[act-ma] TOMORROW (10/24): Dahr Jamail speaks in Boston

[Keith Rosenthal]

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> RESISTING EMPIRE
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> www.resistingempire.org 
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> Come hear Dahr Jamail, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and
> UMass Boston Antiwar
> Coalition speak 
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> Two Chances: 
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> 1PM FRIDAY OCTOBER 24 
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> @ UMass-Boston, Snowden Auditorium, Wheatley Bldng     
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> Contact: jaunmiguel5999 at gmail.com 
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> and 
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> 7PM FRIDAY OCTOBER 24 
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> @ SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS 
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> www.spontaneouscelebrations.org 
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> 45 DANFORTH ST (STONY BROOK T), JAMAICA PLAIN, MA 02130
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> Contact: resistempireboston at gmail.com, 617-970-2701
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> Nat'l Co-sonsors: Haymarket Books, IVAW, Alternet,
> Nation Books 
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> Local Co-sponsors:  IVAW Boston, Military Families Speak
> Out, International
> Socialist Organization, UMass Boston Antiwar Coalition,
> Mass Peace Action, Mass
> Global Action, United for Justice with Peace, Stop the Wars
> Coalition, Joiner
> Center for the Study of War and Social Consequence,
> Activist Melodies for the
> People, American Friends Service Committee
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> Here and around the world, people want to see an end to the
> Iraq War and a
> change in the reckless direction of U.S. foreign policy. 
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> U.S. aggression has inflicted a humanitarian
> catastrophe—from Iraq, to
> Afghanistan, and beyond—with millions of people killed or
> turned into
> refugees. 
> 
> American troops continue to suffer and die, while schools
> and hospitals fall
> apart. 
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> A new resistance needs to be built from the ground up. 
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> To build it, we need to hear the stories the mainstream
> media refuse to tell:
> the stories of war resisters, unembedded journalists, and
> activists. 
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> Resisting Empire starts with us.   
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> Dahr Jamail, (www.dahrjamailiraq.com) winner of the 2007
> Martha Gelhorn prize
> for journalism,  will be cutting through the media lies of
> a "successful
> surge", offering a depiction of what occupation really
> looks like, and a
> humanizing rather than demonizing perspective on the Iraqi
> people.  He'll
> speaking on his new release from Haymarket: Beyond the
> Green Zone: Dispatches
> From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq