10 September 2006

TNI

September 2006

	10 September 2006		Public debate After Lebanon: The US, Israel and Palestine ABC Treehouse, Voetboogstraat 11, Amsterdam
	3 March 2006		Phyllis Bennis presents her new book: Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power, ABC Treehouse, Voetboogstraat 11, Amsterdam
	3 November 2005		Seminar Ideologies of Empire Montevideo, Uruguay.
	23-27 June 2005		TNI Fellows Walden Bello and Saul Landau testify at the World Tribunal on Iraq Istanbul, Turkey.
	27 January 2005		Seminar No to US Bases, No to Empire WSF 5, Porto Alegre, Brazil
	17-19 September 2004		The Beirut International Assembly of Anti-War and Anti-Globalization Movements Beirut, Lebanon
	21 May 2004		Another World is Possible If... Political Freedoms are Guaranteed. Political Liberties and "The War on Terrorism" de Balie, Amsterdam. Speakers: Achin Vanaik, Jochen Hippler and Praful Bidwai.
	20 May 2004		Another World is Possible If... There is Respect for International Law and the Sovereignty of Nations. The Case of Iraq de Balie, Amsterdam. Speakers: Phyllis Bennis, Jochen Hippler, Kamil Mahdi, Minka Nijhuis and Achin Vanaik.
	19 April 2004		Lecture The Neo-conservative Worldview and Current Events in the Middle East by Jim Lobe. TNI, Amsterdam.
	April 2004		International Call for an Independent assembly of the Iraqi People Activists for peace, religious leaders, intellectuals and academics, writers and journalists, parliamentarians, trade unionists and citizens - insist on the right of the Iraqis to be free of occupation and free to decide the course of their own history. TNI has endorsed the call.
	20 March 2004		The General Assembly of the Global Anti-War Movement called on the world to fill the streets on 20 March to demand an end to the occupation of Iraq. The General Assembly of the Anti-War Movement convened on 19 January at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai, India. Meeting for the whole day, the Assembly began with an assessment of the current political situation, followed by reports from various activists involved in various anti-war movements around the world. Reports were also made by many anti-war campaigns such as the World Tribunal on Iraq, the "Close the US bases" campaign, the Campaign for Disarmament, the Occupation Watch Center, the Caravans to Iraq and the Civil Missions to Palestine. It ended with a session dedicated to strategizing on ways forward and common campaigns to be supported.
	16-21 January 2004		General Assembly of the Global Anti-war Movement, a self-organised event starting with a major conference on the US occupation of Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan. A full day strategy meeting follows on Globalisation and War, Global Resistance, and Global Campaigns. Full report is available. WSF, Mumbai, India.
	17 and 20 January 2004		Conference International Anti-US Bases bringing together 125 participants from 34 countries, with many community-based anti-bases campaigners as well as representatives from other movements and campaigns such as environmental and human rights groups, anti-IMF-WB and anti-debt campaigners, as well as from the women's movement. The conference is a continuation of the process of initiating and launching an international campaign against US foreign bases. WSF, Mumbai, India. Report available.
	19 January 2004		Workshop Globalisation and Militarisation. Linking Global Peace and Justice Movements organised by the Transnational Institute with Focus on the Global South, Polaris Institute and Corpwatch. TNI Speakers include: Walden Bello, Achin Vanaik, Boris Kagarlitsky. WSF, Mumbai, India.
	18 January 2004		Strategy Meeting of the Globalisation and War Assembly, an activity arising from the Strategy Conference of the Global Peace Movement, Jakarta, May 2003. WSF, Mumbai, India.
	15 May 2003		Discussion evening The Movements for Peace and Global Justice and on The Nature of the Status Quo They Confront Today with Phyllis Bennis, Mariano Aguirre, Hilary Wainwright, Carolina Rudas, and Olivier Hoedeman at the American Book Centre Treehouse, Amsterdam.
	5 May 2003		TNI Forum The Legality of the War against Iraq. Implications for the UN System organised by TNI in cooperation with De Balie. Speakers: Jan Pronk and Peter Weiss. Amsterdam, 5 May 2003
	14-17 March 2003		A group of prominent Asian intellectuals, parliamentarians, civil society leaders and activists, including TNI Fellow Walden Bello, went to Baghdad as a part of Asian Peace Mission in a desperate last-ditch effort to avert the war. Their report of meetings with students and other citizens gets under the surface of the mainstream media reports and reveals a vulnerable but enduring people on the edge of war. Report A War on the Children, not on Saddam available.
	26 February 2003		IPS publishes the report Coalition of the Willing or Coalition of the Coerced? [PDF document] which examines the specific levers of US military, economic, and political power and looks at how this leverage applies to each current member of the UN Security Council, and also over the broader group of countries that the Bush Administration has dubbed the "Coalition of the Willing."
	21 September 2002		TNI organises several workshops and the opening panel on People's Focus on Security - Security after September 11, attended by 250 people, for the AEPF4. Workshop Weaponisation of Space and Missile Defence; workshop Korean Peace and Reconciliation and the Axis of Evil; workshop Criminalisation of Movements - Aftermath 9.11; and workshop Nuclear proliferation after September 11 organised by TNI for the AEPF4, Copenhagen, Denmark.
	23 April 2002		TNI hosts a public meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian war, regional impacts and the respective policies and roles of the US and Europe, all within the context of the September 11 aftermath. Speaking: Phyllis Bennis and Jochen Hippler, chairing: Mariano Aguirre. De Balie, Amsterdam.
	13 March 2002		Nuclear Disarmament and NATO Disunity TNI, Amsterdam. Organised in cooperation with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Guest speaker retired British Royal Navy Commander Rob Green, of the New Agenda Group.
	29 November 2001		TNI Public Forum Missile Defence and Security after September 11 Felix Meritus, Amsterdam. Organised in cooperation with the Project on European Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PENN-NL), XminY, Attac-Nederland and the Campaign against the Arms Trade. Main speakers: Dan Plesch, The Royal United Service Institute, England, and Tom Reifer, Focus on the Global South, Thailand
	13-14 August 2001		International Conference Korean Reconciliation and Reunification for Global Peace: The People's Agenda Seoul, Korea
	11-13 November 2000		National Convention for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace in New Delhi, India. Initiated by TNI fellows Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik, and organised by a broad coalition of organisations led by the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament. 600 participants.
	1-4 September 2000		International Conference Nuclear Weapon-free Zones: Crucial Steps towards a Nuclear-free World in Uppsala, Sweden. Organised by TNI together with the partners in the NWFZ project. 50 participants. The conclusions of the conference are released to the press as the "Uppsala Declaration".
	27 August-6 September 1999		TNI Fellow Phyllis Bennis accompanies the first group of US Congressional staffers to Iraq, to report back to their bosses on the impact of US policy in Iraq: on the humanitarian crisis facing Iraqi civilians and on the effect of depleted uranium. [ Report from Congressional Staffers' 1999 trip to Iraq].