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AINT THAT GOOD NEWS & WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio
INVITE YOU TO A PUBLIC FORUM AT THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH & The Synod Hall of SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE
490 Riverside Drive
110 Amsterdam Avenue In Harlem
REFRAMING 911: ALTERNATIVES TO ENDLESS WAR
WE MUST CONNECT THE DOTS
On SEPTEMBER 12, 13, 14, JOIN:
Vandana Shiva, Wayne Madsen, Medea Benjamin, William Rivers Pitt, Greg Palast, Hibaaq Osman, Rania Masri , Amy Goodman & over 40 global, national and local, grass-roots activist-scholars, journalists, in New York, on this second anniversary of September 11 to firmly extract the tragic day from the cynical and deadly embrace of the Neo-Cons to imprint it with the Peace and Justice Agenda emerging globally from grass roots peoples movements.
PRGRAM DETAILS
http://www.wbai.org/about/wbai_events.php#911_9-11-03September 11 THURSDAY: 9-11 UNANSWERED QUESTIONS—FILMS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS 6pm –11pm with former congresswomen CYNTHIA McKINNEY, RAY McGOVERN former CIA analyst, From The Wilderness publisher MICHAEL RUPERT and others.
September 12, FRIDAY : 9-11 UNLEASHING THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY PROJECT OF ENDLESS WAR ON THE WORLD; RESPONSE OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT One Panel 6.30-10.30pm followed by a play.
September 13 SATURDAY : 9-11 ‘WAR ON TERROR’ OR CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION? MOBILIZING STRATEGIES TO BUILD DEMOCRATIC ECONOMICS Three Panels 10am –10.30pm with breaks
September 14 SUNDAY: 9-11-UNLEASHING OF THE PATRIOT ACT-WAGING HOMELAND INSECURITY; PEOPLE BUILDING RESISTENCE & WINNING Three Panels 10am-9pm with breaks
September 12 PROGRAM
Evening: Moderator : AMY GOODMAN producer of Democracy Now ; Speakers : ARJUN MAKHIJANI, USA Monetary Imperialism, The War On Iraq, the Structure of Global Apartheid and the Struggle for Democracy; WILLIAM RIVERS PITT How the Post 9-11 “War On Terror” mirrors the Pre-911 New American Century Bid For US Empire; WAYNE MADSEN, Pre-911 and Post-911 USA Policy In Africa Different in Degree Only: Aggression, Covert Operations, Corporate Military Expansion, Genocide and Terror; DAVID BOOKBINDER, How 911 Heightened the Bush Administration Attack On The Environment: More Secrecy, More Unaccountability, More Fuel for Climate Change ; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY , 9-11 Unanswered; KELLY CAMPBELL: 911 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Say War is Not The Answer; MAX UHLENBECK, The Anti-war Movement’s Response to 911 and the “War On Terror; PERFORMANCE: I WILL BEAR WITNESS: THE DIARIES OF VICTOR KLEMPERER 1933-1938 By Obie Award winning actor GEORGE BARTENIEFF. The play is adapted from the diaries of Victor Klemperer member of a well known European Jewish family who remained in Hitler’s Germany and bore witness to the terrible rise of Nazi power and the rapid erosion of civil liberties. Actor Bartenieff is himself a child refugee from Nazi Germany. 60 minutes
September 13 PROGRAM
Morning:UN-MASKING THE CORPORATE ECONOMY: HIBAAQ OSMAN, Race, Gender and Class oppression at the root of Corporate enterprise; DANNY SCHECHTER, How the Corporate Mass Media Builds Terror for the Corporate State“War On Terror”; WALTER A. DAVIS, Living in Death's Dream Kingdom: Exposing the Aggressive Roots of the Capitalist Economy; VIRGINIA RASSMUSEN, (not confirmed) The Courts and Regulatory Agencies: Dispensing Social Justice or Enforcing Corporate Privilege and Power?
Afternoon: UPROOTING THE CORPORATE ECONOMY : Moderator DAVID KUBIAK, co-producer Aint That Good News, founder/director BIG MEDICINE, grass-roots organizer with years of experience in Japan, India, USA & Maine; SEYMOUR MELMAN, The Imperative to Build A Civilian Economy Before The War Economy Leads Us Into A Permanent State of War; RANIA MASRI, The Hidden Costs of War; MIKE FERNER, Dismantling The Mechanisms of Corporate Rule
Evening: FROM CORPORATE ECONOMICS TO ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS : Moderator ETHAN MILLER author of a pamphlet, “Solidarity Economics Building a New Economy In Maine From The Bottom Up and Inside-out”, singer song-writer, Jed Collective ME; DAVID MORRIS, Policy Options for the Ecological Revolution: Why New Rules; CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS, The Solaris Idea; SUSAN WITT, Land Trusts and Local Currencies: How they Can Help YOUR Community; We are still awaiting confirmation on a speaker form Latin America
September 14 PROGRAM
Morning THE CORPORATE STATE : Moderator MARY LOU GREENBERG Co-Founder of Not In Our Name the grass-roots anti-war, social justice mobilization. BOB FITRAKIS, War on Drugs: Prelude to the War On Terror; MICHAEL RATNER, Patriot Act & Executive Orders: Attack On Immigrants, Human Rights and International Law; MICHAEL LETWIN, Patriot Act :Attack on Labor and the Growing Resistance; UDI OFER, Report From the Grass-roots-Mobilizing for Peoples Rights ,Rejecting The Patriot Act and Unconstitutional Executive Usurpation of Power; : ELLEN SCHRECKR, Civil Rights are Of the People, For the People, By the People, Use It or Lose It ;
Afternoon LAWLESS GOVERNMENT MAKING LAWLESSNESS LAW; Moderator: (to be named); STEVEN STAPLES, Post 911 Global Conflagration of “National Security” legislation; From Corporate Globalization to Global Corporate Militarization ; ALICE SLATER, Repressing Dissent At Home; Breaking International Law Abroad & Expanding the Nuclear Threat ; SARAH ZAIDI, USA : Bringing Democracy and ‘Civilization’ or Global Lawlessness? Violating some International Law & Undermining Others; Reverend PETER LAARMAN, The Accountability Project
Evening: AGE OF THE GLOBAL CORPORATE STATE OR TRIUMPH OF THE INVIOLABLE HUMAN RIGHT OF HUMAN BEINGS: Moderator MEDEA BENJAMIN Co-founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink, advisory board member of Iraq Occupation Watch; C. WILLIAM MICHAELS: Patriot Act and Twelve Common Characteristics of a National Security State; GREG PALAST: Elections for the people of the people by the people. Mobilizing for what lies ahead; VANDANA SHIVA: Challenging The Patriarchy, Speaking from The World Court Of Women: Peace Justice & Sustainable Living For Our Children’s Children’s Children; CORNELL WEST: (not confirmed) American Democracy After 9-11: Is There Hope for the World?
LOCATION
Friday, September 12, at The Riverside Church NAVE , 490 Riverside Drive , between 120 & 122 Streets. Take 1 or 9 trains to 116 Street and Broadway, walk short blocks to Riverside Drive.
Saturday, September 13, at The Riverside Church ASSEMBLY HALL, 91 Clermont Avenue Entrance (all one building).On weekend, be sure the 1 or 9 train will stop at 116 Street & Broadway. Walk to 120 Street, turn left on 120th. find Clermont Avenue a short block up
Sunday, September 14, 10am- 5pm at the SYNOD HOUSE, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, 110 Amsterdam Avenue. Take local 1 or 9 to 110 Street. Walk short distance to Amsterdam Ave.
Sunday September 14, 5pm- 9pm The Riverside Church NAVE. Follow directions given above.
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