"Resisting Empire" with Special Guest Speakers: Tariq Ali, Lou Plummer, Sarah Zaidi, Gilbert Achcar, Meredith Kolodner
In December 2003, CESR co-sponsored this talk together with International Socialist Review, Verso Books, and Monthly Review.
[for a pdf version of the flyer from the event, click here.]
International Socialist Review, Verso Books, Monthly Review and the Center for Economic and Social Rights present:
Resisting Empire
with Special Guest Speakers:
Tariq Ali, Author of Bush in Babylon and The Clash of Fundamentalisms.
Editorial Committee of the New Left Review
Lou Plummer, Military Families Speak Out
Sarah Zaidi, Center for Economic and Social Rights
Gilbert Achcar, Author of The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the
Making of the New World Disorder and Eastern Cauldron: The Middle East in a Marxist Mirror (forthcoming).
Meredith Kolodner, International Socialist Organization. Recently returned from FTAA protests in Miami.
Wednesday, December 3
7:30pm
Barnard College
Barnard Hall rm 304
117th and Broadway
Take the 1/9 train to 116th Street
Childcare available on request
For more information call 212-502-0707 or e-mail
nyciso@hotmail.com
The Bush Administration's war and occupation in Iraq has unleashed a far more aggressive drive for a new US Empire. It has ushered in a more unstable and dangerous world. Yet it has also ushered in a worldwide resistance. In Iraq, US forces are being met with a resistance which even the CIA is being forced to admit has the support of the vast majority of ordinary Iraqis. Within the military and among veterans, a small but powerful resistance is building to Bush's occupation. When Bush traveled to London, he was met by tens of thousands of protestors. In Miami, thousands of protesters converged to stop the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Once thought unassailable, today Bush is being met by resistance from all sides.
But many questions remain: How can these struggles be more closely joined?
How can we build international links between them? And what is the goal of these struggles? How can Bush be stopped? Join us for a rare chance to discuss these questions and more with a renowned panel of international activists.
