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For Immediate Release

May 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.

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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)
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