National Teach-IN: Stop the War in Ukraine

Join speakers from across the anti-war and peace movement for this Stop the War Coalition Scotland national teach-in.

On 16 April Stop the War Scotland will hold a national teach-in at Scottish Youth Theatre, to discuss the war in Ukraine, global escalation and the consequences in Scotland.

Speakers include:

• Isobel Lindsay, Scottish SND
• Lindsey German, Convenor of Stop the War Coalition
• Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
• Bill Ramsay, SNP CND Group
• Pinar Aksu, Refugee rights campaigner
• Rob Ferguson, Stop the War Coalition Steering Group
• 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.

Programe:

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