Progressive Forum on Iraq and Iran - Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey

Saturday, July 14, 2007 from 7:30-9:30pm
Progressive Forum on Iraq and Iran
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (Democrat, CA-06)
Lynn Woolsey has been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq from its inception. In January, 2005, she was the first Member of Congress to call on the President to bring the troops home. Since that time she has spoken on this topic on the floor of the House of Representatives over 200 times.
Investigative Journalist/Author Reese Erlich
Reese Erlich is an investigative journalist who has traveled to Iran and Iraq five times and has covered the Middle East for 20 years, most recently on assignment for Mother Jones magazine. His new book The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis comes out in October 2007.
Peace Studies Scholar Michael Nagler
Michael Nagler is the co-founder and board president of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education; professor emeritus and founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley; a core member of Educators for Non-violence; and author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future; Our Spiritual Crisis; and Hope or Terror: Gandhi and the Other 9/11.
Moderator:
Media Critic/Author Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon, a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics, co-authored with Reese Erlich the book Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. Solomon’s latest book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, has been adapted into a documentary film, released on DVD this summer.
Progressive Democrats of Marin, Democracy for America – Marin and Students for Social Responsibility
College of Marin, Olney Hall, 835 College Avenue, Kentfield, CA
Suggested Donation $10 (no one will be turned away
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