[Peace-discuss] April 7: World Can't Wait conference call on US intervention in Libya, and other resources

[Stuart Levy]

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:02:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Debra Sweet, World Can't Wait" <debrasweet at worldcantwait.org>
Subject: Resources to inform, motivate and inspire a movement
To: aware at anti-war.net

News From World Can't Wait

Dear Aware, 


You're invited: Conference Call April 7th on the US Intervention in Libya. 

Have questions to ask an expert on US foreign policy? Want to hear what the Peace Mom thinks?

Join a conversation with:

William Blum [ http://killinghope.org/ ], author of "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II "and" Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower"

Cindy Sheehan [ http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/ ], anti-war leader known as the "Peace Mom" since camping out in front of Bush's Texas residence years ago 

Thursday, April 7
7pm Pacific /10pm Eastern

Write for instructions [ debrasweet at worldcantwait.net ] to join in. 
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**Listen [ http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_110401_100012bts_michael.MP3 ]

to my interview Friday on The Michael Slate Show, KPFK-LA, talking more about the war in Libya. _________________________________________

New York & SF Bay Area 
Don't forget to march on 
April 9 & 10 [ http://www.worldcantwait.net/ ]
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We are very happy to announce that readers of UK-based writer Andy Worthington's definitive anti-torture research and reporting can now order copies of his new film: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo [ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo/ ] directly through World Can't Wait. 

As featured on Democracy Now! [ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/11/13/on-democracy-now-andy-worthington-discusses-the-forthcoming-911-trials-and-outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo-video/ ], ABC News [ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/11/23/on-abc-news-andy-worthington-discusses-new-film-outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo/ ] and Truthout [ http://www.truthout.org/1203091 ]. 

With Guantánamo not closing anytime soon [ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/01/12/the-political-prisoners-of-guantanamo/ ] - if ever - it is more important than ever that people who care about the crimes and injustices committed in their names have the opportunity to discover the truth, and "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" provides the perfect opportunity to discover the truth about Guantánamo, telling the story of the prison, and of the prisoners Shaker Aamer [ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/12/10/on-human-rights-day-a-call-to-release-shaker-aamer-from-guantanamo/ ] (still held), and Binyam Mohamed [ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/03/08/seven-years-of-torture-binyam-mohamed-tells-his-story/ ] and Omar Deghayes [ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/01/22/the-guardian-interviews-omar-deghayes-the-spirit-is-what-makes-us-who-we-are/ ] (both released), through the testimony of former prisoners, lawyers Tom Wilner and Clive Stafford Smith, and Guantánamo expert Andy Worthington.

The film provides a powerful rebuke to those who believe that Guantánamo holds "the worst of the worst" and that the Bush administration was justified in responding to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 by holding men neither as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, nor as criminal suspects with habeas corpus rights, but as "illegal enemy combatants" with no rights whatsoever.

""The film was fantastic! It has the unique ability of humanizing those who were detained at Guantánamo like no other I have seen.""
Sari Gelzer, Truthout 

Watch trailer online now. [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bTpA59np30&feature=player_embedded ]

Order copies ($10 postage included) and bring this information to American audiences. [ http://www.freewebstore.org/WorldCantWait/Andy_Worthingtons_Outside_the_Law__Stories_from_Guantanamo/p237374_3033886.aspx ] This film is only available in the US through World Can't Wait.

Find out more.  [ http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/home-mainmenu-289/7059-qoutside-the-lawq-andy-worthingtons-acclaimed-guantanamo-video-available-from-world-cant-wait ]
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World Can't Wait welcomes feminist scholar Kathleen Barry to NYC with her new book, "Unmaking War, Remaking Men"

Unmaking War Remaking Men [ http://www.kathleenbarry.net/books.htm ] 

Monday, April 4 at 7:00 pm
Revolution Books, 146 West 26th 
(212) 691-3345

Kathleen Barry's [ http://www.kathleenbarry.net/ ] new book reveals how the military's goal to drum empathy out of new recruits trains them to become remorseless killers. She shows how, even in demilitarized states, violence against women persists at high levels. presaging the Wikileaks exposés of random killing by US soldiers in Iraq, Barry documents preventive killing as a daily occurrence in combat zones.

Thursday April 7, 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm
John Jay College Multipurpose Room 2200
North Hall, 445 West 59th Street, NYC

*Challenging the Masculinity of War: Women Soldiers and Remaking Men* [ https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=NTMxZ2tyMGRiYjU3OHAxcXNvdWJoMTE3cmcgOTcwcHJoc2k5cHJqZnBiMXBldWsxcGd0M29AZw&ctz=America/Chicago&gsessionid=OK ]

What happens to women when they enter the US military? How did combat and killing come to be a gender expectation of men? Why are we expected to believe that war is inevitable? Who benefits from the power of individual men to abuse and rape women soldiers and the loss of soul that dehumanizes soldiers in combat?

Helen Benedict [ http://www.helenbenedict.com/ ] and Kathleen Barry [ http://www.kathleenbarry.net/ ] will speak from their different approaches to these question and discuss with each other and the audience how feminism is fundamental to challenging the masculinity of war.

Cosponsored by World Can't Wait, CodePink, On the Issues Magazine, John Jay College Gender Studies Program and The Women's Center at John Jay College.
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While supplies last!

The first two donors who give $200 or more after receiving this message will receive this amazing three-volume set of books on the international peace movement edited by scholar and activist Marc Pilisuk with Michael N. Nagler: Peace Movements Worldwide [ http://www.marcpilisuk.com/ ].

"This three-volume collection of 74 essays from 79 writers examines the history of peace movements all over the world, who make up those movements, what they do, what works and why.

Contributors include Daniel Ellsberg, Howard Zinn, Jennifer Achord Rountree and 74 other voices from the global peace movement. The editors add opening and closing remarks in each volume and contribute co-written and original essays."

Donate [ https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1170/t/11530/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=7002 ] and then write me [ donations at worldcantwait.org ] to be sure your donation is marked for this thank-you gift. 

Debra Sweet [ debrasweet at worldcantwait.org ], Director, The World Can't Wait 


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