[Peace-discuss] Fwd: HowardZinn.org Update (March '06)

[Morton K. Brussel]

Carl is planning a reading of the "Voices of Rachel Corrie" on WEFT ,
Wednesday 22 March 8-10pm. --mkb


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> From: "HowardZinn.org" <newsletter at howardzinn.org>
> Date: March 19, 2006 3:55:50 PM CST
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: HowardZinn.org Update (March '06)
>
>
> 2) BOOK LAUNCH FOR IRAQ: THE LOGIC OF WITHDRAWAL:
>
> Join Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove for the launch of
> Arnove's new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, with
> foreword and afterword by Zinn. Introduction by Amy
> Goodman of Democracy Now! Saturday, March 25, 1 PM, at
> Quaker Friends Meeting House 15 Rutherford Place (at 15th
> Street), New York, NY. Suggested donation $5/$10.
>
> About the book: Howard Zinn’s book Vietnam: The Logic of
> Withdrawal, though it appeared five years before the
> United States eventually abandoned that war, argued with
> remarkable foresight that getting out was the only
> realistic option. Now, nearly forty years later, the
> United States is once again involved in a seemingly
> intractable foreign conflict. And, following in the
> footsteps of Zinn, Anthony Arnove (his co-editor on the
> widely acclaimed Voices of a People’s History of the
> United States) has written a book that will likely prove
> equally prescient.
>
> Arnove sets out a compelling case for the immediate
> withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Countering widespread
> arguments made in support of the occupation by
> conservatives and liberals alike, Arnove insists that the
> U.S. presence is the major source of instability and
> suffering for the Iraqi people. He challenges the idea
> that George W. Bush has ever been interested in bringing
> democracy to the country and explores the real reasons
> behind the invasion, which centrally involve control over
> strategic Middle Eastern energy resources. And he sets out
> a constructive vision for the antiwar movement, one that
> involves soldiers, military families, and the many
> communities affected by the occupation, who together can
> build a coalition to bring the troops home.
>
> Praise for the book:
>
> "An urgent book." -Arundhati Roy
>
> "A powerful and compelling argument on behalf of
> withdrawal from Iraq." -Ron Kovic
>
> "Anthony Arnove's analysis of the reasons for U.S. troops
> to be withdrawn from Iraq is brilliant." -Cindy Sheehan
>
> "A book that every American, regardless of political
> viewpoint, should read." -Richard Falk
>
> "A compelling brief against America's new imperial
> venture." -Frances Fox Piven
>
> "An impassioned, unflinching case for immediate U.S.
> withdrawal. Read this book and bring the troops home now."
> -Eve Ensler
>
> For more information on the book, click here:
> http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task
> =view_title&metaproductid=1417
>
> To catch Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn at other stops on
> the "Out Now!" tour, visit http://www.thenewpress.com/.
>
> 3) ZINN'S STATEMENT ON RACHEL CORRIE
>
> March 22nd is the date that "My Name is Rachel Corrie" was
> supposed to open at the New York Theatre Workshop, and is
> a day of action to present her words and struggle to the
> public.
>
> "Rachel Corrie's heroism is part of a long tradition in
> the history of this country, of people who crossed into
> other parts of the world, without the endorsement or
> protection of the United States government, to express
> the common bond with victims of injustice in other
> countries. I'm thinking of those Americans who went to
> Spain to join the struggle against Franco's Fascism, of
> Leo Linder, who lost his life in Nicaragua, trying to help
> the Sandinista revolutionaries rebuild their war-torn
> country, of the nuns who went to El Salvador to help the
> poor in that country, and were murdered by death squads,
> of the people in Voices in the Wilderness, who challenged
> official policy and brought food and medicine to the
> people of Iraq. Our hope for a future world community
> rests with such people, like Rachel Corrie, whose lives
> and deaths will always remind us that all people in all
> countries deserve the same justice."
>
>
> 4) READ ZINN'S NEW COLUMN IN THE PROGRESSIVE:
>
> Read "Lessons of Iraq War start with U.S. history" here:
> http://progressive.org/media_mpzinn030806
>
> 5) READ ZINN'S PREFACE TO NEW BOOK BY DANIEL SINGER:
>
> Four years since the death of Daniel Singer, Deserter from
> Death presents much material that will be new to readers,
> including his coverage of the Algerian crisis in the late
> fifties and the tumultuous events of May '68. Born in
> Poland in 1926, Singer narrowly escaped the Holocaust to
> become one of the Left's leading social and political
> commentators. His writing displays a thoughtful,
> principled attention to the complexity of events and
> individuals; his work on the Cold War, for example,
> rejects the seductions of the bourgeois West as much as
> the dogmatism of the Soviet Union.
>
> In Deserter from Death, the journalist and historian
> levels his "Balzacian eye," as Gore Vidal described it, on
> the defining events of the past half-century. Encompassing
> the dazzling career that Singer began as a reporter for
> The Economist and ended as The Nation's European
> correspondent, this book is an effervescent social
> history.
>
> Howard Zinn wrote the preface to Singer's book. Read the
> preface here:
> http://www.howardzinn.org/default/index.php?option=content
> &task=view&id=17&Itemid=37
>
>
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