Speaking Truth /

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howabout speaking truth about Empire to masses ?

CB

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Speaking Truth to Empire: End the Occupation of Iraq!
A Nationwide Speaking Tour, Fall 2003

Millions of people marched against the war last year- calling to stop the
war the before it started.  Now, months after "military aggression has
ended,"  the antiwar movement continues to organize!

Iraq faces unstable conditions, sporadic electricity, and unsanitary water
because of the US invasion.  Iraqis are finding midnight raids, crack-downs
on protests, humiliation and death at the hands of their "liberators."  As
Medea Benjamin said, "Iraqis sense they've lost their country."  

Yet large corporations are racing to cash in on markets and resources- from
Halliburton to Bechtel, while innocent people continue to die at the hands
of the US.  Micheal Ignatieff of the New York Times Magazine said as much
recently.  "It was never simply a matter of preventing the use of weapons of
mass destruction; rather, it was about consolidating American power in the
Arab world."

Domestically, Americans have been forced to pick up the bill to fund this
modern day colonialism, on top of increased cuts in social spending from
state to federal levels.  Moreover, the government is looking for more
troops and more money to fund their quagmire, while cuts in school funding,
health care, and jobs continue on a massive scale. 

Seeing that the brutal occupation is just the next step of a brutal war, the
Campus Antiwar Network and Muslim Students' Association is organizing a
national speaking tour to speak truth to these horrors and expose the
occupation for what it is: The United States controlling- at the end of gun-
the country of Iraq. 

End the Occupation of Iraq!  Money for Schools and Jobs, not War!

Speaking Truth to Empire is coming to a campus near you!

Featured Speakers* :

Tariq Ali, author, Clash of Fundamentalisms
Howard Zinn, author, A Peoples History of the United States
Norman Solomon, director, Institute for Public Accuracy
Lou Plummer, Military Families Speak Out, and Bring Them Home Now
Michael Parenti, author, Democracy for the Few
Rania Masri, director, Southern Peace Research & Education Center;
contributer, Iraq Under Siege
Rahul Mahajan, National Board member, Peace Action
Military Families and Veterans
And More!

* Organizations are listed for identification purposes only

Location and Dates:

Chicago, IL ~ University of Illinois, Chicago ~ October 1
Detroit, MI ~ Wayne State University ~  October 2
Madison, WI ~ University of Wisconsin, Madison ~ October 3
Berkeley, CA ~ University of California, Berkeley ~ October 8
Greensboro, NC ~  University of North Carolina, Greensboro ~ October 9
New York, NY ~ New York University ~ October 13
Austin, TX ~ University of Texas, Austin ~ October 17
New York, NY ~ Columbia University ~ October 21
San Fransisco, CA ~ San Fransisco State University TBA
San Diego, CA ~ TBA ~
Boston, MA ~ TBA ~
Burlington, VT ~ TBA ~

Speaking Truth to Empire is endorsed by:

SpeakOut www.speakoutnow.org,

September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows www.peacefultomorrows.org 

More to come!

Contact Information

For the most up-to-date information on the tour, go to the Campus Antiwar
Network's site- www.antiwarnetwork.org. 

The tour is co-sponsored by Muslim Students' Association- www.msa-natl.org. 

The Speaking Tour was proposed and voted on during CAN's regional
conferences in the spring, and is being organized soley by students on
campuses with anti-war coalitions!  if you are part of a student anti-war
coalition, and want to be part of the Campus Antiwar Network, visit
www.antiwarnetwork.org. 

CAN is always looking for help on getting the word out and organizing
against the occupation.  Want to host a stop? Want to endorse? Send us an
email canspeakingtour@xxxxxxxxxx


CAN POINTS OF UNITY:

We are an independent, democratic, grassroots network of campus-based
antiwar committees.

1.      We stand opposed to all unjust wars.
2.      We stand opposed to the occupation of Iraq.
3.      We stand opposed to racist scapegoating and all attacks on civil
liberties.

We demand money for education, jobs and health care, not war.



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