Date & Time
August 29, 2010
8:00 pm through
August 30, 2010
12:00 am
Location
Busboys & Poets
5th & K Streets NW
Washington, DC, USA
Iraq: A Teach-In on the Legacy of the Seven-Year U.S. Occupation
Join panels of antiwar activists/policy analysts examining the changing occupation and the continuing war.
Thousands of U.S. troops are leaving Iraq -- but more than 50,000 troops and tens of thousands of U.S.-paid mercenaries remain. U.S. "combat operations" are ending, but Iraq remains mired in war.
We will examine whether the U.S. is really leaving Iraq or just rebranding. We’ll look at life in Iraq today, the human toll on both Iraqis and returning U.S. soldiers, the status of Iraqi refugees around the world and the cost of war in light of our financial crisis. We’ll discuss the lack of accountability for those who dragged us into the war or committed crimes such as torture. We’ll look at the role of Congress and the media in facilitating the invasion/occupation, and we’ll also look at the role of the peace movement--its strengths and weaknesses--and draw key lessons to make our work for peace, including in Afghanistan, more effective.
You won't get this information and analysis from the corporate media.
Speakers and performers include:
- Congresswoman Donna Edwards
- Kymone Tecumseh Freeman, playwright, performer, reading Letters from Iraq
- Head-Roc, the sensational local hip-hop artist
- Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
- Raed Jarrar, Peace Action
- Manal Omar, author
- Bill Fletcher, labor leader, scholar
- Josh Stieber, Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK and Global Exchange
- Andy Shallal, Iraqi artist, owner Busboys and Poets
- David Swanson, author
- Gene Bruskin, US Labor Against the War
- Felicia Eaves, activist
Sponsored by: CODEPINK, Peace Action, Institute for Policy Studies, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Global Exchange, Just Foreign Policy, Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, ANSWER, World Can’t Wait, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, War is a Crime, Progressive Democrats of America, Rivera Project, Washington Peace Center, and U.S. Labor Against the War.