TEACH-IN on the IRAQ WAR
Join VETERANS, SCHOLARS, and ACTIVISTS in discussing the causes, implications, and potential consequences of the U.S. War against Iraq–a war that may not only change the face of the Middle East but the geopolitics and security concerns of the entire globe.
Kay Chapel, American University Saturday, March 22, 1-5 pm
Speakers include:
Daniel Ellsberg: Author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, Former Defense Department Official who released the Pentagon Papers
Bobby Muller: President, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
Joseph Cirincione: Director, Non-Proliferation Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Wayne Smith: Executive Director, The Justice Project; Former President, Black Patriots Memorial Foundation
Susan Shaer: Executive Director, Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND)
Jo Marie Griesgraber, Advocacy Director of Oxfam America
Clovis Maksoud: Professor, School of International Service; Director, American University’s Center for the Global South; Former Arab League Ambassador
Eric Gustafson: Executive Director, Education for Peace in Iraq Center; Gulf War Vet
Peter Kuznick: Professor of History; Director, American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute
John H. Brown: Former State Department Official
Dave Cline: President, Veterans for Peace
John Ketwig: Author, A Hard Rain Fell; Vietman Vet
Jonathan Schell: Nuclear Expert, Author, The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition
Gene R. La Rocque: Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.); President Emeritus, Center for Defense Information
Jamie Raskin: Professor, American University’s Washington College of Law; Author, Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. the American People
Andy Shallal: Iraqi-Americans for Peaceful Alternatives
Salih Booker: Director, Africa Action
Ariela Blatter: Head of Iraq Crisis Response Team, Amnesty International
Eugene Fidell: President, National Institute for Military Justice
Charles Sheehan-Miles: Veterans for Common Sense; Gulf War Vet
Nancy Lessin: Military Families Speak Out
Charlie Richardson: Military Families Speak Out
Karin Lee: Friends Committee on National Legislation
John Kim: Veterans for Peace
Joe Eldridge: American University Chaplain
Barbara Greene: Wesley Seminary Center for Theology and Public Policy
Jamie Vasquez: Veterans for Peace; Vietnam Vet
Sponsored by Veterans Against Iraq War, Veterans for Peace, Veterans for Common Sense, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute, OneWorld U.S., Historians Against the War
