[Peace-discuss] FW: event announcement

[jamie storm]

Posted to this list at Stephen's request.  You know it will be good.

"Democracy in An Age of Empire," Friday, 14 April, noon, University
>>YMCA
>>Stephen Hartnett, Associate Professor in the Department of Speech 
>>Communication at UIUC, is speaking this Friday, April 14th, at noon at the 
>>University YMCA Friday Forum Series on "Democracy in an Age of Empire." 
>>While the U.S is waging wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and globally under the 
>>heading of a War on Terrorism, it has also pursued a dual process of 
>>cracking down on domestic dissent and spreading propaganda abroad. Many of 
>>our foundational practices of democracy are thus under assault, even as 
>>"democracy" is marshalled as a term justifying the spread of empire. This 
>>presentation will both address the complicated relationship between 
>>democracy and empire and offer some hopeful comments on modes of renewed 
>>citizen participation.
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