About the Summit

What I will

Don't bomb Iran...

people live there!

BBC's Rageh Omaar embarks on a unique journey inside Iran [video, 90 mins]

A Nation of Nose Jobs, not Nukes...[more]

Ideas Whose Time has Come...[more]

Jews in Iran

Iran Holocaust drama is a big hit...[more]

Historically, say Jewish leaders, anti-Semitism here is rare, a fact they say is often lost on critics outside...[more]

Ishak can't wait to get "home" to Teheran...[more]

Ex-Congressional Aide: Rove Received And Ignored Iranian Offer in 2003 [audio] [text]

Target Iran: Scott Ritter with Symoure Hersh [audio, 88 mins]

Iran: The war begins...[more]

Chomsky: It all comes down to control...[more]

It may be up to a revolt of the generals to stop America's next war...[more]

Larry Everest and Carah Ong discuss consequences of Iran attack [audio]

Armageddon Hucksters Lobby for Iran's Destruction...[more]

Iran War Underway

U.S. Sponsoring Kurdish Guerilla Attacks Inside Iran [audio] [text]

Seymour Hersh: US Funding Al-Qaeda Linked Sunni Groups [audio]

The Secret War Against Iran...[more]

Iran - Ready to Attack [more]

Resisting the Drums of War

Iran-UK Standoff

US can learn from this example of mutual respect...[more]

Both Sides Must Stop This Mad Confrontation...[more]

Call that humiliation?

No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch...[more]

“IF YOU LIKE WAR IN IRAQ, YOU’LL LOVE WAR ON IRAN”

So goes the tagline on a new ad by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

As Congress and the mainstream media are distracted by the new troop escalation in Iraq, little attention is given to the much more consequential reality that we may be only a few months, weeks, or even days away from a new and potentially more horrifying war.

A wide range of organizations and activists are joining this summit to take a serious look at how, together, we may be successful in preventing a war with Iran.

Emergency Summit to Prevent
War with Iran

Saturday, March 10, 2007

UC Berkeley Campus

10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Location: Evans Hall, Room #10 (map) (parking) (printable map)

Suggested Donation: $10

Morning Session

Registration, Sign-in:	09:30 - 10:00
Speakers, Q&A:	10:00 - 12:00

This session will feature speakers who will offer analysis on the current situation, followed by a question and answer session.

Perhaps the most important whistle-blower of the past half century, former marine company commander Daniel Ellsberg was driven by his conscience in 1971 to reveal how successive presidents had lied to the American people about the conduct of the Vietnam war and its consequences. Ellsberg's leaking of 7,000 pages of Pentagon documents helped end the war.

Dr. Dariush Zahedi is a professor of political science at UC Berkeley, and the author of The Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indicators of Regime Instability and the editor of Iran in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angles Times, Middle East Policy and Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review. He has also studied the patterns of political participation and engagement and political attitudes of Iranian expatriates in the U.S.

Larry Everest is the author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 25 years, reporting from Iran, Iraq, Palestine and India for various publications. Everest traveled to Iran in 1979 and 1980, shortly after the revolution, interviewed Islamic militants holding the U.S. Embassy, and reported from Iranian Kurdistan. He testified before the 2005 World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul, and helped organize the 2005-2006 Bush Crimes Commission.

Afternoon Session

Registration, Sign-in:	12:30 - 13:00
Discussions:	13:00 - 16:00

Address by San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi.

Panel discussion on the following topics:

Producing more with less: How can we increase the level of collaboration among our organizations?
Power of many: How can we effectively share our experiences and leverage our resources?
Learning from our successes and failures: What has been working and what has not?
Sharpening our message: What are the most effective talking points?
Formulating a winning strategy
The good news: Why are the chances of success much better now than the pre- Iraq war time?
Collaborative action plan