After more than ten years of occupations, drone strikes, torture campaigns and ecological
devastation, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) continues to organize and fight against
US militarism. ---- For this plenary panel and fundraising event during IVAW?s National
Convention, IVAW is proud to have guest speakers, Christian Parenti and Nick Turse join
us, along with other great speakers for an evening of commentary, discussion and analysis
of the state and future of U.S. Militarism.----Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist,
historian, essayist, the managing editor of TomDispatch.com, the co-founder of Dispatch
Books, and a fellow at the Nation Institute. ---- He is the author of 'Kill Anything That
Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam' (2013) and several other books including 'The
Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and
Cyber Warfare' (2012) and 'The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives' (2008).
Christian Parenti, is a professor of sustainable development at the School for
International Training, Graduate Institute. He a Nation contributing editor and the author
of Lockdown America The Soft Cage, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied
Iraq and most recently Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
(Nation Books, July 2011). He has a Ph.D. in geogrphy and sociology from the London School
of Economics.
Please come out and support IVAW for this special evening.
21st Century American Militarism: Occupation Abroad and Resistance at Home
Plenary Panel of IVAW National Convention
With Guest Speakers Christain Parenti, Nick Turse + More!
Friday, August 2nd, 7pm
$10 Suggested Donation ( No one turned away)
www.ivaw.org
http://www.christianparenti.com/
http://www.nickturse.com/
Endorsed by: American Friends Service Committee, Anti-War Committee- Chicago, Four Star
Anarchist Organization, Haymarket Press, Iraq and American Reconciliation Project,
National Nurses United, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Voices for Creative
Non-Violence, US Labor Against the War, Veterans For Peace (Chicago), Peace Action, Center
for Constitutional Rights
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