The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic
Anti-Capitalist Education)
Presents
The Case for DIS-unity in the Anti-War Movement:
Why there must be a clear break between those who
support Iraq's genuine
civil resistance and those who support reactionary
political Islam.
A Discussion with Bill Weinberg
Monday April 9 at 7:00 PM
While the majority of Americans are increasingly
opposed to the U.S.
occupation of Iraq, the anti-war movement has been
growing smaller and
smaller. This has prompted a renewed call for "unity"
within the movement,
but is the problem simply that we are not united?
Many in the anti-war movement lend support to forces
in Iraq that suppress
the rights of women, workers, national minorities and
GLBT people because
these forces, presently, oppose the occupation. Is
unity around a narrow and
reactionary anti-imperialism the ground for building a
mass anti-war
movement or the development of a positive future for
the people of Iraq?
In Iraq today, progressive, democratic and secular
groups like the the Iraqi
Freedom Congress and the Organization for Women's
Freedom in Iraq are
struggling against both the occupation and terrorist
reaction in an effort
to build a non-sectarian and multi-ethnic society. Can
we build a new kind
of anti-war movement based on solidarity with these
struggles, as well as
demanding the immediate end of the US occupation? This
would be a movement
that the majority of Americans can relate to because
they share the
aspirations of Iraqi workers, women and other ordinary
people for freedom.
Bill Weinberg is an award-winning journalist, author
of _Homage to Chiapas:
The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico_ (Verso 2000),
and editor of the
on-line "World War 4 Report" (http://ww4report.com).
He is currently working
on a new book on Plan Colombia and indigenous
struggles in the Andes. He
also co-hosts the weekly Moorish Orthodox Radio
Crusade
(http://www.morc.info), an anarchist variety show,
Tuesdays at midnight on
WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City.
Suggested Donation: $7 - $10
Co-sponsored by The National Organization for the
Iraqi Freedom Struggles
(www.no-ifs.org)
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map.
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Education)
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