Tuesday, June 26, 2007

SSR to Host Congresswoman Woosley on June 14

On Saturday, July 14, 2007, at 7:30PM Students for Social Responsibility, the Progressive Democrats of Marin and Democracy for America will host Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey in a Progressive Forum on Iraq and Iran in the Olney Hall auditorium on the Kentfield Campus at 835 College Ave., Kentfield, CA 94904.

Woolsey will be joined by Reese Erlich and Michael Nagler. The panel will be moderated by Norman Solomon.

Suggested donation is $10, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information, contact Anita Fieldman, Progressive Democrats of Marin, at 4158-686-8841; anitafieldman@hotmail.com or http://www.pdamerica.org/.

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-CA06)
Woolsey has been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq from its inception. In January of 2005, she was the first member of Congress to call on the President to bring the troops home. Since that time she has spoken on this topic on the floor of the House of Representatives over 200 times.

Author and Investigative Journalist Reese Erlich
Erlich is an investigative journalist who has traveled to Iran and Iraq five times and has covered the Middle East for 20 years, most recently on assignment for Mother Jones magazine. His new book The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis comes out in October of 2007.

Peace Studies Scholar Michael Nagler
Michael Nagler is the co-founder and board president of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education, professor emeritus and founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley, a core member of Educators for Non-Violence, and author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future, Our Spiritual Crisis, and Hope or Terror: Gandhi and the Other 9/11.

Media critic and Author Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon, a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics, co-authored the book Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You with Reese Erlich. Solomon’s latest book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, has been adapted into a documentary film released on DVD this summer.