[Peace-discuss] Read a Book in Common with IVAW and CAN

[martin smith]

Read a Book in Common with Iraq Veterans Against the War


Wed., March 4, at 7:00pm, Greg 221





All veterans and allies welcome!  


Iraq
Veterans Against the War has been assisting veterans, active duty
members, and educating the public throughout the country from helping
those with PTSD, to public discussions on the perils of using war as an
instrument of foreign policy.  


If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about how you can join IVAW, go to www.ivaw.org or if you are in the Midwest, e-mail our Regional Coordinator, Martin Smith at: martin at ivaw.org


This
Wednesday, March 4, we will be having a special meeting cosponsored by
Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Campus Antiwar Network.  We are
reading a book in common and will hold a discussion that is open to all
students, staff, and community members of Champaign-Urbana.  IT IS NOT
REQUIRED THAT YOU READ OR COMPLETE THE BOOK IN ORDER TO COME FOR THE
DISCUSSION.




WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ:
Michael Schwartz's War Without End: The Iraq War in Context
Book discussion to be held on: Wednesday, March 4, at 7pm in Greg Hall 221

You can get your copy of War Without End through IShare, your local library, amazon.com, or haymarketbooks.org



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War Without End: The Iraq War in Context by Michael Schwartz

      
      
        
      
      
        
		 
          In
this razor-sharp analysis, TomDispatch.com commentator Michael Schwartz
demolishes the myths used to sell the U.S. public the idea of an
endless "war on terror" centered in Iraq.
 He demonstrates how
the U.S. occupation is fueling rather than restraining civil war in
Iraq, and how U.S. officials systematically dismantled the Iraqi state
and economy, helping to destroy rather than rebuild the country.
In
a popular style, reminiscent of the best writing against the Vietnam
war, he shows how the real U.S. interests in Iraq have been rooted in
the geopolitics of oil and the expansion of a neoliberal economic model
in the Middle East—and around the globe—at gunpoint.
 War
Without End also reveals how the failure of the United States in Iraq
has forced U.S. planners to fundamentally rethink the imperial
fantasies driving recent foreign policy.

        
                About the Author
                  
          Michael
Schwartz, professor of sociology and faculty director of the
Undergraduate College of Global Studies at Stony Brook University, has
written extensively on the war in Iraq at sites including TomDispatch,
ZNet, Asia Times, and Mother Jones, and in numerous magazines,
including Contexts, Against the Current, and Z.

        See Michael Schwartz speak on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2WLqZOlwMo&eurl=http://www.haymarketbooks.org/product_info.php?products_id=1609&osCsid=9ef42d3537fb53be2a58d027659a89f2




Reviews
                      
          "Americans
have all along needed a sociologist, not a general, to help them
understand Iraq. They need to know about social movements, not just
militias, and about oil politics, not just personalities in the news.
We have the incredible good fortune that the perspicacious Michael
Schwartz boldly stepped forward to cast floods of illumination on the
Iraq War and its tragic social costs."
—Juan Cole, Informed Comment 

"The
best history of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that I've seen.… This book
puts incidents of violence we hear about in the context of the massive
violence we don't hear much about, and puts all of it in the context of
the economic and social devastation imposed on Iraq…. Schwartz also
helps to make the complex clearer and simpler by framing his account in
terms of the actual oily motivations of our government, rather than any
of the pretended rationales."
—David Swanson, Global Research

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Also...
Iraq Veterans Against the
War, the Campus Antiwar Network, and the International Socialist Organization ARE heading to Washington D.C. to
protest more than just the anniversary of
the Iraq war.  We will also be protesting the occupations of Palestine
and Afghanistan.  The theme is "From Iraq to Palestine, Occupation is a
Crime!, and the March is sponsored by ANSWER.  See link here: http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=m21_homepage

We hope you will join us.



We will be leaving sometime (time TBA) on Friday, March 20 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus,
protesting on the 21st, and getting back on Sunday, March 22 (time
TBA).  We will get you the information about the exact time as soon as it becomes
available.

 
The cost is $100--but If you absolutely
cannot gather the entire amount, and you really want to go, we do have
a scholarship available to cover some (if not all) of the cost.  Please
let us know if you would like to come.  

 
You will need to supply your own meals (A.K.A. bring money), and we are sleeping on the buses.
 
We need the money VERY, VERY SOON.  It is due in the coming days, so please contact Dan Panzone (panzone2 at illinois.edu) or Steven Wyatt (wyatt2 at illinois.edu) to meet with them to either get more information or give them your money for a reserved bus seat.






Thanks!




      
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