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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- For Immediate ReleaseMay 26, 2004 Contact: Mike Zmolek 301-802-6886 (cell) or 888-363-2927 (o) Peace Advocates to Assess Iraq ‘Quagmire’ at Indiana Peace Gathering Memorial Day Weekend "From Humanitarian Disaster to Quagmire, the Failure of the ‘War on Terror’" the Fifth National Grassroots Organizing Conference on Iraq On Friday, May 28th, peace advocates from across the United States will meet on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington to confer on how citizens and organizations should address the disastrous US occupation of Iraq, and to hear presentations by 20 authors, eyewitnesses and veteran organizers. The conference will begin at 7 pm with reports from eyewitnesses and an opening address by eminent authority on the Middle East, Dilip Hiro. His address is entitled: "The Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, a Blow to World Security". Saturday morning, May 29th, begins with an open forum on, "What¹s Working?!" In break-out sessions that follow as peace activists, military families, students, clergy and veterans find out more about aspects of reviving a failed democracy. At 1 pm author Larry Everest will deliver the keynote address entitled: "The Bitter Fruits of Unjust War: How the post-invasion crisis is ‘embedded’" A Saturday afternoon panel will deal with "The Scourge of Depleted Uranium Weapons", including the willful violation of D.o.D. regulations by top brass, the need medical tests for soldiers and civilians exposed to uranium contamination. On the panel are Diane Henshel, Indiana University professor and DU expert; Charles Sheehan-Miles, of the DC-based Nuclear Policy Research Institute; and Sunny Miller, Director of Traprock Peace Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Immediately following the panel will be a workshop entitled "Building a Campaign to Abolish Depleted Uranium Weapons", which will deal with education campaigns, resources for physicians, and health surveys as a tool for down-winders. Educational workshops and action planning sessions will take place all day Saturday and Sunday afternoon, interspersed with meals, conversation and Saturday evening live entertainment, and late night films. Pulling into town during the conference will be the Wheels of Justice Bus Tour, on tour since August 2003 with speakers to tell Americans how and why they should oppose military occupation in Iraq and Palestine. Also on the tour, comedian Dave Lippman will perform as George Shrub the singing CIA agent on Saturday evening. Singer-songwriter Stephan Smith will be joining him on stage in a benefit to support humanitarian relief work in Iraq. The conference will conclude on Monday afternoon, May 31st with a Memorial Day Peace Demonstration in downtown Bloomington. #### This annual gathering of members of the National Grassroots Peace Network (hwww.endthewar.org), is being hosted locally by the Bloomington Peace Action Coalition (www.bpac.info) and the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at Indiana University. For more information on the 2004 Conference, costs, and to register to attend, visit: http://www.endthewar.org/conference.htm For information about the conference location, directions, ample accommodations, shuttles, volunteer opportunities, and other logistical issues, contact the the conference hosts, Bloomington Peace Action Coalition: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call Timothy Baer at: (812) 988-1917. For information about the schedule, proposals, and speakers, contact the National Grassroots Peace Network at: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call toll free, 1-888-363-2927 The National Grassroots Peace Network was was formed in 2001 as the Network to End the War Against Iraq (NNEWAI) to oppose the deadly sanctions against Iraq and continues to organize against the occupation. NNEWAI brings together over 300 community-based peace and justice organizations nationwide to promote a peaceful future for Iraq and US-Iraqi relations. For Immediate Release May 26, 2004 Available for Interview: Speakers at Indiana Conference to Assess Quagmire in Iraq Larry Everest - author of Oil, Power and Empire, Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (2003, Common Courage Press). Has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years, with articles appearing in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, New York Newsday, Z Magazine, and other publications. Dilip Hiro - author of Secrets and Lies: Operation ‘Iraqi Freedom’ and After (2004, Nation Books); The Essential Middle East: A Comprehensive Guide (2003) and Iraq: In The Eye Of The Storm (2003). A frequent commentator on the Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Islamic affairs on various radio and television channels based in America, Australia, Austria, Britain, Canada, France, Ireland and the Vatican. In Britain, France and Belgium his articles have appeared in many leading publications. Anthony Arnove - editor of Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War (South End Press) and Terrorism and War, a collection of new interviews with Howard Zinn (Seven Stories Press). He is also the editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States, forthcoming in 2004 from Seven Stories Press. Rich Andrews – community media expert with Colorado Communities for Justice and Peace. Timothy Baer - conference organizer with the Bloomington Peace Action Coalition and a Coordinating Committee member for the National Grassroots Peace Network. Gloria Escalona – humanitarian relief coordinator for Iraq with the Dominican Sisters, Ecumenical Peace Institute and co-editor, Light, Dark Wind, Moon: Many Styles, One Voice, a collection of poems and short stories about Iraq. Paul George - Executive Director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center in Palo Alto, California. Tom Healy – Director with the Indiana Peace and Justice Network. Dr. Diane Henshel - Associate Professor at Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs and lead technical support scientist for the Remediation Advisory Board for Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern IN, reviewing depleted uranium (DU) issues for the community Charlie Jackson - founder of Texans for Peace and CEO of Acceleros - a technology and business consulting company. Has traveled extensively to conflict areas such as Bosnia, Guatemala, and Iraq. Khury Petersen-Smith – spokesperson, Campus Antiwar Network, joined student eyewitness visit to Baghdad in December and talked to families whose loved ones have been detained or killed. Student at Rochester Institute of Technology. Ramzi Kysia – activist / journalist and eyewitness to Desert Storm. Assisted a group of Iraqi university students in Baghdad start an independent newspaper at www.almuajaha.com. Kysia’s essays have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, San Diego Tribune, Jordan Times and CommonDreams.org. Jeff Leys – on tour with Wheels of Justice, traveled to Iraq with the Iraq Peace Team project organized by Voices in the Wilderness. Spent the month of February 2003 in Iraq living with ordinary Iraqi civilians, Sunny Miller - director of the Traprock Peace Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Nonviolence trainer, conscientious objector, and daughter of a Vietnam vet. Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh - Palestinian American on tour with the Wheels of Justice. Associate Professor of Genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine. Founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-President of the Middle East Genetics Association. Dr. Nazif Shahrani - Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. Professor of Anthropology, and of Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Expert on the impact of Islam upon the social imagination of the people of Afghanistan the human consequences of "low-intensity" wars. Charles Sheehan-Miles - Executive Director of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute. Decorated veteran of the 1991 Gulf War (24th Infantry Division). Testified before Congress twice and the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses. Subject of the CNN Presents documentary "Fit to Kill", which examined the trauma of combat. Founder and former director of the National Gulf War Resource Center. Jari Sheese – spokesperson, Military Families Speak Out. Recent convert to the peace movement when her husband was sent off to war Contact: Mike Zmolek 301-802-6886 (cell) _______________________________________________________ portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. 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