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WHAT THE WAR IN IRAQ IS DOING TO OUR MULTIRACIAL AND MULTIETHNIC SOCIETY |
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27 Feb 2005
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WHAT THE WAR IN IRAQ IS DOING
TO OUR MULTIRACIAL AND MULTIETHNIC SOCIETY
A Community Forum sponsored by UC Progressives |
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"The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America." Martin Luther King (1967)
WHAT THE WAR IN IRAQ IS DOING
TO OUR MULTIRACIAL AND MULTIETHNIC SOCIETY
A Community Forum sponsored by UC Progressives
Monday, February 28th at 7:30pm
Urbana Civic Center
(108 Water St, off Broadway, 1 block north of Main Street)
Guest Speakers
> - Dr. Robert Boone, local physician and Vietnam War veteran
> - David Roediger, professor of African American Studies and Research and a founder of the Center on Democracy in a Multi-racial Society at the U of I
> - Zohreh Sullivan, born in Iran and educated in Pakistan, she is an English professor at the U of I specializing in colonial and postcolonial literatures focusing on the Middle East. She is also a member of "Teachers for Peace and Justice."
Join us to discuss the impact of the war. How has the war affected our images of Middle Eastern and Islamic people here and abroad? How has the cost of the war hurt minority and poor people in the United States? And finally, what about the casualities of this war - what physical and psychological damage have civilians and those in the military experienced? Let's talk about the ways in which this war and other"preemptive" wars that the administration might have in mind can be resisted.
Co-Sponsors include AWARE (the Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort), Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Union of Professional Employees, 85% Coalition, School for Designing a Society, St. Jude Catholic Worker, Socialist Forum, CU Citizens for Peace and Justice, Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting, El Centro por los Trabajadores, Channing Murray Foundation, & Student Peace Action |
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