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face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:<BR> <BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><B><FONT
color=#0000ff size=4>Is the War in Afghanistan Justified by the Events of
9/11?<BR></FONT></B></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT color=#0000ff
size=4>A lecture by David Ray Griffin<BR></FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR><FONT size=3><FONT color=#0000ff>Event: Lecture,
book signing (Books and DVDs available for purchase)<BR>When: <B>Saturday, May
8, 2010 at 7pm </B>(doors open at 6pm)<BR>Where: <B>Harvard Epworth Methodist
Church</B>, 1555 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138<BR>Admission: $10
voluntary donation (free to students/seniors)<BR> <BR></FONT>David Ray
Griffin, acclaimed philosopher, theologian, author, and 9/11 researcher, will be
making his second Boston-area appearance at 7:00 PM on Saturday, May 8, at the
Harvard Epworth Methodist Church, 1555 Mass. Avenue (near Cambridge Common).
Griffin’s current presentation, “Is the War in Afghanistan Justified by
the 9/11 Events?” is part of a 15-city U.S. tour and a follow-up to his April
2009 presentation at Boston University, which was hosted by the BU School of
Theology and attracted an audience of over 400 people. <BR><BR>One of the most
prominent spokespersons for the worldwide 9/11 Truth Movement, David Ray Griffin
has written nine books about the 9/11 attacks and the official reports
concerning them, the most recent of which is The Mysterious Collapse of World
Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official 9/11 Report is Unscientific and False.
His previous book, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the
Exposé, was a Publishers Weekly “Pick of the Week” in November 2008. <BR><BR>The
topic of Griffin’s lecture comes on the heels of an eventful year for relations
between the 911 Truth and Anti-war movements. In 2009, America’s “Peace Mom” and
anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan endorsed the 9/11 Truth Movement’s call for a
new 9/11 investigation, a call echoed by the antiwar coalition Veterans for
Peace at their 2009 national convention. Commenting on his upcoming lecture,
Griffin states: “Whereas it is widely recognized that the US-led war in
Afghanistan is illegal under international law because it was never authorized
by the UN Security Council, most Americans believe that it is morally justified
as a response to the 9/11 attacks and a necessary means to prevent another
attack originating from that region. My lecture will present evidence showing
that both of these beliefs are untrue, and that the 9/11 Truth Movement and more
traditional Peace and Anti-War groups should be able to combine forces to oppose
this illegal and immoral war.”<BR><BR>Dr. Griffin’s books about 9/11 have been
endorsed by numerous scholars as well as peace and anti-war advocates, including
the late Howard Zinn, Richard Falk, Ray McGovern, Ed Asner, Bill Christison,
Mark Crispin Miller, Marcus Raskin, Rosemary Ruether, Peter Dale Scott, and the
late William Sloane Coffin. In addition to receiving two endorsements from Zinn,
Griffin has other connections to prominent professors in the Boston area. His
9/11 books have also been endorsed by Harvey Cox of Harvard Divinity
School, Richard Horsley of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and
National Medal of Science-winner Lynn Margulis of the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. <BR><BR>David Griffin’s next book will be a response
to a controversial 2008 article entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” co-authored by
Harvard Law School’s Cass Sunstein (currently a member of the Obama
administration) and Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule. <BR><BR>While
teaching philosophy and theology at the Claremont School of Theology and
Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, and serving as the
executive director of the Center for Process Studies, David Ray Griffin produced
(with another philosopher) the corrected edition of Process and Reality – the
magnum opus of Alfred North Whitehead, who taught philosophy at Harvard in the
1920s and ‘30s. <BR><BR>Although Griffin has published 25 books in religion and
philosophy (with a heavy emphasis on the philosophy of science), he has spent
most of his time since 2003 writing and speaking about 9/11. In 2009, this
work resulted in his being ranked 41st in the New Statesman’s list of “The 50
People Who Matter Today.” <BR><BR> <BR></FONT></SPAN></FONT></BODY></HTML>