Deported Veterans, Refuge, and the Migrants' Journey
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12:30
Lunch
1:00 PM
Session #4: Resistance to Attacks on VA
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2:30 - 4 PM
Session #5 - Labor/Building Unity
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4:30 - 6 PM
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6:30 PM
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7:00 AM
Yoga
Breakfast
8:30 AM
Session 6 - Militarization of Japan under the "Pivot to China" strategy
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10:00 AM
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10:20 AM
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1:00 PM
Dorm Checkout
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Additional Programming
Social Room - ?
JULY 24
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4:30 PM
RECEPTION
Appetizers, beer & wine (cash bar) will be available
6:00 PM
MUSIC/Poetry
Musician: Diane Rejman
JULY 25
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5:30 - 8:30 AM
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE
​Nellis is the Air Force’s “Home of the Warfighter” (like Navy’s Top Gun program). It is where every Army advanced weapon system operator (pilot, cyber/hacker, nuclear missile officer, intel officer, etc.) goes to learn advanced tactics. Also, the Red Flag exercises (huge and several times each year) involve U.S. and allies practice combat maneuvers over the desert north of Vegas. Lastly, this is where “operational testing” happens on new weapons systems. We will be peacefully protesting genocide, ICE, militarization and deployment of military within the US at the main gate for 2 hours during the morning rush hour.
10:00 AM
OPENING PLENARY
Moderators: Susan Schnall · Michael T. McPhearson
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Welcome
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Land Acknowledgement speaker: TBD
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Culinary Union Local Union Rep: Diana Valles
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VFP Historians: Doug Rawlings · Woody Powell
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1:30 PM
Moderators: Ellen Barfield · Greg Corning
Panelists: Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez · Ian Zabarte
3:00 PM
Moderators: Gary Butterfield
Panelists: Mike Prysner · Charlotte Dennett · Shirine Jurdi
6:00 PM
EVENING PROGRAM: LEARNING FROM THE PAST, LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE
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Learning from the Past
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Moving Into the Future - Leon Cloder
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Palestine Speaker - Mohyeddin Abdulaziz
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Post 911 veterans - Joy Metzler, Juan Bettancourt
JULY 26
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11:00 AM
​Moderator: Mike Tork
Panelists: Robert Vivar · Lulu Matute · Dora Rodriguez
1:00 PM
Moderator: Arlys Herem
​Panelists: Suzanne Gordon · Paul Sullivan · Linda Ward-Smith ​
2:30 PM
Moderator: Steve Morse
​Panelists: Mark Dimondstein · Betsy Zucker · Diana Valles · Rose Roach · John Braxton · Jackson Potter
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6:30 PM
FILM SHOWING
Moderator: Susan Schnall
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​​* Film name: The Earth's Greatest Enemy - (2 hrs)
* Film name: Are You My Dad? (38 min)
* Film Name: Breaking the taboo now! (48 min)
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JULY 27
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8:30 AM
Moderator: Sam Coleman
Panelists: Kanako Matsuda · Mari Shintani · Ken'ichi Narikawa · Chie Miyagi