{news} Fw: Invitation to Sponsor! Journalist Dahr Jamail Speaking in Hartford!; ALSO OTHER "PEACE" INFO
edubrule
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Mon Aug 10 08:58:10 EDT 2009
Actually it appears Jamail will be speaking in Middletown, not Hartford.
I've pasted in the flyer (a Word attachment) to the bottom of this post.
--Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura Lockwood
To: [long list, deleted]
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 5:08 PM
Subject: Invitation to Sponsor! Journalist Dahr Jamail Speaking in Hartford! 9/20 (again, w/attachment)
Hello!
I am writing to alert you to the upcoming Connecticut 2009 book tour appearance of award-winning journalist Dahr Jamail, and his speaking at the September CTUP (Connecticut United for Peace) meeting on:
Date: Sunday, September 20th
Time: Location and time will be coordinated around the schedule of Hope Out Loud in Hartford,12-6pm.
We are seeking sponsors for his talk, plus offering table space. Please see the attached flyer: "Call for Sponsors." If your organization is interested in sponsorship please fill out the attached flyer and either send it to the address on the flyer, with yorr check, or email to me if you cannot make a monetary contribution. If you are not interested or you are not a member of a particular organization that may be interested in sponsoring, please email me to let me know.
We'd also like to make sure you've heard the call for the regional Anti-War action in Boston on October 17, 2009. This date was endorsed by the National Assembly in Pittsburgh last month, for nationally coordinated anti-war demonstrations.
Thank you for your time and attention to this exciting event, and I look forward to speaking with you soon.
In Peace and Solidarity,
Laura Lockwood
CTUP
Trinity College Women & Gender Resource Action center (WGRAC)
Hello!
I am writing to alert you to the upcoming Connecticut 2009 book tour of award-winning journalist Dahr Jamail, and his speaking at the September CTUP (Connecticut United for Peace) meeting on:
Date: Sunday, September 20th
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Place: Church of the Holy Trinity
381 Main Street, Middletown, CT **
** Location and time subject to change because Hope Out Loud in Hartford is scheudled from 12-6pm that day.
We are seeking sponsors for his talk, plus offering table space. Please see the attached flyer: "Call for Sponsors." I will be following up this letter with a phone call in the next couple of days. If you are not interested or you are not a member of a particular organization that may be interested in sponsoring, just email me to let me know.
We'd also like to make sure you've heard the call for the regional Anti-War action in Boston on October 17, 2009. This date was endorsed by the National Assembly in Pittsburgh last month, as a date for nationally coordinated anti-war demonstrations.
Thank you for your time and attention to this exciting event, and I look forward to speaking with you soon.
In Peace and Solidarity,
Laura Lockwood
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JOURNALIST DAHR JAMAIL IN MIDDLETOWN, 9/20 -
CALL FOR SPONSORS !
Journalist Dahr Jamail will be in Connecticut for his 2009 Book Tour the week of September 20th. Dahr will be speaking at the CTUP (CT United for Peace) meeting on September 20th, 2-4pm, Church of the Holy Trinity, 381 Main street, Middletown, CT.
Bio:US Journalist Dahr Jamail is the author of, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, published by Haymarket Books. He was the winner, with Mohammed Omar, of the 2008 Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalism. He has also been awarded the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A.Callaway Award for Civic Courage, as well as the Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship. He was honored by Project Censored several times and his celebrated 2007 book tour offered many Americans a first detailed look at the impact of the 2003 Iraq War and occupation on civilians.
In addition to countering Pentagon disinformation about the Iraq War, Dahr Jamail reported from Lebanon during the 2006 war. He covered the millions of displaced Iraqis living in tents within Iraq and the millions of others that had fled to Syria and Jordan. During six years of writing about Iraq, Afghanistan, and other topics, his reports have typically included analyses of US policies contrasted with what he has witnessed on the ground. Ultimately, Dahr Jamail provided detailed reports on a wide variety of topics: The growing Iraqi resistance, the increasing number of IED weapons attacks against US soldiers and Iraqi civlians, the damage caused by US bombing, the use of DU, Depleted Uranium, and torture at US run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. He covered the rise of death squads in Iraq, and their ties to Iraqi ministries, as well as many other topics.
During the six years since he first reported on Iraq, Dahr Jamail has been an inspiration for Indy media reporters. He was working as a mountain rescue guide in Alaska in 2003 when he became frustrated with US press coverage, making his first trip to Iraq as a self funded independent reporter determined to send the truth home. His web site www.dahrjamailiraq.com notes that his coverage focused on, "The everyday violence and terror, the deterioration of the healthcare system, the shortages of clean water and the resulting rise in sickness, the lack of jobs and economic opportunity, the refugee crisis, and the detention and torture of civilians and resistance fighters. Through his uncompromised reporting and news photos, Dahr reveals a map of Iraq's misery and resistance, politics and everyday survival in the face of overwhelming military destruction. His website offers a forum where readers discover realities of the war not found in the conventional press."
The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, Dahr Jamail, Haymarket Books, 2009.
For his 2009 book, also published by Haymarket, Dahr Jamail has carefully documented the impact of the Iraq and Afghan wars on US and coalition soldiers. The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, features the voices of soldiers telling their stories of resistance in their own words. Retired US Army Reserves Colonel and US Diplomat Ann Wright said of the book: "Based on his experiences as an investigative reporter in Iraq and in his frequent conversations with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, Jamail vividly portrays issues of conscience for military personnel during wartime. As a woman veteran, I thank him for exposing sexual assault and rape in the military--including the warning that of women seeking help from the Veterans Affairs, one in three has been sexually assaulted while in the military. Jamail's work provides indespensible help in our understanding of the costs of war to our own military as well as to countries the United States occupies."
The Will to Resist is about US soldiers that have gone AWOL or resisted while deployed in some other way. There are chapters on the crisis of suicide within the ranks, cyber resistance, Art as Resistance, and on various ways US soldiers are "standing up" to the Iraq and Afghan wars. Dahr Jamail's new book offers details about soldiers organizing resistance to war and becoming spokespersons for peace. Other soldiers have engaged in more quiet acts of refusal and resistance, and within these stories we find surprising reactions from fellow soldiers who have begun to accept and even defend the war resisters.
The book was released at the start of the summer and Dahr Jamail's 2009 book tour will bring him to Connecticut in September with talks already planned for the 20th and 21st to mark the International Day of Peace. He will speak at ECSU, Eastern Connecticut State University, UCONN, the University of Connecticut, and at a meeting organized by the Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice. These and several other educational events with Dahr Jamail, will foster greater awareness about US soldiers and veterans who have taken great personal risk to reach out to Americans and share their true reactions to the Iraq and Afghan wars.
In his forward to, The Will to Resist, author and journalist Chris Hedges writes: "Dahr Jamail's human portrait of the men and women who turned away from the project of empire should serve as a beacon. These returning veterans know the essence of war, which is death, and have been maimed by the trauma of industrial warfare. They have found, despite their pain, the moral courage to recover their conscience. The truth they tell demands that we find the courage to make our nation accountable for the crimes committed in our name."
Dahr Jamail's books have also been praised by other noted scholars and journalists including, Amy Goodman, John Pilger, Jeremy Scahill, Howard Zinn, Seymour Hersh, Norman Soloman, Naomi Klein, Chalmers Johnson, Stephen Kinzer, Laura Flanders, and many more. His work was noted for its excellence early on in a career he began on the internet. He has since become a writer for Inter Press Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Truthout.org. His work has also appeared in, The Nation Magazine, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, Asia Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and many other publications.
His coverage of two US assaults on the Iraqi city of Falluja in 2004 stands in sharp contrast to the pro-war, Hollywood film-style reports, offered by US corporate networks. Dahr Jamail's initial reports on Falluja were about events leading up to the murder of the four US Blackwater military contractors there in April, 2004. Unlike other members of the press, he reported on the growing rage of Iraqis when US soldiers in Falluja began opening fire on peaceful demonstraters. Then, when US forces moved in, Dahr Jamail was there to report on the destruction of most of the city. The US launched massive bombs, artillery rounds and unconventional weapons until in the end, the devastation served to prompt more Iraqis to support the resistance. Dahr Jamail has called this and other US tactics used in Iraq, 'war crimes'.
Dahr Jamail has appeared on Pacifica's flagship TV and radio shows Democracy Now! and Free Speech Radio News, and he has been interviewed by NPR, National Public Radio, (Michele Norris, 2006 and On Point Radio, January 2, 2009) as well as Link TV's Mosaic, BBC's Newsweek, Al Jazeera, and many other US and international press outlets. In 2007 he testified about what he witnessed in Iraq at the The BRussells Tribunal:http://www.brusselstribunal.org/
Despite growing success at this new field, Dahr Jamail has also shared his time generously with community radio and indy reporters who have no budgets. When giving interviews to college stations like WHUS Radio at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, he took added risks by standing on roof tops in Baghad to get better reception. He did this despite ongoing US air strikes, and on at least one occasion this nearly cost him his life. True to form, Jamail continued with the interview after a US rocket flew past his head and created a deafening explosion nearby.
Links of interest: http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com
Dahr Jamail's web page
SPONSORSHIP OPTIONS (check one)
* Full Sponsor: $ 50 contribution to costs (includes table)______
* Sponsor: $ 15 for table ______
* Endorser: Name of organization listed ______
* Reserve table only: _____
Please make check out to CTUP, and send to: CTUP, c/o Laura Lockwood, 158 Pierremount Avenue, New Britain, CT 06053
Please Complete the Following:
Name of Organization: __________________________________________
Contact Person:_________________________________________________
Email Address:_________________________________________________
Cell Phone/Home Phone:________________________________________
* Thank you for your sponsorship of this important event!
For more information please contact Laura Lockwood at:
justice4all200960 at yahoo.com, or (860)-827-9142.
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