[mobglob-discuss] Fw: US, Middle East and Empire: Phyllis Bennis to Address Public Forum in Vancouver

[Paul Browning]

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Subject: FW: US, Middle East and Empire: Phyllis Bennis to Address Public
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> US, Middle East and Empire: Phyllis Bennis to Address Public Forum in
> Vancouver
>
> Phyllis Bennis, a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in
Washington,
> D.C. and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, will address a
public
> forum in Vancouver on Monday, November 3, 2003, 7pm, St. Andrew's-Wesley
> Church.
>
> Bennis has been a writer, analyst and activist on Middle East issues for
25
> years. She is a frequent guest on North American television and radio news
> programs, including the CBC, MSNBC, and Jim Lehrer NewsHour.
>
> Bennis' books include Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the
September
> 11 Crisis, Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN, and
> Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader. She is co-chair of the US Campaign
> to End the Israeli Occupation and works closely with the United for Peace
> and Justice coalition in the US.
>
> Concerning the recently passed Security Council resolution, Bennis writes
> that it "provides only an internationalist fig-leaf for Washington's
> occupation; the occupation remains illegal and in violation of the UN
> Charter. The new resolution will do nothing to change the fundamental
> problems of the U.S. occupation of Iraq -- the occupation's illegitimacy,
> its unilateralism, and its responsibility for so much destruction in Iraq
> and for the on-going crisis of violence in the country. The new
resolution,
> designed as much for Bush's domestic political gain as for international
> purposes, does nothing to make the occupation acceptable, and we remain
> adamantly opposed to it."
>
> Bennis' visit to Vancouver is organized by Stopwar.ca, a broad-based
> coalition of over 160 organizations that has responded to international
> calls for days of action against the war, beginning November 17th, 2002.
> Stopwar.ca continues to organize against the war on Iraq and for peace and
> justice in the Middle East.
>
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