(en) US, Chicago, Illinois, 21st Century American Militarism: Occupation Abroad and Resistance at Home

After more than ten years of occupations, drone strikes, torture campaigns and ecological 
devastation, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) continues to organize and fight against 
US militarism. ---- For this plenary panel and fundraising event during IVAW?s National 
Convention, IVAW is proud to have guest speakers, Christian Parenti and Nick Turse join 
us, along with other great speakers for an evening of commentary, discussion and analysis 
of the state and future of U.S. Militarism.----Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist, 
historian, essayist, the managing editor of TomDispatch.com, the co-founder of Dispatch 
Books, and a fellow at the Nation Institute. ---- He is the author of 'Kill Anything That 
Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam' (2013) and several other books including 'The 
Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and 
Cyber Warfare' (2012) and 'The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives' (2008).

Christian Parenti, is a professor of sustainable development at the School for 
International Training, Graduate Institute. He a Nation contributing editor and the author 
of Lockdown America The Soft Cage, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied 
Iraq and most recently Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence 
(Nation Books, July 2011). He has a Ph.D. in geogrphy and sociology from the London School 
of Economics.

Please come out and support IVAW for this special evening.

21st Century American Militarism: Occupation Abroad and Resistance at Home
Plenary Panel of IVAW National Convention

With Guest Speakers Christain Parenti, Nick Turse + More!

Friday, August 2nd, 7pm

$10 Suggested Donation ( No one turned away)

www.ivaw.org

http://www.christianparenti.com/

http://www.nickturse.com/

Endorsed by: American Friends Service Committee, Anti-War Committee- Chicago, Four Star 
Anarchist Organization, Haymarket Press, Iraq and American Reconciliation Project, 
National Nurses United, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Voices for Creative 
Non-Violence, US Labor Against the War, Veterans For Peace (Chicago), Peace Action, Center 
for Constitutional Rights